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Wikipedia:Richard P. Brent#0 | Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist. He is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University. From March 2005 to March 2010 he was a Federation Fellow at the Australian National University. His research interests include number theory (in particular factorisation), rando... |
Wikipedia:Richard von Mises#0 | Richard Martin Edler von Mises (German: [fɔn ˈmiːzəs]; 19 April 1883 – 14 July 1953) was an Austrian scientist and mathematician who worked on solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, statistics and probability theory. He held the position of Gordon McKay Professor of Aerodynamics and Applied Mathem... |
Wikipedia:Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics#0 | The Richardson Chair of Applied Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. The chair was founded by an endowment of £3,600 from one John Richardson, in 1890. The endowment was originally used to support the Richardson Lectureship in Mathematics. One ... |
Wikipedia:Richardson's theorem#0 | In mathematics, Richardson's theorem establishes the undecidability of the equality of real numbers defined by expressions involving integers, π, and exponential and sine functions. It was proved in 1968 by the mathematician and computer scientist Daniel Richardson of the University of Bath. Specifically, the class of ... |
Wikipedia:Rick Durrett#0 | Richard Timothy Durrett is an American mathematician known for his research and books on mathematical probability theory, stochastic processes and their application to mathematical ecology and population genetics. == Education and career == He received his BS and MS at Emory University in 1972 and 1973 and his Ph.D. at... |
Wikipedia:Rida Laraki#0 | Rida Laraki is a Moroccan researcher, professor, and engineer in the fields of game theory, social choice, theoretical economics, optimization, learning, and operations research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. == Life == Born in 1974, Rida Laraki studied in Morocco and passed his baccalaureate in... |
Wikipedia:Ridge function#0 | In mathematics, a ridge function is any function f : R d → R {\displaystyle f:\mathbb {R} ^{d}\rightarrow \mathbb {R} } that can be written as the composition of an univariate function g : R → R {\displaystyle g:\mathbb {R} \rightarrow \mathbb {R} } , that is called a profile function, with an affine transformation, gi... |
Wikipedia:Ridge regression#0 | Ridge regression (also known as Tikhonov regularization, named for Andrey Tikhonov) is a method of estimating the coefficients of multiple-regression models in scenarios where the independent variables are highly correlated. It has been used in many fields including econometrics, chemistry, and engineering. It is a met... |
Wikipedia:Riemann–Lebesgue lemma#0 | In mathematics, the Riemann–Lebesgue lemma, named after Bernhard Riemann and Henri Lebesgue, states that the Fourier transform or Laplace transform of an L1 function vanishes at infinity. It is of importance in harmonic analysis and asymptotic analysis. == Statement == Let f ∈ L 1 ( R n ) {\displaystyle f\in L^{1}(\mat... |
Wikipedia:Rien Kaashoek#0 | Marinus Adriaan "Rien" Kaashoek (November 10, 1937 – November 21, 2024) was a Dutch mathematician, and Emeritus Professor Analysis and Operator Theory at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. == Biography == Born in Ridderkerk, Kaashoek has studied mathematics at the Leiden University, where he received his PhD in 1964 ... |
Wikipedia:Rigid transformation#0 | In mathematics, a rigid transformation (also called Euclidean transformation or Euclidean isometry) is a geometric transformation of a Euclidean space that preserves the Euclidean distance between every pair of points. The rigid transformations include rotations, translations, reflections, or any sequence of these. Ref... |
Wikipedia:Riho Terras (mathematician)#0 | Riho Terras (June 13, 1939 – November 28, 2005) was an Estonian-American mathematician. He was born in Tartu, Estonia, and moved to Ulm, Germany, before starting school. In 1951, he emigrated to the United States along with his mother. In 1965, he was given the Milton Abramowitz award for his studies at the University ... |
Wikipedia:Rimhak Ree#0 | Rimhak Ree (Korean: 이임학; December 18, 1922 – January 9, 2005), alternatively Im-hak Ree, was a Korean Canadian mathematician. He contributed in the field of group theory, most notably with the concept of the Ree group in (Ree 1960, 1961). == Early life == Ree received his early education in Hamhung, Kankyōnan-dō, Korea... |
