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Wikipedia:Jos Baeten#0
Josephus C.M. Baeten (born 15 June 1954) is a Dutch computer scientist and mathematician, who has published on process calculus, concurrency theory, formal methods, model-based software engineering, model-based systems engineering and theory of computation. == Early life and education == Jos Baeten was born in Tilburg....
Wikipedia:Josef Anton Gmeiner#0
Josef Anton Gmeiner (1862-1926) was an Austrian mathematician working in number theory and mathematical analysis. Gmeiner studied physics and mathematics at the University of Innsbruck from 1885. In 1890 he passed the examination qualifying him to teach at Gymnasien. After two years as an assistant at the University of...
Wikipedia:Josef Teichmann#0
Josef Teichmann (* 27 August 1972 in Lienz) is an Austrian mathematician and professor at ETH Zürich working on mathematical finance, stochastic analysis and machine learning. After studying mathematics at the University of Graz, he pursued his PhD at the University of Vienna. The title of his dissertation in 1999 unde...
Wikipedia:Joseph Bernstein#0
Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; Hebrew: יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין; Russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory. == Biography == Bernstein recei...
Wikipedia:Joseph Delboeuf#0
Joseph Rémi Léopold Delbœuf (30 September 1831, Liège, Belgium – 14 August 1896, Bonn, Germany) was a Belgian experimental psychologist who studied visual illusions including his work on the Delboeuf illusion. He studied and taught philosophy, mathematics, and psychophysics. He published works across a diverse range of...
Wikipedia:Joseph Diestel#0
Joseph Diestel (January 27, 1943 – August 17, 2017) was an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Kent State University. In addition to his contribution to functional analysis, particularly Banach space theory and the theory of vector measures, Diestel was known for a number of highly influential textbo...
Wikipedia:Joseph Dzhun#0
Joseph Dzhun Volodymyrovych is a Ukrainian scientist, astronomer, and academician who was born in Cherniakhiv, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnical Institute. He is a scientist-astronomer, mathematician, representative of an academician E.P. Fedorov's scientific school, doctor of physical and mathema...
Wikipedia:Joseph Fourier#0
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf fuʁje]; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis, and their applicati...
Wikipedia:Joseph H. Sampson#0
Joseph Harold Sampson Jr. (1926–2003) was an American mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis, geometry and topology, especially his work about harmonic maps in collaboration with James Eells. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1951 under the supervision of Salomon Bochn...
Wikipedia:Joseph J. Rotman#0
Joseph Jonah Rotman (May 26, 1934 – October 16, 2016) was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and also a published author of 10 textbooks. Rotman was born in Chicago. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he received his doctorate in 1959...
Wikipedia:Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg#0
Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (30 October 1840 – 22 March 1926) was a Luxembourgish mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. == Biography == Neuberg was born on 30 October 1840 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. He first studied at a local school, the Athénée de Luxembourg, then progressed to Ghent University, study...
Wikipedia:Joseph Kampé de Fériet#0
In mathematics, the Kampé de Fériet function is a two-variable generalization of the generalized hypergeometric series, introduced by Joseph Kampé de Fériet. The Kampé de Fériet function is given by p + q F r + s ( a 1 , ⋯ , a p : b 1 , b 1 ′ ; ⋯ ; b q , b q ′ ; c 1 , ⋯ , c r : d 1 , d 1 ′ ; ⋯ ; d s , d s ′ ; x , y ) =...
Wikipedia:Joseph Kouneiher#0
Joseph Kouneiher is a French mathematical physicist. He is a professor of mathematical physics and engineering sciences at Nice SA University, France. He works primarily on the foundations of science, and his work in the domains of quantum field theory, quantum gravity, string theory and conformal field theory is widel...
Wikipedia:Joseph L. Ullman#0
Joseph Leonard Ullman (30 January 1923, in Buffalo, New York – 11 September 1995, in Chelsea, Michigan) was a mathematician who worked on classical analysis with a focus on approximation theory. Ullman received his A.B. from the University of Buffalo and his graduate studies were interrupted by service in the U.S. Army...
Wikipedia:Joseph Lipman#0
Joseph Lipman (born June 15, 1938) is a Canadian-American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry. Lipman graduated from the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and then went to Harvard University, receiving his master's degree in 1961. He then earned a Ph.D. there in 1965 under the supervision ...
