source stringlengths 16 98 | text stringlengths 40 168k |
|---|---|
Wikipedia:Method of dominant balance#0 | In mathematics, the method of dominant balance approximates the solution to an equation by solving a simplified form of the equation containing 2 or more of the equation's terms that most influence (dominate) the solution and excluding terms contributing only small modifications to this approximate solution. Following ... |
Wikipedia:Method of exhaustion#0 | The method of exhaustion (Latin: methodus exhaustionis) is a method of finding the area of a shape by inscribing inside it a sequence of polygons (one at a time) whose areas converge to the area of the containing shape. If the sequence is correctly constructed, the difference in area between the nth polygon and the con... |
Wikipedia:Method of matched asymptotic expansions#0 | In mathematics, the method of matched asymptotic expansions is a common approach to finding an accurate approximation to the solution to an equation, or system of equations. It is particularly used when solving singularly perturbed differential equations. It involves finding several different approximate solutions, eac... |
Wikipedia:Method of steepest descent#0 | In mathematics, the method of steepest descent or saddle-point method is an extension of Laplace's method for approximating an integral, where one deforms a contour integral in the complex plane to pass near a stationary point (saddle point), in roughly the direction of steepest descent or stationary phase. The saddle-... |
Wikipedia:Metric differential#0 | In mathematical analysis, a metric differential is a generalization of a derivative for a Lipschitz continuous function defined on a Euclidean space and taking values in an arbitrary metric space. With this definition of a derivative, one can generalize Rademacher's theorem to metric space-valued Lipschitz functions. =... |
Wikipedia:Micha Perles#0 | Micha Asher Perles is an Israeli mathematician working in geometry, a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1964 from the Hebrew University, under the supervision of Branko Grünbaum. His contributions include: The Perles configuration, a set of nine points in the Euclidean plane whose coll... |
Wikipedia:Michael A. B. Deakin#0 | Michael Andrew Bernard Deakin (12 August 1939 – 5 August 2014) was an Australian mathematician and mathematics educator. He was known for his work as a writer and editor of Function, a mathematics magazine aimed at high school students, and as a biographer of ancient Greek mathematician Hypatia. He won the B. H. Neuman... |
Wikipedia:Michael Barber (academic)#0 | Michael Newton Barber (born 30 April 1947) is a mathematician, physicist and academic. He was Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University in South Australia from 2008 until 2014. == Career == Barber studied at the University of New South Wales, where he received the University Medal in applied mathematics and graduated with... |
Wikipedia:Michael Barr (mathematician)#0 | Michael Barr (born January 22, 1937) is an American mathematician who is the Peter Redpath Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University. == Early life and education == He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the 202nd class of Central High School in June 1954. He graduated from the ... |
Wikipedia:Michael Benedicks#0 | Michael Benedicks, born 1949, is a Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1980. His doctoral advisor was Professor Harold S. Shapiro. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the su... |
Wikipedia:Michael Dinneen#0 | Michael J. Dinneen is an American-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist working as a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is deputy director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. He does research in combinatorial optimization, distributed computing... |
Wikipedia:Michael Eastwood#0 | Kyle Eastwood (born May 19, 1968) is an American jazz bassist and film composer. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early 1990s and leading his own quartet, he released his first solo album, From There to Here... |
Wikipedia:Michael Fekete#0 | Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה; 19 July 1886 – 13 May 1957) was a Hungarian-Israeli mathematician. == Biography == Michael Fekete was born in Zenta, Austria-Hungary (today Senta, Serbia). He received his PhD in 1909 from the University of Budapest (later renamed Eötvös Loránd University). He studied under ... |
Wikipedia:Michael Frame#0 | Michael Frame is an American mathematician and retired Yale professor. He is a co-author, along with Amelia Urry, of Fractal Worlds: Grown, Built, and Imagined. At Yale, he was a colleague of Benoit Mandelbrot and helped Mandelbrot develop a curriculum within the mathematics department. == Early years and education == ... |
Wikipedia:Michael Lin (mathematician)#0 | Michael Lin (Hebrew: מיכאל לין; born June 8, 1942) is an Israeli mathematician, who has published scientific articles in the field of probability concentrating on Markov chains and ergodic theory. He serves as professor emeritus at the Department of Mathematics in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Additionally,... |
