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| x Frank P. Ramsey | Feb 22, 1903 | United Kingdom | Economist |
Frank Plumpton Ramsey (22 February 1903 – 19 January 1930) was a British mathematician who, in addition to mathematics, made significant and precocious contributions in philosophy and economics before his death at the age of 26. He was a close...
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| x Archimedes |
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287 B.C.E. | Greece | Scientist |
Archimedes of Syracuse (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in...
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| x Ion Barbu |
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Mar 18, 1895 | Romania | Mathematician |
Ion Barbu (Romanian pronunciation: [iˈon ˈbarbu]; pen name of Dan Barbilian; 18 March 1895 –11 August 1961) was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet.
He was born in Câmpulung-Muscel, Argeş County, the son of Constantin Barbilian and...
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| x Kōsaku Yosida |
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Feb 7, 1909 | Japan | Mathematician |
Kōsaku Yosida (吉田 耕作, Yoshida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909, Hiroshima – 20 June 1990) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups.
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| x Charles-Eugène Delaunay |
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Apr 9, 1816 | France | Mathematician |
Charles-Eugène Delaunay (9 April 1816 – 5 August 1872) was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics.
Born in Lusigny-sur-Barse, France, Delaunay...
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| x Andrey Markov |
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Jun 14, 1856 | Russia | Mathematician |
Andrey (Andrei) Andreyevich Markov (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (14 June 1856 N.S. – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became...
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| x Philip Hall | Apr 11, 1904 | United Kingdom | Mathematician |
Philip Hall FRS (11 April 1904, Hampstead, London, England – 30 December 1982, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England), was an English mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups.
He was educated first...
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| x Robert Simpson Woodward | Jul 21, 1849 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Robert Simpson Woodward (July 21, 1849–June 29, 1924) was an American physicist and mathematician, born at Rochester, Michigan. He graduated C.E. at the University of Michigan in 1872 and was appointed assistant engineer on the United States Lake...
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| x Hartmut Jürgens | 1955 | Germany | Mathematician |
Hartmut Jürgens is a German mathematician, born in 1955 in Bremen, Germany. He received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Bremen. He has worked in the computer industry, and was the Director of the Dynamical Systems Graphics Laboratory at...
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| x Donald G. Saari | Mar 1940 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Donald Gene Saari (born March 1940 in Houghton, Michigan) is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Irvine. He received his Bachelor...
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| x Alexei Krylov |
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Aug 3, 1863 | Soviet Union | Engineer |
Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Крыло́в) (August 15 [O.S. 3 August] 1863 – October 26, 1945) was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist.
Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov was born on August 3 O.S., 1863 to...
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| x C. R. Rao | Sep 10, 1920 | India | Statistician |
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, FRS known as C R Rao (born 10 September 1920) is an Indian statistician. He is currently professor emeritus at Penn State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao has been honored by numerous...
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| x Richard Brauer |
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Feb 10, 1901 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Richard Dagobert Brauer (February 10, 1901 – April 17, 1977) was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation...
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| x Eugène Charles Catalan |
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May 30, 1814 | Belgium | Scientist |
Eugène Charles Catalan (30 May 1814 – 14 February 1894) was a French and Belgian mathematician.
Catalan was born in Bruges (now Belgium, then part of the First French Empire), the only child of a French jeweller by the name of Joseph Catalan, in...
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| x Herbert A. Hauptman |
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Feb 14, 1917 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Herbert Aaron Hauptman (February 14, 1917 – October 23, 2011) was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in...
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| x John Crank | Feb 6, 1916 | United Kingdom | Mathematician |
John Crank (6 February 1916 – 3 October 2006) was a mathematical physicist, best known for his work on the numerical solution of partial differential equations.
Crank was born in Hindley in Lancashire, England. His father was a carpenter's pattern...
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| x Aleksandr Lyapunov |
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Jun 6, 1857 | Russia | Mathematician |
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в; June 6 [O.S. May 25] 1857 – November 3, 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. His surname is sometimes romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov or Ljapunow....