Wikipedia:Joseph Ludwig Raabe#0
Joseph Ludwig Raabe (15 May 1801 in Brody, Galicia – 22 January 1859 in Zürich, Switzerland) was a Swiss mathematician. == Life == As his parents were quite poor, Raabe was forced to earn his living from a very early age by giving private lessons. He began to study mathematics in 1820 at the Polytechnicum in Vienna, Au...
Wikipedia:Joseph Mugisha#0
Joseph Y.T. Mugisha is a Ugandan mathematician (specialising in biomathematics), academician and academic administrator. Currently he is a professor of mathematics and principal of the College of Natural Sciences, a constituent college of Makerere University. Makerere University is the oldest university in Uganda. == B...
Wikipedia:Joseph Pérès#0
Joseph Pérès (31 October 1890 – 12 February 1962) was a French mathematician. == Early life and education == Pérès was born in Clermont-Ferrand on 31 October 1890. Former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, he worked in Rome with Vito Volterra and defended his doctoral thesis in 1915. == Career == In 1920, he beca...
Wikipedia:Joseph Ser#0
Joseph Ser (1875–1954) was a French mathematician, of whom little was known till now. He published 45 papers between 1900 and 1954, among which four monographs, edited in Paris by Henry Gauthier-Villars. In the main, he worked on number theory and infinite series. He got important results in the domain of factorial ser...
Wikipedia:Joseph Tilly#0
Joseph Marie de Tilly (16 August 1837 – 4 August 1906) was a Belgian military man and mathematician. He was born in Ypres, Belgium. In 1858, he became a teacher in mathematics at the regimental school. He began with studying geometry, particularly Euclid's fifth postulate and non-Euclidean geometry. He found similar re...
Wikipedia:Joseph Wedderburn#0
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882 – 9 October 1948) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career. A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field (Wedderburn's little theorem), and part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on s...
Wikipedia:Joseph-Louis Lagrange#0
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier; 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange or Lagrangia, was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French. He made significant contributions to the fields of a...
Wikipedia:Josephine D. Edwards#0
Josephine Dianne Edwards (18 August 1942 – 25 May 1985) was an Australian mathematician and mathematics educator who founded the Australian Mathematics Competition. == Education and career == Edwards was born in Oxford and was educated at the Ursuline School in Brentwood. She went on to study mathematics at the Univers...
Wikipedia:Josephine Janina Mehlberg#0
Josephine Janina Mehlberg (1905-1969) was a Polish-American Jewish mathematician. Using the fictional identity of Countess Janina Suchodolska, she helped thousands of people avoid death at the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. == Life == Mehlberg was born Pepi Spinner in Zhuravno, now part of Ukraine. He...
Wikipedia:Josephine Robinson Roe#0
Josephine Robinson Roe (May 5, 1858 – April 29, 1946) was an American mathematician and university professor. In 1918, she was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from Syracuse University, and one of the few American women to earn a PhD in mathematics before World War II. == Biography == Josephine Alb...
Wikipedia:Josip Pečarić#0
Josip Pečarić (born 2 September 1948) is a Croatian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics in the Faculty of Textile Technology at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and is a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He has written and co-authored over 1,200 mathematical publications. He has al...
Wikipedia:José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez#0
José Antonio Villaseñor y Sánchez was an 18th-century geographer, historian, and mathematician in New Spain. He was born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico and studied at San Ildefonso in Mexico City. He became an accountant, and later official cosmographer (geographer) of New Spain. Following royal instructions, Viceroy Pedro...
Wikipedia:José Bonet Solves#0
José Bonet Solves (Valencia, June 18, 1955) is a Spanish mathematician specialist in functional analysis and its applications to complex analysis and linear partial differential equations. == Academic biography == José Bonet graduated in Mathematics at the University of Valencia in 1977. In 1980 he defended his Ph.D. t...
Wikipedia:José Felipe Voloch#0
José Felipe Voloch (born 13 February 1963, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian mathematician who works on number theory and algebraic geometry and is a professor at Canterbury University. == Career == Voloch earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1985 under the supervision of John William Scott Cassels. He ...