Wikipedia:Michael Makkai#0 | Michael Makkai (Hungarian: Makkai Mihály; 24 June 1939 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Canadian mathematician of Hungarian origin, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, type theory and the theory of topoi. == Career == === Academic biography === Makkai was awarded hi... |
Wikipedia:Michael Maschler#0 | Michael Bahir Maschler (Hebrew: מיכאל בהיר משלר; July 22, 1927 – July 20, 2008) was an Israeli mathematician well known for his contributions to the field of game theory. He was a professor in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 201... |
Wikipedia:Michael O. Rabin#0 | Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל עוזר רַבִּין; born September 1, 1931) is an Israeli mathematician, computer scientist, and recipient of the Turing Award. == Biography == === Early life and education === Rabin was born in 1931 in Breslau, Germany (today Wrocław, in Poland), the son of a rabbi. In 1935, he emigrated... |
Wikipedia:Michael Stifel#0 | John Michael Stipe (; born January 4, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and artist, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe was born in Metro Atlanta in January 1960. Due to his father's military commission, his family moved constantly, with Stipe spending part of his ... |
Wikipedia:Michael Strabo#0 | Michael Strabo (born November 6, 1975) is a Danish financier. He is the founder and managing director of Strabo Investments Limited, a Malta incorporated capital markets and corporate finance focused firm. He has publicly advocated for companies to implement shareholder value enhancing strategies, actively pushing Dans... |
Wikipedia:Michael Vaughan-Lee#0 | Michael Rogers Vaughan-Lee is a mathematician and retired academic. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2010 and a tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, between 1971 and 2010. == Career == Vaughan-Lee completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree at the University of Oxford in 1968 an... |
Wikipedia:Michał Falkener#0 | Michael Falkener, Michael of Wroclaw or Michael de Wratislava (Polish: Michał Wrocławczyk; Latin: Michael Vratislaviensis; ca. 1450 or 1460 in Wrocław – 1534) was a Silesian Scholastic philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, theologian, philologist, and professor of the Kraków Academy. == Life == Michał Fal... |
Wikipedia:Michał Misiurewicz#0 | In mathematics, a Misiurewicz point is a parameter value in the Mandelbrot set (the parameter space of complex quadratic maps) and also in real quadratic maps of the interval for which the critical point is strictly pre-periodic (i.e., it becomes periodic after finitely many iterations but is not periodic itself). By a... |
Wikipedia:Michel Bierlaire#0 | Michel Bierlaire (born 1967 in Namur, Belgium) is a Belgian-Swiss applied mathematician specialized in transportation modeling and optimization. He is a professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and the head of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory. == Career == Bierlaire received a PhD in mathematic... |
Wikipedia:Michel Deza#0 | Michel Marie Deza (27 April 1939 – 23 November 2016) was a Soviet and French mathematician, specializing in combinatorics, discrete geometry and graph theory. He was the retired director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the vice president of the European Academy of Sciences, a r... |
Wikipedia:Michel Kervaire#0 | Michel André Kervaire (26 April 1927 – 19 November 2007) was a French mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic. He was the first to show the existence of topological n-manifolds with no differentiable structure (using the Kervaire invariant... |
Wikipedia:Michel Mandjes#0 | Michael Robertus Hendrikus "Michel" Mandjes (born 14 February 1970 in Zaandam) is a Dutch mathematician, known for several contributions to queueing theory and applied probability theory. His research interests include queueing models for telecommunications, traffic management and analysis, and network economics. He ho... |
Wikipedia:Michel Van den Bergh#0 | Michel Van den Bergh (born 25 July 1960) is a Belgian mathematician and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and does research at Hasselt University. His research interest is on the fundamental relationship between algebra and geometry. In 2003, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. Van den Bergh ... |
Wikipedia:Michel Waldschmidt#0 | Michel Waldschmidt (born June 17, 1946 at Nancy, France) is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory, especially transcendental numbers. == Career == Waldschmidt was educated at Lycée Henri Poincaré and the University of Nancy until 1968. In 1972 he defended his thesis, titled Indépendance algébrique de no... |
