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Wikipedia:Felix Iversen#0 | Felix Christian Herbert Iversen (22 October 1887 – 31 July 1973) was a Finnish mathematician and a pacifist. He was a student of Ernst Lindelöf, and later an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki. Although he stopped performing serious research in mathematics around 1922, he continued working... |
Wikipedia:Felix Tarasenko#0 | Felix Petrovich Tarasenko (6 March 1932 – 1 January 2021) was a Russian mathematician. He attended Tomsk State University and was one of the founders of the theory of systems analysis. == Distinctions == Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1969) == References... |
Wikipedia:Feller–Tornier constant#0 | In mathematics, the Feller–Tornier constant CFT is the density of the set of all positive integers that have an even number of distinct prime factors raised to a power larger than one (ignoring any prime factors which appear only to the first power). It is named after William Feller (1906–1970) and Erhard Tornier (1894... |
Wikipedia:Fenchel's duality theorem#0 | In mathematics, Fenchel's duality theorem is a result in the theory of convex functions named after Werner Fenchel. Let ƒ be a proper convex function on Rn and let g be a proper concave function on Rn. Then, if regularity conditions are satisfied, inf x ( f ( x ) − g ( x ) ) = sup p ( g ∗ ( p ) − f ∗ ( p ) ) . {\displa... |
Wikipedia:Fenchel–Moreau theorem#0 | In convex analysis, the Fenchel–Moreau theorem (named after Werner Fenchel and Jean Jacques Moreau) or Fenchel biconjugation theorem (or just biconjugation theorem) is a theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be equal to its biconjugate. This is in contrast to the general property tha... |
Wikipedia:Fengyan Li#0 | Fengyan Li is an applied mathematician. She specializes in numerical analysis and scientific computing, and especially in Galerkin methods for magnetohydrodynamics and related problems in computational fluid dynamics including Maxwell's equations and Eikonal equations. Educated in China and the US, she works in the US ... |
Wikipedia:Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein#0 | Ferdinand Augustin Haller von Hallerstein (Slovene: Ferdinand Avguštin Haller von Hallerstein; 27 August 1703 – 29 October 1774), also known as August Allerstein or by his Chinese name Liu Songling (simplified Chinese: 刘松龄; traditional Chinese: 劉松齡; pinyin: Liú Sōnglíng), was a Jesuit missionary and astronomer from Car... |
Wikipedia:Ferdinand Gonseth#0 | Ferdinand Gonseth (1890–1975) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher. He was born on 22 September 1890 at Sonvilier, the son of Ferdinand Gonseth, a clockmaker, and his wife Marie Bourquin. He studied at La Chaux-de-Fonds, and read physics and mathematics at ETH Zurich, from 1910 to 1914. In 1929 Gonseth succeeded J... |
Wikipedia:Ferdinando Piretti#0 | Ferdinando Piretti (17th century – 18th century) was an Italian mathematician. He lived at the San Vitale monastery in Ravenna and later at the San Benedetto monastery in Ferrara. == Works == Piretti, Ferdinando (1725). Lumi aritmetici. Ferrara: Bernardino Pomatelli. == References == |
Wikipedia:Fernando Q. Gouvêa#0 | Fernando Quadros Gouvêa is a Brazilian number theorist and historian of mathematics who won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1995 for his exposition of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. He also won the Beckenbach Book Prize of the MAA in 2007 for his book with William P... |
Wikipedia:Fernando Zalamea#0 | Fernando Zalamea Traba (Bogota, 28 February 1959) is a Colombian mathematician, essayist, critic, philosopher and popularizer, known by his contributions to the philosophy of mathematics, being the creator of the synthetic philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of around twenty books and is one of the world's lead... |
Wikipedia:Fey Silva Vidal#0 | Fey Yamina Silva Vidal (born 1966, Huánuco.) is a Peruvian meteorologist, and the first woman in the country to earn a PhD in Physical-Mathematical Sciences. She has led pioneering research on climate variability and the El Niño phenomenon, contributing to improved climate prediction and variability, with an emphasis o... |
Wikipedia:Fiber (mathematics)#0 | In mathematics, the fiber (US English) or fibre (British English) of an element y {\displaystyle y} under a function f {\displaystyle f} is the preimage of the singleton set { y } {\displaystyle \{y\}} ,: p.69 that is f − 1 ( y ) = { x : f ( x ) = y } . {\displaystyle f^{-1}(y)=\{x\mathrel {:} f(x)=y\}.} == Properties ... |
Wikipedia:Fibonacci word fractal#0 | The Fibonacci word fractal is a fractal curve defined on the plane from the Fibonacci word. == Definition == This curve is built iteratively by applying the Odd–Even Drawing rule to the Fibonacci word 0100101001001...: For each digit at position k: If the digit is 0: Draw a line segment then turn 90° to the left if k i... |
