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Wikipedia:Izabella Łaba#0
Izabella Łaba (born 1966) is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her main research specialties are harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and additive combinatorics. == Professional career == Łaba earned a master's degree in 1986 from the University o...
Wikipedia:J. B. Lockhart#0
James Balfour Lockhart FRSE (1886–27 January 1969) was a Scottish mathematician and teacher. He was generally known as J. B. Lockhart or simply JBL. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. == Life == He was born in Cambuslang in 1886. He was educated locally then studied for the civil service at Skerry's Col...
Wikipedia:J. E. Jayasuriya#0
J. E. Jayasuriya (14 February 1918 - 23 January 1990) was a Sri Lankan educationist. He was the Professor of Education at the University of Ceylon. == Early life and education == Jayasuriya's father was a postmaster and the family moved when he was transferred from post office to post office. He received his education ...
Wikipedia:J. F. Cameron#0
John Forbes Cameron (July 1873 – 21 March 1952) was a Scottish mathematician, academic and academic administrator. He was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1928 to 1948 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1933 to 1935. == Early life == Cameron was born in July 1873 in Stanley,...
Wikipedia:J. Stewart Burns#0
Joseph Stewart Burns (born December 4, 1969), better known as J. Stewart Burns or simply just Stewart Burns is a television writer and producer most notable for his work on The Simpsons, Futurama, and Unhappily Ever After. == Education == Burns attended Harvard University, where he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon. Noted ...
Wikipedia:J. V. Uspensky#0
James Victor Uspensky (Russian: Яков Викторович Успенский, romanized: Yakov Viktorovich Uspensky; April 29, 1883 – January 27, 1947) was a Russian and American mathematician notable for writing Theory of Equations. == Biography == Uspensky graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1906 and received his doctora...
Wikipedia:Jaak Peetre#0
Jaak Peetre (29 July 1935, in Tallinn – 1 April 2019, in Lund) was an Estonian-born Swedish mathematician. He is known for the Peetre theorem and Peetre's inequality. == Biography == Jaak Peetre's father was Arthur Peetre (1907–1989), an Estonian jurist, historian, archivist, and from 1941 to 1942 mayor of Pärnu. Jaak ...
Wikipedia:Jaan Sarv#0
Jaan Sarv (Võro: Sarvõ Jaan; 21 December 1877 – 23 August 1954) was an Estonian mathematician and educator. Most of his life he worked as a professor at the University of Tartu. Sarv laid the foundation of Estonian language mathematical education. == References == "Eesti koolimatemaatika ajalugu" I-IV, Olaf Prinits, Ta...
Wikipedia:Jaap Murre#0
Jacob Pieter "Jaap" Murre (18 September 1929 – 9 April 2023) was a Dutch mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He was a professor of mathematics at Leiden University from 1961 to 1994. == Career == Murre was born on 18 September 1929 in Baarland. At his small primary school one of his classmates and friends...
Wikipedia:Jaap Wessels#0
Jacobus (Jaap) Wessels (19 January 1939 – 30 July 2009) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology, known for his contributions in the field of Markov decision processes. == Biography == Born in Amsterdam, Wessels started to study Mathematics and ...
Wikipedia:Jacek Banasiak#0
Jacek Banasiak FAAS (born 15 March 1959) is a Polish mathematician who is a Professor and South African Research Chair in Mathematical Models and Methods in Biosciences and Bioengineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. == Early life and education == Jacek Banasiak was born on 15 March 1959 in Łódź, Poland...
Wikipedia:Jack Yang#0
Jack Jung-Kai Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨荣凯; traditional Chinese: 楊榮凱; pinyin: Yáng Róngkǎi) (born 1974) is an American-Canadian actor of Taiwanese ethnicity. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. == Filmography == The Yellow Truth as Jack (2003) Shadow Chaser (2003) ...
