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Wikipedia:André Haefliger#0
André Haefliger (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈandreː ˈhɛːflɪɡər]; 22 May 1929 – 7 March 2023) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily on topology. == Education and career == Haefliger went to school in Nyon and then attended his final years at Collège de Genève in Geneva. He studied mathematics at the ...
Wikipedia:André Sainte-Laguë#0
The Webster method, also called the Sainte-Laguë method (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t.la.ɡy]), is a highest averages apportionment method for allocating seats in a parliament among federal states, or among parties in a party-list proportional representation system. The Sainte-Laguë method shows a more equal seats-to-vot...
Wikipedia:André Warusfel#0
André Warusfel (1 December 1936 – 6 June 2016) was a French mathematician and an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure. He taught for many years in preparatory classes, mainly in high schools Henri IV and Louis-le-Grand. Inspector General of mathematics from 1994 to 2001, he is Inspector General Emeritus of Mathemati...
Wikipedia:Andy Liu#0
Andy Lau Tak-wah (Chinese: 劉德華; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born Lau Fook-wing; 27 September 1961), is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1980s as well as one of the Four Heavenly Kings in the 1990s. Lau won the Hong Kong Fil...
Wikipedia:Angela Mihai#0
Loredana Angela Mihai is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst. Originally from Romania, she is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cardiff University, and Director of Research and Innovation for the Cardiff University School of Mathematics. She specialises in mathematical modeling of the mechanical properties...
Wikipedia:Angela Slavova#0
Angela Slavova is a Bulgarian applied mathematician. She heads the Department of Mathematical Physics in the Institute of Mathematics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is former chair of the Bulgarian section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. == Education == Slavova graduated from the Unive...
Wikipedia:Angelika Steger#0
Angelika Steger (born 1962) is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests include graph theory, randomized algorithms, and approximation algorithms. She is a professor at ETH Zurich. == Education and career == After earlier studies at the University of Freiburg and Heidelberg University, Steger ear...
Wikipedia:Angiolo Maria Colomboni#0
Angiolo Maria Colomboni (1608–1672) was an Italian monk, mathematician, and draughtsman, drawing mainly detailed flowers and birds. He was born in Gubbio in 1608, and joined the monastic order of Olivetans. He applied himself to mathematics. In 1669, while in Bologna, he printed a mathematical text titled Practica Gnom...
Wikipedia:Angkana Rüland#0
Angkana Rüland (born 1987) is a German applied mathematician, a professor in mathematics and holder of a Hausdorff Chair in mathematics at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics of the University of Bonn. Her research has included work on the mathematical modeling of shape-memory alloys and on the inverse problems arisin...
Wikipedia:Angle of parallelism#0
In hyperbolic geometry, angle of parallelism Π ( a ) {\displaystyle \Pi (a)} is the angle at the non-right angle vertex of a right hyperbolic triangle having two asymptotic parallel sides. The angle depends on the segment length a between the right angle and the vertex of the angle of parallelism. Given a point not on ...
Wikipedia:Angles between flats#0
The concept of angles between lines (in the plane or in space), between two planes (dihedral angle) or between a line and a plane can be generalized to arbitrary dimensions. This generalization was first discussed by Camille Jordan. For any pair of flats in a Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension one can define a set ...
Wikipedia:Angus MacFarlane-Grieve#0
Alexander Angus MacFarlane-Grieve, (11 May 1891 – 2 August 1970) was a British academic, mathematician, rower, and decorated British Army officer. He served with the Highland Light Infantry during World War I. He was Master of University College, Durham from 1939 to 1954, and additionally Master of Hatfield College, Du...
Wikipedia:Anita Hansbo#0
Anita Hansbo (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician and academic administrator, the former rector or president of Jönköping University. == Education and early career == Hansbo earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of Gothenburg. Her dissertation, Some Results Related to Smoothing in Discetized Linear Parabolic E...
Wikipedia:Anja Schlömerkemper#0
Anja Schlömerkemper (born 1973) is a German mathematician whose research applies mathematical analysis and the calculus of variations to the solutions of partial differential equations modeling problems in materials science. She is Chair of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences at the University of Würzburg, the universi...
