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Wikipedia:Kseniya Garaschuk#0 | Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982) is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician and mathematics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of the Fraser Valley, and the editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal Crux Mathematicorum. == Education and career == Garaschuk was born to a f... |
Wikipedia:Kunizo Yoneyama#0 | Kunizō Yoneyama (米山 国蔵, 1877–1968) was a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University working in topology. In 1917, he published the construction of the Lakes of Wada, which he named after his teacher Takeo Wada, to whom he credited the discovery. == Publications == Yoneyama, Kunizô (1917), "Theory of Continuous Set of P... |
Wikipedia:Kurt Johansson (mathematician)#0 | Kurt Johansson (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in probability theory. Johansson received his PhD in 1988 from Uppsala University under the supervision of Lennart Carleson and is a professor in mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. In 2000 Johansson was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize i... |
Wikipedia:Kuṭṭaka#0 | Kuṭṭaka is an algorithm for finding integer solutions of linear Diophantine equations. A linear Diophantine equation is an equation of the form ax + by = c where x and y are unknown quantities and a, b, and c are known quantities with integer values. The algorithm was originally invented by the Indian astronomer-mathem... |
Wikipedia:Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi#0 | The Kuṭṭākāra Śirōmaṇi is a medieval Indian treatise in Sanskrit devoted exclusively to the study of the Kuṭṭākāra, or Kuṭṭaka, an algorithm for solving linear Diophantine equations. It is authored by one Dēvarāja about whom little is known. From statements given by the author at the end of the book, one can infer that... |
Wikipedia:Kyne (drag queen)#0 | Kyne Santos (born April 5, 1998), often mononymously billed as Kyne, is a Canadian drag queen best known for competing in the first season of Canada's Drag Race. == Early life == Santos was born in Manila in the Philippines. He is of Filipino descent. He moved to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada with his parents when he was ... |
Wikipedia:Kōsaku Yosida#0 | Kōsaku Yosida (吉田 耕作, Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909, Hiroshima – 20 June 1990) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Yosida studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, and held posts at Osaka and Nagoya Univer... |
Wikipedia:Kṛṣṇa Daivajña#0 | Kṛṣṇa Daivajña was a 16th-17th century Indian astrologer-astronomer-mathematician from Varanasi patronized by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir. As a mathematician Kṛṣṇa Daivajña is best known for his elaborate commentary on Bhaskara II's (c. 1114–1185) Bījagaṇita and, as an astrologer, his fame rested on his commentary on Ś... |
Wikipedia:L-notation#0 | L-notation is an asymptotic notation analogous to big-O notation, denoted as L n [ α , c ] {\displaystyle L_{n}[\alpha ,c]} for a bound variable n {\displaystyle n} tending to infinity. Like big-O notation, it is usually used to roughly convey the rate of growth of a function, such as the computational complexity of a ... |
Wikipedia:L. E. J. Brouwer#0 | Luitzen Egbertus Jan "Bertus" Brouwer (27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966) was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, he is known as one of the founders of modern topology, particu... |
Wikipedia:LLT polynomial#0 | In mathematics, an LLT polynomial is one of a family of symmetric functions introduced as q-analogues of products of Schur functions. J. Haglund, M. Haiman, and N. Loehr showed how to expand Macdonald polynomials in terms of LLT polynomials. Ian Grojnowski and Mark Haiman proved a positivity conjecture for LLT polynomi... |
Wikipedia:LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics#0 | LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics was a peer-reviewed online mathematics journal covering computational aspects of mathematics published by the London Mathematical Society. The journal published its first article in 1998 and ceased operation in 2017. An open access archive of the journal is maintained by Cambr... |
