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Wikipedia:Local boundedness#0 | In mathematics, a function is locally bounded if it is bounded around every point. A family of functions is locally bounded if for any point in their domain all the functions are bounded around that point and by the same number. == Locally bounded function == A real-valued or complex-valued function f {\displaystyle f}... |
Wikipedia:Local diffeomorphism#0 | In mathematics, more specifically differential topology, a local diffeomorphism is intuitively a map between smooth manifolds that preserves the local differentiable structure. The formal definition of a local diffeomorphism is given below. == Formal definition == Let X {\displaystyle X} and Y {\displaystyle Y} be diff... |
Wikipedia:Local zeta function#0 | In mathematics, the local zeta function Z(V, s) (sometimes called the congruent zeta function or the Hasse–Weil zeta function) is defined as Z ( V , s ) = exp ( ∑ k = 1 ∞ N k k ( q − s ) k ) {\displaystyle Z(V,s)=\exp \left(\sum _{k=1}^{\infty }{\frac {N_{k}}{k}}(q^{-s})^{k}\right)} where V is a non-singular n-dimens... |
Wikipedia:Lodovico Ferrari#0 | Lodovico de Ferrari (2 February 1522 – 5 October 1565) was an Italian mathematician best known today for solving the biquadratic equation. == Biography == Born in Bologna, Lodovico's grandfather, Bartolomeo Ferrari, was forced out of Milan to Bologna. Lodovico settled in Bologna, and he began his career as the servant ... |
Wikipedia:Loewner order#0 | In mathematics, Loewner order is the partial order defined by the convex cone of positive semi-definite matrices. This order is usually employed to generalize the definitions of monotone and concave/convex scalar functions to monotone and concave/convex Hermitian valued functions. These functions arise naturally in mat... |
Wikipedia:Logarithmically concave function#0 | In convex analysis, a non-negative function f : Rn → R+ is logarithmically concave (or log-concave for short) if its domain is a convex set, and if it satisfies the inequality f ( θ x + ( 1 − θ ) y ) ≥ f ( x ) θ f ( y ) 1 − θ {\displaystyle f(\theta x+(1-\theta )y)\geq f(x)^{\theta }f(y)^{1-\theta }} for all x,y ∈ dom ... |
Wikipedia:Lokavibhaga#0 | The Lokavibhāga (literally "division of the universe") is a 5th-century Sanskrit text by Rishi Simhasuri. Its manuscript was first discovered in an Indian temple of Karnataka by M.R.R. Narasimhachar. The Lokavibhaga consists of 11 chapters and a total of 1737 verses (shlokas) distributed over these chapters. The text h... |
Wikipedia:Lokenath Debnath#0 | Lokenath Debnath (September 30, 1935 – March 2, 2023) was an Indian-American mathematician. == Biography == Debnath was born on September 30, 1935, in India. He received both Masters and a doctorate degree from University of Calcutta in Pure Mathematics in 1965. He obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at University ... |
Wikipedia:London Mathematical Society#0 | The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Operational Research Society (ORS). == History == The Society ... |
Wikipedia:Loredana Lanzani#0 | Loredana Lanzani (born 1965) is an Italian-American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and complex analysis. She is a professor of mathematics at Syracuse University. == Education and career == Lanzani earned a laurea from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1989, and com... |
Wikipedia:Lorenzo Ramero#0 | Lorenzo Ramero is an Italian mathematician living in France, specialized in algebraic and arithmetic geometry. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Lille. Ramero obtained his Laurea in Matematica from the University of Pisa and his Diploma from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1989. He... |
Wikipedia:Lorna Stewart#0 | Lorna Kay Stewart is a retired Canadian computer scientist and discrete mathematician whose research concerns algorithms in graph theory and special classes of graphs, including cographs, permutation graphs, interval graphs, comparability graphs and their complements, well-covered graphs, and asteroidal triple-free gra... |
Wikipedia:Lorna Swain#0 | Lorna Mary Swain (22 March 1891 – 8 May 1936) was a British mathematician and college lecturer, known for being one of few female mathematicians to contribute their talents to the war effort in World War I, and for being one of few early female lecturers at University of Cambridge. Academically, she is known for her wo... |