Wikipedia:Jack function#0
In mathematics, the Jack function is a generalization of the Jack polynomial, introduced by Henry Jack. The Jack polynomial is a homogeneous, symmetric polynomial which generalizes the Schur and zonal polynomials, and is in turn generalized by the Heckman–Opdam polynomials and Macdonald polynomials. == Definition == Th...
Wikipedia:Jacob Bernoulli#0
Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James in English or Jacques in French; 6 January 1655 [O.S. 27 December 1654] – 16 August 1705) was a Swiss mathematician. He sided with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz during the Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy and was an early proponent of Leibnizian calculus, to which he made numerous co...
Wikipedia:Jacob Eichenbaum#0
Jacob Moiseyovych Eichenbaum (Yiddish: יעקב בן־משה אייכענבוים, Ukrainian: Я́ків Мойсе́йович Ейхенба́ум; 12 October 1796 – 27 December 1861), born Jacob Gelber, was a Galician Jewish maskil, educator, poet and mathematician. == Biography == Jacob Gelber was born in the Galician city of Krystynopil, on 12 October 1796, i...
Wikipedia:Jacob Tsimerman#0
Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988) is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto specialising in number theory and related areas. He was awarded the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in the year 2015 in recognition for his work on the André–Oort conjecture and for his work in both analytic number theory and algebraic geometry...
Wikipedia:Jacobi triple product#0
In mathematics, the Jacobi triple product is the identity: ∏ m = 1 ∞ ( 1 − x 2 m ) ( 1 + x 2 m − 1 y 2 ) ( 1 + x 2 m − 1 y 2 ) = ∑ n = − ∞ ∞ x n 2 y 2 n , {\displaystyle \prod _{m=1}^{\infty }\left(1-x^{2m}\right)\left(1+x^{2m-1}y^{2}\right)\left(1+{\frac {x^{2m-1}}{y^{2}}}\right)=\sum _{n=-\infty }^{\infty }x^{n^{2}}y...
Wikipedia:Jacobian matrix and determinant#0
In vector calculus, the Jacobian matrix (, ) of a vector-valued function of several variables is the matrix of all its first-order partial derivatives. If this matrix is square, that is, if the number of variables equals the number of components of function values, then its determinant is called the Jacobian determinan...
Wikipedia:Jacobi–Anger expansion#0
In mathematics, the Jacobi–Anger expansion (or Jacobi–Anger identity) is an expansion of exponentials of trigonometric functions in the basis of their harmonics. It is useful in physics (for example, to convert between plane waves and cylindrical waves), and in signal processing (to describe FM signals). This identity ...
Wikipedia:Jacobson–Bourbaki theorem#0
In algebra, the Jacobson–Bourbaki theorem is a theorem used to extend Galois theory to field extensions that need not be separable. It was introduced by Nathan Jacobson (1944) for commutative fields and extended to division rings by Jacobson (1947), and Henri Cartan (1947) who credited the result to unpublished work by...
Wikipedia:Jacobson–Morozov theorem#0
In mathematics, the Jacobson–Morozov theorem is the assertion that nilpotent elements in a semi-simple Lie algebra can be extended to sl2-triples. The theorem is named after Jacobson 1951, Morozov 1942. == Statement == The statement of Jacobson–Morozov relies on the following preliminary notions: an sl2-triple in a sem...
Wikipedia:Jacquelien Scherpen#0
Jacquelien Maria Aleida Scherpen is a Dutch applied mathematician specializing in nonlinear control theory. She is a professor in the faculty of science and engineering at the University of Groningen, director of the Groningen Engineering Center, and former scientific director of the Engineering and Technology Institut...
Wikipedia:Jacqueline Ferrand#0
Jacqueline Lelong-Ferrand (17 February 1918, Alès, France – 26 April 2014, Sceaux, France) was a French mathematician who worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. She taught at universities in Caen, Lille, and Paris. == Education and career == Ferrand was born in Alès, the ...
