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Wikipedia:Neda Bokan#0 | Neda Bokan (born 1947) is a Serbian mathematician specializing in differential geometry. == Education and career == Bokan joined the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as an assistant in 1969, began working at the University of Belgrade in 1971, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1979, with ... |
Wikipedia:Negative controls#0 | A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables). This increases the reliability of the results, often through a comparison between control measurements and the other measurements. Scientific controls are ... |
Wikipedia:Negative number#0 | In mathematics, a negative number is the opposite of a positive real number. Equivalently, a negative number is a real number that is less than zero. Negative numbers are often used to represent the magnitude of a loss or deficiency. A debt that is owed may be thought of as a negative asset. If a quantity, such as the ... |
Wikipedia:Negligible function#0 | In mathematics, a negligible function is a function μ : N → R {\displaystyle \mu :\mathbb {N} \to \mathbb {R} } such that for every positive integer c there exists an integer Nc such that for all x > Nc, | μ ( x ) | < 1 x c . {\displaystyle |\mu (x)|<{\frac {1}{x^{c}}}.} Equivalently, we may also use the following defi... |
Wikipedia:Negligible set#0 | In mathematics, a negligible set is a set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose. As common examples, finite sets can be ignored when studying the limit of a sequence, and null sets can be ignored when studying the integral of a measurable function. Negligible sets define several useful concepts t... |
Wikipedia:Neighbourhood (mathematics)#0 | In topology and related areas of mathematics, a neighbourhood (or neighborhood) is one of the basic concepts in a topological space. It is closely related to the concepts of open set and interior. Intuitively speaking, a neighbourhood of a point is a set of points containing that point where one can move some amount in... |
Wikipedia:Nelly Litvak#0 | Nelly Vladimirovna Litvak (Russian: Нелли Владимировна Литвак, born January 27, 1972) is a Russian and Dutch applied mathematician whose research includes the study of complex networks, stochastic processes, and their applications in medical logistics. Formerly a professor at the University of Twente, she moved to the ... |
Wikipedia:Nels David Nelson#0 | (Nels) David Nelson, an American mathematician and logician, was born on January 2, 1918, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Upon graduation from the Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson relocated to Washington, D.C. Nelson remained in Washington, D.C. as a Professor of Mathematics at The George Washi... |
Wikipedia:Nelson Merentes#0 | Nelson José Merentes Díaz (born 6 May 1954) is a Venezuelan mathematician, researcher, and politician. == Academic activity == In 1978 Merentes finished his bachelor's degree of Mathematics at Central University of Venezuela and continued his post graduate education taking courses on Economy and Finance, as well as in ... |
Wikipedia:Nerida Ellerton#0 | Nerida Fay Ellerton (née Gersch, born 1942) is an Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. She is professor of mathematics education at Illinois State University. As well as studying the present state of mathematics education, she and her husband McKenzie A. (Ken) Clements have researched the histo... |
Wikipedia:Nested radical#0 | In algebra, a nested radical is a radical expression (one containing a square root sign, cube root sign, etc.) that contains (nests) another radical expression. Examples include 5 − 2 5 , {\displaystyle {\sqrt {5-2{\sqrt {5}}\ }},} which arises in discussing the regular pentagon, and more complicated ones such as 2 + 3... |
Wikipedia:Neusis construction#0 | In geometry, the neusis (νεῦσις; from Ancient Greek νεύειν (neuein) 'incline towards'; plural: νεύσεις, neuseis) is a geometric construction method that was used in antiquity by Greek mathematicians. == Geometric construction == The neusis construction consists of fitting a line element of given length (a) in between t... |
Wikipedia:Neutral density#0 | In photography and optics, a neutral-density filter, or ND filter, is a filter that reduces or modifies the intensity of all wavelengths, or colors, of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition. It can be a colorless (clear) or grey filter, and is denoted by Wratten number 96. The purpose of a standard... |