Wikipedia:Ladislav Rieger#0 | Ladislav Svante Rieger (1916–1963) was a Czechoslovak mathematician who worked in the areas of algebra, mathematical logic, and axiomatic set theory. He is considered to be the founder of mathematical logic in Czechoslovakia, having begun his work around 1957. == Notes == == References == == Further reading == == Exter... |
Wikipedia:Ladislav Skula#0 | Ladislav "Ladja" Skula (born June 30, 1937) is a Czech mathematician. His work spans across topology, algebraic number theory, and the theory of ordered sets. He has published over 80 papers and notable results on the Fermat quotient. He obtained his Dr.Sc. degree from Charles University in Prague with a thesis on "obo... |
Wikipedia:Lagrange reversion theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Lagrange reversion theorem gives series or formal power series expansions of certain implicitly defined functions; indeed, of compositions with such functions. Let v be a function of x and y in terms of another function f such that v = x + y f ( v ) {\displaystyle v=x+yf(v)} Then for any function g,... |
Wikipedia:Lagrange's identity (boundary value problem)#0 | In the study of ordinary differential equations and their associated boundary value problems in mathematics, Lagrange's identity, named after Joseph Louis Lagrange, gives the boundary terms arising from integration by parts of a self-adjoint linear differential operator. Lagrange's identity is fundamental in Sturm–Liou... |
Wikipedia:Lagrangian system#0 | In mathematics, a Lagrangian system is a pair (Y, L), consisting of a smooth fiber bundle Y → X and a Lagrangian density L, which yields the Euler–Lagrange differential operator acting on sections of Y → X. In classical mechanics, many dynamical systems are Lagrangian systems. The configuration space of such a Lagrangi... |
Wikipedia:Laguerre transformations#0 | The Laguerre transformations or axial homographies are an analogue of Möbius transformations over the dual numbers. When studying these transformations, the dual numbers are often interpreted as representing oriented lines on the plane. The Laguerre transformations map lines to lines, and include in particular all isom... |
Wikipedia:Lahun Mathematical Papyri#0 | The Kahun Papyri (KP; also Petrie Papyri or Lahun Papyri) are a collection of ancient Egyptian texts discussing administrative, mathematical and medical topics. Its many fragments were discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1889 and are kept at the University College London. This collection of papyri is one of the largest ev... |
Wikipedia:Lakes of Wada#0 | In mathematics, the lakes of Wada (和田の湖, Wada no mizuumi) are three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary. In other words, for any point selected on the boundary of one of the lakes, the other two lakes' boundaries also cont... |
Wikipedia:Lam Lay Yong#0 | Lam Lay Yong (maiden name Oon Lay Yong, Chinese: 蓝丽蓉; pinyin: Lán Lìróng; born 1936) is a retired Professor of Mathematics. == Academic career == From 1988 to 1996 she was Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (NUS). She graduated from the University of Malaya (later becoming Univ... |
Wikipedia:Lan-Hsuan Huang#0 | Lan-Hsuan Huang (Chinese: 黃籃萱) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician and mathematical physicist specializing in differential geometry, geometric analysis, and their applications in the theory of relativity. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Huang serves on the editorial board of the Jo... |
Wikipedia:Lancaster University School of Mathematics#0 | Lancaster University School of Mathematics, also known as LUSoM, is a maths school located in Preston, Lancashire, England. As a maths school, it is a specialist mathematics free school sixth form college. The school was set up by the Rigby Education Trust, a single-academy trust set up in partnership between the Lanca... |
Wikipedia:Landau kernel#0 | The Landau kernel is named after the German number theorist Edmund Landau. The kernel is a summability kernel defined as: L n ( t ) = { ( 1 − t 2 ) n c n if − 1 ≤ t ≤ 1 0 otherwise {\displaystyle L_{n}(t)={\begin{cases}{\frac {(1-t^{2})^{n}}{c_{n}}}&{\text{if }}{-1}\leq t\leq 1\\0&{\text{otherwise}}\end{cases}}} where ... |
Wikipedia:Landau's algorithm#0 | In algebra, a nested radical is a radical expression (one containing a square root sign, cube root sign, etc.) that contains (nests) another radical expression. Examples include 5 − 2 5 , {\displaystyle {\sqrt {5-2{\sqrt {5}}\ }},} which arises in discussing the regular pentagon, and more complicated ones such as 2 + 3... |