Wikipedia:Jacques F. Benders#0
Jacobus Franciscus (Jacques) Benders (1 June 1924 – 9 January 2017) was a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He was the first Professor in the Netherlands in the field of Operations Research and is known for his contributions to mathematical prog...
Wikipedia:Jacques Frédéric Français#0
Jacques Frédéric Français (20 June 1775 – 9 March 1833) was a French engineer and mathematician. == Biography == Born on 20 June 1775, Jacques Frédéric Français was the son of a grocer of Saverne. He attended the Royal College of Strasbourg and enrolled voluntarily in the Army of the Rhine in 1793. In September 1794 he...
Wikipedia:Jacques Neveu#0
Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu (14 November 1932 – 17 May 2016) was a Belgian (and then French) mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. == Education and career == Jacques Neveu received in 1955 from the Sorbonne his doctora...
Wikipedia:Jacques Tits#0
Jacques Tits (French: [ʒak tits]) (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric. == Early life and education == Tits was born in Uccle, Belgium to Léon ...
Wikipedia:Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns#0
Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns, Siyuan yujian (simplified Chinese: 四元玉鉴; traditional Chinese: 四元玉鑒), also referred to as Jade Mirror of the Four Origins, is a 1303 mathematical monograph by Yuan dynasty mathematician Zhu Shijie. Zhu advanced Chinese algebra with this Magnum opus. The book consists of an introduction ...
Wikipedia:Jahar Saha#0
Jahar Saha is a professor and former director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, a position he held from 1998 to 2002. == Biography == Jahar Saha was born on 14 December 1943 at Kaladi in Matlab (now in Bangladesh). While his grandparents were in business, his father was a lawyer who later became a...
Wikipedia:Jaina school of mathematics#0
The Jain school of mathematics is a school of mathematics whose members are distinguished by the fact that they are followers of the Jain religion. All members of the Jain school of mathematics are also members of the larger community of Indian mathematicians. The mathematics developed by this school forms a subset of ...
Wikipedia:Jakub Kresa#0
Jakub Kresa (Spanish: Jacobo Kresa, Latin: Jacobo Kreysa; 19 July 1648 – 28 July 1715) was a Czech mathematician. He was one of the most important Czech mathematicians of the Baroque era. == Biography == === Early life === Jakub Kresa was born into a smallholder's family at Smržice, not far from Prostějov. He studied a...
Wikipedia:Jakša Cvitanić#0
Jakša Cvitanić (born 1962 in Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance at the California Institute of Technology. His main research interests are in mathematical finance, contract theory, stochastic control theory, and stochastic differential equations. From 1992 to 1999 he wa...
Wikipedia:James B. Carrell#0
James B. Carrell (born 1940) is an American and Canadian mathematician, who is currently an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His areas of research are algebraic geometry, Lie theory, transformation groups and differential geometry. He obtained...
Wikipedia:James Colliander#0
James Ellis Colliander (born 22 June 1967) is an American-Canadian mathematician. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at University of British Columbia and served as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) during 2016-2021. He was born in El Paso, Texas, and lived there until age 8 a...
Wikipedia:James Harkness (mathematician)#0
James Harkness (1864–1923) was a Canadian mathematician, born in Derby, England, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge with a B.A. in 1885 and an M.A. in 1889. Coming early to the United States, he was connected with Bryn Mawr College from 1888 to 1903, for the last seven years as professor of mathematics. The stu...
Wikipedia:James McCaw#0
Richard Hugh McCaw (born 31 December 1980) is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player. He captained the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, in 110 out of his 148 test matches, and won two Rugby World Cups. He has won the World Rugby Player of the Year award a joint record three times and was the mo...
Wikipedia:James Mercer (mathematician)#0
James Mercer FRS (15 January 1883 – 21 February 1932) was a mathematician, born in Bootle, close to Liverpool, England. He was educated at University of Manchester, and then University of Cambridge. He became a Fellow, saw active service at the Battle of Jutland in World War I and, after decades of ill health, died in ...