Wikipedia:Ring of symmetric functions#0 | In algebra and in particular in algebraic combinatorics, the ring of symmetric functions is a specific limit of the rings of symmetric polynomials in n indeterminates, as n goes to infinity. This ring serves as universal structure in which relations between symmetric polynomials can be expressed in a way independent of... |
Wikipedia:Ringel–Hall algebra#0 | In mathematics, a Ringel–Hall algebra is a generalization of the Hall algebra, studied by Claus Michael Ringel (1990). It has a basis of equivalence classes of objects of an abelian category, and the structure constants for this basis are related to the numbers of extensions of objects in the category. == References ==... |
Wikipedia:Risch algorithm#0 | In symbolic computation, the Risch algorithm is a method of indefinite integration used in some computer algebra systems to find antiderivatives. It is named after the American mathematician Robert Henry Risch, a specialist in computer algebra who developed it in 1968. The algorithm transforms the problem of integratio... |
Wikipedia:Rob Eastaway#0 | Rob Eastaway is an English author. He is active in the popularisation of mathematics and was awarded the Zeeman medal in 2017 for excellence in the promotion of maths. He is best known for his books, including the bestselling Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and Maths for Mums and Dads. His first book was What is a Googly?... |
Wikipedia:Rob Reitzen#0 | Rob Reitzen is an American mathematician and professional gambler. == Biography == Reitzen attended University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied mathematics and probabilities. He was initially interested in poker. However, his focus shifted to blackjack after discovering and studying Lawrence Revere's book, ... |
Wikipedia:Robert Aumann#0 | Robert John Aumann (Yisrael Aumann, Hebrew: ישראל אומן; born June 8, 1930) is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also holds a visiting position at Stony ... |
Wikipedia:Robert B. Lisek#0 | Robert B. Lisek is a Polish artist and mathematician who focuses on systems and processes, conducts a research in the area theory of ordered sets in relation with logic, algebra and combinatorics; his artistic practice draws upon conceptual art, radical art strategies, hacktivism, bioart, software art. == Works == Lise... |
Wikipedia:Robert D. Hough#0 | Robert D. Hough is an American born mathematician specializing in number theory, probability, and discrete mathematics. He is currently an associate professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University. == Early life and education == Hough holds BS in Math, MS in CS, and PhD in Math degrees from Stanford University. He c... |
Wikipedia:Robert Dautray#0 | Robert Dautray (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ dotʁɛ]; 1 February 1928 – 20 August 2023) was a French engineer, scientific director of the French Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) and High Commissioner for Atomic Energy. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, section mechanical and computer sciences, an... |
Wikipedia:Robert Ditchburn#0 | Robert William Ditchburn (14 January 1903 – 8 April 1987) was an English physicist whose career started as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (1929-1946), and ended at the University of Reading, where he worked hard to build up the physics department. == Life and ... |
Wikipedia:Robert Edmund Edwards#0 | Robert Edmund Edwards (1926–2000), usually cited simply as R. E. Edwards, was a British-born Australian mathematician who specialized in functional analysis. He is the author of several volumes in Springer's Graduate Texts in Mathematics. He received his PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London in 1951 under Lione... |
Wikipedia:Robert Goldblatt#0 | Robert Ian Goldblatt (born 1949) is a mathematical logician who is emeritus Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. His doctoral advisor was Max Cresswell. His most popular books are Logics of Time and Computation and Topoi: the Categorial Analysis of Logic... |
Wikipedia:Robert J. Berman#0 | Robert J. Berman is a Swedish mathematical scientist currently at Chalmers University and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in 2017. Berman is known for his constributions to the K-stability of Fano varieties. == References == |