Wikipedia:Field (mathematics)#0 | In mathematics, a field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers. A field is thus a fundamental algebraic structure which is widely used in algebra, number theory, and many other areas of mathematics. The be... |
Wikipedia:Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics#0 | The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. == History == In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College (as the Victoria University of Manchester was then called) for the teaching ... |
Wikipedia:Fierz identity#0 | In theoretical physics, a Fierz identity is an identity that allows one to rewrite bilinears of the product of two spinors as a linear combination of products of the bilinears of the individual spinors. It is named after Swiss physicist Markus Fierz. The Fierz identities are also sometimes called the Fierz–Pauli–Kofink... |
Wikipedia:Fifth power (algebra)#0 | In arithmetic and algebra, the fifth power or sursolid of a number n is the result of multiplying five instances of n together: n5 = n × n × n × n × n. Fifth powers are also formed by multiplying a number by its fourth power, or the square of a number by its cube. The sequence of fifth powers of integers is: 0, 1, 32, ... |
Wikipedia:Filip Rindler#0 | Filip Rindler (born August 15, 1984 in Berlin) is an Austrian mathematician. After studying at TU Berlin, he finished his doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2011 under the supervision of Jan Kristensen. Since 2020 he is a Professor at the University of Warwick. He works on the calculus of variations, partial diff... |
Wikipedia:Filled Julia set#0 | The filled-in Julia set K ( f ) {\displaystyle K(f)} of a polynomial f {\displaystyle f} is a Julia set and its interior, non-escaping set. == Formal definition == The filled-in Julia set K ( f ) {\displaystyle K(f)} of a polynomial f {\displaystyle f} is defined as the set of all points z {\displaystyle z} of the dyna... |
Wikipedia:Filtration (mathematics)#0 | In mathematics, a filtration F {\displaystyle {\mathcal {F}}} is, informally, like a set of ever larger Russian dolls, each one containing the previous ones, where a "doll" is a subobject of an algebraic structure. Formally, a filtration is an indexed family ( S i ) i ∈ I {\displaystyle (S_{i})_{i\in I}} of subobjects ... |
Wikipedia:Finitary relation#0 | In mathematics, a finitary relation over a sequence of sets X1, ..., Xn is a subset of the Cartesian product X1 × ... × Xn; that is, it is a set of n-tuples (x1, ..., xn), each being a sequence of elements xi in the corresponding Xi. Typically, the relation describes a possible connection between the elements of an n-t... |
Wikipedia:Finite difference#0 | A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form f(x + b) − f(x + a). Finite differences (or the associated difference quotients) are often used as approximations of derivatives, such as in numerical differentiation. The difference operator, commonly denoted Δ {\displaystyle \Delta } , is the operator that ... |
Wikipedia:Finite difference coefficient#0 | In mathematics, to approximate a derivative to an arbitrary order of accuracy, it is possible to use the finite difference. A finite difference can be central, forward or backward. == Central finite difference == This table contains the coefficients of the central differences, for several orders of accuracy and with un... |
Wikipedia:Finite difference method#0 | In numerical analysis, finite-difference methods (FDM) are a class of numerical techniques for solving differential equations by approximating derivatives with finite differences. Both the spatial domain and time domain (if applicable) are discretized, or broken into a finite number of intervals, and the values of the ... |
Wikipedia:Finite subdivision rule#0 | In mathematics, a finite subdivision rule is a recursive way of dividing a polygon or other two-dimensional shape into smaller and smaller pieces. Subdivision rules in a sense are generalizations of regular geometric fractals. Instead of repeating exactly the same design over and over, they have slight variations in ea... |
Wikipedia:Finite von Neumann algebra#0 | In mathematics, a von Neumann algebra or W*-algebra is a *-algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology and contains the identity operator. It is a special type of C*-algebra. Von Neumann algebras were originally introduced by John von Neumann, motivated by his study of s... |
Wikipedia:Finite-difference frequency-domain method#0 | The finite-difference frequency-domain (FDFD) method is a numerical solution method for problems usually in electromagnetism and sometimes in acoustics, based on finite-difference approximations of the derivative operators in the differential equation being solved. While "FDFD" is a generic term describing all frequenc... |