Wikipedia:José Luis Massera#0
José Luis Massera (Genoa, Italy, June 8, 1915 – Montevideo, September 9, 2002) was a Uruguayan dissident and mathematician who researched the stability of differential equations. Massera's lemma is named after him. He published over 40 papers during 1940–1970. A militant Communist, he was a political prisoner during 19...
Wikipedia:José Sebastião e Silva#0
José Sebastião e Silva (12 December 1914 in Mértola – 25 May 1972 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, distribution theory, and mathematical education. After graduating from the University of Lisbon in 1937 and earning his doctorate in 1949, he taught at the Instituto...
Wikipedia:José de Jesús Martínez#0
José de Jesús Martínez (also known as "Chuchú Martínez" or "Sergeant Chuchú") (June 8, 1929, in Managua – January 27, 1991, in Panama) was a poet, playwright, philosopher, pilot and mathematician and a former aide to General Omar Torrijos Herrera, ruler of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Through his association with Torrijos...
Wikipedia:Joséphine Guidy Wandja#0
Joséphine Guidy Wandja (born 1945, also Guidy-Wandja) is an Ivorian mathematician. She is the first African woman with a PhD in mathematics. == Early life == She moved to France aged 14. She attended the Lycée Jules-Ferry in Paris, and later the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Her master's degree thesis was entitled...
Wikipedia:Jouanolou's trick#0
In algebraic geometry, Jouanolou's trick is a theorem that asserts, for an algebraic variety X, the existence of a surjection with affine space fibers from an affine variety W to X. Moreover, the variety W is homotopy-equivalent to X, and W has the technically advantageous property of being affine. Jouanolou's original...
Wikipedia:Joubert's theorem#0
In polynomial algebra and field theory, Joubert's theorem states that if K {\displaystyle K} and L {\displaystyle L} are fields, L {\displaystyle L} is a separable field extension of K {\displaystyle K} of degree 6, and the characteristic of K {\displaystyle K} is not equal to 2, then L {\displaystyle L} is generated o...
Wikipedia:Jouko Väänänen#0
Jouko Antero Väänänen (born September 3, 1950 in Rovaniemi, Lapland) is a Finnish mathematical logician known for his contributions to set theory, model theory, logic and foundations of mathematics. He served as the vice-rector at the University of Helsinki, and a professor of mathematics at the University of Helsinki,...
Wikipedia:Journal of Algebra#0
Journal of Algebra (ISSN 0021-8693) is an international mathematical research journal in algebra. An imprint of Academic Press, it is published by Elsevier. Journal of Algebra was founded by Graham Higman, who was its editor from 1964 to 1984. From 1985 until 2000, Walter Feit served as its editor-in-chief. In 2004, Jo...
Wikipedia:Journal of Algebra and Its Applications#0
The Journal of Algebra and Its Applications covers both theoretical and applied algebra, with a focus on practical applications. It is published by World Scientific. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.736. == Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and ind...
Wikipedia:Journal of Commutative Algebra#0
The Journal of Commutative Algebra is a peer-reviewed academic journal of mathematical research that specializes in commutative algebra and closely related fields. It has been published by the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium (RMMC) since its establishment in 2009. It is currently published four times per year. Hi...
Wikipedia:Journal of Group Theory#0
The Journal of Group Theory is a bimonthly peer-reviewed mathematical journal covering all aspects of group theory. It was established in 1998 and is published by Walter de Gruyter. The editor-in-chief is Chris Parker (University of Birmingham). == Abstracting and indexing == The journal is abstracted and indexed in: I...
Wikipedia:Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications#0
The Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications is an academic journal in mathematics, specializing in mathematical analysis and related topics in applied mathematics. It was founded in 1960 by Richard Bellman, as part of a series of new journals on areas of mathematics published by Academic Press, and is now pub...
Wikipedia:Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry#0
The Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering mathematics as applied to physics. It is published by the Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering and was established in 1994 as Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry. Papers are publ...
Wikipedia:Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra#0
The Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering that part of algebra likely to be of general mathematical interest: algebraic results with immediate applications, and the development of algebraic theories of sufficiently general relevance to allow for future applications. ...