Wikipedia:Anna Barbara Reinhart#0
Anna Barbara Reinhart (12 July 1730 – 5 January 1796), was a Swiss mathematician. She was considered an internationally respected mathematician of her era. == Biography == Anna Barbara Reinhart was the third child and first daughter of Councilor Salomon Reinhart (1693 - 1761) and Anna Steiner. Her childhood was oversha...
Wikipedia:Anna Cartan#0
Anna Cartan (15 May 1878 – 1923) was a French mathematician, teacher and textbook author who was a student of Marie Curie and Jules Tannery. == Early years == Cartan was the youngest child born to Anne Florentine Cottaz (1841–1927) and Joseph Antoine Cartan (1837–1917), who was the village blacksmith. Anna had an elder...
Wikipedia:Anna Fino#0
Anna Maria Fino is an Italian mathematician specializing in differential geometry, complex geometry, and Lie groups. She is a professor of mathematics in the Giuseppe Peano Department of Mathematics at the University of Turin, and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Complex Manifolds. == Education and career == Fin...
Wikipedia:Anna Lawniczak#0
Anna T. Lawniczak (born 1953) is an applied mathematician known for her work on complex systems including lattice gas automata, a type of cellular automaton used to model fluid dynamics. Educated in Poland and the US, she has worked in the US and Canada, where she is a professor at the University of Guelph. She is the ...
Wikipedia:Anna Maria Bigatti#0
Anna Maria Bigatti is an Italian mathematician specializing in computational methods for commutative algebra. She is a ricercatore in the department of mathematics at the University of Genoa. She is one of the developers of CoCoA, a computer algebra system, and of its core library CoCoALib. == Education and career == B...
Wikipedia:Anna Mazzucato#0
Anna Laura Mazzucato is a professor of mathematics, distinguished senior scholar, and associate head of the mathematics department at Pennsylvania State University. Her mathematical research involves functional analysis, function spaces, partial differential equations, and their applications in fluid mechanics and elas...
Wikipedia:Anna Mullikin#0
Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893–1975) was an American mathematician who was one of the early investigators of point set theory. She was one of the few women to earn a PhD in math before World War II. == Biography == Anna Margaret Mullikin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 7, 1893, as the youngest of four children of ...
Wikipedia:Anna Panorska#0
Anna Katarzyna Panorska is a Polish mathematician and statistician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at the University of Nevada, Reno. == Research == Panorska's research interests include studying extreme events in the stochastic processes used to model weather, water, and biolog...
Wikipedia:Anna Romanowska#0
Anna B. Romanowska is a Polish mathematician specializing in abstract algebra. She is professor emeritus of algebra and combinatorics at the Warsaw University of Technology, and was the first convenor of European Women in Mathematics. == Education and career == Romanowska earned her Ph.D. in 1973 at the Warsaw Universi...
Wikipedia:Anna Sfard#0
Anna B. Sfard (Hebrew: אנה ספרד) is a retired Israeli psychologist of mathematics education, focusing on the roles of communication and reification in mathematical reasoning. She is a professor emerita of Mathematics Learning Sciences at the University of Haifa. == Education and career == Sfard is the daughter of socio...
Wikipedia:Anna Sierpińska#0
Anna Sierpińska (1947 – October 19, 2023) was a Polish-Canadian scholar of mathematics education, known for her investigations of understanding and epistemology in mathematics education. She was a professor emerita of mathematics and statistics at Concordia University. == Education and career == Sierpińska was born in ...
Wikipedia:Anna Skripka#0
Anna Skripka is a Ukrainian-American mathematician whose research topics include noncommutative analysis and probability. She is a professor at the University of New Mexico. == Education and career == Skripka did her undergraduate studies at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. She completed her Ph...
Wikipedia:Annales Fennici Mathematici#0
Annales Fennici Mathematici (formerly Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica and Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 1941. Its founder and editor until 1974 was Pekka Myrberg. It is currently edited by Olli M...
Wikipedia:Anne Bourlioux#0
Anne Bourlioux is a Canadian mathematician whose research involves the numerical simulation of turbulent combustion. She is a winner of the Richard C. DiPrima Prize, and a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Université de Montréal. She is also a former rugby player for the Berkeley All Blues, and a Canadian ...
Wikipedia:Anne Broadbent#0
Anne Lise Broadbent is a mathematician at the University of Ottawa who won the 2016 Aisenstadt Prize for her research in quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum information. As of July 2024, she holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Communications and Cryptography. == Early life and education =...