Wikipedia:Fioralba Cakoni#0 | Fioralba Cakoni is an American-Albanian mathematician and an expert on inverse scattering theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. == Education and career == Cakoni earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Tirana in 1987 and 1990 respectively. She completed her Ph.D. in 1996... |
Wikipedia:First and second fundamental theorems of invariant theory#0 | In algebra, the first and second fundamental theorems of invariant theory concern the generators and relations of the ring of invariants in the ring of polynomial functions for classical groups (roughly, the first concerns the generators and the second the relations). The theorems are among the most important results o... |
Wikipedia:Fixed point (mathematics)#0 | In mathematics, a fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint), also known as an invariant point, is a value that does not change under a given transformation. Specifically, for functions, a fixed point is an element that is mapped to itself by the function. Any set of fixed points of a transformation is also an invar... |
Wikipedia:Fixed points of isometry groups in Euclidean space#0 | A fixed point of an isometry group is a point that is a fixed point for every isometry in the group. For any isometry group in Euclidean space the set of fixed points is either empty or an affine space. For an object, any unique centre and, more generally, any point with unique properties with respect to the object is ... |
Wikipedia:Fixed-point combinator#0 | In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator): p.26 is a higher-order function (i.e., a function which takes a function as argument) that returns some fixed point (a value that is mapped to itself) of its argument function, if one exists. Formally, if f i x {\displaystyle ... |
Wikipedia:Fixed-point index#0 | In mathematics, the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem is a formula that counts the fixed points of a continuous mapping from a compact topological space X {\displaystyle X} to itself by means of traces of the induced mappings on the homology groups of X {\displaystyle X} . It is named after Solomon Lefschetz, who first sta... |
Wikipedia:Fixed-point property#0 | A mathematical object X has the fixed-point property if every suitably well-behaved mapping from X to itself has a fixed point. The term is most commonly used to describe topological spaces on which every continuous mapping has a fixed point. But another use is in order theory, where a partially ordered set P is said t... |
Wikipedia:Fixed-point space#0 | In mathematics, a Hausdorff space X is called a fixed-point space if it obeys a fixed-point theorem, according to which every continuous function f : X → X {\displaystyle f:X\rightarrow X} has a fixed point, a point x {\displaystyle x} for which f ( x ) = x {\displaystyle f(x)=x} . For example, the closed unit interval... |
Wikipedia:Flag (linear algebra)#0 | In mathematics, particularly in linear algebra, a flag is an increasing sequence of subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space V. Here "increasing" means each is a proper subspace of the next (see filtration): { 0 } = V 0 ⊂ V 1 ⊂ V 2 ⊂ ⋯ ⊂ V k = V . {\displaystyle \{0\}=V_{0}\subset V_{1}\subset V_{2}\subset \cdots... |
Wikipedia:Flat (geometry)#0 | In geometry, a flat is an affine subspace, i.e. a subset of an affine space that is itself an affine space. Particularly, in the case the parent space is Euclidean, a flat is a Euclidean subspace which inherits the notion of distance from its parent space. In an n-dimensional space, there are k-flats of every dimension... |
Wikipedia:Flemming Topsøe#0 | Flemming Topsøe (born 25 August 1938) is a Danish mathematician, and is emeritus in the mathematics department of the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several mathematical science works, among them works about analysis, probability theory and information theory. He was born in Aarhus, son of the engineer H... |
Wikipedia:Florence Eliza Allen#0 | Florence Eliza Allen (1876–1960) was an American mathematician and women's suffrage activist. In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the fourth Ph.D. overall from that department. == Early life == Florence Eliza Allen was born on October 4, 1876... |
Wikipedia:Florian Luca#0 | Florian Luca (born 16 March 1969, in Galați) is a Romanian mathematician who specializes in number theory with emphasis on Diophantine equations, linear recurrences and the distribution of values of arithmetic functions. He has made notable contributions to the proof that irrational automatic numbers are transcendental... |
Wikipedia:Fluent (mathematics)#0 | A fluent is a time-varying quantity or variable. The term was used by Isaac Newton in his early calculus to describe his form of a function. The concept was introduced by Newton in 1665 and detailed in his mathematical treatise, Method of Fluxions. Newton described any variable that changed its value as a fluent – for ... |