Wikipedia:Journal of Symbolic Computation#0
The Journal of Symbolic Computation is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal covering all aspects of symbolic computation published by Academic Press and then by Elsevier. It is targeted to both mathematicians and computer scientists. It was established in 1985 by Bruno Buchberger, who served as its editor until 1...
Wikipedia:Jovan Karamata#0
Jovan Karamata (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Карамата; February 1, 1902 – August 14, 1967) was a Serbian mathematician and university professor. He is remembered for contributions to analysis, in particular, the Tauberian theory and the theory of slowly varying functions. Considered to be among the most influential Serbian ...
Wikipedia:Joy Morris#0
Karen Joy Morris (Chinese: 莫文蔚; pinyin: Mò Wénwèi; born 2 June 1970), better known as Karen Mok, is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is considered one of the leading East Asian pop singers and actresses with a career spanning three decades. Mok is the first female Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Melody Award, and...
Wikipedia:Jozef Dravecký#0
Jozef Dravecký (25 July 1947 – 23 January 2023) was a Slovak mathematician and diplomat. Between 1991 and 2013, he served as the ambassador of Slovakia to Bulgaria (1993–1998), the Baltic States (2000 – 2005) and the Holy See (2007–2013). Dravecký was born in Spišská Nová Ves. He studied Sciences at the Comenius Univer...
Wikipedia:Jozef Teugels#0
Jozef Lodewijk Maria Teugels, or Jozef L. Teugels, Jef Teugels (born February 20, 1939) is a Belgian mathematical statistician and actuary. His main contributions are in extreme value theory, stochastic processes, and reinsurance theory. == Education and career == Teugels was born in Londerzeel, Belgium and studied at ...
Wikipedia:João Lucas Marques Barbosa#0
João Lucas Marques Barbosa (born April 9, 1943) is a Brazilian physicist, researcher, and university professor. Commander and Grand Officer of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (Academia Brasileira de Ciências - ABC), João Lucas ...
Wikipedia:Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo#0
Juan Manuel Cajigal y Odoardo (1803 in Barcelona, Anzoátegui – 1856 in Yaguaraparo, Sucre) was a Venezuelan mathematician, engineer and statesman. Orphaned at age 7, he was raised in Spain by his cousin-once-removed, Field Marshal Juan Manuel Cajigal, former captain general of Venezuela and Cuba. He studied in the Univ...
Wikipedia:Jucys–Murphy element#0
In mathematics, the Jucys–Murphy elements in the group algebra C [ S n ] {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} [S_{n}]} of the symmetric group, named after Algimantas Adolfas Jucys and G. E. Murphy, are defined as a sum of transpositions by the formula: X 1 = 0 , X k = ( 1 k ) + ( 2 k ) + ⋯ + ( k − 1 k ) , k = 2 , … , n . {\displ...
Wikipedia:Juha Heinonen#0
Juha Heinonen (23 July 1960, Toivakka – 30 October 2007) was a Finnish mathematician, known for his research on geometric function theory. == Biography == Heinonen, whose father was a lumberjack and local politician, grew up in a small town in central Finland. He studied mathematics at the University of Jyväskylä and r...
Wikipedia:Juhani Karhumäki#0
Eero Urho Juhani Karhumäki (born 1949) is a Finnish mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to automata theory. He is a professor at the University of Turku in southwestern Finland. == Biography == Karhumäki earned his doctorate from the University of Turku in 1976. In 1980–1985, he...
Wikipedia:Jules Molk#0
Jules Molk (8 December 1857 in Strasbourg, France – 7 May 1914 in Nancy) was a French mathematician who worked on elliptic functions. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Binoux for 1913. He was appointed to the chair of applied mathematics at the University of Nancy upon the death of Émile Léonard Mathi...
Wikipedia:Julia Böttcher#0
Julia Böttcher is a German discrete mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics. Her research involves graph theory, including graph and hypergraph packing problems, random graphs and random subgraphs, and the relations between graph parameters including graph bandwidth, degree, and c...
Wikipedia:Julia Chuzhoy#0
Julia Chuzhoy (Hebrew: ג'וליה צ'וז'וי) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, known for her research on approximation algorithms and graph theory. == Education and career == Chuzhoy earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Technion – Israel...
