Mathematicians
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- Paul Erdös Tributes, obituaries, articles.
- Lanczos - Cornelius Lanczos (1893-1974) Home page of the Cornelius Lanczos Collected Published Papers with Commentaries.
- Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
- Stirling, James (1692-1770) Studied infinite series, summation, interpolation and quadrature.
- Goldbach, Christian (1690-1764) Did important work in number theory, much of it in correspondence with Euler, best remembered for his conjecture that every even integer greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two primes.
- Kronecker - Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) Primary contributions were in the theory of equations and higher algebra; elliptic functions, theory of algebraic equations, and the theory of algebraic numbers.
- Kanada - Yasusi Kanada's Hub Page Papers on information extraction, search and organization. Explanation of self-reproductive Web page. CCM (Chemical Casting Model) is a model for emergent computation.
- Rowlett - Russ Rowlett's Home Page Mathematics educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education.
- Birkhoff - George David Birkhoff (1884-1944) First dynamicist in the New World, picked up where Poincare left off, created a rigorous theory of ergodic behavior, and foresaw dynamical models for chaos.
- JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851) Elliptic functions, determinant theory, theory of numbers, theory of both ordinary and partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, the three-boby problem, and other dynamical problems.
- Ivan Niven (1915-1999) A brief obituary.
- Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 ) Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.
- Tartaglia - Niccolo Fontana known as Tartaglia (1499-1557) Few European mathematicians of the 16th century had been as directly affected by war, In 1512 he received a facial wound during the sack of Brescia by the French. Left with a speech defect he adopted the nickname of Tartaglia ('stammerer').
- Edmund Landau and the Hebrew University The story of Landau's relations with the just-founded Hebrew University: an intricate drama, in which academic considerations were mixed with questions of power and prestige.
- Lebesgue - Henri Léon Lebesgue (1875-1941) Formulated the theory of measure in 1901 and in 1902 gave the definition of the Lebesgue integral.
- Ganitanjali: Scholar In India An appreciation of the life of this mathematics teacher and researcher: "...a smartly dressed tall gentleman wearing panchakatcham dhoti, coat and turban, with a permanent smile on his face and kindness in his eyes."
- Neumann, John von (1903-1957) built a solid framework for quantum mechanics, worked in game theory, pioneers of computer science, von Neumann algebras, development of the hydrogen bomb
- Taylor, Brook (1685-1731) Invented the method for expanding functions in terms of polynomials about an arbitrary point known as Taylor Series, Taylor series were a generalization of the Maclaurin Series.
- Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
- The Fuller Map A study of the comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding character of the 20th century, and a kind of practical visionary.
- Weierstraß - Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897) German mathematician who is considered the father of modern Analysis. His father enrolled him in law school, where Weierstraß majored in fencing and beer-drinking. He left without his degree.
- Eratosthenes (276?-196? BC) Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and poet, who measured the circumference of the earth with extraordinary accuracy
- Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) Dutch physicist who was the leading proponent of the wave theory of Light, was also the mentor of Leibniz in math and mechanics.
- Keith, Michael - Mike Keith's World of Words, Numbers, and Notes A puzzle-poem, Alphametic puzzles, numerical chess problem, Polygonal Pi Patterns, The Number of the Beast 666
- Moivre - Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) Pioneer in PROBABILITY theory and TRIGONOMETRY, discovered the approximation of the BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION known as the NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. He also investigated mortality statistics, devised DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM.
- Cohen, Don - The MATHMAN What parents, teachers, kids, Martin Gardner, Morris Klein, W.W. Sawyer, the MAA, the ASCD, Kodansha, Mary Pride in her 'Big Book of Home Learning', The Home Schooling magazine say about Don's materials
- Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932) Pioneer in mathematical logic and axiomatization of mathematics, important discoveries in the field of analysis, leading authoritie on auxiliary languages.
- Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761) Best remembered for his work on interpolation and numerical methods of integration, first job was as a weaver, taught mathematics privately, write texts on mathematics.
- Erdös, Pál (1913-1996) A page on Pal Erdos (Erdös Pal or Paul Erdos), one of the century's greatest mathematicians.