Wikipedia:Fluxion#0 | A fluxion is the instantaneous rate of change, or gradient, of a fluent (a time-varying quantity, or function) at a given point. Fluxions were introduced by Isaac Newton to describe his form of a time derivative (a derivative with respect to time). Newton introduced the concept in 1665 and detailed them in his mathemat... |
Wikipedia:Foias constant#0 | In mathematical analysis, the Foias constant is a real number named after Ciprian Foias. It is defined in the following way: for every real number x1 > 0, there is a sequence defined by the recurrence relation x n + 1 = ( 1 + 1 x n ) n {\displaystyle x_{n+1}=\left(1+{\frac {1}{x_{n}}}\right)^{n}} for n = 1, 2, 3, .... ... |
Wikipedia:Force chain#0 | In the study of the physics of granular materials, a force chain consists of a set of particles within a compressed granular material that are held together and jammed into place by a network of mutual compressive forces. Between these chains are regions of low stress whose grains are shielded for the effects of the gr... |
Wikipedia:Formal derivative#0 | In mathematics, the formal derivative is an operation on elements of a polynomial ring or a ring of formal power series that mimics the form of the derivative from calculus. Though they appear similar, the algebraic advantage of a formal derivative is that it does not rely on the notion of a limit, which is in general ... |
Wikipedia:Formal power series#0 | In mathematics, a formal series is an infinite sum that is considered independently from any notion of convergence, and can be manipulated with the usual algebraic operations on series (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, partial sums, etc.). A formal power series is a special kind of formal series, of the... |
Wikipedia:Formula#0 | In science, a formula is a concise way of expressing information symbolically, as in a mathematical formula or a chemical formula. The informal use of the term formula in science refers to the general construct of a relationship between given quantities. The plural of formula can be either formulas (from the most commo... |
Wikipedia:Forster–Swan theorem#0 | The Forster–Swan theorem is a result from commutative algebra that states an upper bound for the minimal number of generators of a finitely generated module M {\displaystyle M} over a commutative Noetherian ring. The usefulness of the theorem stems from the fact, that in order to form the bound, one only needs the mini... |
Wikipedia:Forum of Mathematics#0 | Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Forum of Mathematics, Sigma are open-access peer-reviewed journals for mathematics published under a creative commons license by Cambridge University Press. The founding managing editor was Rob Kirby. He was succeeded by Robert Guralnick, who is currently the managing editor of both journal... |
Wikipedia:Fox derivative#0 | In mathematics, the Fox derivative is an algebraic construction in the theory of free groups which bears many similarities to the conventional derivative of calculus. The Fox derivative and related concepts are often referred to as the Fox calculus, or (Fox's original term) the free differential calculus. The Fox deriv... |
Wikipedia:Fox–Wright function#0 | In mathematics, the Fox–Wright function (also known as Fox–Wright Psi function, not to be confused with Wright Omega function) is a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric function pFq(z) based on ideas of Charles Fox (1928) and E. Maitland Wright (1935): p Ψ q [ ( a 1 , A 1 ) ( a 2 , A 2 ) … ( a p , A p ) ( b... |
Wikipedia:Fractal#0 | In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illustrated in successive magnifications of the Mandelbrot set. This exhibition of... |
Wikipedia:Fractal analysis#0 | Fractal analysis is assessing fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics to a dataset which may be a theoretical dataset, or a pattern or signal extracted from phenomena including topography, natural geometric objects, ecology and aqua... |
Wikipedia:Fractal antenna#0 | A fractal antenna is an antenna that uses a fractal, self-similar design to maximize the effective length, or increase the perimeter (on inside sections or the outer structure), of material that can receive or transmit electromagnetic radiation within a given total surface area or volume. Such fractal antennas are also... |
Wikipedia:Fractal art#0 | Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still digital images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art. The mathematical beaut... |
Wikipedia:Fractal canopy#0 | In geometry, a fractal canopy, a type of fractal tree, is one of the easiest-to-create types of fractals. Each canopy is created by splitting a line segment into two smaller segments at the end (symmetric binary tree), and then splitting the two smaller segments as well, and so on, infinitely. Canopies are distinguishe... |