Wikipedia:New York Number Theory Seminar#0 | The New York Number Theory Seminar is a research seminar devoted to the theory of numbers and related parts of mathematics and physics. The seminar began in 1982 under the founding organizers Harvey Cohn, David and Gregory Chudnovsky, and Melvyn B. Nathanson. It is held at the Graduate Center, CUNY. == Overview == The ... |
Wikipedia:Newton fractal#0 | The Newton fractal is a boundary set in the complex plane which is characterized by Newton's method applied to a fixed polynomial p(z) ∈ C {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} } [z] or transcendental function. It is the Julia set of the meromorphic function z ↦ z − p(z)/p′(z) which is given by Newton's method. When there are n... |
Wikipedia:Newton polygon#0 | In mathematics, the Newton polygon is a tool for understanding the behaviour of polynomials over local fields, or more generally, over ultrametric fields. In the original case, the ultrametric field of interest was essentially the field of formal Laurent series in the indeterminate X, i.e. the field of fractions of the... |
Wikipedia:Newton polynomial#0 | In the mathematical field of numerical analysis, a Newton polynomial, named after its inventor Isaac Newton, is an interpolation polynomial for a given set of data points. The Newton polynomial is sometimes called Newton's divided differences interpolation polynomial because the coefficients of the polynomial are calcu... |
Wikipedia:Newton's identities#0 | In mathematics, Newton's identities, also known as the Girard–Newton formulae, give relations between two types of symmetric polynomials, namely between power sums and elementary symmetric polynomials. Evaluated at the roots of a monic polynomial P in one variable, they allow expressing the sums of the k-th powers of a... |
Wikipedia:Newton's inequalities#0 | In mathematics, the Newton inequalities are named after Isaac Newton. Suppose a1, a2, ..., an are non-negative real numbers and let e k {\displaystyle e_{k}} denote the kth elementary symmetric polynomial in a1, a2, ..., an. Then the elementary symmetric means, given by S k = e k ( n k ) , {\displaystyle S_{k}={\frac {... |
Wikipedia:Ngamta Thamwattana#0 | Ngamta ""Natalie"" Thamwattana is a Thai mathematician who works in Australia as a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Newcastle (Australia). In 2014 she won the J. H. Michell Medal of ANZIAM for her "pioneering contributions in the areas of granular materials and nanotechnology". Thamwattana came fro... |
Wikipedia:Nicholas A. M. Monk#0 | Nicholas A. M. Monk is a physicist and mathematician. He is Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Research Chair at AIMS Ghana and Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Sheffield and the University of Ghana. He is known for his works on mathematical biology, pattern formation, and dynamical systems.... |
Wikipedia:Nicholas M. Smith Jr.#0 | Nicholas Monroe Smith Jr. (1914 – 2003) was a nuclear physicist and research consultant. Smith was an expert on reactor physics, a developer of operations research/computer modeling, and a computer applications consultant. He had ties to the Manhattan Project at Chicago and Oak Ridge, and worked with Samuel Allison and... |
Wikipedia:Nick Woodhouse#0 | The Honourable Nicholas Michael John Woodhouse (born 27 February 1949) is a British mathematician. He is Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford and former President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. == Education and early life == Woodhouse is the younger son and second child of Christopher Montague Wo... |
Wikipedia:Nick Wormald#0 | Nicholas Charles Wormald (born 1953) is an Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at Monash University. He specializes in probabilistic combinatorics, graph theory, graph algorithms, Steiner trees, web graphs, mine optimization, and other areas in combinatorics. In 1979, Wormald earned a Ph.D. in mathema... |
Wikipedia:Nicolae Culianu#0 | Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer. He served as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago from 1988 to his death, and had previously taught the hi... |