Wikipedia:James Milne (mathematician)#0
James S. Milne (born 10 October 1942 in Invercargill, New Zealand) is a New Zealand mathematician working in arithmetic geometry. == Life == Milne attended high school in Invercargill in New Zealand until 1959, and then studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin (B.A. 1964) and Harvard University (Masters 1966, Ph.D...
Wikipedia:James Moffat (mathematician)#0
James Moffat is a mathematician. He was a researcher for the Ministry of Defence during the 1982 Falklands War. He wrote Complexity Theory and Network Centric Warfare, which has 275 scholarly citations. Moffat is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Aberdeen, where he studies quantum gravity. He has publ...
Wikipedia:James Oxley#0
James G. Oxley is an Australian–American mathematician, Boyd Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana State University. He is known for his expertise in matroid theory and graph theory. Oxley did his undergraduate studies in Australia, and earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1978, under the supervision of ...
Wikipedia:James Stewart (mathematician)#0
James Drewry Stewart, (March 29, 1941 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian mathematician, violinist, and professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University. Stewart is best known for his series of calculus textbooks used for high school, college, and university-level courses. == Career == Stewart received his maste...
Wikipedia:Jan Brinkhuis#0
Jan Brinkhuis (born 1952) is a Dutch mathematician, and Associate Professor of Finance and Mathematical Methods and Techniques at the Econometric Institute of Erasmus University Rotterdam, specialized in the theory and application of optimization theory and game theory. Born in Veenendaal, Brinkhuis received his PhD in...
Wikipedia:Jan Camiel Willems#0
Jan Camiel Willems (18 September 1939 – 31 August 2013) was a Belgian mathematical system theorist who has done most of his scientific work while residing in the Netherlands and the United States. He is most noted for the introduction of the notion of a dissipative system and for the development of the behavioral appro...
Wikipedia:Jan Hemelrijk#0
Jan Hemelrijk (28 May 1918 – 16 March 2005) was a Dutch mathematician, Professor of Statistics at the University of Amsterdam, and authority in the field of stochastic processes. == Biography == Hemelrijk received his PhD in 1950 at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled "Symmetry Keys and other application...
Wikipedia:Jan Karel Lenstra#0
Jan Karel Lenstra (born 19 December 1947, in Zaandam) is a Dutch mathematician and operations researcher, known for his work on scheduling algorithms, local search, and the travelling salesman problem. Lenstra received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam in 1976, advised by Gijsbert de Leve. He then became a res...
Wikipedia:Jan Koenderink#0
Jan Johan Koenderink (born 10 February 1943, Stramproy) is a Dutch physicist and psychologist known for his research in visual perception, computer vision, and geometry. Koenderink earned a bachelor's degree from Utrecht University in 1964, a master's in 1967, and a Ph.D. in 1972 on a thesis titled Models of the visual...
Wikipedia:Jan Mandel#0
Janhilly "Jan" Manual (born January 13, 1986) is a Filipino actor and comedian. He made his first showbiz appearance on the fourth season of the Philippine reality show StarStruck where he finished as an avenger. He was a contract artist of GMA Artist Center. He is also the nephew of Survivor Philippines Season 1 Casta...
Wikipedia:Jan Nekovář#0
Jan Nekovář (1963 – 14 November 2022) was a Czech academic and mathematician who specialized in number theory. == Biography == Nekovář first studied at Charles University in Prague and was an exchange student at Moscow State University from 1984 to 1985. He obtained his doctorate from the Czechoslovak Academy of Scienc...
Wikipedia:Jan Poleszczuk#0
Jan Poleszczuk (born 19 October 1986) is a Polish mathematician and biologist known for his contributions in mathematical biology. == Early life and education == Poleszczuk was born on 19 October 1986. In June 2010, he graduated from Warsaw University's Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics with a Master of...
Wikipedia:Jan Reiterman#0
Jan Reiterman (8 October 1948 – 14 September 1992) was a Czech mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for his contributions to categorical methods in algebra and the eponymous Reiterman's Theorem, which generalized Birkhoff's Variety Theorem to varieties of finite algebras. == Life == Reiterman was born...
