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Wikipedia:Moncef Ben Salem#0 | Moncef Ben Salem (Tunisian Arabic: المنصف بن سالم; February 1, 1953 – March 24, 2015) was a Tunisian politician and university professor. He served as the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali. == Biography == === Early life === Moncef Ben Salem was born on 1 April 1953... |
Wikipedia:Monika Ludwig#0 | Monika Ludwig (born 1966 in Cologne) is an Austrian mathematician, University Professor of Convex and Discrete Geometry at the Vienna University of Technology. == Academic career == Ludwig earned a Dipl.-Ing. degree from the Vienna University of Technology in 1990, and a doctorate in 1994 under the supervision of Peter... |
Wikipedia:Monique Dauge#0 | Monique Dauge (born 1956) is a French mathematician and numerical analyst specializing in partial differential equations, spectral theory, and applications to scientific computing. She is an emeritus senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), associated with the University of Rennes... |
Wikipedia:Monique Laurent#0 | Monique Laurent (born 1960) is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is an expert in mathematical optimization. She is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam where she is also a member of the Management Team. Laurent also holds a part-time position as a professor of econometrics and... |
Wikipedia:Monique Teillaud#0 | Monique Teillaud is a French researcher in computational geometry at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) in Nancy, France. She moved to Nancy in 2014 from a different INRIA center in Sophia Antipolis, where she was one of the developers of CGAL, a software library of computation... |
Wikipedia:Monk's formula#0 | In mathematics, Monk's formula, found by Monk (1959), is an analogue of Pieri's formula that describes the product of a linear Schubert polynomial by a Schubert polynomial. Equivalently, it describes the product of a special Schubert cycle by a Schubert cycle in the cohomology of a flag manifold. Write tij for the tran... |
Wikipedia:Monodromy#0 | In mathematics, monodromy is the study of how objects from mathematical analysis, algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and differential geometry behave as they "run round" a singularity. As the name implies, the fundamental meaning of monodromy comes from "running round singly". It is closely associated with covering... |
Wikipedia:Monogenic function#0 | A monogenic function is a complex function with a single finite derivative. More precisely, a function f ( z ) {\displaystyle f(z)} defined on A ⊆ C {\displaystyle A\subseteq \mathbb {C} } is called monogenic at ζ ∈ A {\displaystyle \zeta \in A} , if f ′ ( ζ ) {\displaystyle f'(\zeta )} exists and is finite, with: f ′ ... |
Wikipedia:Monoidal category action#0 | In mathematics, a monoidal category (or tensor category) is a category C {\displaystyle \mathbf {C} } equipped with a bifunctor ⊗ : C × C → C {\displaystyle \otimes :\mathbf {C} \times \mathbf {C} \to \mathbf {C} } that is associative up to a natural isomorphism, and an object I that is both a left and right identity f... |
Wikipedia:Monomial basis#0 | In mathematics the monomial basis of a polynomial ring is its basis (as a vector space or free module over the field or ring of coefficients) that consists of all monomials. The monomials form a basis because every polynomial may be uniquely written as a finite linear combination of monomials (this is an immediate cons... |
Wikipedia:Monomial representation#0 | In the mathematical fields of representation theory and group theory, a linear representation ρ {\displaystyle \rho } (rho) of a group G {\displaystyle G} is a monomial representation if there is a finite-index subgroup H {\displaystyle H} and a one-dimensional linear representation σ {\displaystyle \sigma } of H {\dis... |
Wikipedia:Monster vertex algebra#0 | The monster vertex algebra (or moonshine module) is a vertex algebra acted on by the monster group that was constructed by Igor Frenkel, James Lepowsky, and Arne Meurman. R. Borcherds used it to prove the monstrous moonshine conjectures, by applying the Goddard–Thorn theorem of string theory to construct the monster Li... |