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| x Jean-Baptiste Biot |
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Apr 21, 1774 | France | Physicist |
Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
Jean-Baptiste Biot was born in...
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| x Walter Gage | Mar 5, 1905 | Canada | Mathematician |
Walter Henry Gage, CC (March 5, 1905 – October 3, 1978) was a Canadian professor and academic administrator.
He was with the University of British Columbia for fifty years. He graduated with a B.A. in 1925, an MA in 1926, taught mathematics at...
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| x Ludwig Boltzmann |
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Feb 20, 1844 | Austria | Physicist |
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for...
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| x Peter Barlow |
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Oct 13, 1776 | England | Scientist |
Peter Barlow (13 October 1776 – 1 March 1862) was an English mathematician and physicist.
In 1801, Barlow was appointed assistant mathematics master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and retained this post until 1847. He contributed articles...
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| x Uwe Storch | Jul 12, 1940 | Germany | Mathematician |
Uwe Storch (*12 July 1940 Leopoldshall) is a German mathematician. His field of research is commutative algebra and analytic and algebraic geometry, in particular derivations, divisor class group, resultants.
Storch studied mathematics, physics and...
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| x Heinz Hopf | Nov 19, 1894 | Germany | Scientist |
Heinz Hopf (19 November 1894 – 3 June 1971) was a German mathematician born in Gräbschen, Germany (now Grabiszyn, part of Wrocław, Poland). He attended Dr. Karl Mittelhaus' higher boys' school from 1901 to 1904, and then entered the König-Wilhelm-...
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| x Sergei Adian | Jan 1, 1931 | Armenia | Mathematician |
Sergei Ivanovich Adian, also Adjan (Armenian: Սերգեյ Իվանովիչ Ադյան; Russian: Сергей Иванович Адян, born 1 January 1931) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Moscow State University and is known for his work in group...
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| x Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski | Oct 7, 1926 | Poland | Mathematician |
Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈt͡ʂɛswav ˈrɨl narˈd͡zɛfskʲi]; born October 7, 1926) is a Polish mathematician.
He was a student of Hugo Steinhaus. At the age of 26 he became professor at the Warsaw University and in 1959 at the...
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| x Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi |
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787 C.E. | Iran | Scientist |
Abū Maʿshar, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī (also known as al-Falakī or Ibn Balkhī, Latinized as Albumasar, Albusar, or Albuxar) (10 August 787 in Balkh, Khurasan – 9 March 886 in Wāsiṭ, Iraq), was a Persian astrologer, astronomer, and Islamic...
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| x Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai | 1901 | India | Mathematician |
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai (1901–1950) was an Indian mathematician, well known for his work in number theory. He was from Tamil Nadu.
He worked on Waring's problem, in particular on the determination of exact values for the function g(n)....
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| x David Emmanuel | Jan 31, 1854 | Mathematician |
David Emmanuel (January 31, 1854 – February 4, 1941) was a Romanian Jewish mathematician and member of the Romanian Academy, considered to be the founder of the modern mathematics school in Romania.
He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the...
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| x Salomon Bochner | Aug 20, 1899 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Salomon Bochner (20 August 1899 – 2 May 1982) was an American mathematician of Austrian-Hungarian origin, known for wide-ranging work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.
He was born into a Jewish family in...
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| x John Coates |
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Jan 26, 1945 | Australia | Mathematician |
John Henry Coates, FRS (born 26 January 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Coates was born the son of J. H. Coates and B. L....
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| x Grigori Perelman | Jun 13, 1966 | Russia | Scientist |
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman (Russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Перельма́н, English pronunciation: /ˈpɛrɨlmən/ PERR-il-mən; born 13 June 1966) is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology....
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| x Jonathan Mestel |
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Mar 13, 1957 | England | Mathematician |
Andrew Jonathan Mestel (born 13 March 1957 in Cambridge, England) is Professor of applied mathematics at Imperial College London who works on magnetohydrodynamics and biological fluid dynamics. He holds Ph.D on the thesis "Magnetic Levitation of...