Wikipedia:Lothar Collatz#0 | Lothar Collatz (German: [ˈkɔlaʦ]; July 6, 1910 – September 26, 1990) was a German mathematician, born in Arnsberg, Westphalia. The "3x + 1" problem is also known as the Collatz conjecture, named after him and still unsolved. The Collatz–Wielandt formula for the Perron–Frobenius eigenvalue of a positive square matrix wa... |
Wikipedia:Lotka–Volterra equations#0 | The Lotka–Volterra equations, also known as the Lotka–Volterra predator–prey model, are a pair of first-order nonlinear differential equations, frequently used to describe the dynamics of biological systems in which two species interact, one as a predator and the other as prey. The populations change through time accor... |
Wikipedia:Lotte Hollands#0 | Lotte Hollands (born 1981) is a Dutch mathematician and mathematical physicist who studies quantum field theory, supersymmetric gauge theory, and string theory. She is an associate professor and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University. == Early life == Hollands wa... |
Wikipedia:Lou van den Dries#0 | Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries (born May 26, 1951) is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. == Education == Van den Dries began his undergraduate studies in 1969 at Utrecht University, and in 1978 completed ... |
Wikipedia:Louay Bazzi#0 | In computer science, the Akra–Bazzi method, or Akra–Bazzi theorem, is used to analyze the asymptotic behavior of the mathematical recurrences that appear in the analysis of divide and conquer algorithms where the sub-problems have substantially different sizes. It is a generalization of the master theorem for divide-an... |
Wikipedia:Louis Bertrand Castel#0 | Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703. Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy. After moving from Toulouse to Paris in 1720, at the behest of B... |
Wikipedia:Louis Chen Hsiao Yun#0 | Louis Chen Hsiao Yun (Chinese: 陈晓云; pinyin: Chen Xiaoyun; born 26 December 1940) is emeritus professor at the National University of Singapore. Chen earned his BSc (Honours) from University of Singapore in 1964 and completed his MSc as well as PhD at Stanford University in 1969 and 1971 respectively. In 1972, he joined... |
Wikipedia:Louis Costaz#0 | Louis, baron Costaz (17 March 1767, in Champagne-en-Valromey (Bugey – 15 February 1842, in Paris) was a French scientist and administrator. His brother Benoît Costaz (1761–1842) was bishop of Nancy. After studying mathematics, he taught at the military school at Thiron until 1793, then at the École polytechnique. A mem... |
Wikipedia:Louis Couturat#0 | Louis Couturat (French: [kutyʁa]; 17 January 1868 – 3 August 1914) was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Couturat was a pioneer of the constructed language Ido. == Life and education == Born in Paris. In 1887 he entered École Normale Supérieure to study philosophy and mathematics. In 1895 he ... |
Wikipedia:Louis Crelier#0 | Louis Jacques Crelier (3 November 1873, Bure, Switzerland – 28 November 1935) was a Swiss mathematician. In 1886 he enrolled at l'Ecole normale in Porrentruy and then studied at the University of Berne, where he received his doctorate in 1895. He began his teaching career at the secondary school in Saint-Imier and then... |
Wikipedia:Louis Guttman#0 | Louis Guttman (Hebrew: לואיס (אליהו) גוטמן; February 10, 1916 – October 25, 1987) was an American sociologist and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known primarily for his work in social statistics. == Biography == Louis (Eliyahu) Guttman was born in New York City a... |
Wikipedia:Louis Paul Émile Richard#0 | Louis Paul Émile Richard (31 March 1795 – 11 March 1849) was a French mathematician and teacher at the Collège Louis-le-Grand. Although he published nothing himself, he was known for his inspiring teaching and was one of the teachers of Évariste Galois. Richard was born in Rennes where his father was an artillery colon... |
Wikipedia:Louis Puissant#0 | Louis Puissant (22 September 1769, in Le Châtelet-en-Brie – 10 January 1843, in Paris) was a French topographical engineer, geodesist, and mathematician. He was appointed an officer in the corps of topographical engineers (ingénieurs géographes) of l'armée des Pyrénées occidentales in 1792 and then a professor in l’éco... |