Wikipedia:Nicolae Popescu#0 | Nicolae Popescu (Romanian: [nikoˈla.e poˈpesku]; 22 September 1937 – 29 July 2010) was a Romanian mathematician and professor at the University of Bucharest. He also held a research position at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, and was elected corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy in 1997. He... |
Wikipedia:Nicolas Bourbaki#0 | Nicolas Bourbaki (French: [nikola buʁbaki]) is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure (ENS). Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intended to prepare a new textbook in analysis. Over time the project became much more ambitious, g... |
Wikipedia:Nicolas Fizes#0 | Nicolas Fizes (27 October 1648 in Frontignan – 1718) was a French professor of mathematics and hydrography, who lived under the reign of Louis XIV. He is especially known as the librettist who wrote L'Opéra de Frontignan (1670), a play in Occitan, dealing with a slight love intrigue, and an idyllic poem on the fountain... |
Wikipedia:Nicolas Rashevsky#0 | Nicolas Rashevsky (November 9, 1899 – January 16, 1972) was an American theoretical physicist who was one of the pioneers of mathematical biology, and is also considered the father of mathematical biophysics and theoretical biology. == Academic career == He studied theoretical physics at the St. Vladimir Imperial Unive... |
Wikipedia:Nicolas de Malézieu#0 | Nicolas de Malézieu (or Malézieux) (or Malesieu) (7 September 1650, in Paris – 4 March 1727, in Paris) was a French intellectual, Greek scholar and mathematician. == Life and career == Nicolas de Malézieu was a squire and lord of Chatenay. He later became chancellor of Dombes and secretary-general to the Swiss and Gris... |
Wikipedia:Nicolaus II Bernoulli#0 | Nicolaus II Bernoulli (also spelled as Niklaus or Nikolaus; 6 February 1695 in Basel – 31 July 1726 in Saint Petersburg) was a Swiss mathematician as were his father Johann Bernoulli and one of his brothers, Daniel Bernoulli. He was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. == Work == Nicolaus w... |
Wikipedia:Nicole De Grande-De Kimpe#0 | Nicole Leonie Jean Marie De Grande-De Kimpe (7 September 1936 – 23 July 2008) was a Belgian mathematician known as a pioneer of p-adic functional analysis, and particularly for her work on locally convex topological vector spaces over fields with non-Archimedean valuations. == Early life and education == De Grande-De K... |
Wikipedia:Nicole M. Joseph#0 | Nicole Michelle Joseph is an American mathematician and scholar of mathematics education whose research particularly focuses on the experiences of African-American girls and women in mathematics, on the effects of white supremacist reactions to their work in mathematics, and on the "intersectional nature of educational... |
Wikipedia:Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann#0 | Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann FRSC (8 June 1945 – 17 June 2022) was a Polish-Canadian mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the University of Alberta, and the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Geometric Analysis. == Contributions == Her research is in geometric functional analysis, and is unusual in combining a... |
Wikipedia:Nicolo Tartaglia#0 | Nicolo, known as Tartaglia (Italian: [tarˈtaʎʎa]; 1499/1500 – 13 December 1557), was an Italian mathematician, engineer (designing fortifications), a surveyor (of topography, seeking the best means of defense or offense) and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice. He published many books, including the first Ita... |
Wikipedia:Nicos Christofides#0 | Nicos Christofides (born 1942 in Cyprus; died 2019) was a Cypriot mathematician and professor of financial mathematics at Imperial College London. Christofides studied electrical engineering at Imperial College London, where he also received his PhD in 1966 (dissertation: The origin of load losses in induction motors w... |
Wikipedia:Nicușor Dan#0 | Nicușor Daniel Dan (Romanian: [nikuˈʃor daniˈel dan]; born 20 December 1969) is a Romanian politician, mathematician, and civic activist who is the president-elect of Romania. He has served as the Mayor of Bucharest since 2020. Born in Făgăraș, Brașov County, Dan earned international acclaim in his youth as a mathemati... |
Wikipedia:Niels Fabian Helge von Koch#0 | Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (25 January 1870 – 11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. He was born to Swedish nobility. His grandfather, Nils Samuel von Koch (1801–1881), was the Chancellor of Jus... |