Wikipedia:Landon Rabern#0 | Landon Rabern (1981–2020) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, best known for his contributions to graph theory, logic, and artificial intelligence. His research primarily focused on problems related to graph coloring, including work on Brooks' theorem, the Borodin–Kostochka conjecture, list critical g... |
Wikipedia:Language of mathematics#0 | The language of mathematics or mathematical language is an extension of the natural language (for example English) that is used in mathematics and in science for expressing results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity. == Features == The main features o... |
Wikipedia:Laplace invariant#0 | In differential equations, the Laplace invariant of any of certain differential operators is a certain function of the coefficients and their derivatives. Consider a bivariate hyperbolic differential operator of the second order ∂ x ∂ y + a ∂ x + b ∂ y + c , {\displaystyle \partial _{x}\,\partial _{y}+a\,\partial _{x}+... |
Wikipedia:Laplace operator#0 | In mathematics, the Laplace operator or Laplacian is a differential operator given by the divergence of the gradient of a scalar function on Euclidean space. It is usually denoted by the symbols ∇ ⋅ ∇ {\displaystyle \nabla \cdot \nabla } , ∇ 2 {\displaystyle \nabla ^{2}} (where ∇ {\displaystyle \nabla } is the nabla op... |
Wikipedia:Laplace operators in differential geometry#0 | In differential geometry there are a number of second-order, linear, elliptic differential operators bearing the name Laplacian. This article provides an overview of some of them. == Connection Laplacian == The connection Laplacian, also known as the rough Laplacian, is a differential operator acting on the various ten... |
Wikipedia:Laplace principle (large deviations theory)#0 | In probability theory, the theory of large deviations concerns the asymptotic behaviour of remote tails of sequences of probability distributions. While some basic ideas of the theory can be traced to Laplace, the formalization started with insurance mathematics, namely ruin theory with Cramér and Lundberg. A unified f... |
Wikipedia:Laplace's method#0 | In mathematics, Laplace's method, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a technique used to approximate integrals of the form ∫ a b e M f ( x ) d x , {\displaystyle \int _{a}^{b}e^{Mf(x)}\,dx,} where f {\displaystyle f} is a twice-differentiable function, M {\displaystyle M} is a large number, and the endpoints a {\disp... |
Wikipedia:Laplace–Beltrami operator#0 | In differential geometry, the Laplace–Beltrami operator is a generalization of the Laplace operator to functions defined on submanifolds in Euclidean space and, even more generally, on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable r... |
Wikipedia:Laplacian matrix#0 | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Laplacian matrix, also called the graph Laplacian, admittance matrix, Kirchhoff matrix, or discrete Laplacian, is a matrix representation of a graph. Named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, the graph Laplacian matrix can be viewed as a matrix form of the negative discrete Laplac... |
Wikipedia:Lapped transform#0 | In signal processing, a lapped transform is a type of linear discrete block transformation where the basis functions of the transformation overlap the block boundaries, yet the number of coefficients overall resulting from a series of overlapping block transforms remains the same as if a non-overlapping block transform... |
Wikipedia:Large deviations theory#0 | In probability theory, the theory of large deviations concerns the asymptotic behaviour of remote tails of sequences of probability distributions. While some basic ideas of the theory can be traced to Laplace, the formalization started with insurance mathematics, namely ruin theory with Cramér and Lundberg. A unified f... |
Wikipedia:Larisa Maksimova#0 | Larisa Lvovna Maksimova (Russian: Лариса Львовна Максимова; 5 November 1943 – 4 April 2025) was a Russian mathematical logician known for her research in non-classical logic. == Education and career == Maksimova was born on 5 November 1943, in Kochenyovo, the daughter of two biologists who had temporarily moved there f... |