Wikipedia:Louis de Branges de Bourcia#0 | Louis de Branges de Bourcia (born August 21, 1932) is a French-American mathematician. He was the Edward C. Elliott Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, retiring in 2023. He is best known for proving the long-standing Bieberbach conjecture in 1984, now called de Brange... |
Wikipedia:Louise Adelaide Wolf#0 | Louise Adelaide Wolf (October 20, 1898 in Milwaukee – November 14, 1962 in Milwaukee) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was one of the few women to earn a math PhD in the United States before World War II. == Life and work == Wolf was the daughter of a German immigrant, Caroline Kupperian, and... |
Wikipedia:Louise Doris Adams#0 | Louise Doris Adams (2 July 1889 – 24 December 1965) was a British mathematics educator and school inspector (HMI) who wrote the 1953 book A Background to Primary School Mathematics (Oxford University Press) and became president of the Mathematical Association for 1959. == Life == Adams earned a degree from Bedford Coll... |
Wikipedia:Louise Duffield Cummings#0 | Louise Duffield Cummings (21 November 1870 – 9 May 1947) was a Canadian-born American mathematician. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. == Education and career == As a young child, Louise Duffield Cummings studied at the public schools and Collegiate Institute at Hamilton. Cummings received her B.A. in 1895 from the Un... |
Wikipedia:Lovász conjecture#0 | In graph theory, the Lovász conjecture (1969) is a classical problem on Hamiltonian paths in graphs. It says: Every finite connected vertex-transitive graph contains a Hamiltonian path. Originally László Lovász stated the problem in the opposite way, but this version became standard. In 1996, László Babai published a c... |
Wikipedia:Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry#0 | The Lowndean chair of Astronomy and Geometry is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy (alongside the Plumian Professorship) and a major Professorship in Mathematics at Cambridge University. It was founded in 1749 by Thomas Lowndes, an astronomer from Overton in Cheshire. The original bequest stated that the ... |
Wikipedia:Loyiso Nongxa#0 | Loyiso Nongxa is a South African mathematician, the current chairperson of the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) and a former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits). == Early life and education == Nongxa was born on 22 October 1953 in Mhlanga near Lady... |
Wikipedia:Luc Tartar#0 | Luc C. Tartar is a French-American mathematician currently the University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. == References == |
Wikipedia:Luc Vinet#0 | Luc Vinet (born (1953-04-16)April 16, 1953) is a Canadian physicist and mathematician. He was former rector of the Université de Montréal between 2005 and 2010. He is the CEO of IVADO, created in 2015 since August 2021. == Biography == Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vinet holds a doctorate (3rd cycle) from the Université Pi... |
Wikipedia:Lucasian Professor of Mathematics#0 | The Lucasian Chair of Mathematics () is a mathematics professorship in the University of Cambridge, England; its holder is known as the Lucasian Professor. The post was founded in 1663 by Henry Lucas, who was Cambridge University's Member of Parliament in 1639–1640, and it was officially established by King Charles II ... |
Wikipedia:Luchezar Avramov#0 | Luchezar L. Avramov (Bulgarian: Лъчезар Л. Аврамов) is a Bulgarian-American mathematician who works in commutative algebra. He held the Dale M. Jensen Chair in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska, and is now an Emeritus. == Career == Avramov was educated at Moscow State University, earning a master's degree in 19... |
Wikipedia:Lucia Caporaso#0 | Lucia Caporaso is an Italian mathematician, holding a professorship in mathematics at Roma Tre University. She was born in Rome, Italy, on May 22, 1965. Her research includes work in algebraic geometry, arithmetic geometry, tropical geometry and enumerative geometry. == Education and career == Caporaso earned a laurea ... |
