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28242 Mingantu

The asteroid was named after Minggatu, a Qing era mathematician and astronomer of Mongol ethnicity, who is credited with originally discovering Catalan numbers.

Academic Spring

The barriers to free access for recent scientific research became a hot topic in 2012, after a blog post by mathematician Timothy Gowers went viral in January.

Adrian Krzyżanowski

Adrian Krzyżanowski (born 8 September 1788 in Dębowo - died 21 August 1852 in Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and translator of German literature.

Agrest

Matest M. Agrest (1915–2005), Russian ethnologist and mathematician

Alfred Goldie

Alfred William Goldie (December 10, 1920, Coseley, Staffordshire – October 8, 2005, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria) was an English Mathematician.

Angle trisection

The mathematician Underwood Dudley has detailed some of these failed attempts in his book The Trisectors.

Argentine Anticommunist Alliance

Amongst many well-known and respected people who left are mathematician Manuel Sadosky, artists Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni and Nacha Guevara, politician and entrepreneur José Ber Gelbard, lawyer and politician Héctor Sandler, and actor Norman Briski.

Aristaeus the Elder

Practically nothing of his life is known except that the mathematician Pappus of Alexandria refers to him as Aristaeus the Elder which presumably means that Pappus was aware of another later mathematician also named Aristaeus.

Banquets of the Black Widowers

"Sixty Million Trillion Combinations" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 5 May 1980) – A paranoid mathematician who suspects that his work on Goldbach's conjecture has been stolen.

Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules

The Mishnat ha-Middot has nothing in common with the Baraita cited by the old scholars under that name: for the citations leave no doubt that the Baraita, even in its mathematical parts, was founded on the Bible; whereas the Mishnat ha-Middot is a purely secular work, and, possibly, it drew upon the same source as did Mohammed b. Musa, the oldest Arabic mathematician.

Bazaine

Pierre-Dominique Bazaine (1786-1838), French mathematician and military engineer

Braunschweig University of Technology

Current and former members of the TU Braunschweig include mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing, SAP-CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, truck engineer and entrepreneur Heinrich Büssing of Büssing AG, as well as renowned architect Meinhard von Gerkan.

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

Cicco Simonetta

It was only a century later that a scientific treatise entirely devoted to cryptanalysis was written by the French mathematician François Viète.

Conchoid of Dürer

It was first described by the German painter and mathematician Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) in his book Underweysung der Messung (S. 38), calling it Ein muschellini.

Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula

The Davidon–Fletcher–Powell formula (or DFP; named after William C. Davidon, Roger Fletcher, and Michael J. D. Powell) finds the solution to the secant equation that is closest to the current estimate and satisfies the curvature condition (see below).

Dennis Sullivan

Sullivan is one of the founders of the surgery method of classifying high-dimensional manifolds, along with Browder, Sergei Novikov and C. T. C. Wall.

Dimitrije Nešić

Dimitrije Nešić (Belgrade, Principality of Serbia, 20 October 1836 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 9 May 1904) was mathematician and president of the Serbian Royal Academy.

Edgar Gilbert

Edgar Nelson Gilbert (July 25, 1923 – June 15, 2013) was an American mathematician and coding theorist, a longtime researcher at Bell Laboratories whose accomplishments include the Gilbert–Varshamov bound in coding theory, the Gilbert–Elliott model of bursty errors in signal transmission, and the Erdős–Rényi model for random graphs.

Eric Barnes

Eric Stephen Barnes (1924–2000), Australian mathematician awarded the Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal in 1959

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.

Friedrich Prym

Friedrich Emil Fritz Prym (28 September 1841 Düren; 15 December 1915 Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Prym varieties and Prym differentials.

G. Waldo Dunnington

Guy Waldo Dunnington (January 15, 1906, Bowling Green, Missouri – April 10, 1974, Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a writer, historian and professor of German known for his writings on the famous German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

George D. Birkhoff House

The house is notable for its associations with former resident Dr. George David Birkhoff, an eminent mathematician and Harvard University professor.