Wikipedia:Lars Ahlfors#0 | Lars Valerian Ahlfors (18 April 1907 – 11 October 1996) was a Finnish mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his textbook on complex analysis. == Background == Ahlfors was born in Helsinki, Finland. His mother, Sievä Helander, died at his birth. His father, Axel Ahlfors, was a profe... |
Wikipedia:Lars Hesselholt#0 | Lars Hesselholt (born September 25, 1966) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Nagoya University in Japan, as well as holding a temporary position as Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory, and arithmetic a... |
Wikipedia:Lars-Erik Persson#0 | Lars-Erik Persson (born 24 September 1944) is a Swedish/Norwegian professor in mathematics, known for his works in Fourier analysis, function spaces, inequalities, interpolation theory and related problems connected to convexity and quasi-monotone functions. Persson comes from the small village Svanabyn in Dorotea comm... |
Wikipedia:Latimer–MacDuffee theorem#0 | The Latimer–MacDuffee theorem is a theorem in abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics. It is named after Claiborne Latimer and Cyrus Colton MacDuffee, who published it in 1933. Significant contributions to its theory were made later by Olga Taussky-Todd. Let f {\displaystyle f} be a monic, irreducible polynomial of d... |
Wikipedia:Lattice reduction#0 | In mathematics, the goal of lattice basis reduction is to find a basis with short, nearly orthogonal vectors when given an integer lattice basis as input. This is realized using different algorithms, whose running time is usually at least exponential in the dimension of the lattice. == Nearly orthogonal == One measure ... |
Wikipedia:Laura Gardini#0 | Laura Gardini (born 1952) is an Italian mathematician who studies chaos in dynamical systems, with applications in mathematical finance. She is professor in mathematics for economic applications at the University of Urbino. == Education and career == Gardini is originally from Ravenna, where she was born on August 21, ... |
Wikipedia:Laura Grigori#0 | Laura Grigori is a French-Romanian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on numerical linear algebra and communication-avoiding algorithms. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Paris, and heads the "Alpines" scien... |
Wikipedia:Laura Martignon#0 | Laura Martignon (born 1952) is a Colombian and Italian professor and scientist. From 2003 until 2020 she served as a Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. Until 2017 she was an Adjunct Scientist of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where ... |
Wikipedia:Laura Matusevich#0 | Laura Felicia Matusevich is an Argentine mathematician. == Birth and Education == Matusevich was born in Córdoba, Argentina, and earned her undergraduate degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. == Career == From 2003 until 2004 Matusevich ... |
Wikipedia:Laura Ortíz-Bobadilla#0 | Laura Ortíz-Bobadilla is a Mexican mathematician specializing in differential geometry, and especially on holomorphic foliations and the limit cycles of dynamical systems. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). == Education and career == Ortíz-Bobadil... |
Wikipedia:Lauren Lynn Rose#0 | Lauren Lynn Rose is a current Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bard College and founder of several mathematical outreach programs. == Professional career == Rose received her B.A. in Mathematics from Tufts University. She received her Master's of Science and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1988. He... |
Wikipedia:Lauren M. Childs#0 | Lauren Maressa Childs is an American mathematician specialising in mathematical and computational modelling applied to topics in biology, particularly spread of infectious disease. She is an associate professor of mathematics and Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech. She was awarded the 2023-2024 Ruth ... |
Wikipedia:Laurence Broze#0 | Laurence Broze (born 1960) is a Belgian applied mathematician specializing in statistics and econometrics and particularly in the theory of rational expectations. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Lille in France. From 2012 to 2018 she was president of l'association femmes et mathématiques,... |