Wikipedia:Jan Rusinek#0
Jan Rusinek (born 2 December 1950) is a Polish mathematician and chess composer, particularly noted for his brilliant endgame studies. He was editor of the study section of Szachy (Chess) from 1971 to the magazine's closure in 1990. Rusinek became an International Judge of chess composition in 1983, and a Grandmaster o...
Wikipedia:Jan S. Hesthaven#0
Jan S. Hesthaven (born 10 December 1965) is a Danish mathematician, currently president of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He was previously Vice President for Academic Affairs (starting in 2021) at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and held the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Sci...
Wikipedia:Jan Saxl#0
Jan Saxl (5 June 1948 – 2 May 2020) was a Czech-British mathematician, and a professor at the University of Cambridge. He was known for his work in finite group theory, particularly on consequences of the classification of finite simple groups. == Education and career == Saxl was born in Brno, in what was at the time C...
Wikipedia:Jan Trlifaj#0
Jan Trlifaj (born 30 December 1954) is a professor of Mathematics at Charles University whose research interests include Commutative algebra, Homological algebra and Representation theory. == Career and research == Jan Trlifaj studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, from which...
Wikipedia:Jan Śleszyński#0
Ivan Vladislavovich Sleshinsky or Jan Śleszyński (Russian: Иван Владиславович Слешинский) (23 July 1854 – 9 March 1931) was a Polish-Russian mathematician. He was born in Lysianka, Russian Empire to Polish parents. == Life == Śleszyński's main work was on continued fractions, least squares and axiomatic proof theory ba...
Wikipedia:Jan Šindel#0
Jan Šindel (1370s – between 1455 and 1457), also known as Jan Ondřejův (Latin: Iohannes Andreae dictus Schindel or Joannes de Praga), was a Czech medieval scientist and Catholic priest. He was a professor at Charles University in Prague and became the rector of the university in 1410. He lectured on mathematics and ast...
Wikipedia:Jan-Erik Roos#0
Jan-Erik Ingvar Roos (16 October 1935 – 15 December 2017) was a Swedish mathematician whose research interests were in abelian category theory, homological algebra, and related areas. He was born in Halmstad, in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Roos enrolled at Lund University in 1954, and started stu...
Wikipedia:Jane Kister#0
Jane Elizabeth Kister (born and also published as Jane Bridge, 18 October 1944 – 1 December 2019) was a British and American mathematical logician and mathematics editor who served for many years as an editor of Mathematical Reviews. == Early life and education == Jane Bridge was originally from Weybridge, England, whe...
Wikipedia:Jane Purcell Coffee#0
Jane C. Purcell Coffee (1944–2022) was an American mathematician, one of the first women to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and the founder of the Teacher Education Honors Academy at the College of Staten Island. == Early life and education == Coffee was the daughter of James Purcell,...
Wikipedia:Janet McDonald (mathematician)#0
Janet McDonald (1905–2006) was an American mathematician who specialized in geometry, specifically the concept of Conjugate Nets. She taught at Vassar College for 27 years and was named professor emerita in 1971. == Life and work == McDonald (sometimes spelled MacDonald) was born in Wesson, Mississippi, on September 3,...
Wikipedia:Janet basis#0
In mathematics, a Janet basis is a normal form for systems of linear homogeneous partial differential equations (PDEs) that removes the inherent arbitrariness of any such system. It was introduced in 1920 by Maurice Janet. It was first called the Janet basis by Fritz Schwarz in 1998. The left hand sides of such systems...
Wikipedia:Janice B. Walker#0
Janice B. Walker is an American mathematician who taught and served as an administrator at Xavier University in Cincinnati and Assistant to the President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer there. == Biography == Janice Anita Brown Walker was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and raised in Florida. She earned her BS...