Wikipedia:Robert Liptser#0 | Robert Sh. Liptser (Russian: Роберт Шевелевич Липцер; Hebrew: רוברט ליפצר, 20 March 1936 – 2 January 2019) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician who made contributions to the theory and applications of stochastic processes, in particular to martingales, stochastic control and nonlinear filtering. == Biography == Liptser ... |
Wikipedia:Robert M. Anderson (mathematician)#0 | Robert Murdoch Anderson (born 1951) is Professor of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is director of the Center for Risk Management Research, University of California, Berkeley and he was chair of the University of California Academic Senate 2011–12. He is also the co-director f... |
Wikipedia:Robert McLachlan (mathematician)#0 | Robert Iain McLachlan (born 1964) is a New Zealand mathematician and Distinguished Professor in the School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand. His research in geometric integration encompasses both pure and applied mathematics, modelling the structure of systems such as liquids, climate cycles, and... |
Wikipedia:Robert Moody#0 | Robert Vaughan Moody, (; born November 28, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician. He is the co-discoverer of Kac–Moody algebra, a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined through a generalized root system. "Almost simultaneously in 1967, Victor Kac in the USSR and Robert Moody in Canada developed what... |
Wikipedia:Robert Schatten#0 | Robert Schatten (January 28, 1911 – August 26, 1977) was an American mathematician. Robert Schatten was born to a Jewish family in Lviv. His intellectual origins were at Lwów School of Mathematics, particularly well known for fundamental contributions to functional analysis. His entire family was murdered during World ... |
Wikipedia:Robert Steinberg#0 | Robert Steinberg (May 25, 1922, Soroca, Bessarabia, Romania (present-day Moldova) – May 25, 2014) was a mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He introduced the Steinberg representation, the Lang–Steinberg theorem, the Steinberg group in algebraic K-theory, Steinberg's formula in representation the... |
Wikipedia:Robert Vallée#0 | Robert Vallée (5 October 1922 in Poitiers, France – 1 January 2017, Paris, France) was a French cyberneticist and mathematician. He was Professor at the Paris 13 University (University of Paris-Nord) and president of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC). At the beginning of the 1950s, Vallée wrote h... |
Wikipedia:Robert W. Brooks#0 | Robert Wolfe Brooks (Washington, D.C., September 16, 1952 – Montreal, September 5, 2002) was a mathematician known for his work in spectral geometry, Riemann surfaces, circle packings, and differential geometry. == Biography == Brooks was born in 1952 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, where he grad... |
Wikipedia:Robert Waddington (mathematician)#0 | Robert Waddington (died 1779) was a mathematician, astronomer and teacher of navigation. He is best known as one of the observers appointed by the Royal Society to observe the 1761 transit of Venus with Nevil Maskelyne on the island of Saint Helena. On that voyage they made successful use of the lunar-distance method o... |
Wikipedia:Robert William Chapman (engineer)#0 | Sir Robert William Chapman MIEAust (27 December 1866 – 27 February 1942) was an Australian mathematician and engineer. == History == Chapman was born in Stony Stratford in Buckinghamshire, England, eldest son of Charles Chapman (c. 1838 – 14 September 1921), a currier from Melbourne, Australia, and his wife Matilda, né... |
Wikipedia:Robert William Genese#0 | Robert William Genese (1848, Dublin – 1928) was an Irish mathematician whose career was spent in Wales. == Early life and education == Genese was born on Westland Row a street on the south side of Dublin on 8 May 1848. From St John's College of the University of Cambridge, Genese received in 1871 his bachelor's degree ... |
Wikipedia:Robert Wolak#0 | Robert Antoni Wolak (born September 19, 1955) is a Polish mathematician, habilitated doctor of mathematical sciences. He specializes in differential geometry, foliation theory and differential topology. Associate professor of the Department of Geometry of the Institute of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Compute... |
Wikipedia:Robert Woodhouse#0 | Robert Woodhouse (28 April 1773 – 23 December 1827) was a British mathematician and astronomer. == Biography == === Early life and education === Robert Woodhouse was born on 28 April 1773 in Norwich, Norfolk, the son of Robert Woodhouse, linen draper, and Judith Alderson, the daughter of a Unitarian minister from Lowes... |