Wikipedia:Julia Gordon#0
Julia Gordon is a Canadian mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose research concerns algebraic geometry, including representation theory, p-adic groups, motivic integration, and the Langlands program. Gordon earned her PhD at the University of Michigan in 2003 under the supervision of Thomas C. Hales ...
Wikipedia:Julia Pevtsova#0
Julia Pevtsova is a Russian-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Her research concerns representation theory and in particular modular representation theory. Pevstova competed for Russia in the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal. S...
Wikipedia:Julia Wolf#0
Julia Wolf is a British mathematician specialising in arithmetic combinatorics who was the 2016 winner of the Anne Bennett Prize of the London Mathematical Society. She is currently a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. == Education and career == W...
Wikipedia:Julia set#0
In complex dynamics, the Julia set and the Fatou set are two complementary sets (Julia "laces" and Fatou "dusts") defined from a function. Informally, the Fatou set of the function consists of values with the property that all nearby values behave similarly under repeated iteration of the function, and the Julia set co...
Wikipedia:Julian Sochocki#0
Julian Karol Sochocki (Polish: Julian Karol Sochocki; Russian: Юлиан Васильевич Сохоцкий; February 2, 1842, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – December 14, 1927, in Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Polish-Russian mathematician. His name is sometimes transliterated from Russian in several different ways (e.g. So...
Wikipedia:Julie Rowlett#0
Julie Marie Rowlett (born 1978) is an American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics at the Chalmers University of Technology. Her primary research interest is in geometric analysis with a particular focus on geometric analysis on singular spaces, dynamics, mathematical physics, and spectral theory. == Biogr...
Wikipedia:Juliusz Schauder#0
Juliusz Paweł Schauder ([ˈjulʲjuʂ ˈpavɛw ˈʂau̯dɛr]; 21 September 1899 – September 1943) was a Polish mathematician known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. == Life and career == Born on 21 September 1899 in Lwów to a lawyer father of Jewish descent, he was draf...
Wikipedia:Junior Mathematical Challenge#0
The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) is a charity founded in 1996 to help with the education of children in mathematics within the UK. == History == The national mathematics competitions had existed prior to the formation of the trust, but the foundation of the UKMT in the summer of 1996 enabled them to be run c...
Wikipedia:Jur Hronec#0
Gymnázium Jura Hronca (GJH) is a gymnasium (grammar school) in Bratislava, Slovakia. The school focuses on the study of natural sciences, mathematics, and computer sciences. However, its affiliation with the International Baccalaureate, an active bi-lingual (English – Slovak) programme and the option to study several f...
Wikipedia:Justinian Rweyemamu#0
Justinian F. Rweyemamu (28 September 1942 – 30 March 1982) was Tanzania’s first major economics scholar. Considered by many as the outstanding representative of the post-independence African scholars, he was also a pan-Africanist, political strategist, and international civil servant. The first Tanzanian to get PhD in ...
Wikipedia:Jyeṣṭhadeva#0
Jyeṣṭhadeva (c. 1500 – c. 1575) was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1350 – c. 1425). He is best known as the author of Yuktibhāṣā, a commentary in Malayalam of Tantrasamgraha by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1544). In Yuktibhāṣā, Jyeṣṭhade...
Wikipedia:Jyotirmimamsa#0
In astronomy, Jyotirmimamsa (analysis of astronomy) is a treatise on the methodology of astronomical studies authored by Nilakantha Somayaji (1444–1544) in around 1504 CE. Nilakantha somayaji was an important astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics and was the author of the much celeb...
Wikipedia:Jyā, koti-jyā and utkrama-jyā#0
Jyā, koṭi-jyā and utkrama-jyā are three trigonometric functions introduced by Indian mathematicians and astronomers. The earliest known Indian treatise containing references to these functions is Surya Siddhanta. These are functions of arcs of circles and not functions of angles. Jyā and koti-jyā are closely related to...
Wikipedia:Ján Mináč#0
Ján Mináč (born 15 June 1953) is a Slovak-Canadian mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at The University of Western Ontario. His research interests include Galois groups, Galois cohomology, quadratic forms, and nonlinear dynamics. == Early life and education == Mináč received his bachelor's degree and his m...