Wikipedia:Anne Lemaître#0
Anne Lemaître (born 1957) is a retired Belgian applied mathematician, formerly of the Université de Namur. She is an expert in orbital mechanics and orbital resonance, and their effects in the Solar System on bodies including asteroids, Mercury, and space debris. == Education and career == Lemaître completed her Ph.D. ...
Wikipedia:Anne Sjerp Troelstra#0
Anne Sjerp Troelstra (10 August 1939 – 7 March 2019) was a professor of pure mathematics and foundations of mathematics at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. He was a constructivist logician, who was influential in the development of intuitionistic logic With Georg ...
Wikipedia:Anne Taormina#0
Anne Taormina is a Belgian and British mathematical physicist whose research topics include string theory, conformal field theory, and Mathieu moonshine. Beyond mathematical physics, she has also studied the icosahedral symmetry of virus capsids. She was Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics in the Department of Ma...
Wikipedia:Anne Watson (mathematics educator)#0
Anne Watson is a British mathematics educator. She is a professor emeritus in the department of education at the University of Oxford, where she was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. She is a Fellow of the International Society for Design and Development in Education and of the Institute for Mathematics and its Appl...
Wikipedia:Anne van den Nouweland#0
Anne van den Nouweland is a Dutch-American game theorist specializing in cooperative game theory, the game-based formation of complex networks, and their application in the design of communication networks. She works as a professor of economics at the University of Oregon. == Education and career == Van den Nouweland s...
Wikipedia:Anne-Laure Dalibard#0
Anne-Laure Dalibard is a French mathematician working on asymptotic behavior of fluid equations occurring in oceanographic models. She works as a staff scientist at the Jacques-Louis Lions Laboratory, a joint research unit between Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (UMR 7598.) ==...
Wikipedia:Annibale Giordano#0
Annibale Giuseppe Nicolò Giordano (Ottaviano - San Giuseppe, 20 November 1769 – Troyes, 13 March 1835) was an Italian-French mathematician and revolutionary. == Life == Annibale Giordano was born 20 September 1769 in Ottaviano - San Giuseppe Vesuviano, to an educated middle-class family. His father Michele was a doctor...
Wikipedia:Annie Cuyt#0
Annie A. M. Cuyt (born 1956) is a Belgian computational mathematician known for her work on continued fractions, numerical analysis, Padé approximants, and related topics. She is a professor at the University of Antwerp, and a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. == Education and car...
Wikipedia:Annie MacKinnon#0
Annie Louise MacKinnon Fitch (June 1, 1868 – September 12, 1940) was a Canadian-born American mathematician who worked with Felix Klein and became a professor of mathematics at Wells College. She was the third woman to earn a mathematics doctorate at an American university. == Early life and education == Annie Louise M...
Wikipedia:Annihilating polynomial#0
A polynomial P is annihilating or called an annihilating polynomial in linear algebra and operator theory if the polynomial considered as a function of the linear operator or a matrix A evaluates to zero, i.e., is such that P(A) = 0. Note that all characteristic polynomials and minimal polynomials of A are annihilating...
Wikipedia:Anouar Benmalek#0
Anouar Benmalek (born January 16, 1956) is an Algerian novelist, journalist, mathematician and poet. After the 1988 riots in Algeria in protest of government policies, he became one of the founders of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. His novel Lovers of Algeria was awarded the Prix Ragid. The novel, The Child of...
Wikipedia:Ant on a rubber rope#0
The ant on a rubber rope is a mathematical puzzle with a solution that appears counterintuitive or paradoxical. It is sometimes given as a worm, or inchworm, on a rubber or elastic band, but the principles of the puzzle remain the same. The details of the puzzle can vary, but a typical form is as follows: At first cons...
Wikipedia:Anthony Charles Croft#0
Professor Anthony Charles Croft (Tony), CMath and FIMA, is a British mathematician known for his work in mathematics education including university-wide mathematics and statistics support, engineering mathematics, mathematical education of specialist mathematicians and also non-specialist users of mathematics. He is cu...