Wikipedia:Roberta Frances Johnson#0 | Roberta Frances Johnson (January 22, 1902–October 12, 1988) was an American mathematician and one of the few women to earn a PhD in that subject in the United States before World War II. She joined the faculty of Wilson College, Colorado State University and University of Colorado. == Biography == Johnson was born in P... |
Wikipedia:Roberto Markarian#0 | Roberto Markarian Abrahamian (12 December 1946) is a Uruguayan mathematician of Armenian descent, expert in dynamical systems and chaos theory. == Biography == He started studying at the University of the Republic in the 1960s. During the civic-military dictatorship he was arrested due to political reasons. Later he we... |
Wikipedia:Robin Williams (mathematician)#0 | Robert Martin Williams (30 March 1919 – 18 March 2013), generally known as Robin Williams, was a New Zealand mathematician, academic administrator and public servant. He served as vice chancellor of the University of Otago from 1967 to 1972, and of the Australian National University from 1973 to 1975. Between 1975 and ... |
Wikipedia:Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence#0 | In mathematics, the Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, also referred to as the RSK correspondence or RSK algorithm, is a combinatorial bijection between matrices A with non-negative integer entries and pairs (P,Q) of semistandard Young tableaux of equal shape, whose size equals the sum of the entries of A. More p... |
Wikipedia:Rod Downey#0 | Rodney Graham Downey (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand and Australian mathematician and computer scientist, an emeritus professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is known for his work in mathematical logic and computational complexity theory, a... |
Wikipedia:Rod calculus#0 | Rod calculus or rod calculation was the mechanical method of algorithmic computation with counting rods in China from the Warring States to Ming dynasty before the counting rods were increasingly replaced by the more convenient and faster abacus. Rod calculus played a key role in the development of Chinese mathematics ... |
Wikipedia:Roderick S. C. Wong#0 | Roderick S. C. Wong (born October 2, 1944) is a mathematician who works in classical analysis. His research mainly focuses on asymptotic analysis, singular perturbation theory, special functions and orthogonal polynomials, integral transforms, integral equations, and ordinary differential equations. He is currently a c... |
Wikipedia:Rodion Kuzmin#0 | Rodion Osievich Kuzmin (Russian: Родион Осиевич Кузьмин, 9 November 1891, Riabye village in the Haradok district – 24 March 1949, Leningrad) was a Soviet mathematician, known for his works in number theory and analysis. His name is sometimes transliterated as Kusmin. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bolo... |
Wikipedia:Rodolfo H. Torres#0 | Rodolfo Humberto Torres is an Argentinian American mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis who works as the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development and a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Riverside. Torres did his undergraduate studies at the National Universi... |
Wikipedia:Rogemar Mamon#0 | Rogemar Sombong Mamon, is a Canadian mathematician, quant, and academic. He is a co-editor of the IMA Journal of Management Mathematics published by Oxford University Press since 2009. Mamon is known for his contributions to the developments and applications of regime-switching framework useful in economic, financial a... |
Wikipedia:Roger Carter (mathematician)#0 | Roger William Carter (25 August 1934 – 21 February 2022) was a British mathematician who was emeritus professor at the University of Warwick. He defined Carter subgroups and wrote the standard reference Simple Groups of Lie Type. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1960 and his dissertation was entitl... |
Wikipedia:Roger Collingwood#0 | Roger Collingwood (fl. 1513) was a British mathematician. == Biography == Collingwood was elected a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1497, being then B.A., and proceeded M.A. two years later. He had the college title for orders on 7 Aug. 1497, was dean of his college in 1504, and obtained a license on 16 Sept. ... |
Wikipedia:Roger Cotes#0 | Roger Cotes (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also devised the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, which originated from Newton's research, an... |