Wikipedia:Luciano Orlando#0 | Luciano Orlando (13 May 1887 – 21 August 1915) was an Italian mathematician and military engineer. == Biography == Orlando was born in Caronia, Messina. In 1903 he received his laurea from the University of Messina, where he was a student of Bagnera and Marcolongo. After a year of graduate study at the University of Pi... |
Wikipedia:Lucy Campbell (mathematician)#0 | Lucy Jean Campbell is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst from Barbados, Jamaica, Ghana, and Canada, specializing in the applications of fluid dynamics to modeling the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. Beyond fluid dynamics, she has also investigated methods for tracing the sources of greenhouse gas emissions. ... |
Wikipedia:Ludomir Newelski#0 | Ludomir Newelski (born 27 November 1960, Wrocław) is a Polish mathematician, specializing in model theory, set theory, foundations of mathematics, and universal algebra. He attended the 14th High School in Wrocław, where in April 1977, as a second-year student, he became one of the first laureates of the Polish Mathema... |
Wikipedia:Ludwig Stickelberger#0 | Ludwig Stickelberger (18 May 1850 – 11 April 1936) was a Swiss mathematician who made important contributions to linear algebra (theory of elementary divisors) and algebraic number theory (Stickelberger relation in the theory of cyclotomic fields). == Short biography == Stickelberger was born in Buch in the canton of S... |
Wikipedia:Luis Caffarelli#0 | Luis Ángel Caffarelli (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis 'anxel kafaˈɾeli]; born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine-American mathematician. He studies partial differential equations and their applications. Caffarelli is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the winner of the 2023 Abel Prize. =... |
Wikipedia:Luis Fernando Alday#0 | Luis Fernando Alday is presently Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and Head of the Mathematical Physics Group. His research interests are bootstrap approach to conformal field theories and string theory, several aspects of the AdS/CFT duality, four-dimensional N=2 super-symmetric theories ... |
Wikipedia:Luis Huergo#0 | Luis Augusto Huergo (November 1, 1837 – November 4, 1913) was an Argentine engineer prominent in the development of his country's ports. == Life and times == === Early career === Luis Huergo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1837, to a family of prosperous retailers. He was sent to the Jesuit Mount St. Mary's University pre... |
Wikipedia:Luis Nunes Vicente#0 | Luis Nunes Vicente (born 1967) is an applied mathematician and optimizer who is known for his research work in Continuous Optimization and particularly in Derivative-Free Optimization. He is the Timothy J. Wilmott '80 Endowed Chair Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering o... |
Wikipedia:Lulu smoothing#0 | In signal processing, Lulu smoothing is a nonlinear mathematical technique for removing impulsive noise from a data sequence such as a time series. It is a nonlinear equivalent to taking a moving average (or other smoothing technique) of a time series, and is similar to other nonlinear smoothing techniques, such as Tuk... |
Wikipedia:Luminița Vese#0 | Luminița Aura Vese is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for her research in image processing, including work on active contour models, level-set methods, image segmentation, and inpainting. == Contributions == The Chan–Vese method of image segmentation using active ... |
Wikipedia:Lune of Hippocrates#0 | In geometry, the lune of Hippocrates, named after Hippocrates of Chios, is a lune bounded by arcs of two circles, the smaller of which has as its diameter a chord spanning a right angle on the larger circle. Equivalently, it is a non-convex plane region bounded by one 180-degree circular arc and one 90-degree circular ... |
Wikipedia:Lute of Pythagoras#0 | The lute of Pythagoras is a self-similar geometric figure made from a sequence of pentagrams. == Constructions == The lute may be drawn from a sequence of pentagrams. The centers of the pentagrams lie on a line and (except for the first and largest of them) each shares two vertices with the next larger one in the seque... |