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini

Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini (b. Caprese in Tuscany, 30 Jan., 1787; d. Noventa Padovana, 26 June 1877) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.

Gjerstad

The place also offers accommodation, cuisine, exhibitions, hiking trails, and memorials after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.

Günter P. Wagner

Together with the mathematician Reinhard Bürger at the University of Vienna, he contributed to the theory of mutation-selection balance and the evolution of dominance modifiers.

James A. Wilson

James Arthur Wilson is a mathematician working on special functions and orthogonal polynomials who introduced Wilson polynomials, Askey–Wilson polynomials and the Askey–Wilson beta integral.

Jean-Paul Delahaye

Jean-Paul Delahaye (born June 29, 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician.

Kramp

Christian Kramp (1760–1826), French mathematician who worked primarily with factorials

M. B. W. Tent

Her books have also received praise from other authors and mathematicians like William Dunham, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Charles Ashbacher and Peter M. Neumann.

M. S. Narasimhan

Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (born 1932) is an eminent Indian mathematician.

Mary Celine Fasenmyer

Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer, R.S.M., (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was a mathematician.

Mathieu wavelet

In 1868, the French mathematician Émile Léonard Mathieu introduced a family of differential equations nowadays termed Mathieu equations.

Mojżesz David Kirszbraun

Mojżesz David Kirszbraun (1903 or 1904–1942) was a Polish mathematician, mostly known for the eponymous theorem on extensions of Lipschitz maps.

Nesmith Ankeny

Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927, Walla Walla, Washington – 4 August 1993, Seattle) was an American mathematician specialising in number theory.

Nicholas of Lynn

The identification of Nicholas as the Franciscan (Minorite) friar who wrote a text called the Inventio Fortunata, allegedly describing a voyage to Greenland and beyond, was first proposed by Richard Hakluyt, the late 16th-century historian of exploration, based on information from scientist John Dee.

Non-squeezing theorem

It was first proven in 1985 by the winner of the 2009 Abel Prize, Mikhail Gromov.

Olry

Olry Terquem (1782–1862), French mathematician who proved Feuerbach's theorem about the nine-point circle of a triangle

Óttarsson

Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson (born 1954), Icelandic guitar player, engineer, mathematician, inventor, lecturer

Robert Ball Hughes

After a short stay in New York, and then Philadelphia, he settled in Boston, where he produced busts of Washington Irving (1836) and Edward Livingston, and a large bronze of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch for Mount Auburn Cemetery (1847).

S. Brent Morris

Morris has served as Executive of the Cryptologic Mathematician Program at the National Security Agency and as U.S. representative to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the area of computer security.

SACI

This location places SACI students in the vicinity of the Duomo, the churches of San Lorenzo and Santa Maria Novella, and is just steps away from the central market and the new Alinari photography museum.The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.

Sam Vandervelde

Sam Vandervelde (born 12 February 1971) is a mathematician who, along with Sandor Lehoczky and Richard Rusczyk, is most notable for creating the Mandelbrot Competition.

Selwyn Dewdney

Their children were: Donner Dewdney, a child psychiatrist, known for discovering the facial distortion effect among schizophrenic children; Alexander Dewdney, a mathematician, author, conservationist, environmental scientist and naturalist; Christopher Dewdney, a Canadian poet; and Peter Dewdney, a photographer and gold prospector.

Swineshead

Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340–1354), English mathematician, logician and natural philosopher

Thomas von Randow

Thomas von Randow (26 December 1921 Breslau, Schlesien – 29 July 2009 Hamburg) was a German mathematician and journalist who published mathematical and logical puzzles under the pseudonym Zweistein in the "Logelei" column in Die Zeit.

Veblen

Oswald Veblen (1880–1960), American mathematician (Thorstein Veblen's nephew)

Vilna Gaon

He also wrote on mathematics, being well versed in the works of Euclid and encouraging his pupil Rabbi Baruch of Shklov to translate the great mathematician's works into Hebrew.

Walter Newall

His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.


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