Wikipedia:More Maths Grads#0 | More Maths Grads was a three-year project run from 2007 to 2010 by a consortium of British mathematics organisations which aimed to increase the supply of mathematical sciences graduates in England and to widen participation within the mathematical sciences from groups of learners who have not previously been well repr... |
Wikipedia:Moritz Allé#0 | Moritz Allé (1837–1913) was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician, one of the teachers of Nikola Tesla. == Scientific career == Allé studied mathematics at the University of Vienna. After his university graduation, Allé startet his professional career as an assistant at the Vienna Observatory in 1856. He was appoint... |
Wikipedia:Morphism of algebraic varieties#0 | In algebraic geometry, a morphism between algebraic varieties is a function between the varieties that is given locally by polynomials. It is also called a regular map. A morphism from an algebraic variety to the affine line is also called a regular function. A regular map whose inverse is also regular is called biregu... |
Wikipedia:Morrie's law#0 | Morrie's law is a special trigonometric identity. Its name is due to the physicist Richard Feynman, who used to refer to the identity under that name. Feynman picked that name because he learned it during his childhood from a boy with the name Morrie Jacobs and afterwards remembered it for all of his life. == Identity ... |
Wikipedia:Morris Birkbeck Pell#0 | Morris Birkbeck Pell (31 March 1827 – 7 May 1879) was an American-Australian mathematician, professor, lawyer and actuary. He became the inaugural Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 1852, and continued in the role until ill health enforced his retirement in 1877. He was for m... |
Wikipedia:Moscow Mathematical Papyrus#0 | The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also named the Golenishchev Mathematical Papyrus after its first non-Egyptian owner, Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical papyrus containing several problems in arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. Golenishchev bought the papyrus in 1892 or 1893 in Thebe... |
Wikipedia:Mosely snowflake#0 | The Mosely snowflake (after Jeannine Mosely) is a Sierpiński–Menger type of fractal obtained in two variants either by the operation opposite to creating the Sierpiński-Menger snowflake or Cantor dust i.e. not by leaving but by removing eight of the smaller 1/3-scaled corner cubes and the central one from each cube lef... |
Wikipedia:Moses Lemans#0 | Moses Lemans (November 5, 1785, Naarden, Netherlands – October 17, 1832, Amsterdam, Netherlands) was a Dutch-Jewish Hebraist and mathematician, and a leader of the Haskalah movement in Holland. He was a founder of the Jewish Mathematicians' Association, Mathesis Artium Genetrix, and published a number of works on Hebre... |
Wikipedia:Moshe Goldberg#0 | Moshe Goldberg (Hebrew: משה גולדברג; born 1945) is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. == Early life == Moshe Goldberg was born and raised in Tel Aviv. His parents, Gad and Rachel Raya Goldberg, immigrated from Poland and Lithuania to Pa... |
Wikipedia:Moshe Meiselman#0 | Moshe Meiselman is an American-born Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Yeshiva Toras Moshe in Jerusalem, which he established in 1982. He also founded and served as principal of Yeshiva University of Los Angeles (YULA) from 1977 to 1982. He is a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. ... |
Wikipedia:Moshe Shaked#0 | Moshe Shaked (February 21, 1945 - October 28, 2014) was an American mathematician and statistician. He was a student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the University of Rochester, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1975, under Albert W. Marshall. Shaked held various positions at the University of New Mexico, th... |
Wikipedia:Moshe Zakai#0 | Moshe Zakai (Hebrew: משה זכאי; December 22, 1926 – November 27, 2015) was a Distinguished Professor at the Technion, Israel in electrical engineering, member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Rothschild Prize winner. == Biography == Moshe Zakai was born in Sokółka, Poland, to his parents Rachel and E... |
Wikipedia:Moshé Machover#0 | Moshé Machover (Hebrew: משה מחובר; born 1936) is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, Machover moved to Britain in 1968 where he became a naturalised citizen. He was a founder of ... |