Wikipedia:Fractal catalytic model#0 | A fractal catalytic model is a mathematical representation of chemical catalysis in an environment with fractal properties. == References == |
Wikipedia:Fractal compression#0 | Fractal compression is a lossy compression method for digital images, based on fractals. The method is best suited for textures and natural images, relying on the fact that parts of an image often resemble other parts of the same image. Fractal algorithms convert these parts into mathematical data called "fractal codes... |
Wikipedia:Fractal cosmology#0 | In physical cosmology, fractal cosmology is a set of minority cosmological theories which state that the distribution of matter in the Universe, or the structure of the universe itself, is a fractal across a wide range of scales (see also: multifractal system). More generally, it relates to the usage or appearance of f... |
Wikipedia:Fractal derivative#0 | In applied mathematics and mathematical analysis, the fractal derivative or Hausdorff derivative is a non-Newtonian generalization of the derivative dealing with the measurement of fractals, defined in fractal geometry. Fractal derivatives were created for the study of anomalous diffusion, by which traditional approach... |
Wikipedia:Fractal dimension#0 | In mathematics, a fractal dimension is a term invoked in the science of geometry to provide a rational statistical index of complexity detail in a pattern. A fractal pattern changes with the scale at which it is measured. It is also a measure of the space-filling capacity of a pattern and tells how a fractal scales dif... |
Wikipedia:Fractal globule#0 | A fractal globule also sometimes called a crumpled globule is a name used to describe polymers that have compact local and global scaling. They can be modeled through a Hamiltonian Walk, a lattice walk in which every point is only visited once and no paths intersect, this prevents knot formation. A crumpled globule is ... |
Wikipedia:Fractal in soil mechanics#0 | A fractal is an irregular geometric object with an infinite nesting of structure at all scales. It is mainly applicable in soil chromatography and soil micromorphology (Anderson, 1997). Internal structure, pore size distribution and pore geometry can be identified by using fractal dimension at nano scale. As soil is he... |
Wikipedia:Fractal landscape#0 | A fractal landscape or fractal surface is generated using a stochastic algorithm designed to produce fractal behavior that mimics the appearance of natural terrain. In other words, the surface resulting from the procedure is not a deterministic, but rather a random surface that exhibits fractal behavior. Many natural p... |
Wikipedia:Fractal physiology#0 | Fractal physiology refers to the study of physiological systems using complexity science methods, such as chaos measure, entropy, and fractal dimensions. The underlying assumption is that biological systems are complex and exhibit non-linear patterns of activity, and that characterizing that complexity (using dedicated... |
Wikipedia:Fractal sequence#0 | In mathematics, a fractal sequence is one that contains itself as a proper subsequence. An example is 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... If the first occurrence of each n is deleted, the remaining sequence is identical to the original. The process can be repeated indefinitely, so that ac... |
Wikipedia:Fractal transform#0 | The fractal transform is a technique invented by Michael Barnsley et al. to perform lossy image compression. This first practical fractal compression system for digital images resembles a vector quantization system using the image itself as the codebook. == Fractal transform compression == Start with a digital image A1... |
Wikipedia:Fractal-generating software#0 | Fractal-generating software is any type of graphics software that generates images of fractals. There are many fractal generating programs available, both free and commercial. Mobile apps are available to play or tinker with fractals. Some programmers create fractal software for themselves because of the novelty and be... |
Wikipedia:Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis#0 | Fractional calculus is a branch of mathematical analysis that studies the several different possibilities of defining real number powers or complex number powers of the differentiation operator D {\displaystyle D} D f ( x ) = d d x f ( x ) , {\displaystyle Df(x)={\frac {d}{dx}}f(x)\,,} and of the integration operator J... |
Wikipedia:Fracton#0 | A fraction (from Latin: fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight-fifths, three-quarters. A common, vulgar, or simple fraction (examples: 1... |
Wikipedia:Frame (linear algebra)#0 | In linear algebra, a frame of an inner product space is a generalization of a basis of a vector space to sets that may be linearly dependent. In the terminology of signal processing, a frame provides a redundant, stable way of representing a signal. Frames are used in error detection and correction and the design and a... |