Wikipedia:Laurence Chisholm Young#0 | Laurence Chisholm Young (14 July 1905 – 24 December 2000) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. He was the son of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young, both prominent mathematicians. He moved to the US... |
Wikipedia:Laurent C. Siebenmann#0 | Laurent Carl Siebenmann (the first name is sometimes spelled Laurence or Larry) (born 1939) is a Canadian mathematician based at the Université de Paris-Sud at Orsay, France. After working for several years as a Professor at Orsay he became a Directeur de Recherches at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique i... |
Wikipedia:Laurent Saloff-Coste#0 | Laurent Saloff-Coste (born 1958) is a French mathematician whose research is in Analysis, Probability theory, and Geometric group theory. He is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. == Education and career == Saloff-Coste received his "doctorat de 3eme cycle" in 1983 at the Pierre and Marie Curie University... |
Wikipedia:Laver function#0 | Liver function tests (LFTs or LFs), also referred to as a hepatic panel or liver panel, are groups of blood tests that provide information about the state of a patient's liver. These tests include prothrombin time (PT/INR), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), albumin, bilirubin (direct and indirect), and othe... |
Wikipedia:Lawrence Zalcman#0 | Lawrence Allen Zalcman (Hebrew: לורנס זלצמן; June 9, 1943 – May 31, 2022) was a professor (and later a professor emeritus) of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. His research primarily concerned Complex analysis, potential theory, and the relations of these ideas to approximation theory, harmonic analysis, in... |
Wikipedia:Laws of Form#0 | Laws of Form (hereinafter LoF) is a book by G. Spencer-Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and philosophy. LoF describes three distinct logical systems: The primary arithmetic (described in Chapter 4 of LoF), whose models include Boolean arithmetic; The primary algebra (Chapter 6 o... |
Wikipedia:Lax equivalence theorem#0 | In numerical analysis, the Lax equivalence theorem is a fundamental theorem in the analysis of linear finite difference methods for the numerical solution of linear partial differential equations. It states that for a linear consistent finite difference method for a well-posed linear initial value problem, the method i... |
Wikipedia:Lax–Milgram theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Generalized–Lax–Milgram theorem is a generalization of the famous Lax–Milgram theorem, which gives conditions under which a bilinear form can be "inverted" to show the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to a given boundary value problem. The result was proved by J Necas in 1962, and is a ge... |
Wikipedia:Lax–Wendroff theorem#0 | In computational mathematics, the Lax–Wendroff theorem, named after Peter Lax and Burton Wendroff, states that if a conservative numerical scheme for a hyperbolic system of conservation laws converges, then it converges towards a weak solution. == See also == Lax–Wendroff method Godunov's scheme == References == Randal... |
Wikipedia:Leading-order term#0 | The leading-order terms (or leading-order corrections) within a mathematical equation, expression or model are the terms with the largest order of magnitude. The sizes of the different terms in the equation(s) will change as the variables change, and hence, which terms are leading-order may also change. A common and po... |
Wikipedia:Leah Keshet#0 | Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Hebrew: לאה אדלשטיין-קשת) is an Israeli-Canadian mathematical biologist. Edelstein-Keshet is known for her contributions to the field of mathematical biology and biophysics.[1] Her research spans many topics including sub-cellular biology, ecology, and biomedical research, with particular focus o... |
Wikipedia:Least fixed point#0 | In order theory, a branch of mathematics, the least fixed point (lfp or LFP, sometimes also smallest fixed point) of a function from a partially ordered set ("poset" for short) to itself is the fixed point which is less than each other fixed point, according to the order of the poset. A function need not have a least f... |
Wikipedia:Least-squares spectral analysis#0 | Least-squares spectral analysis (LSSA) is a method of estimating a frequency spectrum based on a least-squares fit of sinusoids to data samples, similar to Fourier analysis. Fourier analysis, the most used spectral method in science, generally boosts long-periodic noise in the long and gapped records; LSSA mitigates su... |