Wikipedia:Luz de Teresa#0 | María de la Luz (Lucero) Jimena de Teresa de Oteyza (born 1965) is a Mexican and Spanish mathematician specializing in the control theory of parabolic partial differential equations. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a former president of the... |
Wikipedia:Lyapunov fractal#0 | In mathematics, Lyapunov fractals (also known as Markus–Lyapunov fractals) are bifurcational fractals derived from an extension of the logistic map in which the degree of the growth of the population, r, periodically switches between two values A and B. A Lyapunov fractal is constructed by mapping the regions of stabil... |
Wikipedia:Lydia Bieri#0 | Lydia Rosina Bieri (born 1972) is a Swiss-American applied mathematician, geometric analyst, mathematical physicist, cosmologist, and historian of science whose research concerns general relativity, gravity waves, and gravitational memory effects. She is a professor of mathematics and director of the Michigan Center fo... |
Wikipedia:Lynn Batten#0 | Lynn Margaret Batten (1948 – 28 July 2022) was a Canadian-Australian mathematician known for her books about finite geometry and cryptography, and for her research on the classification of malware. == Education and career == Batten earned her Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1977. Her dissertation was D-Partition... |
Wikipedia:László Fuchs#0 | László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician, the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at Tulane University. He is known for his research and textbooks in group theory and abstract algebra. == Biography == Fuchs was born on June 24, 1924, in Budapes... |
Wikipedia:László Rédei#0 | László Rédei (15 November 1900 – 21 November 1980) was a Hungarian mathematician. Rédei graduated from the University of Budapest and initially worked as a schoolteacher. In 1940 he was appointed professor in the University of Szeged and in 1967 moved to the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences i... |
Wikipedia:Lévy flight#0 | A Lévy flight is a random walk in which the step-lengths have a stable distribution, a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed. When defined as a walk in a space of dimension greater than one, the steps made are in isotropic random directions. Later researchers have extended the use of the term "Lévy flight" to a... |
Wikipedia:Lévy–Steinitz theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Lévy–Steinitz theorem identifies the set of values to which sums of rearrangements of an infinite series of vectors in Rn can converge. It was proved by Paul Lévy in his first published paper when he was 19 years old. In 1913 Ernst Steinitz filled in a gap in Lévy's proof and also proved the result ... |
Wikipedia:Līlāvatī#0 | Līlāvatī is a treatise by Indian mathematician Bhāskara II on mathematics, written in 1150 AD. It is the first volume of his main work, the Siddhānta Shiromani, alongside the Bijaganita, the Grahaganita and the Golādhyāya. == Name == Bhaskara II's book on arithmetic is the subject of interesting legends that assert tha... |
Wikipedia:Lương Thế Vinh#0 | Lương Thế Vinh (1441–1496) was a prominent Vietnamese scholar and mathematician of the fifteenth century. == Life == Lương Thế Vinh was born in the district of Vụ Bản, Nam Định Province, and during the mid-15th century. He obtained doctorate in 1463 or 1478, during the reign of Le Thanh Tong, the golden era of Vietname... |
Wikipedia:M. Ram Murty#0 | Maruti Ram Pedaprolu Murty, FRSC (born 16 October 1953) is an Indo-Canadian mathematician at Queen's University, where he holds a Queen's Research Chair in mathematics. == Biography == M. Ram Murty is the brother of mathematician V. Kumar Murty. Murty graduated with a B.Sc. from Carleton University in 1976. He received... |
Wikipedia:M. Salah Baouendi#0 | Mohammed Salah Baouendi (Arabic: محمد صالح باوندي; October 12, 1937 in Tunis – December 24, 2011 in La Jolla, California) was a Tunisian-American mathematician who worked as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. His research concerned partial differential equations and the... |
Wikipedia:MATLAB#0 | MATLAB (an abbreviation of "MATrix LABoratory") is a proprietary multi-paradigm programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs writ... |