Wikipedia:Roger Fletcher (mathematician)#0 | Roger Fletcher FRS FRSE (29 January 1939 – 15 July 2016) was a British mathematician and professor at University of Dundee. He was a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. In 2006, he won the Lagrange Prize from SIAM. In 2008, he was... |
Wikipedia:Roger Godement#0 | Roger Godement (French: [ɡɔdmɑ̃]; 1 October 1921 – 21 July 2016) was a French mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. == Biography == Godement started as a student at the École normale supérieure in 1940, where he became a student of Henri Cartan. He started research in... |
Wikipedia:Roger J-B Wets#0 | Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (February 1937 – April 1, 2025) was a Belgian stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar have had a profound influence on optimization theory,... |
Wikipedia:Roger Wolcott Richardson#0 | Roger Wolcott Richardson (30 May 1930 – 15 June 1993) was a mathematician noted for his work in representation theory and geometry. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and educated at Louisiana State University, Harvard University and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1958 under the supe... |
Wikipedia:Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction#0 | The Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction is a continued fraction discovered by Rogers (1894) and independently by Srinivasa Ramanujan, and closely related to the Rogers–Ramanujan identities. It can be evaluated explicitly for a broad class of values of its argument. == Definition == Given the functions G ( q ) {\display... |
Wikipedia:Rogers–Ramanujan identities#0 | In mathematics, the Rogers–Ramanujan identities are two identities related to basic hypergeometric series and integer partitions. The identities were first discovered and proved by Leonard James Rogers (1894), and were subsequently rediscovered (without a proof) by Srinivasa Ramanujan some time before 1913. Ramanujan h... |
Wikipedia:Roland Glowinski#0 | Roland Glowinski (9 March 1937 – 26 January 2022) was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He was a member... |
Wikipedia:Roland Richardson#0 | Roland George Dwight Richardson (born May 14, 1878, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; died July 17, 1949, Antigonish, Nova Scotia) was a prominent Canadian-American mathematician chiefly known for his work building the math department at Brown University and as Secretary of the American Mathematical Society. == Early life == Ric... |
Wikipedia:Rolando Chuaqui#0 | Rolando Basim Chuaqui Kettlun (December 30, 1935–April 23, 1994) was a Chilean mathematician who worked on the foundations of probabilities and foundations of mathematics. Throughout his lifetime, he published two books and over 50 journal articles in mathematics and logic. He also spearheaded the creation and expansio... |
Wikipedia:Rolf Nevanlinna#0 | Rolf Herman Nevanlinna (né Neovius; 22 October 1895 – 28 May 1980) was a Finnish mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. == Background == Nevanlinna was born Rolf Herman Neovius, becoming Nevanlinna in 1906 when his father changed the family name. The Neovius-Nevanlinna family contained ma... |
Wikipedia:Roman abacus#0 | The Ancient Romans developed the Roman hand abacus, a portable, but less capable, base-10 version of earlier abacuses like those that were used by the Greeks and Babylonians. == Origin == The Roman abacus was the first portable calculating device for engineers, merchants, and presumably tax collectors. It greatly reduc... |
Wikipedia:Romanesco broccoli#0 | Romanesco broccoli (also known as broccolo romanesco, romanesque cauliflower, or simply romanesco) is in fact a cultivar of the cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis), not broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica). It is one of two types of broccoflower. It is an edible flower bud of the species Brassica olerace... |
Wikipedia:Romano Scozzafava#0 | Romano Scozzafava (born November 12, 1935) is an Italian mathematician known for his contributions to subjective probability along the lines of Bruno de Finetti, based on the concept of coherence. He taught Probability Calculus at the Engineering Faculty of the Sapienza University of Rome from 1979 to his retirement (a... |
Wikipedia:Ron Aharoni#0 | Ron Aharoni (Hebrew: רון אהרוני; born 1952) is an Israeli mathematician, working in finite and infinite combinatorics. Aharoni is a professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1979. With Nash-Williams and Shelah he generalized Hall's marriage theorem by obta... |