- Mersenne, Marin - Luke's Marin Mersenne Page (1588-1648), French philosopher, mathematician, Minim theologian, scientist, Mersenne Number, Mersenne Prime, Factor, Lucas, Lehmer, GIMPS, Donald Knuth, Euler, Luther Welsh, Luke Welsh
- Argand - Jean Robert Argand (1768-1822) Accountant, amateur mathematician, famed for his geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers where i is interpreted as a rotation through 90, gave concept of the modulus of a complex number.
- Indexes of Biographies Biographies of famous mathematicians, indexed alphabetically and chronologically. Part of MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Fields, John Charles brief biography with links to info about the Fields medal
- Noether - Emmy Amalie Noether (1882-1935) Best known for her contributions to abstract algebra, in particular, her study of chain conditions on ideals of rings, father was Max Noether.
- Banach - The Life of Stefan Banach (1892-1945) Review of Roman Kaluza's 1996 book The Life of Stefan Banach
- Kurt Mahler 1903-1988 Biography at Australian Academy of Science.
- Joyce - David Joyce's Home Page Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610. Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979. Research interests: mathematics and computer science.
- Clifford A. Pickover's Home Page Clifford A. Pickover Page on Creativity and the Mind, Computer Art, and More.
- Noll - Landon Curt Noll's home page Chongo, prime, Mersenne, computer, programmer, calc, lavarand, number theory, crytography, crytoplogy, Usenet, INN, bio, biography, vita, resume.
- Krawtchouk Polynomials and Krawtchouk's Biography Krawtchouk polynomials properties, applications, bibliography M.Krawtchouk's biography - instructive reading not only for mathematicians but for all who are interested in Soviet history.
- Möbius - August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) best known for his work in topology, especially for his conception of the Möbius strip, a two dimensional surface with only one side.
- Russell - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, logician, essayist, and renowned peace advocate.
- Riemann,Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) Biography and publications.
- Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.
- Hamilton - Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) Characteristic Function in Optics, General Method in Dynamics, Equations of the Fifth Degree, Quaternions
- Hesse - Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874) Main work was in the development of the theory algebraic functions and the theory of invariants. He introduced the Hessian determinant in a paper in 1842 during an investigation of cubic and quadratic curves.
- L'Hospital - Guillaume François Antoine l'Hospital, Marquis de St.-Mesme (1661-1704) Put together the first treatise on calculus, published in 1696 under the title Analyse des infiniment petits.
- Claude Shannon (1916-2001) Obituary from The Times of London. Shannon is known for having singlehandedly laid down the general rules of modern information theory.
- Whitehead - Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) British mathematician, logician and philosopher, in collaboration with Bertrand Russell, authored the landmark three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).
- Rota, Gian-Carlo (1932-1999) Memorial site.
- Viète - Francois Viète (1540-1603) Introduced the first systematic algebraic notation, during the war with Spain (1590), Viète served Henry IV of France and deciphered the Spanish code in intercepted messages.
- Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones (1952-) Profile of the 1990 Fields Medalist for his research in knot theory, including bibliography and links to additional online resources.
- John Knopfmacher (1937-1999) A brief obituary.
- Lipschitz - Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (1832-1903) Worked on quadratic differential forms and mechanics. His work on the Hamilton-Jacobi method for integrating the equations of motion of a general dynamical system led to important applications in celestial mechanics.
- Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) His work in mathematics was devoted to making computation more easy, known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.
- Willard van Orman Quine home page maintained by his son
- Seki - Takakazu Seki Kowa (1642-1708) Born into a samurai warrior family, Seki derives from the noble family who adopted him, an infant prodigy in mathematics, self-educated in mathematics, known as 'The Arithmetical Sage', a term which is carved on his tombstone.
- Merriman - Barry Merriman Genetics, Nuclear fusion energy ( UCLA , UCSD), Software for modeling complex fluid flows Numerical Methods
- Poisson - Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) Most important works were a series of papers on definite integrals and his advances in Fourier series, important work on probability the Poisson distribution first appeared.
- Pearson, Karl (1857-1936) Applied statistics to biological problems of heredity and evolution.
- Stokes - George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) Established the science of hydrodynamics with his law of viscosity.