Wikipedia:Lebesgue integrability condition#0 | In the branch of mathematics known as real analysis, the Riemann integral, created by Bernhard Riemann, was the first rigorous definition of the integral of a function on an interval. It was presented to the faculty at the University of Göttingen in 1854, but not published in a journal until 1868. For many functions an... |
Wikipedia:Lebesgue point#0 | In mathematics, given a locally Lebesgue integrable function f {\displaystyle f} on R k {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{k}} , a point x {\displaystyle x} in the domain of f {\displaystyle f} is a Lebesgue point if lim r → 0 + 1 λ ( B ( x , r ) ) ∫ B ( x , r ) | f ( y ) − f ( x ) | d y = 0. {\displaystyle \lim _{r\rightarr... |
Wikipedia:Lee Lorch#0 | Lee Alexander Lorch (September 20, 1915 – February 28, 2014) was an American mathematician, early civil rights activist. His leadership in the campaign to desegregate Stuyvesant Town, a large housing development on the East Side of Manhattan, helped eventually to make housing discrimination illegal in the United States... |
Wikipedia:Lee Segel#0 | Lee Aaron Segel (5 February 1932 – 31 January 2005) was an Israeli-American applied mathematician. He developed both the Keller-Segel model of chemotaxis, in cell biology, and the Newell-Whitehead-Segel equation, in fluid dynamics. He also co-authored the first simulation model for herbicide resistance evolution. He is... |
Wikipedia:Lefschetz zeta function#0 | In mathematics, the Lefschetz zeta-function is a tool used in topological periodic and fixed point theory, and dynamical systems. Given a continuous map f : X → X {\displaystyle f\colon X\to X} , the zeta-function is defined as the formal series ζ f ( t ) = exp ( ∑ n = 1 ∞ L ( f n ) t n n ) , {\displaystyle \zeta _{f... |
Wikipedia:Left and right (algebra)#0 | In algebra, the terms left and right denote the order of a binary operation (usually, but not always, called "multiplication") in non-commutative algebraic structures. A binary operation ∗ is usually written in the infix form: s ∗ t The argument s is placed on the left side, and the argument t is on the right side. Eve... |
Wikipedia:Leibniz formula for determinants#0 | In algebra, the Leibniz formula, named in honor of Gottfried Leibniz, expresses the determinant of a square matrix in terms of permutations of the matrix elements. If A {\displaystyle A} is an n × n {\displaystyle n\times n} matrix, where a i j {\displaystyle a_{ij}} is the entry in the i {\displaystyle i} -th row and ... |
Wikipedia:Leif Arkeryd#0 | Leif O. Arkeryd (born 24 August 1940) is professor emeritus of mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology. He is a specialist on the theory of the Boltzmann equation. Arkeryd earned his doctorate from Lund University in 1966, under the supervision of Jaak Peetre. == Selected publications == Arkeryd, Leif: On the ... |
Wikipedia:Leifur Ásgeirsson#0 | Leifur Ásgeirsson (25 May 1903 – 19 August 1990) was the first Icelandic mathematician to gain major international recognition. == Education and career == Leifur Ásgeirsson graduated in 1927 from Reykjavik Junior College and received his doctorate in 1933 from the University of Göttingen. His doctoral advisor was Richa... |
Wikipedia:Leiki Loone#0 | Leiki Loone (née Sikk; born 29 February 1944), is an Estonian mathematician specialising in applications of functional analysis in theory of summability and in the structure theory of topological vector spaces. She is married to Estonian philosopher Eero Loone. The couple has two daughters. == Sources == Universitas Ta... |
Wikipedia:Leila Bram#0 | Leila Ann Dragonette Bram (1927–September 7, 1979) was an American mathematician. She was one of the first to study mock theta functions, and for many years directed the mathematics program at the Office of Naval Research, a position where she set the program for much of mathematics research. == Early life and educatio... |
Wikipedia:Lek-Heng Lim#0 | Lek-Heng Lim (Chinese: 林力行) is a Singaporean mathematician. Lim earned a bachelor's degree at the National University of Singapore, studied for his master's at Cornell University and the University of Cambridge, and completed a doctorate at Stanford University. Lim started his teaching career at the University of Calif... |