Wikipedia:János Aczél (mathematician)#0
János Dezső Aczél (Hungarian: [ˈɒt͡seːl]; 26 December 1924 – 1 January 2020), also known as John Aczel, was a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician, who specialized in functional equations and information theory. == Professional career == Aczél earned a doctorate in mathematical analysis from the University of Budapest, and...
Wikipedia:János Halász (politician)#0
János Halász (born 11 May 1963) is a Hungarian politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) for Debrecen (Hajdú-Bihar County Constituency II) between 1998 and 2014. He was elected MP from his party, Fidesz's national list in 2014. He served as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Human (formerly Nationa...
Wikipedia:Jónsson function#0
In mathematical set theory, an ω-Jónsson function for a set x of ordinals is a function f : [ x ] ω → x {\displaystyle f:[x]^{\omega }\to x} with the property that, for any subset y of x with the same cardinality as x, the restriction of f {\displaystyle f} to [ y ] ω {\displaystyle [y]^{\omega }} is surjective on x {\...
Wikipedia:Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński#0
Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (; Polish: [ˈjuzɛf ˈxɛnɛ ˈvrɔj̃skʲi]; French: Josef Hoëné-Wronski [ʒozɛf ɔɛne vʁɔ̃ski]; 23 August 1776 – 9 August 1853) was a Polish messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, occultist and economist. In mathematics, he is known for introducing a novel series expansion...
Wikipedia:József Solymosi#0
József Solymosi is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are arithmetic combinatorics, discrete geometry, graph theory, and combinatorial number theory. == Education and career == Solymosi earned his master's degree in 1999 u...
Wikipedia:Jörn Dunkel#0
Jörn Dunkel is a German-American mathematician and physicist. He is the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research combines applied mathematics, physics, and biology to understand collective behavior in complex systems. == Education and career == Dunkel earned di...
Wikipedia:Jørgen Dybvad#0
Jørgen Dybvad (died 1612), was a Danish theologian and mathematician of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jørgen was born to prosperous Yeoman stock in Dybvad in Gosmer Parish, Aarhus, and took the name of his place of birth. Dybvad studied under Caspar Peucer and Sebastian Theodoricus at the University of Wittenb...
Wikipedia:Júlia Volaufová#0
Júlia Volaufová is a Slovak biostatistician whose research has applied statistics to questions involving food intake, dietary supplements, calorie restriction, body weight, and diabetes. Her more theoretical interests include mixed linear models, regression analysis, and statistical hypothesis testing. She is a profess...
Wikipedia:Júlio César de Mello e Souza#0
Júlio César de Mello e Souza (Rio de Janeiro, May 6, 1895 – Recife, June 18, 1974), was a Brazilian writer and mathematics teacher. He was well known in Brazil and abroad for his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco. He wrote 69 novels ...
Wikipedia:Jürg Fröhlich#0
Jürg Martin Fröhlich (born 4 July 1946 in Schaffhausen) is a Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist. He is best known for introducing rigorous techniques for the analysis of statistical mechanics models, in particular continuous symmetry breaking (infrared bounds), and for pioneering the study of topological pha...
Wikipedia:Jürg Peter Buser#0
Jürg Peter Buser, known as Peter Buser, (born 27 February 1946 in Basel) is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and global analysis. == Education and career == Buser received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Basel with advisor Heinz Huber and thesis Untersuchungen über den ersten Ei...
Wikipedia:Jürgen Moser#0
Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was a German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over four decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. == Life == Moser's mother Ilse Strehlke was a niece of the violinist and composer Louis Spohr. His father was...
Wikipedia:K-Poincaré algebra#0
The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian Lie group that is of importance as a model in our understanding of the most basic fundamentals of physics. == Overview == The Poincaré gr...
Wikipedia:K-Poincaré group#0
The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It is a ten-dimensional non-abelian Lie group that is of importance as a model in our understanding of the most basic fundamentals of physics. == Overview == The Poincaré gr...
Wikipedia:K-SVD#0
In applied mathematics, k-SVD is a dictionary learning algorithm for creating a dictionary for sparse representations, via a singular value decomposition approach. k-SVD is a generalization of the k-means clustering method, and it works by iteratively alternating between sparse coding the input data based on the curren...
Wikipedia:K-equivalence#0
In mathematics, K {\displaystyle {\mathcal {K}}} -equivalence, or contact equivalence, is an equivalence relation between map germs. It was introduced by John Mather in his seminal work in Singularity theory in the 1960s as a technical tool for studying stable maps. Since then it has proved important in its own right. ...