Wikipedia:Anthony James Merrill Spencer#0
Anthony James Merrill Spencer (23 August 1929 — 26 January 2008) FRS was an applied mathematician whose main field of research was in understanding and predicting the mechanical behaviour of advanced materials. == Awards and honours == Spencer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1987. == References ==
Wikipedia:Antiautomorphism#0
In mathematics, an antihomomorphism is a type of function defined on sets with multiplication that reverses the order of multiplication. An antiautomorphism is an invertible antihomomorphism, i.e. an antiisomorphism, from a set to itself. From bijectivity it follows that antiautomorphisms have inverses, and that the in...
Wikipedia:Antikythera mechanism#0
The Antikythera mechanism ( AN-tik-ih-THEER-ə, US also AN-ty-kih-) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year...
Wikipedia:Antilimit#0
In mathematics, the antilimit is the equivalent of a limit for a divergent series. The concept not necessarily unique or well-defined, but the general idea is to find a formula for a series and then evaluate it outside its radius of convergence. == Common divergent series == == See also == Abel summation Cesàro summati...
Wikipedia:Antilinear map#0
In mathematics, a function f : V → W {\displaystyle f:V\to W} between two complex vector spaces is said to be antilinear or conjugate-linear if f ( x + y ) = f ( x ) + f ( y ) (additivity) f ( s x ) = s ¯ f ( x ) (conjugate homogeneity) {\displaystyle {\begin{alignedat}{9}f(x+y)&=f(x)+f(y)&&\qquad {\text{ (additivity) ...
Wikipedia:Antiunitary operator#0
In mathematics, an antiunitary transformation is a bijective antilinear map U : H 1 → H 2 {\displaystyle U:H_{1}\to H_{2}\,} between two complex Hilbert spaces such that ⟨ U x , U y ⟩ = ⟨ x , y ⟩ ¯ {\displaystyle \langle Ux,Uy\rangle ={\overline {\langle x,y\rangle }}} for all x {\displaystyle x} and y {\displaystyle y...
Wikipedia:Antivector#0
An antivector is an element of grade n − 1 in an n-dimensional exterior algebra. An antivector is always a blade, and it gets its name from the fact that its components each involve a combination of all except one basis vector, thus being the opposite of a vector whose components each involve exactly one basis vector. ...
Wikipedia:Antoine André Louis Reynaud#0
Antoine André Louis Reynaud, 12 September 1771 – 24 February 1844, was a French mathematician. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and examiner at the École Polytechnique. == Works == Trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique. Paris: Courcier. 1818. == See also == Euclidean algorithm == External links == O'Connor, John...
Wikipedia:Antoine Meyer#0
Antoine Meyer, also known as Antun or Tun Meyer (1801–1857) was a Luxembourg-born mathematician and poet who later adopted Belgian nationality. Sometimes referred to as the father of Luxembourgish literature, he is remembered for publishing the very first book in Luxembourgish, a collection of six poems entitled "E' Sc...
Wikipedia:Antoine Song#0
Antoine Song (born 18 July 1992 in Paris) is a French mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry. In 2018, he proved Yau's conjecture. He was a Clay Research Fellow (2019–2024). He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2019 under the supervision of Fernando Codá Marques. He is an assistant pr...
Wikipedia:Antoinette Tordesillas#0
Antoinette A. Tordesillas is an Australian mathematician. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia who has helped build a foundational understanding of the dynamics of granular materials. She received the J H Michell Medal in 2000 and her major contributions include research p...
Wikipedia:Anton Davidoglu#0
Anton Davidoglu (June 30, 1876 – May 27, 1958) was a Romanian mathematician who specialized in differential equations. He was born in 1876 in Bârlad, Vaslui County, the son of Profira Moțoc and Doctor Cleante Davidoglu. His older brother was General Cleante Davidoglu. He studied under Jacques Hadamard at the École Norm...
Wikipedia:Anton Kotzig#0
Anton Kotzig (22 October 1919 – 20 April 1991) was a Slovak–Canadian mathematician, expert in statistics, combinatorics and graph theory. A number of his mathematical contributions are named after him. These include the Ringel–Kotzig conjecture on graceful labeling of trees (with Gerhard Ringel); Kotzig's conjecture on...
Wikipedia:Anton Sushkevich#0
Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich (Антон Казимирович Сушкевич) (23 January 1889, Borisoglebsk, Russia — 30 August 1961, Kharkiv, Ukraine) was a Russian mathematician and textbook author who expanded group theory to include semigroups and other magmas. Sushkevich attended secondary school in Voronezh and studied in Berlin f...