Wikipedia:Motivic zeta function#0 | In mathematics, a zeta function is (usually) a function analogous to the original example, the Riemann zeta function ζ ( s ) = ∑ n = 1 ∞ 1 n s . {\displaystyle \zeta (s)=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{n^{s}}}.} Zeta functions include: Airy zeta function, related to the zeros of the Airy function Arakawa–Kaneko zeta fu... |
Wikipedia:Motoko Kotani#0 | Motoko Kotani (Japanese: 小谷 元子, born 1960) is a Japanese applied mathematician, specializing in discrete geometric analysis and crystallography, and an academic administrator. She is the executive vice president for research for Tohoku University, the former executive director of Riken, the former president of the Math... |
Wikipedia:Motor variable#0 | In mathematics, a function of a motor variable is a function with arguments and values in the split-complex number plane, much as functions of a complex variable involve ordinary complex numbers. William Kingdon Clifford coined the term motor for a kinematic operator in his "Preliminary Sketch of Biquaternions" (1873).... |
Wikipedia:Motzkin–Taussky theorem#0 | The Motzkin–Taussky theorem is a result from operator and matrix theory about the representation of a sum of two bounded, linear operators (resp. matrices). The theorem was proven by Theodore Motzkin and Olga Taussky-Todd. The theorem is used in perturbation theory, where e.g. operators of the form T + x T 1 {\displays... |
Wikipedia:Mountain pass theorem#0 | The mountain pass theorem is an existence theorem from the calculus of variations, originally due to Antonio Ambrosetti and Paul Rabinowitz. Given certain conditions on a function, the theorem demonstrates the existence of a saddle point. The theorem is unusual in that there are many other theorems regarding the existe... |
Wikipedia:Muhammad Habibar Rahman#0 | Muhammad Habibur Rahman (1 January 1923 - 15 April 1971) was a Bengali intellectual who was killed in the Bangladesh Liberation war and is considered a martyr in Bangladesh. == Early life == Rahman was born in Baliadhar, Noakhali District, East Bengal, British India on 1 January 1923. He finished his SSC from Dattapara... |
Wikipedia:Muhammad Rafique (mathematician)#0 | Muhammad Rafique (2 January 1940 — 16 June 1996) was a Pakistani mathematician and professor of mathematics at the Punjab University. He was a versatile scholar who authored textbooks on computer language and special relativity. He was the co-author of textbook Group Theory for High Energy Physicists, which was eventua... |
Wikipedia:Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui#0 | Muhammad Raziuddin Siddiqui, FPAS, NI, HI, SI (Urdu: محمد رضی الدین صدیقی, [rəzɪ.ʊd̪ːiːn sɪˈd̪ːiːqi]; 8 January 1908 – 8 January 1998), also known as Dr. Razi, was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and a mathematician who played a role in Pakistan's education system, and Pakistan's indigenous development of nuclear wea... |
Wikipedia:Muhammad al-Rudani#0 | Muhammad al-Rudani (Arabic: محمد بن سليمان الروداني) (c. 1627 – 1683) was a Moroccan polymath who was active as an astronomer, grammarian, jurist, logician, mathematician and poet. == Biography == Al-Rudani was born in c. 1627 in Taroudant. He was of Shilha origin. After studying in his hometown at the Great Mosque of ... |
Wikipedia:Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Fulani al-Kishnawi#0 | Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-AlFulani al-Katsinawi was a prominent 18th century Fulani scholar, mathematician, astrologer, Arabic grammarian and jurist from Katsina, present-day Northern Nigeria. Al-Kishnawi studied at the Gobarau Minaret in Katsina before leaving for Cairo, Egypt in 1732, where he published in Arabic a wo... |
Wikipedia:Multibrot set#0 | In mathematics, a Multibrot set is the set of values in the complex plane whose absolute value remains below some finite value throughout iterations by a member of the general monic univariate polynomial family of recursions. The name is a portmanteau of multiple and Mandelbrot set. The same can be applied to the Julia... |
Wikipedia:Multifractal system#0 | A multifractal system is a generalization of a fractal system in which a single exponent (the fractal dimension) is not enough to describe its dynamics; instead, a continuous spectrum of exponents (the so-called singularity spectrum) is needed. Multifractal systems are common in nature. They include the length of coast... |