Wikipedia:Niels Henrik Abel#0 | Niels Henrik Abel ( AH-bəl, Norwegian: [ˌnɪls ˈhɛ̀nːɾɪk ˈɑ̀ːbl̩]; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in rad... |
Wikipedia:Nielsen theory#0 | Nielsen theory is a branch of mathematical research with its origins in topological fixed-point theory. Its central ideas were developed by Danish mathematician Jakob Nielsen, and bear his name. The theory developed in the study of the so-called minimal number of a map f from a compact space to itself, denoted MF[f]. T... |
Wikipedia:Nielsen–Schreier theorem#0 | In group theory, a branch of mathematics, the Nielsen–Schreier theorem states that every subgroup of a free group is itself free. It is named after Jakob Nielsen and Otto Schreier. == Statement of the theorem == A free group may be defined from a group presentation consisting of a set of generators with no relations. T... |
Wikipedia:Nigel Boston#0 | Nigel Boston (July 20, 1961 – March 31, 2024) was a British-American mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebraic number theory, group theory, and arithmetic geometry. == Biography == Boston attended Harvard University, earning his doctorate in 1987, under supervision of Barry Mazur. He was a Professor Em... |
Wikipedia:Nigel Weiss#0 | Nigel Oscar Weiss FRS (16 December 1936 – 24 June 2020) was an astronomer and mathematician, and leader in the field of astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics. He was Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge. == Education == Born in South Africa, Weiss studied at Hilton Colle... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Andreev#0 | Nikolai Nikolayevich Andreev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Андреев) (born 5 February 1975 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian mathematician and popularizer of mathematics. He was awarded with the Leelavati Award in 2022. == Biography == Nikolai is the Head of the Laboratory for Popularization and Promotion of Mathematics a... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Andreevich Lebedev#0 | Nikolai Andreevich Lebedev (Russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Ле́бедев; August 8, 1919 – January 8, 1982) was a Soviet mathematician who worked on complex function theory and geometric function theory. Jointly with Isaak Milin, he proved the Lebedev–Milin inequalities that were used in the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Ardelyan#0 | Nikolai Vasilievich Ardelyan (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Арделя́н; born 18 September 1953) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., Honored Scientist of the Moscow State University, Leading Researcher of the MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. He defended the thesis «Difference-Operationa... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Bakhvalov#0 | Nikolai Sergeevich Bakhvalov (Russian: Николай Серге́евич Бахвалов) (May 29, 1934 – August 29, 2005) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Born in Moscow into the family of Sergei Vladimirovich Bakhvalov, a geometer at Moscow State University, N.S. Bakhvalov was exposed to mathematics from a young age. In 1950, Bakhv... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Chebotaryov#0 | Nikolai Grigorievich Chebotaryov (often spelled Chebotarov or Chebotarev; Russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Чеботарёв; Ukrainian: Мико́ла Григо́рович Чеботарьо́в; 15 June [O.S. 3 June] 1894 – 2 July 1947) was a Soviet mathematician. He is best known for the Chebotaryov density theorem. He was a student of Dmitry Grave. Ch... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Günther#0 | Nikolai Maximovich Günther (Russian: Николай Максимович Гюнтер, also transliterated as Nicholas M. Gunther or N. M. Gjunter) (December 17 [O.S. December 5] 1871 – May 4, 1941) was a Russian mathematician known for his work in potential theory and in integral and partial differential equations: later studies have uncove... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Kapustin (mathematician)#0 | Nikolai Yurievich Kapustin (Russian: Никола́й Ю́рьевич Капу́стин; born 3 October 1957) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. He defended the thesis "Problems for parabolic-hyperbolic equations and corresponding spectral questions w... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Lobachevsky#0 | Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (; Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ləbɐˈtɕefskʲɪj] ; 1 December [O.S. 20 November] 1792 – 24 February [O.S. 12 February] 1856) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, known primarily for his work on hyperbolic geometry, otherwise known as Lobachevski... |