Wikipedia:Janvière Ndirahisha#0
Janvière Ndirahisha (born 1966) is a Burundian academic and politician. From 2015 to 2020 she was a Minister of Education for Burundi. She is President of the National Women's Forum (FNF). == Life == Janvière Ndirahisha was born in 1966 in Burundi. She was educated at the University of Burundi before undertaking a PhD ...
Wikipedia:Japanese mathematics#0
Japanese mathematics (和算, wasan) denotes a distinct kind of mathematics which was developed in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1867). The term wasan, from wa ("Japanese") and san ("calculation"), was coined in the 1870s and employed to distinguish native Japanese mathematical theory from Western mathematics (洋算 yōsan...
Wikipedia:Japanese theorem for cyclic polygons#0
In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that the centers of the incircles of certain triangles inside a cyclic quadrilateral are vertices of a rectangle. It was originally stated on a sangaku tablet on a temple in Yamagata prefecture, Japan, in 1880. Triangulating an arbitrary cyclic quadrilateral by its diagonals yie...
Wikipedia:Japanese theorem for cyclic quadrilaterals#0
In geometry, the Japanese theorem states that the centers of the incircles of certain triangles inside a cyclic quadrilateral are vertices of a rectangle. It was originally stated on a sangaku tablet on a temple in Yamagata prefecture, Japan, in 1880. Triangulating an arbitrary cyclic quadrilateral by its diagonals yie...
Wikipedia:Jaqueline Mesquita#0
Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita (born 1985) is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations and functional differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Brasília. == Education and career == Mesquita was born on 20 September 1985. After graduating from the University of Bras...
Wikipedia:Jared Mansfield#0
Jared Mansfield (May 23, 1759 – February 3, 1830) was an American teacher, mathematician and surveyor. His career was shaped by two interventions by President Thomas Jefferson. In 1801 Jefferson appointed Mansfield as professor at the newly founded United States Military Academy at West Point. Again at Jefferson's appo...
Wikipedia:Jarkko Kari#0
Jarkko J. Kari is a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to the theory of Wang tiles and cellular automata. Kari is currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Turku. == Biography == Kari received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Turku; his disserta...
Wikipedia:Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg#0
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (4 August 1876, Helsinki – 24 December 1932, Helsinki) was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem. == Life and work == Lindeberg was son of a teacher at the Helsinki Polytechnical Institute and at an early age showed mathematical talent and interest. The family was w...
Wikipedia:Jaroslav Kožešník#0
Jaroslav Kožešník (8 June 1907 in Kněžice – 26 June 1985 in Prague) was a Czech and Czechoslovak scientist, mathematician, an expert in mechanics and automation (cybernetics), chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1969–1970, 1970–1977, 1977–1980), a Communist Party functionary in Communist Czechoslovakia an...
Wikipedia:Javier González Garza#0
Javier González Garza (born 12 July 1945) is a Mexican mathematician and politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution. In 2006–2009 he served as a deputy in the 60th Congress, representing the Federal District's second district. == References ==
Wikipedia:Jean Du Breuil#0
Jean Dubreuil, also known as Jean Du Breuil (22 July 1602 – 27 April 1670), was a French mathematician, music theorist, writer and essayist. == Life == Son of the bookseller Claude Du Breuil, he continued his father's profession until he joined the Society of Jesus. He lived for a long time in Rome where he studied arc...
Wikipedia:Jean François Niceron#0
Jean-François Niceron (5 July 1613 – 22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives). == Biography == Jean-François Niceron was a mathematical prodigy. He studied under Father Marin Merse...
Wikipedia:Jean Gallier#0
Jean Henri Gallier (born 1949) is a researcher in computational logic at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the Computer and Information Science Department and the Department of Mathematics. == Biography == Gallier was born January 5, 1949, in Nancy, France, and holds dual French and America...