Wikipedia:Multilinear form#0 | In abstract algebra and multilinear algebra, a multilinear form on a vector space V {\displaystyle V} over a field K {\displaystyle K} is a map f : V k → K {\displaystyle f\colon V^{k}\to K} that is separately K {\displaystyle K} -linear in each of its k {\displaystyle k} arguments. More generally, one can define multi... |
Wikipedia:Multiple rule-based problems#0 | Multiple rule-based problems are problems containing various conflicting rules and restrictions. Such problems typically have an "optimal" solution, found by striking a balance between the various restrictions, without directly defying any of the aforementioned restrictions. Solutions to such problems can either requir... |
Wikipedia:Multiple-scale analysis#0 | In mathematics and physics, multiple-scale analysis (also called the method of multiple scales) comprises techniques used to construct uniformly valid approximations to the solutions of perturbation problems, both for small as well as large values of the independent variables. This is done by introducing fast-scale and... |
Wikipedia:Multiplicative cascade#0 | In mathematics, a multiplicative cascade is a fractal/multifractal distribution of points produced via an iterative and multiplicative random process. == Definition == The plots above are examples of multiplicative cascade multifractals. To create these distributions there are a few steps to take. Firstly, we must crea... |
Wikipedia:Multiplicative digital root#0 | In number theory, the multiplicative digital root of a natural number n {\displaystyle n} in a given number base b {\displaystyle b} is found by multiplying the digits of n {\displaystyle n} together, then repeating this operation until only a single-digit remains, which is called the multiplicative digital root of n {... |
Wikipedia:Multiplicative inverse#0 | In mathematics, a multiplicative inverse or reciprocal for a number x, denoted by 1/x or x−1, is a number which when multiplied by x yields the multiplicative identity, 1. The multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. For the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. For example, the recip... |
Wikipedia:Multiplicity (mathematics)#0 | In mathematics, the multiplicity of a member of a multiset is the number of times it appears in the multiset. For example, the number of times a given polynomial has a root at a given point is the multiplicity of that root. The notion of multiplicity is important to be able to count correctly without specifying excepti... |
Wikipedia:Multivalued function#0 | In mathematics, a multivalued function, multiple-valued function, many-valued function, or multifunction, is a function that has two or more values in its range for at least one point in its domain. It is a set-valued function with additional properties depending on context; some authors do not distinguish between set-... |
Wikipedia:Muneer Ahmad Rashid#0 | Muneer Ahmad Rashid, FPAS (born 1934), also spelled as Munir Ahmad Rashid, is a Pakistani mathematical physicist and emeritus professor of applied and mathematical physics at the Centre for Advanced Mathematics and Physics of the National University of Sciences and Technology. A physicist turned mathematician, Rashid h... |
Wikipedia:Murad Taqqu#0 | Murad Salman Taqqu (Arabic: مراد طقو) is an Iraqi probabilist and statistician specializing in time series and stochastic processes. His research areas have included long-range dependence, self-similar processes, and heavy tails. Taqqu is a professor emeritus at Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistic... |
Wikipedia:Murat Tuncali#0 | Murat Tuncali (born 1959) is a Mathematics Professor at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario. He is also the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science at Boğaziçi University, in Turkey. He then graduated from University of Saskatchewan with an MSc, and ... |
Wikipedia:Murderous Maths#0 | Murderous Maths is a series of British educational books by author Kjartan Poskitt. Most of the books in the series are illustrated by illustrator Philip Reeve, with the exception of "The Secret Life of Codes", which is illustrated by Ian Baker, "Awesome Arithmetricks" illustrated by Daniel Postgate and Rob Davis, and ... |
Wikipedia:Muriel Kennett Wales#0 | Muriel Kennett Wales (9 Jun 1913 – 8 August 2009) was an Irish-Canadian mathematician, and is believed to have been the first Irish-born woman to earn a PhD in pure mathematics. == Life == She was born Muriel Kennett on 9 June 1913 in Belfast. In 1914, her mother moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and soon remarried... |