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| x Reinhold Remmert |
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Jun 22, 1930 | Germany | Mathematician |
Reinhold Remmert (June 22, 1930 ) is a German mathematician born in Osnabrück, Germany. He studied mathematics, mathematical logic and physics in Münster. He established and developed the theory of complex spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert....
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| x Arne Beurling | Feb 3, 1905 | Sweden | Mathematician |
Arne Carl-August Beurling (February 3, 1905 – November 20, 1986) was a Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Beurling worked...
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| x Gaspard de Prony |
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Jul 22, 1755 | France | Mathematician |
Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (July 22, 1755 - July 29, 1839) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
He was Engineer-in...
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| x Joseph Saurin | 1659 | France | Mathematician |
Joseph Saurin (1659 at Courtaison – December 29, 1737 at Paris) was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister. He was the first to show how the tangents at the multiple points of curves could be determined by mathematical analysis....
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| x Saunders Mac Lane |
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Aug 4, 1909 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909, Taftville, Connecticut – 14 April 2005, San Francisco) was an American mathematician who cofounded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.
Mac Lane was christened "Leslie Saunders MacLane", but "Leslie" fell into...
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| x Wacław Sierpiński |
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Mar 14, 1882 | Mathematician |
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński ( ˈvat͡swaf fraɲˈt̠͡ɕiʂɛk ɕɛrˈpʲiɲskʲi (help·info)) (March 14, 1882, Warsaw – October 21, 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for outstanding contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of...
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| x Bernard Lamy |
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Jun 15, 1640 | France | Mathematician |
Bernard Lamy (15 June 1640, in Le Mans, France – 29 January 1715, in Rouen, France) was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian.
After studying in Le Mans, he went to join the Maison d'Institution in Paris, and to Saumur thereafter. In 1658...
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| x Herbert Seifert |
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May 27, 1907 | Germany | Mathematician |
Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert (May 27, 1907, Bernstadt – October 1, 1996, Heidelberg) was a German mathematician known for his work in topology.
He was born in Bernstadt auf dem Eigen, but soon moved to Bautzen, where he attended primary school at...
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| x Erland Samuel Bring |
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Aug 19, 1736 | Mathematician |
Erland Samuel Bring (19 August 1736 – 20 May 1798) was a Swedish mathematician.
Bring studied at Lund University between 1750 and 1757. In 1762 he obtained a position of a reader in history and was promoted to professor in 1779. At Lund he wrote...
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| x Ernst Leonard Lindelöf | Mar 7, 1870 | Mathematician |
Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, (7 March 1870, Helsinki (in Swedish: Helsingfors) – 4 June 1946, Helsinki) was a Finnish topologist after whom Lindelöf spaces are named; he was the son of Leonard Lorenz Lindelöf and brother of the philologist Uno Lorenz...
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| x Ernst Schröder |
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Nov 25, 1841 | Germany | Mathematician |
Ernst Schröder (25 November 1841, Mannheim, Baden, Germany – 16 June 1902, Karlsruhe, Germany) was a German mathematician mainly known for his work on algebraic logic. He is a major figure in the history of mathematical logic (a term he may have...
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| x Ernest William Barnes |
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Apr 1, 1874 | England | Mathematician |
Ernest William Barnes FRS (1 April 1874 – 29 November 1953) was an English mathematician and scientist who later became a theologian and bishop.
He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Master of the...
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| x Johan Håstad | Nov 19, 1960 | Mathematician |
Johan Torkel Håstad (born 19 November 1960) is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in...
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| x Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov |
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Nov 16, 1896 | Russia | Mathematician |
Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Aleksandroff or Aleksandrov (May 7, 1896–November 16, 1982) was a Soviet Russian mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important...