Wikipedia:K. S. Chandrasekharan#0
Komaravolu Chandrasekharan (21 November 1920 – 13 April 2017) was a professor at ETH Zurich and a founding faculty member of School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). He is known for his work in number theory and summability. He received the Padma Shri, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, and...
Wikipedia:KPZ fixed point#0
In probability theory, the KPZ fixed point is a Markov field and conjectured to be a universal limit of a wide range of stochastic models forming the universality class of a non-linear stochastic partial differential equation called the KPZ equation. Even though the universality class was already introduced in 1986 wit...
Wikipedia:Kaisa Matomäki#0
Kaisa Sofia Matomäki (born April 30, 1985) is a Finnish mathematician specializing in number theory. Since April 2023, she is a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Her research includes results on the distribution of multiplicative functions over short in...
Wikipedia:Kaisa Nyberg#0
Kaisa Nyberg is a Finnish cryptographer and computer security researcher. == Contributions == Nyberg's research includes the theory of perfect nonlinear S-boxes[N] (now known as Nyberg S-boxes), provably secure block cipher design (resulting in KN-Cipher,[NK] and the cryptanalysis of the stream ciphers E0[HN] and SNOW[...
Wikipedia:Kaj Nyström#0
Kaj Nyström is a Swedish mathematician currently at Uppsala University and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. == References ==
Wikipedia:Kamel Bidari#0
Kamel Bidari (born 1 February 1960) is the Algerian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. He was appointed as minister on 9 September 2022. He was born in 1960 in Biskra, Algeria. He is a physicist and mathematician occupying the position of rector of the University of M'Sila, Algeria . In 2016 he was t...
Wikipedia:Kanakkusaram#0
Kaṇakkusāraṃ is a comprehensive treatise in Manipravalam (a hybrid language which combines Sanskrit lexicon and Malayalam morpho-syntax), composed in the 16th-17th century CE, dealing with elementary arithmetic and methods for solving arithmetical problems arising in the everyday life of members of an agricultural comm...
Wikipedia:Kanta Gupta#0
Nolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi, and the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples. He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and prosperous Vaidya-Brahmin family. While in his teens, he came under the influence o...
Wikipedia:Kantorovich inequality#0
In mathematics, the Kantorovich inequality is a particular case of the Cauchy–Schwarz inequality, which is itself a generalization of the triangle inequality. The triangle inequality states that the length of two sides of any triangle, added together, will be equal to or greater than the length of the third side. In si...
Wikipedia:Kantorovich theorem#0
The Kantorovich theorem, or Newton–Kantorovich theorem, is a mathematical statement on the semi-local convergence of Newton's method. It was first stated by Leonid Kantorovich in 1948. It is similar to the form of the Banach fixed-point theorem, although it states existence and uniqueness of a zero rather than a fixed ...
Wikipedia:Kapteyn series#0
Kapteyn series is a series expansion of analytic functions on a domain in terms of the Bessel function of the first kind. Kapteyn series are named after Willem Kapteyn, who first studied such series in 1893. Let f {\displaystyle f} be a function analytic on the domain D a = { z ∈ C : Ω ( z ) = | z exp ⁡ 1 − z 2 1 + 1 −...
Wikipedia:Karanapaddhati#0
Karanapaddhati is an astronomical treatise in Sanskrit attributed to Puthumana Somayaji, an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. The period of composition of the work is uncertain. C.M. Whish, a civil servant of the East India Company, brought this work to the attention of Europea...
Wikipedia:Karel Slavíček#0
Karel Slavíček (simplified Chinese: 严嘉乐; traditional Chinese: 嚴嘉樂; pinyin: Yán Jiālè; 12 December 1678 – 24 September 1735) was a Jesuit missionary and scientist, the first Czech sinologist and author of the first precise map of Beijing. == Biography == === Early life and studies in the Czech lands === Karel Slavíček w...
Wikipedia:Karen Aardal#0
Karen I. Aardal (born 1961) is a Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher. Her research involves combinatorial optimization, integer programming, approximation algorithms, and facility location, with applications such as positioning emergency vehicles to optim...