Wikipedia:Michela Procesi#0 | Michela Procesi (born 1973) is an Italian mathematician specializing in Hamiltonian partial differential equations such as the nonlinear Schrödinger equation or wave equation. The Degasperis–Procesi equation is named for her. She is a professor of mathematics at Roma Tre University. == Education and career == Procesi w... |
Wikipedia:Michela Redivo-Zaglia#0 | Michela Redivo-Zaglia is an Italian numerical analyst known for her works on numerical linear algebra and on extrapolation-based acceleration of numerical methods. She is an associate professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Padua. == Education and career == Redivo-Zaglia earned a degree in mathe... |
Wikipedia:Michela Varagnolo#0 | Michela Varagnolo is a mathematician whose research topics have included representation theory, Hecke algebra, Schur–Weyl duality, Yangians, and quantum affine algebras. She earned a doctorate in 1993 at the University of Pisa, under the supervision of Corrado de Concini, and is maître de conférences in the department ... |
Wikipedia:Michelangelo Ricci#0 | Michelangelo Ricci (1619–1682) was an Italian mathematician and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. == Biography == Michelangelo Ricci was born on 30 January 1619 in Rome, then capital of the Papal States, to a family of low social standing that originated in Bergamo. He studied theology and law in Rome, where he ... |
Wikipedia:Michele Benzi#0 | Michele Benzi (born 1962 in Bologna) is an Italian mathematician who works as a full professor in the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is known for his contributions to numerical linear algebra and its applications, especially to the solution of sparse linear systems and the study of preconditioners. == Previous ca... |
Wikipedia:Michiel Hazewinkel#0 | Michiel Hazewinkel (born 22 June 1943) is a Dutch mathematician, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science and the University of Amsterdam, particularly known for his 1978 book Formal groups and applications and as editor of the Encyclopedia of Mathematics. == Biography ==... |
Wikipedia:Michèle Moons#0 | Michèle Moons (1951-1998) was a Belgian scientist, leading researches on Celestial Mechanics for the department of mathematics of Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix in Namur (Belgium). She developed an analytical theory of the liberation of the moon in the early 1980s, that is widely used by several centers ... |
Wikipedia:Miggy Biller#0 | Margherita Joan (Miggy) Biller is a British mathematics teacher, the head of mathematics at York College. She was named an MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours "for services to mathematics in further education". Biller taught mathematics at St Peter's School, York before moving to York College in 1988. At York College, she... |
Wikipedia:Miguel Walsh#0 | Miguel Nicolás Walsh is an Argentine mathematician working in number theory and ergodic theory. He is a professor at the University of Buenos Aires. == Education and career == Walsh has previously held a Clay Research Fellowship and was a fellow of Merton College at the University of Oxford. He is a professor of mathem... |
Wikipedia:Miguel da Silva#0 | Miguel da Silva (c. 1480 – 5 June 1556) was a Portuguese nobleman, the second son of Diogo da Silva, 1st Count of Portalegre and of his wife Maria de Ayala, a Castilian noblewomen. He was ambassador of the king of Portugal to several popes, and papal ambassador to the Emperor and others. Sometimes referred to through a... |
Wikipedia:Mihaela Ignatova#0 | Mihaela Ignatova is a Bulgarian mathematician who won the 2020 Sadosky Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics for her research in mathematical analysis, and in particular in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. == Education == In 2004, Ignatova earned both a bachelor's degree from Sofia Univers... |
Wikipedia:Mihailo Petrović Alas#0 | Mihailo Petrović Alas (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило Петровић Алас; 6 May 1868 – 8 June 1943), was a Serbian mathematician and inventor. He was also a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic, fisherman, philosopher, writer, publicist, musician, businessman, traveler and volunteer in the Balkan Wars, the... |
Wikipedia:Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić#0 | Mihalj Šilobod Bolšić (1 November 1724 – 4 April 1787) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, writer, and musical theorist primarily known for writing the first Croatian arithmetics textbook Arithmetika Horvatzka (published in Zagreb, 1758). == Biography == Mihalj was born in Podgrađe Podokićko on 1 Novem... |
Wikipedia:Mikael Rørdam#0 | Mikael Rørdam (born 7 January 1959, Copenhagen) is a Danish mathematician, specializing in the theory of operator algebras and its applications. == Education and career == Rørdam graduated with master's degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1984. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania with thesis... |