Wikipedia:Murray S. Klamkin#0 | Murray Seymour Klamkin (March 5, 1921 – August 6, 2004) was an American mathematician, known as prolific proposer and editor of professionally-challenging mathematical problems. == Life == Klamkin was born on March 5, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from the Cooper Union in 1942 and, after ... |
Wikipedia:MyMaths#0 | MyMaths is a subscription-based mathematics website which can be used on interactive whiteboards or by students and teachers at home. It is owned and operated by Oxford University Press, who acquired the site in 2011. As of February 2021, MyMaths has over 4 million student users in over 70 countries worldwide. == Usage... |
Wikipedia:Mykola Chaikovsky#0 | Mykola Chaikovsky or Chaykovskyi (Ukrainian: Чайковський Микола Андрійович; 2 January 1887 – 7 October 1970) was a Ukrainian teacher, mathematician and writer. In 1918 he wrote one of the first works of Ukrainian science fiction (За силу сонця, Za syly sontsia, By the Power of the Sun). == Biography == He was born in B... |
Wikipedia:Mykola Polyakov#0 | Mykola Polyakov (ukr. Микола Вікторович Поляков; 1 May 1946 – 21 September 2020) was a Ukrainian scientist and rector of Dnipropetrovsk National University. == Biography == Mykola Polyakov was born on 1 May 1946 in Dnipropetrovsk, USSR. In 1971 Polyakov graduated from Dnipropetrovsk National University specializing in ... |
Wikipedia:Mythily Ramaswamy#0 | Mythily Ramaswamy (born 6 June 1954) is an Indian mathematician and professor in the Department of Mathematics at the TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore. Her research involves functional analysis and controllability of partial differential equations. == Edu... |
Wikipedia:Márta Svéd#0 | Márta Svéd (1910 – 30 September 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who was a teacher of mathematics at the University of Adelaide after moving to Australia in the 1930s. She was 75 years old when she completed her PhD in 1985. She wrote the textbook Journey into Geometries (1991), and won the BH Neumann Award in 1994 ... |
Wikipedia:Márton Balázs#0 | Márton Balázs (July 17, 1929 – April 13, 2016) was a Romanian mathematician of Hungarian descent. He was born in Lueta, Odorhei County (now Harghita County), Romania. After graduating from high school in Odorheiu Secuiesc, he got his undergraduate degree a in mathematics and physics from Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoc... |
Wikipedia:Möbius transformation#0 | In geometry and complex analysis, a Möbius transformation of the complex plane is a rational function of the form f ( z ) = a z + b c z + d {\displaystyle f(z)={\frac {az+b}{cz+d}}} of one complex variable z; here the coefficients a, b, c, d are complex numbers satisfying ad − bc ≠ 0. Geometrically, a Möbius transforma... |
Wikipedia:N-ary associativity#0 | In algebra, n-ary associativity is a generalization of the associative law to n-ary operations. A ternary operation is ternary associative if one has always ( a b c ) d e = a ( b c d ) e = a b ( c d e ) ; {\displaystyle (abc)de=a(bcd)e=ab(cde);} that is, the operation gives the same result when any three adjacent eleme... |
Wikipedia:N-flake#0 | An n-flake, polyflake, or Sierpinski n-gon,: 1 is a fractal constructed starting from an n-gon. This n-gon is replaced by a flake of smaller n-gons, such that the scaled polygons are placed at the vertices, and sometimes in the center. This process is repeated recursively to result in the fractal. Typically, there is a... |
Wikipedia:N. M. H. Lightfoot#0 | Nicholas Morpeth Hutchinson Lightfoot FRSE (1902–1962) was a British mathematician and academic administrator. He was an expert on heat conduction. == Life == He was born in Jarrow in north-east England on 14 October 1902, the son of Thomas Lightfoot. He was educated locally, but excelled, winning a place at Cambridge ... |
Wikipedia:Nabla symbol#0 | The nabla is a triangular symbol resembling an inverted Greek delta: ∇ {\displaystyle \nabla } or ∇. The name comes, by reason of the symbol's shape, from the Hellenistic Greek word νάβλα for a Phoenician harp, and was suggested by the encyclopedist William Robertson Smith in an 1870 letter to Peter Guthrie Tait. The n... |