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| x Alicia Boole Stott | Jun 8, 1860 | Mathematician |
Alicia Boole Stott (June 8, 1860, Ireland – December 17, 1940, England) was the third daughter of George Boole and Mary Everest Boole, born in Cork, Ireland. Before marrying Walter Stott, an actuary, in 1890, she was known as Alicia Boole. She is...
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| x Vojtěch Jarník | Dec 22, 1897 | Mathematician |
Vojtěch Jarník (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvojcɛx ˈjarɲiːk]; 1897 – 1970) was a Czech mathematician.
His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he proved a number of results on lattice point problems. He also developed the...
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| x Humphry Ditton | May 29, 1675 | England | Mathematician |
Humphry Ditton (May 29, 1675 – October 15, 1715) was an English mathematician.
Ditton was born at Salisbury. He studied theology, and was for some years a dissenting minister at Tonbridge, but on the death of his father he devoted himself to the...
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| x Stella Cunliffe | Jan 12, 1917 | United Kingdom | Statistician |
Stella Vivian Cunliffe MBE (12 January 1917 - 20 January 2012) was a British statistician. She was the first female president of the Royal Statistical Society.
She was educated at Parsons Mead, Ashtead and the London School of Economics where she...
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| x W. W. Rouse Ball |
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Aug 14, 1850 | England | Lawyer |
Walter William Rouse Ball (14 August 1850 – 4 April 1925) was a British mathematician, lawyer and a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle...
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| x Carl Hindenburg | Jul 13, 1741 | Germany | Mathematician |
Carl Friedrich Hindenburg (13 July 1741– 17 March 1808) was a German mathematician born in Dresden. His work centered mostly on combinatorics and probability.
Hindenburg did not attend school but was educated at home by a privte tutor as arranged by...
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| x Rudolf Lipschitz |
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May 14, 1832 | Germany | Scientist |
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14 May 1832 – 7 October 1903) was a German mathematician and professor at the University of Bonn from 1864. Peter Gustav Dirichlet was his teacher. He supervised the early work of Felix Klein.
While Lipschitz gave...
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| x Friedrich Wilhelm Levi | Feb 6, 1888 | Germany | Mathematician |
Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Levi (February 6, 1888 – January 1, 1966) was a German mathematician known for his work in abstract algebra. He also worked in geometry, topology, set theory, and analysis. According to László Fuchs and Rüdiger Göbel, he is...
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| x Elwyn Berlekamp |
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Sep 6, 1940 | United States of America | Mathematician |
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (born September 6, 1940) is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp is known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game...
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| x Alfred Young | Apr 16, 1873 | United Kingdom | Mathematician |
Alfred Young, FRS (16 April 1873 – 15 December 1940) was a British mathematician.
He was born in Widnes, Lancashire, England and educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and Clare College, Cambridge, graduating BA as 10th Wrangler in 1895. He...
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| x Eduard Prugovečki | Mar 19, 1937 | Canada | Physicist |
Eduard Prugovečki (March 19, 1937 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian-Romanian descent.
Prugovečki was born in Craiova, Romania to a Romanian mother, Helena (née Piatkowski), and Croatian father, Slavoljub. He...
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| x Louis Guttman | Feb 10, 1916 | Israel | Mathematician |
Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman (Hebrew: לואיס (אליהו) גוטמן; 1916–1987) was founder and scientific director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, later renamed the Guttman Institute before finally becoming the Guttman Center (part of the...
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| x Johann Georg Tralles | Oct 15, 1763 | Germany | Physicist |
Johann George Tralles (October 15, 1763 – November 19, 1822) was a German mathematician and physicist.
He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was educated at the University of Göttingen beginning in 1783. He became a professor at the University of...
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| x Kuhi | 940 C.E. | Iran | Scientist |
Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Qūhī (al-Kūhī; Persian: ابوسهل بیژن کوهی Abusahl Bijan-e Koohi) was a Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was from Kuh (or Quh), an area in Tabaristan, Amol, and flourished in Baghdad in the 10th...
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