Wikipedia:Franc Breckerfeld#0 | Franc Breckerfeld (February 17, 1681 in Ljubljana – October 29, 1744 in Cluj, Romania) was a Slovene theologian, mathematician, astronomer and latinist. In his later years he was a member of the Royal Observatory at Cluj. == References == Krleža, Miroslav, ed. (1955), Enciklopedija Jugoslavije (2nd ed.), Jugoslavenski ... |
Wikipedia:Frances Kuo#0 | Frances Y. Kuo is an applied mathematician known for her research on low-discrepancy sequences and quasi-Monte Carlo methods for numerical integration and finite element analysis. Originally from Taiwan, she was educated in New Zealand, and works in Australia as a professor in applied mathematics at the University of N... |
Wikipedia:Francesca Mazzia#0 | Francesca Mazzia (born 13 March 1967) is an Italian applied mathematician and computer scientist specializing in numerical analysis, including numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Bari. == Education and career == Mazzia was born on 13 March 1... |
Wikipedia:Francesco Barberino Benici#0 | Francesco Barberino Benici (3 December 1642 – 26 September 1702) was an Italian mathematician. He was among the first popularizers of mathematics for shopkeepers, along with Elia Del Re, Christopher Clavius, and Domenico Griminelli. == Works == Aritmetica prattica (in Italian). Palermo: Ignazio Calatro. 1697. == Refere... |
Wikipedia:Francesco Ventretti#0 | Francesco Ventretti (1713–1784) was an Italian mathematician. == Life == Ventretti taught at the Military College of Verona and in 1773 invented the orosmeter, a tool to make precision measurements of hillside gradients. Gaetano Marzagaglia commented on his works. == Works == Ventretti, Francesco (1752). Genesi di tutt... |
Wikipedia:Francis Allotey#0 | Francis Kofi Ampenyin Allotey (9 August 1932 – 2 November 2017) was a Ghanaian mathematical physicist. Together with Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong, he became the first Ghanaian to obtain a doctorate in mathematical sciences, earned in 1966. == Early life and education == Allotey was born on 9 August 1932 in the Fante town o... |
Wikipedia:Francis Bashforth#0 | Francis Bashforth (8 January 1819 – 12 February 1912) was an English Anglican priest and mathematician, who is known for his use of applied mathematics on ballistics. == Early life and education == Bashforth was born on 8 January 1819 in Thurnscoe, Yorkshire, England. Bashforth was the eldest son of John Bashforth, a f... |
Wikipedia:Francis Buekenhout#0 | Francis Buekenhout (born 23 April 1937 in Ixelles near Brussels) is a Belgian mathematician who introduced Buekenhout geometries and the concept of quadratic sets. == Career == Buekenhout studied at the University of Brussels under Jacques Tits and Paul Libois. Together with his teacher Jacques Tits, he developed conce... |
Wikipedia:Francis Su#0 | Francis Edward Su is an American mathematician. He joined the Harvey Mudd College faculty in 1996, and is currently Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics. Su served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 2015–2017 and is serving as a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society from 2... |
Wikipedia:Francisco Dória#0 | Francisco Antônio de Moraes Accioli Dória (born 1945, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian mathematician, philosopher, and genealogist. Francisco Antônio Dória received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, in 1968 and then got his doctorate from the Brazilian ... |
Wikipedia:Frank Garvan#0 | Francis G. Garvan (born March 9, 1955) is an Australian-born mathematician who specializes in number theory and combinatorics. He holds the position Professor of Mathematics at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (January, 1986) with George E. Andrews as his thesis adviso... |
Wikipedia:Frank Harary#0 | Frank Harary (March 11, 1921 – January 4, 2005) was an American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory. He was widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory. Harary was a master of clear exposition and, together with his many doctoral students, he standardized the terminology of graphs. He br... |
Wikipedia:Frank Ruskey#0 | Frank Ruskey is a combinatorialist and computer scientist, and professor at the University of Victoria. His research involves algorithms for exhaustively listing discrete structures, combinatorial Gray codes, Venn and Euler diagrams, combinatorics on words, and enumerative combinatorics. Frank Ruskey is the author of t... |
Wikipedia:Frank Smithies#0 | Frank Smithies FRSE (10 March 1912 – 16 November 2002) was a British mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1961. He was an alumnus and an academic of Cambridge University. == Publications == Sm... |