Wikipedia:Mike Steel (mathematician)#0 | Michael Anthony Steel (born May 1960) is a New Zealand mathematician and statistician, a Distinguished Professor of mathematics and statistics and the Director of the Biomathematics Research Centre at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is known for his research on modelling and reconstructing... |
Wikipedia:Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)#0 | Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; Russian: Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a permanent member of Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France and a ... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Gennadiyevich Dmitriyev#0 | Dmitriyev or Dmitriev (Russian: Дми́триев) is a common Russian surname that is derived from the male given name Dmitry and literally means Dmitry's. It may refer to: Aleksandr Dmitriyev (conductor) (born 1935), Russian conductor Alexey Dmitriev (born 1985), Russian ice hockey player Andrei Dmitriev (born 1979), Russian... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Kadets#0 | Mikhail Iosiphovich Kadets (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Кадец, Ukrainian: Михайло Йосипович Кадець, sometimes transliterated as Kadec, 30 November 1923 – 7 March 2011) was a Soviet-born Jewish mathematician working in analysis and the theory of Banach spaces. == Life and work == Kadets was born in Kyiv. In 1943, he was d... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Lobanov#0 | Mikhail Sergeyevich Lobanov (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Лобанов; born 24 February 1984) is a Russian mathematician, left-wing politician, trade union activist, and former associate professor at Moscow State University. == Biography == Mikhail Lobanov was born into a family of engineers: his father worked as a builder, a... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Menshikov#0 | Mikhail Vasilyevich Menshikov (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ме́ньшиков; born 17 January 1948) is a Russian-British mathematician with publications in areas ranging from probability to combinatorics. He currently holds the post of Professor in the University of Durham. Menshikov has made a substantial contribution to pe... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Ostrogradsky#0 | Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Острогра́дский; 24 September 1801 – 1 January 1862), also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Острогра́дський), was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Zaporozhian Cossacks ancestry. Ostro... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Samuilovich Livsic#0 | Mikhail Samuilovich Livsic (4 July 1917 – 30 March 2007) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician who specialized in functional analysis. == Biography == Born in Pokotilova, Uman district on 4 July 1917, Livsic moved to Odessa with his family when he was four years old. His father was an associate professor of mathem... |
Wikipedia:Mikhail Shlyomovich Birman#0 | Mikhail Shlyomovich Birman (Russian: Михаил Шлёмович Бирман; born 17 January 1928 in Leningrad; died 2 July 2009) was a Russian mathematician and university professor. His research included functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. In particular, he did research in the fields of scat... |
Wikipedia:Milan Kolibiar#0 | Milan Kolibiar (born 14 February 1922 in Detvianska Huta, died 9 July 1994 in Bratislava) was a Slovak mathematician. He worked mostly in lattice theory and universal algebra. == External links == Milan Kolibiar's entry at biographies of Slovak mathematicians on the website of Mathematical Institute of Slovak academy o... |
Wikipedia:Millennium Mathematics Project#0 | The Millennium Mathematics Project (MMP) was set up within the University of Cambridge in England as a joint project between the Faculties of Mathematics and Education in 1999. The MMP aims to support maths education for pupils of all abilities from ages 5 to 19 and promote the development of mathematical skills and un... |
Wikipedia:Miloš Zahradník#0 | Miloš Zahradník is a Czech mathematician who works on statistical mechanics in Charles University in Prague. He is also known for the book We Grow Linear Algebra (in Czech) that he wrote with Luboš Motl. == References == |
Wikipedia:Milutin Milanković#0 | Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milutin Milankovitch; Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Миланковић, pronounced [milǔtin milǎːnkoʋitɕ]; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, university professor, popularizer of science and academic. Mila... |
Wikipedia:Milü#0 | Milü (Chinese: 密率; pinyin: mìlǜ; lit. 'close ratio'), also known as Zulü (Zu's ratio), is the name given to an approximation of π (pi) found by the Chinese mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi during the 5th century. Using Liu Hui's algorithm, which is based on the areas of regular polygons approximating a circle, ... |
Wikipedia:Mina Aganagić#0 | Mina Aganagić is a mathematical physicist who works as a professor in the Center for Theoretical Physics, the Department of Mathematics, the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. == Career == Aganagić was raised in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. She has a bachelor's degree and ... |