Wikipedia:Nikolai Shanin#0 | Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin (Russian: Николай Александрович Шанин) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and the founder of a school of constructive mathematics in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He was born on May 25, 1919, in Pskov, Russia, to a family of doctors and passed away on September 17, 2011, in Saint P... |
Wikipedia:Nikolas Breuckmann#0 | Nikolas P. Breuckmann (born 1988) is a German mathematical physicist affiliated with the University of Bristol, England. He is, as of Spring 2024, a visiting scientist and program organizer at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on quantum inf... |
Wikipedia:Nikolay Korobov#0 | Nikolai Mikhailovich Korobov (Russian: Коробов Николай Михайлович; November 23, 1917 – October 25, 2004) was a Soviet mathematician specializing in number theory and numerical analysis. He is best known for his work in analytic number theory, especially in exponential and trigonometric sums. == References == |
Wikipedia:Nikolay Krylov (mathematician, born 1941)#0 | Nicolai Vladimirovich Krylov (Russian: Никола́й Влади́мирович Крыло́в; born 5 June 1941) is a Russian mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, particularly stochastic partial differential equations and diffusion processes. Krylov studied at Lomonosov University, where he in 1966 under E. B. Dynkin ... |
Wikipedia:Nikolay Morozkin#0 | Nikolai Danilovich Morozkin (Russian: Николай Данилович Морозкин; born 27 November 1953) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1996), Professor (1997), Rector of Bashkir State University (since 2013), Honorary Figure of Higher Education of the Russian Federation (2011). ==... |
Wikipedia:Nikolay Nekhoroshev#0 | Nikolai Nikolaevich Nekhoroshev (Russian: Николай Николаевич Нехорошев; 2 October 1946 – 18 October 2008) was a prominent Soviet Russian mathematician specializing in classical mechanics and dynamical systems. His research concerned Hamiltonian mechanics, perturbation theory, celestial mechanics, integrable systems, dy... |
Wikipedia:Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin#0 | Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Со́нин, February 22, 1849 – February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. == Biography == He was born in Tula and attended Lomonosov University, studying mathematics and physics there from 1865 to 1869. His advisor was Nikolai Bugaev. He obtained a master's degr... |
Wikipedia:Nilakantha Somayaji#0 | Keļallur Nīlakaṇṭha Somayāji (14 June 1444 – 1544), also referred to as Keļallur Comatiri, was a mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. One of his most influential works was the comprehensive astronomical treatise Tantrasamgraha completed in 1501. He had also composed an elabora... |
Wikipedia:Nilima Nigam#0 | Nilima Nigam is an Indian and Canadian applied mathematician specializing in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical models, particularly in problems of mathematical physiology involving muscular, skeletal, and cancer tissue in human bodies. She is a professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser... |
Wikipedia:Nilpotent cone#0 | In mathematics, the nilpotent cone N {\displaystyle {\mathcal {N}}} of a finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra g {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}} is the set of elements that act nilpotently in all representations of g . {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {g}}.} In other words, N = { a ∈ g : ρ ( a ) is nilpotent for all repre... |
Wikipedia:Nilüfer Çınar Çorlulu#0 | Nilüfer Çinar Çorlulu (born Nilüfer Çınar on November 4, 1962) is a Turkish Woman International Master (WIM) of chess. With nine national champion titles, she is one of the most successful female chess players in Turkey, being only second after Gülümser Öney, who has eleven titles, and equaled in 2013 by Betül Cemre Yı... |