Wikipedia:Antonella Cupillari#0
Antonella Cupillari (born 1955) is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the history of mathematics and mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. == Education and career == Cupillari earned a laurea at the University of L'Aquila in 1978, and c...
Wikipedia:Antonella Zanna#0
Antonella Zanna Munthe-Kaas is an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research includes work on numerical integration of differential equations and applications to medical imaging. She is a professor and head of the mathematics department at the University of Bergen in Norway. == Education == Zann...
Wikipedia:Antoni Zygmund#0
Antoni Zygmund Polish pronunciation: [anˈtɔɲi ˈzɘgmunt] (December 26, 1900 – May 30, 1992) was a Polish-American mathematician. He worked mostly in the area of mathematical analysis, including especially harmonic analysis, and he is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. Zygmund was responsible fo...
Wikipedia:Antonia J. Jones#0
Antonia Jane Jones (1943 – 2010) was a British mathematician and computer scientist. Her research considered number theory and computer science. == Early life and education == Jones was born in 1943 in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. She was the first member of her family to attend university. Jones contracted ...
Wikipedia:Antonio Auffinger#0
Antonio Auffinger is an American Brazilian mathematician. He works in the area of probability theory and mathematical physics. == Education and career == Auffinger completed his doctorate at the Courant Institute in 2011; his dissertation was supervised by Gerard Ben Arous and was awarded the Francisco Aranda-Ordaz Pri...
Wikipedia:Antonio Cagnoli#0
Antonio Cagnoli (29 September 1743, in Zakynthos – 6 August 1816, in Verona) was an Italian astronomer, mathematician and diplomat in the service of the Republic of Venice. His father Ottavio was chancellor to the Venetian governor of the Ionian Islands. == External links == "OsservatorioMonteBaldo". astrofiliveronesi....
Wikipedia:Antoon Kolen#0
Anthonius Wilhelmus Johannes (Antoon) Kolen (22 May 1953 – 3 October 2004) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Maastricht University, in the Department of Quantitative Economics. He is known for his work on dynamic programming, such as interval scheduling and mathematical optimization. == Biography == Born i...
Wikipedia:Antônio Carbonari Netto#0
Antônio Carbonari Netto is a Brazilian educator, mathematician, and businessman. He is founder, CEO and one of the main shareholders of Anhanguera Educacional, a holding of 18 institutions of higher education in the state of São Paulo, one of the largest private universities in the country. In addition to his position ...
Wikipedia:Apala Majumdar#0
Apala Majumdar is a British applied mathematician specialising in the mathematics of liquid crystals. She is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde. == Education and career == Majumdar did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bristol. As a graduate student at Bristol, she also wor...
Wikipedia:Apollonian circles#0
In geometry, Apollonian circles are two families (pencils) of circles such that every circle in the first family intersects every circle in the second family orthogonally, and vice versa. These circles form the basis for bipolar coordinates. They were discovered by Apollonius of Perga, a renowned ancient Greek geometer...
Wikipedia:Apollonian gasket#0
In mathematics, an Apollonian gasket, Apollonian net, or Apollonian circle packing is a fractal generated by starting with a triple of circles, each tangent to the other two, and successively filling in more circles, each tangent to another three. It is named after Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga. == Constructi...
Wikipedia:Apollonian sphere packing#0
In geometry, a sphere packing is an arrangement of non-overlapping spheres within a containing space. The spheres considered are usually all of identical size, and the space is usually three-dimensional Euclidean space. However, sphere packing problems can be generalised to consider unequal spheres, spaces of other dim...
Wikipedia:Apollonius quadrilateral#0
In geometry, an Apollonius quadrilateral is a quadrilateral A B C D {\displaystyle ABCD} such that the two products of opposite side lengths are equal. That is, A B ¯ ⋅ C D ¯ = A D ¯ ⋅ B C ¯ . {\displaystyle {\overline {AB}}\cdot {\overline {CD}}={\overline {AD}}\cdot {\overline {BC}}.} An equivalent way of stating thi...
Wikipedia:Apotome (mathematics)#0
In the historical study of mathematics, an apotome is a line segment formed from a longer line segment by breaking it into two parts, one of which is commensurable only in power to the whole; the other part is the apotome. In this definition, two line segments are said to be "commensurable only in power" when the ratio...