Wikipedia:Mina Teicher#0 | Mina Teicher (Hebrew: מינה טייכר) is an Israeli mathematician at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in algebraic geometry. Teicher earned bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees from Tel Aviv University in 1974, 1976, and 1981 respectively. Her dissertation, Birational Transformation Between 4-folds, was supervised by... |
Wikipedia:Ming Antu's infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions#0 | Ming Antu's infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions. Ming Antu, a court mathematician of the Qing dynasty did extensive work on the infinite series expansion of trigonometric functions in his masterpiece Geyuan Milü Jiefa (Quick Method of Dissecting the Circle and Determination of The Precise Ratio of the ... |
Wikipedia:Mingarelli identity#0 | In the field of ordinary differential equations, the Mingarelli identity is a theorem that provides criteria for the oscillation and non-oscillation of solutions of some linear differential equations in the real domain. It extends the Picone identity from two to three or more differential equations of the second order.... |
Wikipedia:Minggatu#0 | Minggatu (Mongolian script: ᠮᠢᠩᠭᠠᠲᠦ; Chinese: 明安图; pinyin: Míng'āntú, c.1692-c. 1763), full name Sharavyn Myangat (Mongolian: Шаравын Мянгат), also known as Ming Antu, was a Mongolian astronomer, mathematician, and topographic scientist at the Qing court. His courtesy name was Jing An (静安). Minggatu was born in Plain W... |
Wikipedia:Minimal algebra#0 | Algebraic notation is the standard method of chess notation, used for recording and describing moves. It is based on a system of coordinates to identify each square on the board uniquely. It is now almost universally used by books, magazines, newspapers and software, and is the only form of notation recognized by FIDE,... |
Wikipedia:Minimax#0 | The Team Mini-MAX is a large family of single-seat, mid-wing, strut-braced, single engine aircraft, available in kit form for amateur construction. The first Mini-MAX had its first flight in 1984. Its name indicates its original design goals: a minimum-cost aircraft that requires a minimum of building space, time and s... |
Wikipedia:Minimum rank of a graph#0 | In mathematics, the minimum rank is a graph parameter mr ( G ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {mr} (G)} for a graph G. It was motivated by the Colin de Verdière graph invariant. == Definition == The adjacency matrix of an undirected graph is a symmetric matrix whose rows and columns both correspond to the vertices of t... |
Wikipedia:Minkowski content#0 | The Minkowski content (named after Hermann Minkowski), or the boundary measure, of a set is a basic concept that uses concepts from geometry and measure theory to generalize the notions of length of a smooth curve in the plane, and area of a smooth surface in space, to arbitrary measurable sets. It is typically applied... |
Wikipedia:Minkowski–Bouligand dimension#0 | In fractal geometry, the Minkowski–Bouligand dimension, also known as Minkowski dimension or box-counting dimension, is a way of determining the fractal dimension of a bounded set S {\textstyle S} in a Euclidean space R n {\textstyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} , or more generally in a metric space ( X , d ) {\textstyle (X,d)} .... |
Wikipedia:Miodrag Petković#0 | Miodrag S. Petković (born 10 February 1948 in Niš, Serbia in the former Yugoslavia) is a mathematician and computer scientist. In 1991 he became a full professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in Serbia. == Biography == Petković specializes in the theory of iterative processe... |
Wikipedia:Mir Maswood Ali#0 | Mir Maswood Ali (Bengali: মীর মসূদ আলী; 12 March 1929 – 18 August 2009) was a Canadian statistician and mathematician of Bengali origin. He is known for co-discovering the Ali-Mikhail-Haq copula, which is a topic of active research, both in theory and application. Ali played a key role in establishing the Journal of St... |
Wikipedia:Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem#0 | Miranda Ijang Teboh-Ewungkem (born 1974) is a Cameroonian-American applied mathematician, mathematical biologist and university professor. Her research focuses on ordinary and partial differential equations and statistical methods for modeling the dynamics and transmission of infectious diseases. == Life and work == Te... |
Wikipedia:Mireille Capitaine#0 | Mireille Capitaine is a French mathematician whose research focuses on random matrices and free probability theory. In 2012 she was a recipient of the G. de B. Robinson Award for a paper she coauthored that introduced free Bessel laws, a two-parameter family of generalizations of the free Poisson distribution. She rece... |