Wikipedia:Frank Spitzer#0 | Frank Ludvig Spitzer (July 24, 1926 – February 1, 1992) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American mathematician who was a longtime professor at Cornell University and made fundamental contributions to probability theory, especially the theory of random walks, Brownian motion, and fluctuation theory, and then the theory of ... |
Wikipedia:Frank W. Bubb Sr.#0 | Frank Bubb (July 3, 1892 – May 3, 1961) was a scientist and a mathematician at Washington University in St. Louis. He was a part of the team that developed the cyclotron that produced the first batch of plutonium for the then secret program only referred to as the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb. == R... |
Wikipedia:Frans-H. van den Dungen#0 | Frans-H. van den Dungen (1898–1965) was a Belgian scientist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. In 1946 he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. Among his students was the mathematician Paul Dedecker. == External links == Frans-H. van den Dungen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Universit... |
Wikipedia:František Mikloško#0 | František Mikloško (born 2 June 1947) is a Slovak politician. He was the Speaker of the Slovak National Council from 1990 to 1992 and a long serving MP of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (1990-2010). For most of his career, he was a member of Christian Democratic Movement. == Early life == Mikloško studied ... |
Wikipedia:Franz Aurenhammer#0 | Franz Aurenhammer (born September 25, 1957) is an Austrian computational geometer known for his research in computational geometry on Voronoi diagrams, straight skeletons, and related structures. He is a professor in the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Graz University of Technology. Aurenhammer earned a d... |
Wikipedia:Franz Mertens#0 | Franz Mertens (20 March 1840 – 5 March 1927) (also known as Franciszek Mertens) was a German-Polish mathematician. He was born in Schroda in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland) and died in Vienna, Austria. The Mertens function M(x) is the sum function for the Möbius function, i... |
Wikipedia:François Baccelli#0 | François Louis Baccelli (born December 20, 1954) is senior researcher at INRIA Paris, in charge of the ERC project NEMO on network mathematics. == Education and career == Baccelli obtained his PhD at the University of Paris-Sud in 1983 under the supervision of Erol Gelenbe. Between 1991 and 2003, he was a faculty membe... |
Wikipedia:François Français#0 | Cap-Haïtien (French: [kap a.isjɛ̃] ; Haitian Creole: Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English, is a commune of about 400,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord. Previously named Cap‑Français (Haitian Creole: Kap-Fransè; initially Cap-François Haitian ... |
Wikipedia:François Viète#0 | François Viète (French: [fʁɑ̃swa vjɛt]; 1540 – 23 February 1603), known in Latin as Franciscus Vieta, was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to his innovative use of letters as parameters in equations. He was a lawyer by trade, and served as a privy counci... |
Wikipedia:François-Joseph Servois#0 | François-Joseph Servois (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf sɛʁvwa]; born 19 July 1767 in Mont-de-Laval, Doubs, France; died 17 April 1847 in Mont-de-Laval, Doubs, France) was a French priest, military officer and mathematician. His most notable contribution came in his publication of Essai sur un nouveau mode d’expo... |
Wikipedia:Françoise Tisseur#0 | Françoise Tisseur is a numerical analyst and Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK. She works in numerical linear algebra and in particular on nonlinear eigenvalue problems and structured matrix problems, including the development of algorithms and software. She ... |
Wikipedia:Fraňková–Helly selection theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Fraňková–Helly selection theorem is a generalisation of Helly's selection theorem for functions of bounded variation to the case of regulated functions. It was proved in 1991 by the Czech mathematician Dana Fraňková. == Background == Let X be a separable Hilbert space, and let BV([0, T]; X) denote t... |
Wikipedia:Fred Van Oystaeyen#0 | Fred Van Oystaeyen (born 1947), also Freddy van Oystaeyen, is a mathematician and emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Antwerp. He has pioneered work on noncommutative geometry, in particular noncommutative algebraic geometry. == Biography == In 1972, Fred Van Oystaeyen obtained his Ph.D. from the Vri... |
Wikipedia:Fred van der Blij#0 | Frederik van der Blij (13 May 1923 – 27 January 2018) was a Dutch mathematician. From 1955 until his retirement in 1988 he was professor at the University of Utrecht. His research focused on number theory, among other fields. == See also == Van der Blij's lemma == References == == External links == Fred van der Blij at... |
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