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2 unusual facts about Edwin F. Beckenbach


Edwin F. Beckenbach

Edwin Ford Beckenbach (18 July 1906, Oak Cliff, Dallas County, Texas – 5 September 1982, Syracuse, New York) was an American mathematician.

Beckenbach was famous for his work on inequalities and for this subject organized three Oberwolfach seminars (in 1976, 1978, and 1981).


Cathedral of Mary Our Queen

On March 20, 2012 Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Connecticut became 16th Archbishop of Baltimore succeeding Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, who was named Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Benedict XVI.

Edwin F. De Nyse

By August 1863, his byline regularly appeared in dispatches beginning with the column "Interesting from Virginia." Accompanying the brigade led by Robert Sanford Foster, De Nyse wrote a series of dispatches detailing the war from the vantage point of being with the Union Army in Southern territory.

Edwin F. Hunter

In another landmark legal ruling several years later, James Roach v. Dresser Industries, Hunter classified the Louisiana Acadians, popularly termed "Cajuns", as a national minority group.

Edwin F. Russell

After graduating from Princeton University, he worked during the 1940s as the associate publisher of The (Newark, NJ) Star-Ledger.

Edwin F. Uhl

He served as Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ambassador to Germany and United States Assistant Secretary of State.

Minkowski diagram

Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler (1963) Spacetime Physics, pages 27 to 38, New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, Second edition (1992).


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