Wikipedia:Mireille Martin-Deschamps#0 | Mireille Martin-Deschamps is a French mathematician who studies the algebraic geometry of space curves. She was president of the Société mathématique de France. == Education and career == Martin-Deschamps studied at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles from 1965 to 1969, and completed a doctorate in 1976 at Pa... |
Wikipedia:Miriam Cohen#0 | Miriam Cohen (Hebrew: מרים כהן; born October 1941 died October 2023) was an Israeli mathematician and a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev whose main areas of research are Hopf algebras, quantum groups and Noncommutative rings. == Biography == Miriam Cohen (née Hirsch) was ... |
Wikipedia:Mirka Miller#0 | Mirka Miller (née Koutova, 9 May 1949 – 2 January 2016) was a Czech-Australian mathematician and computer scientist interested in graph theory and data security. She was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Newcastle. == Life == Miller was born on 9 May 1949 in Rumburk, then p... |
Wikipedia:Miron Nicolescu#0 | Miron Nicolescu (Romanian: [miˈron nikoˈlesku]; August 27, 1903 – June 30, 1975) was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in real analysis and differential equations. He was president of the Romanian Academy and vice-president of the International Mathematical Union. Born in Giurgiu, the son of a teacher, ... |
Wikipedia:Miroslav Fiedler#0 | Miroslav Fiedler (7 April 1926 – 20 November 2015) was a Czech mathematician known for his contributions to linear algebra, graph theory and algebraic graph theory. His article, "Algebraic Connectivity of Graphs", published in the Czechoslovak Math Journal in 1973, established the use of the eigenvalues of the Laplacia... |
Wikipedia:Mischa Cotlar#0 | Mischa Cotlar (1913, Sarny, Russian Empire – January 16, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a mathematician who started his scientific career in Uruguay and worked most of his life on it in Argentina and Venezuela. His contributions to mathematics are in the fields of harmonic analysis, ergodic theory and spectral theo... |
Wikipedia:Misha Verbitsky#0 | Misha Verbitsky (Russian: Ми́ша Верби́цкий, born June 20, 1969, in Moscow) is a Russian mathematician. He works at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada in Rio de Janeiro. He is primarily known to the general public as a controversial critic, political activist and independent music publisher. == Scienti... |
Wikipedia:Misir Mardanov#0 | Misir Jumayil oglu Mardanov (born October 3, 1946). Member of ANAS (2017), director of the AMEA Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, former Minister of Education of Azerbaijan, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and university professor. == Pedagogical activity == Between 1973 and 1998, he gave lectures on... |
Wikipedia:Misiurewicz point#0 | In mathematics, a Misiurewicz point is a parameter value in the Mandelbrot set (the parameter space of complex quadratic maps) and also in real quadratic maps of the interval for which the critical point is strictly pre-periodic (i.e., it becomes periodic after finitely many iterations but is not periodic itself). By a... |
Wikipedia:Mitchell's embedding theorem#0 | Mitchell's embedding theorem, also known as the Freyd–Mitchell theorem or the full embedding theorem, is a result about abelian categories; it essentially states that these categories, while rather abstractly defined, are in fact concrete categories of modules. This allows one to use element-wise diagram chasing proofs... |
Wikipedia:Mitrofan Cioban#0 | Mitrofan Cioban (5 January 1942 – 2 February 2021) was a Moldovan mathematician specializing in topology, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. == Early life and education == Cioban was born in Copceac (then in Tighina County, Romania, now in Ștefan Vodă District, Moldova), the forth child out of seven of far... |
Wikipedia:Mixed linear complementarity problem#0 | In mathematical optimization theory, the mixed linear complementarity problem, often abbreviated as MLCP or LMCP, is a generalization of the linear complementarity problem to include free variables. == References == Complementarity problems Algorithms for complementarity problems and generalized equations An Algorithm ... |
Wikipedia:Mizan Rahman#0 | Mizan Rahman (September 16, 1932 – January 5, 2015) was a Bangladeshi Canadian mathematician and writer. He specialized in fields of mathematics such as hypergeometric series and orthogonal polynomials. He also had interests encompassing literature, philosophy, scientific skepticism, freethinking and rationalism. He co... |
Wikipedia:Mladen Bestvina#0 | Mladen Bestvina (born 1959) is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. == Life and career == Mladen Bestvina is a three-time medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad (two silve... |
Wikipedia:Modal algebra#0 | In algebra and logic, a modal algebra is a structure ⟨ A , ∧ , ∨ , − , 0 , 1 , ◻ ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle A,\land ,\lor ,-,0,1,\Box \rangle } such that ⟨ A , ∧ , ∨ , − , 0 , 1 ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle A,\land ,\lor ,-,0,1\rangle } is a Boolean algebra, ◻ {\displaystyle \Box } is a unary operation on A satisfying ◻ 1 = ... |