Wikipedia:Nina Bari#0 | Nina Karlovna Bari (Russian: Нина Карловна Бари; 19 November 1901 – 15 July 1961) was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series. She is also well-known for two textbooks, Higher Algebra and The Theory of Series. == Early life and education == Nina Bari was born in Russia on 19 November 1901, the... |
Wikipedia:Nina Holden#0 | Nina Holden is a Norwegian mathematician interested in probability theory and stochastic processes, including graphons, random planar maps, the Schramm–Loewner evolution, and their applications to quantum gravity. She was a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH Zurich, and is currently an associ... |
Wikipedia:Nina Snaith#0 | Nina Claire Snaith is a British mathematician at the University of Bristol working in random matrix theory and quantum chaos. == Education == Snaith was educated at the University of Bristol where she received her PhD in 2000 for research supervised by Jonathan Keating. == Career and research == In 1998, Snaith and her... |
Wikipedia:Nina Uraltseva#0 | Nina Nikolaevna Uraltseva (born 1934, Russian: Нина Николаевна Уральцева) is a Russian mathematician, a professor of mathematics and head of the department of mathematical physics at Saint Petersburg State University, and the editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society. Her specialty i... |
Wikipedia:Nine-point stencil#0 | In numerical analysis, given a square grid in two dimensions, the nine-point stencil of a point in the grid is a stencil made up of the point itself together with its eight "neighbors". It is used to write finite difference approximations to derivatives at grid points. It is an example for numerical differentiation. Th... |
Wikipedia:Nira Dyn#0 | Nira (Richter) Dyn (Hebrew: נירה דין; born 1942) is an Israeli mathematician who studied geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, approximation theory, and image compression. She is a professor emeritus of applied mathematics at Tel Aviv University, and has been called a "pioneer and leading researcher in the subdivis... |
Wikipedia:Nissan Deliatitz#0 | Nissan ben Avraham Deliatitz (Hebrew: ניסן בן אברהם דעליאטיץ) was a 19th-century Russian rabbi and mathematician. He wrote Keneh Ḥokhmah, a manual of algebra in five parts, published in Vilna and Grodno in 1829. The work received approbations from Rabbi David, the av beit din of Novhardok, and Rabbi Avraham Abele ben A... |
Wikipedia:Niven's theorem#0 | In mathematics, Niven's theorem, named after Ivan Niven, states that the only rational values of θ in the interval 0° ≤ θ ≤ 90° for which the sine of θ degrees is also a rational number are: sin 0 ∘ = 0 , sin 30 ∘ = 1 2 , sin 90 ∘ = 1. {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}\sin 0^{\circ }&=0,\\[10pt]\sin 30^{\circ }&={\... |
Wikipedia:Nizar Touzi#0 | Nizar Touzi (born 1968 in Tunisia) is a Tunisian-French mathematician. He is a professor of applied mathematics at École polytechnique. His research focuses on analysis, statistics and algebra. He is being known for publications on optimization and stochastic control. == Education == Touzi completed his PhD in Applied ... |
Wikipedia:Noah Dana-Picard#0 | Noah Dana-Picard (born May 6, 1954) is an Israeli mathematician, professor and Talmudic scholar who has been the president of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) since 2009. == Life == Born in France, Dana-Picard holds two PhDs; the first from Nice University, France (1981) and the second from Bar Ilan University... |
Wikipedia:Noether Lecture#0 | The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as the Emmy Noether Lectures, in honor of one of the leading mathematicians... |
Wikipedia:Noether identities#0 | In mathematics, Noether identities characterize the degeneracy of a Lagrangian system. Given a Lagrangian system and its Lagrangian L, Noether identities can be defined as a differential operator whose kernel contains a range of the Euler–Lagrange operator of L. Any Euler–Lagrange operator obeys Noether identities whic... |
Wikipedia:Noetherian#0 | In mathematics, the adjective Noetherian is used to describe objects that satisfy an ascending or descending chain condition on certain kinds of subobjects, meaning that certain ascending or descending sequences of subobjects must have finite length. Noetherian objects are named after Emmy Noether, who was the first to... |