Wikipedia:Applications of sensitivity analysis in epidemiology#0
Sensitivity analysis studies the relation between the uncertainty in a model-based the inference and the uncertainties in the model assumptions. Sensitivity analysis can play an important role in epidemiology, for example in assessing the influence of the unmeasured confounding on the causal conclusions of a study. It ...
Wikipedia:Applications of sensitivity analysis to model calibration#0
Sensitivity analysis has important applications in model calibration. One application of sensitivity analysis addresses the question of "What's important to model or system development?" One can seek to identify important connections between observations, model inputs, and predictions or forecasts. That is, one can see...
Wikipedia:Applied general equilibrium#0
In mathematical economics, applied general equilibrium (AGE) models were pioneered by Herbert Scarf at Yale University in 1967, in two papers, and a follow-up book with Terje Hansen in 1973, with the aim of empirically estimating the Arrow–Debreu model of general equilibrium theory with empirical data, to provide "“a g...
Wikipedia:Approximately continuous function#0
In mathematics, particularly in mathematical analysis and measure theory, an approximately continuous function is a concept that generalizes the notion of continuous functions by replacing the ordinary limit with an approximate limit. This generalization provides insights into measurable functions with applications in ...
Wikipedia:Approximation property (ring theory)#0
In algebra, a commutative Noetherian ring A is said to have the approximation property with respect to an ideal I if each finite system of polynomial equations with coefficients in A has a solution in A if and only if it has a solution in the I-adic completion of A. The notion of the approximation property is due to Mi...
Wikipedia:Aram Arutyunov#0
Aram Arutyunov (Russian: Ара́м Влади́мирович Арутю́нов) (born 1956) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University and the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He defended the thesis «Perturbation of optimal control problems and necessar...
Wikipedia:Arason invariant#0
In mathematics, the Arason invariant is a cohomological invariant associated to a quadratic form of even rank and trivial discriminant and Clifford invariant over a field k of characteristic not 2, taking values in H3(k,Z/2Z). It was introduced by (Arason 1975, Theorem 5.7). The Rost invariant is a generalization of th...
Wikipedia:Arbelos#0
In geometry, an arbelos is a plane region bounded by three semicircles with three apexes such that each corner of each semicircle is shared with one of the others (connected), all on the same side of a straight line (the baseline) that contains their diameters. The earliest known reference to this figure is in Archimed...
Wikipedia:Archibald James Macintyre#0
Prof Archibald James Macintyre HFRSE (3 July 1908 – 4 August 1967) was a British-born mathematician. == Life == He was born in Sheffield on 3 July 1908, the second child of William Ewart Archibald Macintyre (b.1878) previously of Long Eaton, and his wife, Mary Beatrice Askew. His father was a schoolmaster in Sheffield ...
Wikipedia:Archibald Read Richardson#0
Archibald Read Richardson FRS (21 August 1881 – 4 November 1954) was a British mathematician known for his work in algebra. == Career == Richardson collaborated with Dudley E. Littlewood on invariants and group representation theory. They introduced the immanant of a matrix, studied Schur functions and developed the Li...
Wikipedia:Archimedean circle#0
In geometry, an Archimedean circle is any circle constructed from an arbelos that has the same radius as each of Archimedes' twin circles. If the arbelos is normed such that the diameter of its outer (largest) half circle has a length of 1 and r denotes the radius of any of the inner half circles, then the radius ρ of ...
Wikipedia:Archimedean spiral#0
The Archimedean spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. The term Archimedean spiral is sometimes used to refer to the more general class of spirals of this type (see below), in contrast to Archimedes' spiral (the specifi...
Wikipedia:Archimedes' quadruplets#0
In geometry, Archimedes' quadruplets are four congruent circles associated with an arbelos. Introduced by Frank Power in the summer of 1998, each have the same area as Archimedes' twin circles, making them Archimedean circles. == Construction == An arbelos is formed from three collinear points A, B, and C, by the three...
Wikipedia:Archives of American Mathematics#0
The Archives of American Mathematics, located at the University of Texas at Austin, aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to the papers principally of American mathematicians and the records of American mathematical organizations. == History == The Archives began in 1975 at the University of Texas at Austin wit...
Wikipedia:Arend Heyting#0
Arend Heyting (Dutch: [ˈaːrənt ˈɦɛitɪŋ]; 9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. == Biography == Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic. Heyting...