- Erdos - The man who loved only numbers, Paul Erdos (1913-1996) math genius, eccentric, mathematician, math prodigy, Worlds Largest Number in a Mathematical Proof
- Poincare - Henri Poincare (1854-1912) ounded the modern qualitative theory of dynamical systems, created topology, The Problem of Three Bodies and the Equations of Equilibrium, the first signs of Chaos
- Machin, John (1680-1751) Machin's Method of Approximating Pi, PI = 16 arctan(1/5) - 4 arctan(1/239).
- Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a function.
- Memories of Professor Kenkichi Iwasawa by Ralph Greenberg
- Pan Chengdong (1934-1997) A short obituary.
- Legendre - Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) His major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics, in 1782 he determined attractive force by introducing an infinite series of polynomials Pn now called Legendre polynomials.
- Severi - Francesco Severi (1879-1961) His most important contributions are to algebraic geometry, work on enumerative geometry and birational geometry of surfaces.
- NAPIER - JOHN NAPIER (1550-1617) PHILOSOPHER and MATHEMATICIAN, INVENTOR of LOGARITHMS, INVENTOR of the DECIMAL POINT.
- Lockshin - Jeffrey Lockshin's Olympiad Math Madness Collection of mathematical problems, invented for mathematical olympiads the world over, and many of them are hard to find in English.
- Ackermann, Wilhelm (1896-1962) Wilhelm Ackermann was a mathematical logician who worked with Hilbert in Göttingen. See Ackermann's function in today's textbooks.
- Ecker - Recreational & Educational Computing, Dr. Michael W. Ecker's Home Page "REC gets better and better. I would not want to miss a single issue!" Martin Gardner, world-famous recreational mathematics author
- Paul Nevai's Erdos Page Links to a number of articles about Paul Erdos and his passing.
- Noether, Max (1844-1921) One of the leaders of nineteenth century algebraic geometry.
- Poncelet - Jean Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) His development of the pole and polar lines associated with conics led to the principle of duality, applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
- Marvin Minsky Features texts, interviews, excerpts, and a bibliography going back to his Bachelors thesis in mathematics at Harvard.
- Woltman, George - GIMPS The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS is dedicated to a rigorous search for new Mersenne primes. Our goal is to test every Mersenne number with an exponent less than 20,500,000.
- Jordan - Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (1838-1922) Introduced important topological concepts in 1866, was particularly interested in the theory of finite groups.
- Somos - Michael Somos at CSU Home Page Interested in mathematics and computers, particularly software like Linux and Forth, Four Color Theorem, knot theory, Somos Polynomials, rational triangles, the busy beaver Turing Machine contest.
- Buffon - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) Proposed the Buffon's Needle Problem, which asks the probability that a needle of length l will fall on a line when a piece of paper is ruled with parallel lines a distance d apart.
- The History of Mathematics History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
- Plouffe - Page Maison de Simon Plouffe's Home Page Plouffe's Inverter : 85 million constants on-line, latest records of computations of constants, Identities for Zeta(2*n+1) found using LLL algorithm inspired by Ramanujan Notebooks
- Lie - Sophus Lie (1842-1899) His study of contact transformations arising from partial differential equations led him to develop Lie groups. This is now a central part of 20th-century mathematics, important in quantum theory.
- Offner - Carl Offner Includes: 1. Expository papers in mathematics and computer science. 2. A critique of dumbing down of mathematics and science education, as proposed by Theodore Sizer and some other educational theorists.
- Erlang, Agner Krarup (1878-1929) Early telecom theorist, after whom a unit of measurement and a programming language are named.
- Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
- Fisher - Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) Made important discoveries in statistics (eg. maximum likelihood), genetics, selection and (genetic) dominance. It could be said that he invented a large part of modern statistics.
- Kustaa Inkeri, Portrait of a Mathematician Kustaa Inkeri is the author of significant papers on number theory, especially on topics related to Fermat's Last Theorem. Finnish mathematicians know Inkeri as the founder of the school of number theory in Finland.
- Remus Floricel's Home Page Some information about operator algebras.
- Weyl - Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) The greatest mathematician of his generation, Weyl made major contributions to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory, and created a new branch of mathematics by uniting function theory and geometry, worked with Einstein.
- De Morgan - Augustus De Morgan (1806- 1871) Important innovator in the field of logic, developed De Morgan's rule to determine the convergence of a mathematical series.
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