Wikipedia:Ron Goldman (mathematician)#0 | Ronald Neil Goldman is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Professor Goldman received his B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Goldman's current research interests lie in ... |
Wikipedia:Ronald Coifman#0 | Ronald Raphael Coifman (Hebrew: רונלד קויפמן; born June 29, 1941) is a Sterling professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata. Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Scienc... |
Wikipedia:Ronald Does#0 | Ronaldus Joannes Michael Maria "Ronald" Does (born 13 January 1955 in Haarlem) is a Dutch mathematician, known for several contributions to statistics and Lean Six Sigma. His research interests include control charts, Lean Six Sigma, and the integration of industrial statistics in services and healthcare. Since 1991 he... |
Wikipedia:Ronald Venetiaan#0 | Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan (born 18 June 1936) is a former politician who served as the sixth president of Suriname. == Biography == Venetiaan was born in Paramaribo. In 1955, Venetiaan left Suriname to study mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden. In 1964, he obtained his doctorandus, and returned to Surina... |
Wikipedia:Ronen Eldan#0 | Ronen Eldan (Hebrew: רונן אלדן) is an Israeli mathematician, working at OpenAI. Previously, Eldan was a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science working on probability theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science and the theory of machine learning. He received the 2018 Erdős Prize, the 2022 Blavatn... |
Wikipedia:Ronny Hadani#0 | Ronny Hadani (Hebrew: רוני הדני) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in representation theory and harmonic analysis, with applications to signal processing. He is known for developing Orthogonal Time Frequency and Space (OTFS) modulating techniques, a method used for making wireless 5G communications fas... |
Wikipedia:Rosa Donat#0 | Rosa María Donat Beneito (born 1960) is a Spanish applied mathematician whose research involves numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly multiresolution methods for problems modeling fluid dynamics with shock waves or with high Mach number. She is a professor of applied mathematics and vice re... |
Wikipedia:Rosa María Farfán#0 | Rosa María Farfán Márquez is a Mexican researcher in social epistemology and mathematics education, affiliated with CINVESTAV in the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. == Education and career == Farfán has been a researcher for CINVESTAV since 1985. She completed a doctorate through CINVESTAV in 1993, with the dissertatio... |
Wikipedia:Rosamund Sutherland#0 | Rosamund Sutherland (née Hatfield, 1947–2019) was a British mathematics educator. She was a professor emeritus at the University of Bristol, and the former head of the school of education at Bristol. == Education and career == Sutherland was born in Birmingham; her mother taught geography and her father was a physicist... |
Wikipedia:Rosella Kanarik#0 | Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014) was an American mathematics educator and was one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. in math from the University of Pittsburgh. She was one of the few women to earn a doctorate in math before World War II. == Biography == Rosella Kanarik was born February 7, 1909 in Bartfa, then part of Hu... |
Wikipedia:Rosemary Renaut#0 | Rosemary Anne Renaut is a British and American computational mathematician whose research interests include inverse problems and regularization with applications to medical imaging and seismic analysis. She is a professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University. == Education a... |
Wikipedia:Rosenbrock function#0 | In mathematical optimization, the Rosenbrock function is a non-convex function, introduced by Howard H. Rosenbrock in 1960, which is used as a performance test problem for optimization algorithms. It is also known as Rosenbrock's valley or Rosenbrock's banana function. The global minimum is inside a long, narrow, parab... |
Wikipedia:Ross Honsberger#0 | Ross Honsberger (1929–2016) was a Canadian mathematician and author on recreational mathematics. == Life == Honsberger studied mathematics at the University of Toronto, with a bachelor's degree, and then worked for ten years as a teacher in Toronto, before continuing his studies at the University of Waterloo (master's ... |