Wikipedia:Maarten Solleveld#0 | Maarten Solleveld is a Dutch chess grandmaster and mathematician. == Chess career == He won the 2000 Gouda Open ahead of IM Johan van Mil. He achieved his GM norms at the: Dutch Team Championship in June 2003 North Sea Cup in July 2005 Dutch Team Competition in April 2012 He has been inactive in chess since June 2017. ... |
Wikipedia:Mac Lane's planarity criterion#0 | In graph theory, Mac Lane's planarity criterion is a characterisation of planar graphs in terms of their cycle spaces, named after Saunders Mac Lane who published it in 1937. It states that a finite undirected graph is planar if and only if the cycle space of the graph (taken modulo 2) has a cycle basis in which each e... |
Wikipedia:Macaulay brackets#0 | Macaulay brackets are a notation used to describe the ramp function { x } = { 0 , x < 0 x , x ≥ 0. {\displaystyle \{x\}={\begin{cases}0,&x<0\\x,&x\geq 0.\end{cases}}} A popular alternative transcription uses angle brackets, viz. ⟨ x ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle x\rangle } . Another commonly used notation is x {\displaystyl... |
Wikipedia:Macdonald identities#0 | In mathematics, the Macdonald identities are some infinite product identities associated to affine root systems, introduced by Ian Macdonald (1972). They include as special cases the Jacobi triple product identity, Watson's quintuple product identity, several identities found by Dyson (1972), and a 10-fold product iden... |
Wikipedia:Maciej Zworski#0 | Maciej Zworski is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His mathematical interests include microlocal analysis, scattering theory, and partial differential equations. He was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Beiji... |
Wikipedia:Maclaurin series#0 | In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point. Taylor series are named after Brook Taylor, who... |
Wikipedia:Maclaurin's inequality#0 | In mathematics, Maclaurin's inequality, named after Colin Maclaurin, is a refinement of the inequality of arithmetic and geometric means. Let a 1 , a 2 , … , a n {\displaystyle a_{1},a_{2},\ldots ,a_{n}} be non-negative real numbers, and for k = 1 , 2 , … , n {\displaystyle k=1,2,\ldots ,n} , define the averages S k {\... |
Wikipedia:Madeleine Chaumont#0 | Madeleine Chaumont (8 April 1896 – 27 July 1973) was a French mathematics teacher, who was notable as one of the first 41 women to be admitted to the École normale supérieure, and the second woman to be awarded the male agrégation in mathematics. Throughout her life, her teaching career was disrupted by various health ... |
Wikipedia:Madeline Early#0 | Madeline Levin Early (April 1, 1912 – January 20, 2001) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was one of the few American women to be awarded a PhD in math before World War II. == Biography == Madeline Levin was born April 1, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest child of Dora (Siegal) and Hyma... |
Wikipedia:Madhava of Sangamagrama#0 | Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) (c. 1340 – c. 1425) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered to be the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics in the Late Middle Ages. Madhava made pioneering contributions to the study of infinite series, calculus, trigonometry, geometry and alg... |
Wikipedia:Madhava series#0 | In mathematics, a Madhava series is one of the three Taylor series expansions for the sine, cosine, and arctangent functions discovered in 14th or 15th century in Kerala, India by the mathematician and astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1350 – c. 1425) or his followers in the Kerala school of astronomy and mathemat... |
Wikipedia:Madhava's correction term#0 | Madhava's correction term is a mathematical expression attributed to Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425), the founder of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics, that can be used to give a better approximation to the value of the mathematical constant π (pi) than the partial sum approximation obtained by... |
Wikipedia:Madhava's sine table#0 | Madhava's sine table is the table of trigonometric sines constructed by the 14th century Kerala mathematician-astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425). The table lists the jya-s or Rsines of the twenty-four angles from 3.75° to 90° in steps of 3.75° (1/24 of a right angle, 90°). Rsine is just the sine mul... |