Wikipedia:Nachman Aronszajn#0 | In set theory, an Aronszajn tree is a tree of uncountable height with no uncountable branches and no uncountable levels. For example, every Suslin tree is an Aronszajn tree. More generally, for a cardinal κ, a κ-Aronszajn tree is a tree of height κ in which all levels have size less than κ and all branches have height ... |
Wikipedia:Nadia Ghazzali#0 | Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical sof... |
Wikipedia:Nae Ionescu#0 | Nae Ionescu (Romanian: [ˈna.e joˈnesku], born Nicolae C. Ionescu; 16 June [O.S. 4 June] 1890 – 15 March 1940) was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. == Life == Born in Brăila, Ionescu studied Letters at the University of Bucharest until 1912. Upon graduation, he was appointed te... |
Wikipedia:Nagambal Shah#0 | Nagambal D. "Swarna" Shah is an American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of students at Spelman College. She is the founder of the annual StatFest of the American Statistical Association, a leader of the association's Diversity Mentoring Program, and the former chair of the association's Committ... |
Wikipedia:Nagata's conjecture#0 | In algebra, Nagata's conjecture states that Nagata's automorphism of the polynomial ring k[x,y,z] is wild. The conjecture was proposed by Nagata (1972) and proved by Ualbai U. Umirbaev and Ivan P. Shestakov (2004). Nagata's automorphism is given by ϕ ( x , y , z ) = ( x − 2 Δ y − Δ 2 z , y + Δ z , z ) , {\displaystyle ... |
Wikipedia:Najiba Sbihi#0 | Najiba Sbihi (born 1953) is a Moroccan mathematician and operations researcher, known for her contributions to graph theory and graph algorithms. == Education and career == Sbihi earned a degree from the Faculty of Sciences of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco in 1973. She continued her studies in France at Josep... |
Wikipedia:Nalin de Silva#0 | Thakurartha Devadithya Guardiyawasam Lindamulage Nalin Kumar de Silva (Sinhala: නලින් ද සිල්වා; 20 October 1944 – 1 May 2024) was a Sri Lankan philosopher, polymath and a political analyst. He was the former Sri Lankan ambassador in Myanmar. He was a professor in the department of mathematics, a member of University Gr... |
Wikipedia:Namig Nasrullayev#0 | Namiq Nasrulla oğlu Nasrullayev (Azerbaijani: Namiq Nəsrulla oğlu Nəsrullayev; 2 February 1945 – 17 January 2023) was an Azerbaijani mathematician and politician. He served as Minister of Economy from 1996 to 2001 and chairman of the Chamber of Accounts from 2001 to 2007. Nasrullayev died in Baku on 17 January 2023, at... |
Wikipedia:Namioka's theorem#0 | In functional analysis, Namioka's theorem is a result concerning the relationship between separate continuity and joint continuity of functions defined on product spaces. Named after mathematician Isaac Namioka, who proved it in his 1974 paper Separate Continuity and Joint Continuity published in the Pacific Journal of... |
Wikipedia:Nandigrama#0 | Nandigrama is the name of a location, place or region somewhere in Western India where a school of astronomers and mathematicians flourished during the thirteenth-eighteenth centuries CE. David Pingree, one of America's leading historians of the exact sciences (primarily mathematics) in antiquity, identified Nandigrama... |
Wikipedia:Nanny Cedercreutz#0 | Ebba Louise Nanny Cedercreutz (née Lagerborg; 19 March 1866 in Cannes – 8 December 1950 in Helsinki) was a Finnish author and physicist. == Biography == Cedercreutz's father was an engineer, statesman Alexander Wilhelm Lagerborg, who had travelled with his wife Anna Maria Christina (Nanny) Franzén to southern France to... |
Wikipedia:Naoki Saito (mathematician)#0 | Naoki Saito is an applied mathematician specializing in applied and computational harmonic analysis, and interested in feature extraction, pattern recognition, graph signal processing, statistical signal processing, Laplacian eigenfunctions, and human and machine perception. == Education == Saito studied at the Univers... |
Wikipedia:Napkin ring problem#0 | In geometry, the napkin-ring problem involves finding the volume of a "band" of specified height around a sphere, i.e. the part that remains after a hole in the shape of a circular cylinder is drilled through the center of the sphere. It is a counterintuitive fact that this volume does not depend on the original sphere... |
