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7 unusual facts about mathematical analysis


Andrei Bely

Nikolai Bugaev was well known for his influential philosophical essays, in which he decried geometry and probability and trumpeted the virtues of hard analysis.

Borel hierarchy

Properties of sets of small finite ranks are important in measure theory and analysis.

Harro Heuser

In German speaking countries he is best known for his popular two-volume introduction into real analysis, Lehrbuch der Analysis.

Mathematical analysis

Poisson, Liouville, Fourier and others studied partial differential equations and harmonic analysis.

Michael C. Reed

Originally best known for his collaboration with Barry Simon on an extensive series of widely adopted graduate texts, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics (four volumes) published from 1972 to 1978, Reed has since worked predominantly in applications of analysis to biology.

Pierre Fatou

Fatou's work had very large influence on the development of analysis in the 20th century.

Viatron

The System 21 was aimed, among others, at applications such as mathematical and statistical analysis, business data processing, data entry and media conversion, and educational/classroom use.


Felix Pollaczek

Félix Pollaczek (1 December 1892 in Vienna – 29 April 1981 at Boulogne-Billancourt) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory.

Hans Rademacher

Hans Adolph Rademacher (3 April 1892, Wandsbeck, now Hamburg-Wandsbek – 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.

James R. Norris

He has made contributions to areas of mathematics connected to probability theory and mathematical analysis, including Malliavin calculus, heat kernel estimates, and mathematical models for coagulation and fragmentation.

Jean Delsarte

Jean Frédéric Auguste Delsarte (October 19, 1903, Fourmies – November 28, 1968, Nancy) was a French mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis, in particular, for introducing mean-periodic functions and generalised shift operators.

Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya

He also substantially contributed to the development of the theory of capacities, nonlinear potential theory, the asymptotic and qualitative theory of arbitrary order elliptic equations, the theory of ill-posed problems, the theory of boundary value problems in domains with piecewise smooth boundary.

Whitney covering lemma

In mathematical analysis, the Whitney covering lemma asserts the existence of a certain type of partition of an open set in a Euclidean space.


see also

Doctoral Training Centre

The Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) is a Centre for Doctoral Training which offers a PhD course in mathematical analysis at the University of Cambridge, directed by Professor James R. Norris and Professor Arieh Iserles.

Igor Kluvánek

In the early 60's he joined the Department of Mathematical Analysis of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice.

Stillman Drake

Drake showed how the complex interaction of experimental measurement and mathematical analysis led Galileo to his law of falling bodies.

Variational

Calculus of variations, a field of mathematical analysis that deals with maximizing or minimizing functionals

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Born in Christiania, Bjerknes enjoyed an early exposure to fluid dynamics, as assistant to his father, Carl Anton Bjerknes, who had discovered by mathematical analysis the apparent actions at a distance between pulsating and oscillating bodies in a fluid, and their analogy with the electric and magnetic actions at a distance.