Wikipedia:Magda Peligrad#0 | Magda Peligrad is a Romanian mathematician and mathematical statistician known for her research in probability theory, and particularly on central limit theorems and stochastic processes. She works at the University of Cincinnati, where she is Distinguished Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Mathematical Sciences. == Edu... |
Wikipedia:Magdalena Mouján#0 | Magdalena Araceli Mouján Otaño (1926–2005) was an Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, a pioneer of Argentine computer science, operations research, and nuclear physics, and an award-winning science fiction author. == Life == Mouján was born on March 26, 1926, in Pehuajó (Buenos Aires Province), the granddaughter... |
Wikipedia:Magdalena Toda#0 | Magdalena Daniela Toda is a Romanian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the chair of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Texas Tech University. Her research focuses on the curvature of surfaces, geometric flow, the geometry of timelike surfaces, and the uses of differential geometry and pa... |
Wikipedia:Magic circle (mathematics)#0 | Magic circles were invented by the Song dynasty (960–1279) Chinese mathematician Yang Hui (c. 1238–1298). It is the arrangement of natural numbers on circles where the sum of the numbers on each circle and the sum of numbers on diameters are identical. One of his magic circles was constructed from the natural numbers f... |
Wikipedia:Magic square#0 | In mathematics, especially historical and recreational mathematics, a square array of numbers, usually positive integers, is called a magic square if the sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same. The "order" of the magic square is the number of integers along one side (n), and ... |
Wikipedia:Magnhild Lien#0 | Magnhild Lien is a Norwegian mathematician specializing in knot theory. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge, and the former executive director of the Association for Women in Mathematics. == Education and career == Lien was born in Arendal, a town on the southern Norweg... |
Wikipedia:Maharam algebra#0 | In mathematics, a Maharam algebra is a complete Boolean algebra with a continuous submeasure (defined below). They were introduced by Dorothy Maharam (1947). == Definitions == A continuous submeasure or Maharam submeasure on a Boolean algebra is a real-valued function m such that m ( 0 ) = 0 , m ( 1 ) = 1 , {\displayst... |
Wikipedia:Mahler's theorem#0 | In mathematics, Mahler's theorem, introduced by Kurt Mahler (1958), expresses any continuous p-adic function as an infinite series of certain special polynomials. It is the p-adic counterpart to the Stone-Weierstrass theorem for continuous real-valued functions on a closed interval. == Statement == Let ( Δ f ) ( x ) = ... |
Wikipedia:Mahlon Marsh Day#0 | Mahlon Marsh Day (1913–1992) was an American mathematician, who specialized in functional analysis, geometry of linear spaces and amenable semigroups. == Career == In 1939 he graduated from Brown University. He became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in the years 1939-40 and later in 1948–49. In most of his... |
Wikipedia:Mahmud Salohiddinov#0 | Mahmud Salohiddinovich Salohiddinov (Uzbek Cyrillic: Маҳмуд Салоҳиддинович Салоҳиддинов, Russian: Махмуд Салахитдинович Салахитдинов, 23 November 1933 — 27 April 2018) was a Soviet-Uzbek mathematician, academic, and politician. From 1988 to 1994 he was the head of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. == Biography == ... |
Wikipedia:Mahmut Bajraktarević#0 | Mahmut Bajraktarević (22 December 1909 in Sarajevo – 13 April 1985 in Bugojno) was a Bosnian mathematician and academician. He graduated from the University of Belgrade in 1933 and received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1953 with the dissertation Sur certaines suites itérées. Bajraktarević was a professor at the U... |
Wikipedia:Mahyar Amouzegar#0 | Mahyar A. Amouzegar is an Iranian-American mathematician, engineer, policy analyst, author, and academic. He is the 18th President of New Mexico Tech. Amouzegar research encompasses modeling and simulation, optimization, logistics and supply chain management, organizational studies and national security policy analysis... |