Wikipedia:Jean Ginibre#0
Jean Ginibre (4 March 1938 — 26 March 2020) was a French mathematical physicist. He is known for his contributions to random matrix theory (see circular law), statistical mechanics (see FKG inequality, Ginibre inequality), and partial differential equations. With Martine Le Berre and Yves Pomeau, he provided a kinetic ...
Wikipedia:Jean Giraud (mathematician)#0
Jean Giraud (French: [ʒiʁo]; 2 February 1936 – 27 or 28 March 2007) was a French mathematician, a student of Alexander Grothendieck. His research focused on non-abelian cohomology and the theory of topoi. In particular, he authored the book Cohomologie non-abélienne (Springer, 1971) and proved the theorem that bears hi...
Wikipedia:Jean Jacques Bret#0
Jean Jacques Bret (25 September 1781 – 29 January 1819) was a French professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble. He worked on analytical geometry, polynomial roots, and the theory of conics and quadrics. Bret was born in Mercuriol, Drôme, where his father was a notary. He went to study civil engineering at ...
Wikipedia:Jean Mawhin#0
Jean L. Mawhin (born 11 December 1942 in Verviers) is a Belgian mathematician and historian of mathematics. Mawhin received his PhD in 1969 (Le problème des solutions périodiques en mécanique non linéaire) under Paul Ledoux at the University of Liège, where he had studied since 1962 and received his licentiate in mathe...
Wikipedia:Jean Serra#0
Jean Paul Frédéric Serra (born 1940 in Algeria) is a French mathematician and engineer, and known as one of the co-founders (together with Georges Matheron) of mathematical morphology. == Biography == === Education === Serra received a scientific baccalauréat in 1957, and an engineering degree from the École Nationale ...
Wikipedia:Jean Trenchant#0
Jean Trenchant (... – 15th-century) was a French mathematician L'aritmetique departie en trois livres was used as a reference by Simon Stevin in the preface of Tafelen van Interest. == Works == Trenchant, Jean (1561). L'aritmetique de Jan Trenchant departie en trois livres, ensemble un petit discours des changes. Avec ...
Wikipedia:Jean-Baptiste Leblond#0
Jean-Baptiste Leblond (born 21 May 1957 in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French materials scientist, member of the Mechanical Modelling Laboratory of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (MISES) and professor at the same university. == Biography == Leblond attended his scientific preparatory classes, notably in the specia...
Wikipedia:Jean-Charles Faugère#0
Jean-Charles Faugère is the head of the POLSYS project-team (Solvers for Algebraic Systems and Applications) of the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6) and Paris–Rocquencourt center of INRIA, in Paris. The team was formerly known as SPIRAL and SALSA. Faugère obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1994 at the Uni...
Wikipedia:Jean-Claude Falmagne#0
Jean-Claude Falmagne (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ klod falmaɲ]; born February 4, 1934, in Brussels, Belgium) is a mathematical psychologist whose scientific contributions deal with problems in reaction time theory, psychophysics, philosophy of science, measurement theory, decision theory, and educational technology. Tog...
Wikipedia:Jean-Claude Sikorav#0
Jean-Claude Sikorav (born 21 June 1957) is a French mathematician. He is professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He is specialized in symplectic geometry. == Main contributions == Sikorav is known for his proof, joint with François Laudenbach, of the Arnold conjecture for Lagrangian intersections in cotangen...
Wikipedia:Jean-Dominique Lebreton#0
Jean-Dominique Lebreton (born February 19, 1950, in Saint-Étienne) is a biomathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. == Course == Jean-Dominique Lebreton obtained a university degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1969, then a Certificate of Master of Mathematics and Fundamental Applications and a Ma...
Wikipedia:Jean-François Mertens#0
Jean-François Mertens (11 March 1946 – 17 July 2012) was a Belgian game theorist and mathematical economist. Mertens contributed to economic theory in regards to order-book of market games, cooperative games, noncooperative games, repeated games, epistemic models of strategic behavior, and refinements of Nash equilibri...