Wikipedia:Nola Anderson Haynes#0 | Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996) was an American mathematician and one of the few women to earn her PhD in math in the United States before World War II. == Biography == Nola Lee Anderson was born January 9, 1897, on a farm in 1897 in Linn County, Missouri, as one of four children. Her early education took place in a o... |
Wikipedia:Non-negative matrix factorization#0 | Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF or NNMF), also non-negative matrix approximation is a group of algorithms in multivariate analysis and linear algebra where a matrix V is factorized into (usually) two matrices W and H, with the property that all three matrices have no negative elements. This non-negativity makes ... |
Wikipedia:Nonlinear eigenproblem#0 | In mathematics, a nonlinear eigenproblem, sometimes nonlinear eigenvalue problem, is a generalization of the (ordinary) eigenvalue problem to equations that depend nonlinearly on the eigenvalue. Specifically, it refers to equations of the form M ( λ ) x = 0 , {\displaystyle M(\lambda )x=0,} where x ≠ 0 {\displaystyle x... |
Wikipedia:Nonlocal operator#0 | In mathematics, a nonlocal operator is a mapping which maps functions on a topological space to functions, in such a way that the value of the output function at a given point cannot be determined solely from the values of the input function in any neighbourhood of any point. An example of a nonlocal operator is the Fo... |
Wikipedia:Nonnegative rank (linear algebra)#0 | In linear algebra, the rank of a matrix A is the dimension of the vector space generated (or spanned) by its columns. This corresponds to the maximal number of linearly independent columns of A. This, in turn, is identical to the dimension of the vector space spanned by its rows. Rank is thus a measure of the "nondegen... |
Wikipedia:Norbert A'Campo#0 | Norbert A'Campo (born 27 April 1941) is a Swiss mathematician working on singularity theory. He earned a doctorate in 1972 from the University of Paris-Sud. In 1974 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, and in 1988 he was elected president of the Swiss Mathematical Society. In 2012 ... |
Wikipedia:Norbert Ryska#0 | Norbert Ryska (born August 9, 1948, in Hau) is a German mathematician and museum director. Ryska worked from 1976 to 1992 as an employee of Nixdorf Computer AG in the R&D department. Until 1996 as managing director and project manager on behalf of the Nixdorf Foundations mainly responsible for the construction of the H... |
Wikipedia:Noreen Sher Akbar#0 | Noreen Sher Akbar is a Pakistani applied mathematician specializing in fluid dynamics. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 2012, from Quaid-i-Azam University, she joined the faculty at National University of Sciences & Technology, where she is head of the Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities. Akbar has won multiple hon... |
Wikipedia:Noriko H. Arai#0 | Noriko H. Arai (Japanese: 新井紀子, romanized: Arai Noriko, born 1962) is a Japanese researcher in mathematical logic and artificial intelligence, known for her work on a project to develop robots that can pass the entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo. She is a professor in the information and society research... |
Wikipedia:Norm residue isomorphism theorem#0 | In mathematics, the norm residue isomorphism theorem is a long-sought result relating Milnor K-theory and Galois cohomology. The result has a relatively elementary formulation and at the same time represents the key juncture in the proofs of many seemingly unrelated theorems from abstract algebra, theory of quadratic f... |
Wikipedia:Norma Presmeg#0 | Norma Christine Presmeg is a retired mathematics education researcher whose work has concerned mathematical visualization, semiotics, and ethnomathematics, and their role in secondary-school mathematics teaching and learning. Presmeg is originally from South Africa, was educated in South Africa and England, and worked ... |
Wikipedia:Normal basis#0 | In mathematics, specifically the algebraic theory of fields, a normal basis is a special kind of basis for Galois extensions of finite degree, characterised as forming a single orbit for the Galois group. The normal basis theorem states that any finite Galois extension of fields has a normal basis. In algebraic number ... |