Wikipedia:Mai Gehrke#0 | Mai Gehrke (born 10 May 1964) is a Danish mathematician who studies the theory of lattices and their applications to mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. She is a director of research for the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire J. A. Dieudonné (LJA... |
Wikipedia:Majid Rasulov#0 | Majid Latif Rasulov (Azerbaijani: Məcid Lətif oğlu Rəsulov; 6 July 1916, Nukha – 11 February 1993, Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani mathematician, academician (1983), physics-mathematics PhD (1960). == Achievements == Majid Rasulov graduated from Azerbaijan State University (Baku State University), which was postgrad... |
Wikipedia:Majorization#0 | In mathematics, majorization is a preorder on vectors of real numbers. For two such vectors, x , y ∈ R n {\displaystyle \mathbf {x} ,\ \mathbf {y} \in \mathbb {R} ^{n}} , we say that x {\displaystyle \mathbf {x} } weakly majorizes (or dominates) y {\displaystyle \mathbf {y} } from below, commonly denoted x ≻ w y , {\di... |
Wikipedia:Making Mathematics Count#0 | Making Mathematics Count is the title of a report on mathematics education in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The report was written by Adrian Smith as leader of an "Inquiry into Post–14 Mathematics Education", which was commissioned by the UK Government in 2002. The report recommended an increase in mathematics schooling a... |
Wikipedia:Makoto Matsumoto (mathematician)#0 | Makoto Matsumoto (松本眞, born February 18, 1965) is a Japanese mathematician principally known as the inventor of the Mersenne Twister, a widely used pseudorandom number generator. He is also the author of the CryptMT stream cipher. == Career == In Jan 1998, while an associate professor at Keio University, he invented th... |
Wikipedia:Maksym Radziwill#0 | Maksym Radziwill (born 24 February 1988) is a Polish-Canadian mathematician specializing in number theory. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Northwestern University. == Life == He was born in Moscow in 1988. His family moved to Poland in 1991 where he graduated from high school and in 2006 to Canada. Ra... |
Wikipedia:Malabika Pramanik#0 | Malabika Pramanik is a Canadian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. Her interests include harmonic analysis, complex variables, and partial differential equations. == Education and career == Pramanik studied statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, earning... |
Wikipedia:Malcev algebra#0 | In mathematics, a Malcev algebra (or Maltsev algebra or Moufang–Lie algebra) over a field is a nonassociative algebra that is antisymmetric, so that x y = − y x {\displaystyle xy=-yx} and satisfies the Malcev identity ( x y ) ( x z ) = ( ( x y ) z ) x + ( ( y z ) x ) x + ( ( z x ) x ) y . {\displaystyle (xy)(xz)=((xy)z... |
Wikipedia:Malena Español#0 | Malena Inés Español is an Argentine-American applied mathematician. Her research involves computational methods such as ridge regression in scientific computing, especially as applied to materials science and image processing. She is an associate professor in the Arizona State University School of Mathematical and Stat... |
Wikipedia:Malgrange preparation theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Malgrange preparation theorem is an analogue of the Weierstrass preparation theorem for smooth functions. It was conjectured by René Thom and proved by B. Malgrange (1962–1963, 1964, 1967). == Statement of Malgrange preparation theorem == Suppose that f(t,x) is a smooth complex function of t∈R and x... |
Wikipedia:Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem states that every non-zero linear differential operator with constant coefficients has a Green's function. It was first proved independently by Leon Ehrenpreis (1954, 1955) and Bernard Malgrange (1955–1956). This means that the differential equation P ( ∂ ∂ x 1 , … , ∂ ∂... |
Wikipedia:Malmquist's theorem#0 | In mathematics, Malmquist's theorem, is the name of any of the three theorems proved by Axel Johannes Malmquist (1913, 1920, 1941). These theorems restrict the forms of first order algebraic differential equations which have transcendental meromorphic or algebroid solutions. == Statement of the theorems == Theorem (191... |
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