Wikipedia:Jean-Louis Loday#0
Jean-Louis Loday (12 January 1946 – 6 June 2012) was a French mathematician who worked on cyclic homology and who introduced Leibniz algebras (sometimes called Loday algebras) and Zinbiel algebras. He occasionally used the pseudonym Guillaume William Zinbiel, formed by reversing the last name of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibn...
Wikipedia:Jean-Marie Souriau#0
Jean-Marie Souriau (3 June 1922, Paris – 15 March 2012, Aix-en-Provence) was a French mathematician. He was one of the pioneers of modern symplectic geometry. == Education and career == Souriau started studying mathematics in 1942 at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1946 he was a research fellow of CNRS and an eng...
Wikipedia:Jean-Michel Coron#0
Jean-Michel Coron (born August 8, 1956) is a French mathematician. He first studied at École Polytechnique, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by Haïm Brezis. Since 1992, he has studied the control theory of partial differential equations, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern pa...
Wikipedia:Jean-Michel Salanskis#0
Jean-Michel Emmanuel Salanskis (born 5 April 1951 in Paris) is a French philosopher and mathematician, professor of science and philosophy at the University of Paris X Nanterre. == Life == Originally gaining a Diplôme d'études approfondies in pure mathematics, he went on to study philosophy with Luis Puig and Jean-Fran...
Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Bergeron#0
Jean-Paul Bergeron (born October 21, 1947) is a Quebec politician. He previously served as the member for Iberville in the Quebec National Assembly as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1998 until 2003. == Biography == Bergeron was born in Saint-Alexandre, Quebec. He earned his bachelor's degree in pedagogy from the ...
Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Delahaye#0
Jean-Paul Delahaye (born 29 June 1952 in Saint-Mandé Seine) is a French computer scientist and mathematician. == Career == Delahaye has been a professor of computer science at the Lille University of Science and Technology since 1988 and a researcher in the school's computer sciences lab since 1983. Since 1991 he has w...
Wikipedia:Jean-Paul Pier#0
Jean-Paul Pier (July 5, 1933 – December 14, 2016) was a Luxembourgish mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis and the history of mathematics, particularly mathematical analysis in the 20th century. == Education and career == Jean-Paul Pier was a graduate student in Luxembourg and at the universities of Paris a...
Wikipedia:Jean-Pierre Serre#0
Jean-Pierre Serre (French: [sɛʁ]; born 15 September 1926) is a French mathematician who has made contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954, the Wolf Prize in 2000 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003. == Biography == === Personal life ==...
Wikipedia:Jean-Yves Girard#0
Jean-Yves Girard (French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; born 1947) is a French logician working in proof theory. He is a research director (emeritus) at the mathematical institute of University of Aix-Marseille, at Luminy. == Biography == Jean-Yves Girard is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud. He made a name for hims...
Wikipedia:Jean-Yves Jaffray#0
Jean-Yves Jaffray (1939–2009) was a French mathematician and economist who made influential contributions in the fields of decision theory and mathematical statistics. He pioneered methods in decision theory such as linear utility theory for belief functions, bridging the gap between expected utility and the maximin ru...
Wikipedia:Jean-Éric Pin#0
Jean-Éric Pin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to the algebraic automata theory and semigroup theory. He is a CNRS research director. == Biography == Pin earned his undergraduate degree from ENS Cachan in 1976 and his doctorate (Doctorat d'état) from the Pierre an...
Wikipedia:Jeanne Peiffer#0
Jeanne Peiffer (born 20 August 1948 in Mersch) is a Luxembourgish historian of mathematics. She is Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS, at the Center Alexandre Koyré of the CNRS, and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). == Biography == Peiffer studied at the University of Luxembourg where she...
Wikipedia:Jeannette Janssen#0
Jeannette Catharina Maria Janssen is a Dutch and Canadian mathematician whose research concerns graph theory and the theory of complex networks. She is a professor of mathematics at Dalhousie University, the chair of the Dalhousie Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and the chair of the Activity Group on Discrete...