Wikipedia:Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem#0 | In mathematics, the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem, proved by Narasimhan and Seshadri (1965), says that a holomorphic vector bundle over a Riemann surface is stable if and only if it comes from an irreducible projective unitary representation of the fundamental group. The main case to understand is that of topologically t... |
Wikipedia:Nash equilibrium#0 | In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly used solution concept for non-cooperative games. A Nash equilibrium is a situation where no player could gain by changing their own strategy (holding all other players' strategies fixed). The idea of Nash equilibrium dates back to the time of Cournot, who in 183... |
Wikipedia:Nassif Ghoussoub#0 | Nassif A. Ghoussoub is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of non-linear analysis and partial differential equations. He is a Professor of Mathematics and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. == Early life and education == Ghoussoub was born to Lebanese parents in Western... |
Wikipedia:Natalia Komarova#0 | Natalia L. Komarova (born 1971) is a Russian-American applied mathematician whose research concerns the mathematical modeling of cancer, the evolution of language, gun control, pop music, and other complex systems. She is a Professor of Mathematics and Dean's Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. == Educa... |
Wikipedia:Nataliya Kalashnykova#0 | Nataliya Ivanovna Kalashnykova is a Soviet and Mexican mathematician specializing in mathematical optimization, and especially bilevel optimization, with applications in modeling human migration and in the pricing of natural gas and toll roads. She is a professor at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, in the Facul... |
Wikipedia:Nataša Jonoska#0 | Nataša Jonoska (Macedonian: Наташа Јоноска, pronounced [na'taʃa jɔ'noska]; born 1961, also spelled Natasha Jonoska) is a Macedonian mathematician and professor at the University of South Florida known for her work in DNA computing. Her research is about how biology performs computation, "in particular using formal mode... |
Wikipedia:Nataša Pavlović#0 | Nataša Pavlović is a Serbian mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research concerns fluid dynamics and nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations. She is known for her work with Nets Katz pioneering an approach to constructing singularities in equation... |
Wikipedia:Nathalie Eisenbaum#0 | Nathalie Eisenbaum is a French mathematician, statistician, and probability theorist. She works as a director of research with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, associated with the laboratory for applied mathematics at Paris Descartes University and was previously a researcher in the Laboratoire de Prob... |
Wikipedia:Nathalie Wahl#0 | Nathalie Wahl (born 1976) is a Belgian mathematician specializing in topology, including algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and geometric topology. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen, where she directs the Copenhagen Center for Geometry and Topology. == Education and career == Wahl was ... |
Wikipedia:Nathan Divinsky#0 | Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky (October 29, 1925 – June 17, 2012) was a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, writer, and politician. Divinsky was also known for being the former husband of the 19th prime minister of Canada, Kim Campbell. Divinsky and Campbell were married from 1972 to 1983. == Earl... |
Wikipedia:Nathan Mendelsohn#0 | Nathan Saul Mendelsohn, (April 14, 1917 – July 4, 2006) was an American-born mathematician who lived and worked in Canada. Mendelsohn was a researcher in several areas of discrete mathematics, including group theory and combinatorics. == Early life and education == Mendelsohn was born in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City... |
Wikipedia:Nati Linial#0 | Nathan (Nati) Linial (Hebrew: נתן (נתי) ליניאל; born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an ISI highly cited researcher. Linial did his undergraduate stu... |
Wikipedia:National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics#0 | The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) is an institution set up in the wake of the Smith Report to improve mathematics teaching in England. It provides strategic leadership for mathematics-specific CPD and aims to raise the professional status of all those engaged in the teaching of m... |