Wikipedia:Lennie Copeland#0 | Lennie Phoebe Copeland (1881–1951) was an American mathematician and professor at Wellesley College, and was one of the few women to earn a doctorate in mathematics before World War II. == Biography == Lennie Phoebe Copeland was an only child, born to Emma Stinchfield and Lemuel Copeland in Brewer, Maine, on March 30, ... |
Wikipedia:Leo Sario#0 | Leo Reino Sario (18 May 1916 – 15 August 2009) was a Finnish-born mathematician who worked on complex analysis and Riemann surfaces. == Early life and education == After service as a Finnish artillery officer in the Winter War and World War II, he received his PhD in 1948 under Rolf Nevanlinna at the University of Hels... |
Wikipedia:Leon Birnbaum#0 | Leon Birnbaum (1918–2010) was a Romanian mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Chernovtsy (now Ukraine) on June 18, 1918 to a family with an intellectual tradition. He studied at the Orthodox High School, then at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1941, Birnbaum was deported to Magilev-Podolsk in Transnistria when ... |
Wikipedia:Leon Chwistek#0 | Leon Chwistek (Kraków, Austria-Hungary, 13 June 1884 – Barvikha near Moscow, Russia, 20 August 1944) was a Polish logician, philosopher, mathematician, avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art and literary critic. == Career and philosophy == In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Polish Mathematical Society. ... |
Wikipedia:Leon Lichtenstein#0 | Leon Lichtenstein (16 May 1878 – 21 August 1933) was a Polish-German mathematician, who made contributions to the areas of differential equations, conformal mapping, and potential theory. He was also interested in theoretical physics, publishing research in hydrodynamics and astronomy. == Life and work == Leon Lichtens... |
Wikipedia:Leon Simon#0 | Leon Melvyn Simon , born in 1945, is a Leroy P. Steele Prize and Bôcher Prize-winning mathematician, known for deep contributions to the fields of geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations. He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University. ==... |
Wikipedia:Leon Takhtajan#0 | Leon Armenovich Takhtajan (Armenian: Լևոն Թախտաջյան; Russian: Леон Арменович Тахтаджян, born 1 October 1950, Yerevan) is a Russian (and formerly Soviet) mathematical physicist of Armenian descent, currently a professor of mathematics at the Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, and a leading researcher at the Euler ... |
Wikipedia:Leonhard Euler#0 | Leonhard Euler ( OY-lər; Swiss Standard German: [ˈleːɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈɔʏlɐ] ; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Berlyand#0 | Leonid Berlyand is a Soviet and American mathematician, a professor of Penn State University. He is known for his works on homogenization, Ginzburg–Landau theory, mathematical modeling of active matter and mathematical foundations of deep learning. == Life and career == Berlyand was born in Kharkov on September 20, 195... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Bunimovich#0 | Leonid Abramowich Bunimovich (born August 1, 1947) is a Soviet and American mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to the theory of Dynamical Systems, Statistical Physics and various applications. Bunimovich received his bachelor's degree in 1967, master's degree in 1969 and PhD in 1973 from the University o... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Levin#0 | Leonid Anatolievich Levin ( LAY-oh-NEED LEV-in; Russian: Леони́д Анато́льевич Ле́вин [lʲɪɐˈnʲit ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲevʲɪn]; Ukrainian: Леоні́д Анато́лійович Ле́він [leoˈn⁽ʲ⁾id ɐnɐˈtɔl⁽ʲ⁾ijowɪtʃ ˈlɛwin]; born November 2, 1948) is a Soviet-American mathematician and computer scientist. He is known for his work in randomne... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Manevitch#0 | Leonid Isakovich Manevitch (Russian: Леонид Исакович Маневич; 2 April 1938 – 20 August 2020) was a Soviet and Russian physicist, mechanical engineer, and mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to areas of nonlinear dynamics, composite and polymer physics, and asymptotology. == Biography == Manevitch was born ... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Polterovich#0 | Leonid Polterovich (Hebrew: לאוניד פולטרוביץ'; Russian: Леонид В. Полтерович; born 30 August 1963) is a Russian-Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University. His research field includes symplectic geometry and dynamical systems. A native of Moscow, Polterovich earned his undergraduate degree at Moscow State University ... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Sedov#0 | Leonid Ivanovich Sedov (Russian: Леонид Иванович Седов; 14 November 1907, Rostov-on-Don – 5 September 1999, Moscow) was a Russian physicist who worked as an engineer in the former Soviet space program. In 1930 Sedov graduated from the Moscow State University, where he had been a student of Sergey Chaplygin, with the de... |