Wikipedia:Aretha Teckentrup#0
Aretha Leonore Teckentrup is a UK-based mathematician, known for her research on uncertainty quantification and numerical analysis. Her work focuses on multilevel Monte Carlo methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations, Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference. She is a reader in the mathemati...
Wikipedia:Ari Laptev#0
Ari Laptev (born August 10, 1950) is a mathematician working on the spectral theory of partial differential equations. His PhD was obtained in 1978 at Leningrad State University under the supervision of Michael Solomyak. He is currently Professor at both the KTH in Stockholm and Imperial College London. From 2001 to 20...
Wikipedia:Arie Bialostocki#0
Arie Bialostocki (Hebrew: אריה ביאלוסטוקי) is an Israeli American mathematician with expertise and contributions in discrete mathematics and finite groups. == Education and career == Arie received his BSc, MSc, and PhD (1984) degrees from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. His dissertation was done under the supervision of...
Wikipedia:Arieh Iserles#0
Arieh Iserles (born 2 September 1947) is a computational mathematician, currently Professor of the Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion Un...
Wikipedia:Arild Stubhaug#0
Arild Stubhaug (born 25 May 1948) is a Norwegian biographer and poet. He has won several literary awards for his biographies of Norwegian mathematicians. == Early life and education == Stubhaug was born in Naustdal on 25 May 1948, a son educator Lidvald Stubhaug and nurse Borghild Daltveit. He received a cand.mag degre...
Wikipedia:Arithmetic function#0
In number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is generally any function whose domain is the set of positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers. Hardy & Wright include in their definition the requirement that an arithmetical function "expresses some arithmetical pro...
Wikipedia:Arithmetica#0
Arithmetic is an elementary branch of mathematics that deals with numerical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. In a wider sense, it also includes exponentiation, extraction of roots, and taking logarithms. Arithmetic systems can be distinguished based on the type of numbers they operat...
Wikipedia:Arithmetization of analysis#0
The arithmetization of analysis was a research program in the foundations of mathematics carried out in the second half of the 19th century which aimed to abolish all geometric intuition from the proofs in analysis. For the followers of this program, the fundamental concepts of calculus should also not make references ...
Wikipedia:Arjan van der Schaft#0
Abraham Jan (Arjan) van der Schaft (born 1955) is emeritus professor of systems and control theory at the Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen. He is notable for his contributions to network modelling and control of complex physical systems, specifical...
Wikipedia:Arjen Lenstra#0
Arjen Klaas Lenstra (born 2 March 1956, in Groningen) is a Dutch mathematician, cryptographer and computational number theorist. He is a professor emeritus from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he headed of the Laboratory for Cryptologic Algorithms. == Career == He studied mathematics at the Un...
Wikipedia:Arkadi Nemirovski#0
Arkadi Nemirovski (born March 14, 1947) is a professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his work on the ellipsoid method, modern interior-point methods and robust optimizati...
Wikipedia:Arkady Onishchik#0
Arkady L'vovich Onishchik (Russian: Арка́дий Льво́вич Они́щик, born 14 November 1933 in Moscow; died 12 February 2019) was a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematician, who worked on Lie groups and their geometrical applications. Onishchik was a student of Eugene Dynkin, under whose guidance he got his PhD at Moscow St...
Wikipedia:Arnaldo Garcia#0
Arnaldo Leite Pinto Garcia (born 1950) is a Brazilian mathematician working on algebraic geometry and coding theory. He is a titular researcher at the IMPA. Garcia is a titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and has received Brazil's National Order of Scientific Merit. He obtained his Ph.D. at the IMPA in ...
Wikipedia:Arne Sletsjøe#0
Arne Bernhard Sletsjøe (sometimes shown as Arne Slettsjø, born 8 April 1960) is a Norwegian mathematician and retired canoe sprinter who competed internationally in the mid to late 1980s. He won two medals in the K-4 10000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in 1987 and a silver in 1983. Sle...
Wikipedia:Arnfinn Laudal#0
Olav Arnfinn Laudal (born 19 June 1936) is a Norwegian mathematician. == Early life and education == O.A. Laudal was born in Kirkenes as the son of teachers Trygve Laudal (1896–1964) and Agnes Mønnesland (1898–1982). He finished his secondary education in 1954 in Mandal, and enrolled in the University of Oslo in the sa...