Wikipedia:Moderne Algebra#0 | In mathematics, more specifically algebra, abstract algebra or modern algebra is the study of algebraic structures, which are sets with specific operations acting on their elements. Algebraic structures include groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, lattices, and algebras over a field. The term abstract algebra... |
Wikipedia:Modeshape#0 | Mode shapes in physics are specific patterns of vibration that a structure or system can exhibit when it oscillates at its natural frequencies. These patterns describe the relative displacement of different parts of the system during vibration. In applied mathematics, mode shapes are a manifestation of eigenvectors whi... |
Wikipedia:Modular equation#0 | In mathematics, a modular equation is an algebraic equation satisfied by moduli, in the sense of moduli problems. That is, given a number of functions on a moduli space, a modular equation is an equation holding between them, or in other words an identity for moduli. The most frequent use of the term modular equation i... |
Wikipedia:Modularity (networks)#0 | Modularity is a measure of the structure of networks or graphs which measures the strength of division of a network into modules (also called groups, clusters or communities). Networks with high modularity have dense connections between the nodes within modules but sparse connections between nodes in different modules.... |
Wikipedia:Module homomorphism#0 | In algebra, a module homomorphism is a function between modules that preserves the module structures. Explicitly, if M and N are left modules over a ring R, then a function f : M → N {\displaystyle f:M\to N} is called an R-module homomorphism or an R-linear map if for any x, y in M and r in R, f ( x + y ) = f ( x ) + f... |
Wikipedia:Module spectrum#0 | In algebra, a module spectrum is a spectrum with an action of a ring spectrum; it generalizes a module in abstract algebra. The ∞-category of (say right) module spectra is stable; hence, it can be considered as either analog or generalization of the derived category of modules over a ring. == K-theory == Lurie defines ... |
Wikipedia:Moedomo Soedigdomarto#0 | Moedomo Soedigdomarto, also spelled Mudomo Sudigdomarto, (29 November 1927, Magetan – 5 November 2005, Bandung) was an Indonesian mathematician, educator and professor at the Bandung Institute of Technology, of which he was rector. Soedigdomarto was one of the first Indonesians to obtain a Ph.D. in mathematics, which h... |
Wikipedia:Mohamed Amine Khamsi#0 | Mohamed Amine Khamsi (born 1959 in Morocco) is an American/Moroccan mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis, the fixed point theory, and metric spaces. He has made notable contributions to the fixed point theory of metric spaces, particularly in developing the theory of modular function spaces... |
Wikipedia:Mohamed Amine Sbihi#0 | Mohamed Amine Sbihi (Arabic: محمد أمين الصبيحي - born 1954, Salé) is a Moroccan politician of the Party of Progress and Socialism. Between 3 January 2012 and 6 April 2017, he held the position of Minister of Culture in Abdelilah Benkirane's government. He was succeeded by Mohamed Laaraj. He was professor of Statistics ... |
Wikipedia:Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom#0 | Mohamed El-Amin Ahmed El-Tom (Arabic: محمد الأمين أحمد التوم; born October 1941), also known as Muhammad Al-Amin Al-Tom, is a Sudanese mathematician and the first Minister of Education after the Sudanese Revolution, serving between 2019 and 2022. During his tenure, he worked on various initiatives to improve education ... |
Wikipedia:Mohamed Hag Ali Hassan#0 | Mohamed Hag Ali Hag el Hassan OMRI GCONMC FAAS FIAS FTWAS (Arabic: محمد حاج علي حاج الحسن; born 21 November 1947) is a Sudanese-Italian mathematician and physicist who co-founded numerous scientific councils. He is the President of The World Academy of Sciences and Sudanese National Academy of Sciences. == Early life =... |
Wikipedia:Moment problem#0 | In mathematics, a moment problem arises as the result of trying to invert the mapping that takes a measure μ {\displaystyle \mu } to the sequence of moments m n = ∫ − ∞ ∞ x n d μ ( x ) . {\displaystyle m_{n}=\int _{-\infty }^{\infty }x^{n}\,d\mu (x)\,.} More generally, one may consider m n = ∫ − ∞ ∞ M n ( x ) d μ ( x )... |
Wikipedia:Mona Merling#0 | Mona Merling is a Romanian-American mathematician specializing in algebraic topology, including algebraic K-theory and equivariant stable homotopy theory. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. == Education and career == Merling has dual Romanian and American citizenship. She cr... |
Wikipedia:Monad (homological algebra)#0 | In homological algebra, a monad is a 3-term complex A → B → C of objects in some abelian category whose middle term B is projective, whose first map A → B is injective, and whose second map B → C is surjective. Equivalently, a monad is a projective object together with a 3-step filtration B ⊃ ker(B → C) ⊃ im(A → B). In... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.