Wikipedia:Normal convergence#0 | In mathematics normal convergence is a type of convergence for series of functions. Like absolute-convergence, it has the useful property that it is preserved when the order of summation is changed. == History == The concept of normal convergence was first introduced by René Baire in 1908 in his book Leçons sur les thé... |
Wikipedia:Normal element#0 | In mathematics, an element of a *-algebra is called normal if it commutates with its adjoint. == Definition == Let A {\displaystyle {\mathcal {A}}} be a *-Algebra. An element a ∈ A {\displaystyle a\in {\mathcal {A}}} is called normal if it commutes with a ∗ {\displaystyle a^{*}} , i.e. it satisfies the equation a a ∗ =... |
Wikipedia:Normal homomorphism#0 | In abstract algebra, a normal subgroup (also known as an invariant subgroup or self-conjugate subgroup) is a subgroup that is invariant under conjugation by members of the group of which it is a part. In other words, a subgroup N {\displaystyle N} of the group G {\displaystyle G} is normal in G {\displaystyle G} if and... |
Wikipedia:Norman Fenton#0 | Norman Elliott Fenton (born 18 May 1956) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook S... |
Wikipedia:Norman H. Anning#0 | Norman Herbert Anning ((1883-08-28)August 28, 1883 – (1963-05-01)May 1, 1963) was a mathematician, assistant professor, professor emeritus, and instructor in mathematics, recognized and acclaimed in mathematics for publishing a proof of the characterization of the infinite sets of points in the plane with mutually inte... |
Wikipedia:Norman L. Biggs#0 | Norman Linstead Biggs (born 2 January 1941) is a leading British mathematician focusing on discrete mathematics and in particular algebraic combinatorics. == Education == Biggs was educated at Harrow County Grammar School and then studied mathematics at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1962, Biggs gained first-class honou... |
Wikipedia:Normed algebra#0 | In mathematics, a normed algebra A is an algebra over a field which has a sub-multiplicative norm: ∀ x , y ∈ A ‖ x y ‖ ≤ ‖ x ‖ ‖ y ‖ . {\displaystyle \forall x,y\in A\qquad \|xy\|\leq \|x\|\|y\|.} Some authors require it to have a multiplicative identity 1A such that ║1A║ = 1. == See also == == External reading == "Nor... |
Wikipedia:Nova fractal#0 | The Newton fractal is a boundary set in the complex plane which is characterized by Newton's method applied to a fixed polynomial p(z) ∈ C {\displaystyle \mathbb {C} } [z] or transcendental function. It is the Julia set of the meromorphic function z ↦ z − p(z)/p′(z) which is given by Newton's method. When there are n... |
Wikipedia:Nowhere continuous function#0 | In mathematics, a nowhere continuous function, also called an everywhere discontinuous function, is a function that is not continuous at any point of its domain. If f {\displaystyle f} is a function from real numbers to real numbers, then f {\displaystyle f} is nowhere continuous if for each point x {\displaystyle x} t... |
Wikipedia:Nth root#0 | In mathematics, an nth root of a number x is a number r which, when raised to the power of n, yields x: r n = r × r × ⋯ × r ⏟ n factors = x . {\displaystyle r^{n}=\underbrace {r\times r\times \dotsb \times r} _{n{\text{ factors}}}=x.} The positive integer n is called the index or degree, and the number x of which the r... |
Wikipedia:Null vector#0 | In mathematics, given a vector space X with an associated quadratic form q, written (X, q), a null vector or isotropic vector is a non-zero element x of X for which q(x) = 0. In the theory of real bilinear forms, definite quadratic forms and isotropic quadratic forms are distinct. They are distinguished in that only fo... |
Wikipedia:Nullform#0 | In mathematics, a nullform of a vector space acted on linearly by a group is a vector on which all invariants of the group vanish. Nullforms were introduced by Hilbert (1893). (Dieudonné & Carrell 1970, 1971, p.57). == References == Dieudonné, Jean A.; Carrell, James B. (1970), "Invariant theory, old and new", Advances... |
Wikipedia:Nullspace property#0 | In compressed sensing, the nullspace property gives necessary and sufficient conditions on the reconstruction of sparse signals using the techniques of ℓ 1 {\displaystyle \ell _{1}} -relaxation. The term "nullspace property" originates from Cohen, Dahmen, and DeVore. The nullspace property is often difficult to check i... |
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