Wikipedia:National Cipher Challenge#0 | The National Cipher Challenge is an annual cryptographic competition organised by the University of Southampton School of Mathematics. Competitors attempt to break cryptograms published on the competition website. In the 2017, more than 7,500 students took part in the competition. Participants must be in full-time scho... |
Wikipedia:National Mathematics Day (India)#0 | The 2012 Indian stamp featured Srinivasa Ramanujan. The Indian government declared 22 December to be celebrated as National Mathematics Day every year to mark the birth anniversary of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. It was introduced by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 26 December 2011 at Madras Universit... |
Wikipedia:National Mathematics Talent Contest#0 | The National Mathematics Talent Contest or NMTC is a national-level mathematics contest conducted by the Association of Mathematics Teachers of India (AMTI). It is strongest in Tamil Nadu, which is the operating base of the AMTI. The AMTI is a pioneer organisation in promoting, and conducting, Maths Talent Tests in Ind... |
Wikipedia:National Mathematics Year#0 | In India and in Nigeria the year 2012 CE was celebrated as National Mathematics Year. In India, the National Mathematics Year was a tribute to the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan who was born on 22 December 1887 and whose 125th birthday falls on 22 December 2012. In Nigeria, the year 2012 was observed as Nation... |
Wikipedia:National Numeracy#0 | Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy. The charity National Numeracy states: "Numeracy means understanding how mathematics is used in the real world and being able to apply it to make the best possible decisions...It's as muc... |
Wikipedia:National Numeracy Strategy#0 | The National Numeracy Strategy was designed to facilitate a sound grounding in maths for all primary school pupils. It arose out of the National Numeracy Project in 1996, led by a Numeracy Task Force in England, and was launched in 1998 and implemented in schools in 1999. The strategy included an outline of expected te... |
Wikipedia:Naum Akhiezer#0 | Naum Ilyich Akhiezer (Ukrainian: Нау́м Іллі́ч Ахіє́зер; Russian: Нау́м Ильи́ч Ахие́зер; 6 March 1901 – 3 June 1980) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his works in approximation theory and the theory of differential and integral operators. He is also known as the author of classical bo... |
Wikipedia:Naum Krasner#0 | Naum Krasner (21 February 1924 – 5 March 1999) was a Russian mathematician and economist. == Biography == Born on 21 February 1924 in Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR. In 1941 he graduated from high school. In autumn 1941 he evacuated to Kuibyshev region, worked as a teacher in a rural school. A former colonel in the Soviet Arm... |
Wikipedia:Naum Meiman#0 | Naum Natanovich (Nokhim Sanalevich) Meiman (Russian: Нау́м Ната́нович (Но́хим Са́нелевич) Ме́йман, 12 May 1912, Bazar, Ukraine – 31 March 2001, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet mathematician, and dissident. He is known for his work in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics, as well as for his ... |
Wikipedia:Naum Z. Shor#0 | Naum Zuselevich Shor (Russian: Наум Зуселевич Шор) (1 January 1937 – 26 February 2006) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician specializing in optimization. He made significant contributions to nonlinear and stochastic programming, numerical techniques for non-smooth optimization, discrete optimization problems, matri... |
Wikipedia:Nazım Terzioğlu#0 | Nazım Terzioğlu (1912 – September 20, 1976) was a Turkish mathematician. He was one of the first mathematicians in Turkish academia. His son, Tosun Terzioğlu, was also a mathematician. == Early life == Nazım Terzioğlu completed his primary education in his place of birth, Kayseri. He started his secondary education in ... |
Wikipedia:Near sets#0 | In mathematics, near sets are either spatially close or descriptively close. Spatially close sets have nonempty intersection. In other words, spatially close sets are not disjoint sets, since they always have at least one element in common. Descriptively close sets contain elements that have matching descriptions. Such... |
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