Wikipedia:Leonid Vaserstein#0 | Leonid Nisonovich Vaserstein (Russian: Леонид Нисонович Васерштейн) is a Russian-American mathematician, currently Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. His research is focused on algebra and dynamical systems. He is well known for providing a simple proof of the Quillen–Suslin theorem, a result in commuta... |
Wikipedia:Leonidas Alaoglu#0 | Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu (Greek: Λεωνίδας Αλάογλου; March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician best known for Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem. == Life and work == Alaoglu was born in Red Deer, Alberta to... |
Wikipedia:Leopoldo Nachbin#0 | Leopoldo Nachbin (7 January 1922 – 3 April 1993) was a Brazilian mathematician of Jewish origins who dealt with topology and harmonic analysis. Nachbin was born in Recife, and is best known for Nachbin's theorem. He died, aged 71, in Rio de Janeiro. He went to primary school in Recife with Brazilian literary giant Clar... |
Wikipedia:Leopoldo Penna Franca#0 | Leopoldo Penna Franca (April 7, 1959 – September 19, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a Brazilian-American mathematician. He received his PhD in 1987 from Stanford University in engineering under Thomas J. R. Hughes. After graduation, he worked at the pt:Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC in Brazi... |
Wikipedia:Lerche–Newberger sum rule#0 | The Lerche–Newberger, or Newberger, sum rule, discovered by B. S. Newberger in 1982, finds the sum of certain infinite series involving Bessel functions Jα of the first kind. It states that if μ is any non-integer complex number, γ ∈ ( 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \gamma \in (0,1]} , and Re(α + β) > −1, then ∑ n... |
Wikipedia:Lesley Cormack#0 | Lesley B. Cormack (born 1957) is a Canadian historian of science and academic administrator specializing in the history of mathematics and of geography. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus. == Education and career == Cormack obtained her BA from the Un... |
Wikipedia:Lesley Ward#0 | Lesley Ann Ward is an Australian mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and industrial applications of mathematics. She is a professor in the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences of the University of South Australia, director of the Mathematics Clinic at the university,... |
Wikipedia:Leslie Fox#0 | Leslie Fox (30 September 1918 – 1 August 1992) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis. == Overview == Fox studied mathematics as a scholar of Christ Church, Oxford graduating with a first in 1939 and continued to undertake research in the engineering department. While working on hi... |
Wikipedia:Leslie Leland Locke#0 | Leslie Leland Locke (1875–1943) was an American mathematician, historian, and educator, best known for his work towards deciphering ancient Andean knot records called quipus. Locke's most prominent work, The Ancient Quipu or Peruvian Knot Record (1923), demonstrated how the Inca tied knots on quipu cords using a base-1... |
Wikipedia:Lester Skaggs#0 | Lester Skaggs, Ph.D. (21 November 1911 – 3 April 2009) was a pioneer in the field of medical physics and radiation therapy, a teacher, and innovator. == Life and Times == Skaggs was born on 21 November 1911 in Trenton, Missouri. He grew up on a farm in northern Missouri. He attended a one-room schoolhouse and to get to... |
Wikipedia:Leticia Brambila Paz#0 | Gloria Leticia Brambila Paz (born 1953) is a Mexican mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and the moduli of algebraic curves. She is a professor in the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. == Education and career == Brambila was born on 26 January 1953. She went to Swansea U... |
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