Wikipedia:Ross Street#0 | Ross Howard Street (born 29 September 1945, Sydney) is an Australian mathematician specialising in category theory. == Biography == Street completed his undergraduate and postgraduate study at the University of Sydney, where his dissertation advisor was Max Kelly. He is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Macquarie... |
Wikipedia:Rostislav Grigorchuk#0 | Rostislav Ivanovich Grigorchuk (Russian: Ростислав Иванович Григорчук; Ukrainian: Ростисла́в Iва́нович Григорчу́к; b. February 23, 1953) is a mathematician working in different areas of mathematics including group theory, dynamical systems, geometry and computer science. He holds the rank of Distinguished Professor in ... |
Wikipedia:Rot operator#0 | In vector calculus, the curl, also known as rotor, is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote the magnitude and axis of the maximum circulation. Th... |
Wikipedia:Rota's basis conjecture#0 | In linear algebra and matroid theory, Rota's basis conjecture is an unproven conjecture concerning rearrangements of bases, named after Gian-Carlo Rota. It states that, if X is either a vector space of dimension n or more generally a matroid of rank n, with n disjoint bases Bi, then it is possible to arrange the elemen... |
Wikipedia:Rotation number#0 | In mathematics, the rotation number is an invariant of homeomorphisms of the circle. == History == It was first defined by Henri Poincaré in 1885, in relation to the precession of the perihelion of a planetary orbit. Poincaré later proved a theorem characterizing the existence of periodic orbits in terms of rationality... |
Wikipedia:Rotation of axes in two dimensions#0 | In mathematics, a rotation of axes in two dimensions is a mapping from an xy-Cartesian coordinate system to an x′y′-Cartesian coordinate system in which the origin is kept fixed and the x′ and y′ axes are obtained by rotating the x and y axes counterclockwise through an angle θ {\displaystyle \theta } . A point P has c... |
Wikipedia:Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics#0 | The Rouse Ball Professorship of Mathematics is one of the senior chairs in the Mathematics Departments at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. The two positions were founded in 1927 by a bequest from the mathematician W. W. Rouse Ball. At Cambridge, this bequest was made with the "hope (but not mak... |
Wikipedia:Row and column spaces#0 | In linear algebra, the column space (also called the range or image) of a matrix A is the span (set of all possible linear combinations) of its column vectors. The column space of a matrix is the image or range of the corresponding matrix transformation. Let F {\displaystyle F} be a field. The column space of an m × n ... |
Wikipedia:Row and column vectors#0 | In linear algebra, a column vector with m {\displaystyle m} elements is an m × 1 {\displaystyle m\times 1} matrix consisting of a single column of m {\displaystyle m} entries, for example, x = [ x 1 x 2 ⋮ x m ] . {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {x}}={\begin{bmatrix}x_{1}\\x_{2}\\\vdots \\x_{m}\end{bmatrix}}.} Simil... |
Wikipedia:Row equivalence#0 | In linear algebra, two matrices are row equivalent if one can be changed to the other by a sequence of elementary row operations. Alternatively, two m × n matrices are row equivalent if and only if they have the same row space. The concept is most commonly applied to matrices that represent systems of linear equations,... |
Wikipedia:Rudolf Kruse#0 | Rudolf Kruse (born 12 September 1952 in Rotenburg/Wümme) is a German computer scientist and mathematician. == Education and professional career == Rudolf Kruse obtained his diploma (Mathematics) degree in 1979 from the TU Braunschweig, Germany, and a PhD in Mathematics in 1980 as well as the venia legendi in Mathematic... |
Wikipedia:Rudranath Capildeo#0 | Rudranath Capildeo (pronounced [rud̪rənɑːt̪ʰə kəpiləd̪eːoː]; 2 February 1920 – 12 May 1970) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, mathematician and barrister. He was a member of the prominent Hindu Indo-Trinidadian Capildeo family. Capildeo was the leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) from 1960 to 1969 an... |
Wikipedia:Rudy Horne#0 | Rudy Lee Horne (1968 – 2017) was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Morehouse College. He worked on dynamical systems, including nonlinear waves. He was the mathematics consultant for the film Hidden Figures. == Early life and education == Horne grew up in the south side of Chicago. His father wo... |
Wikipedia:Ruggiero Torelli#0 | Ruggiero Torelli (7 June 1884 in Naples – 9 September 1915) was an Italian mathematician who introduced Torelli's theorem, a classical result of algebraic geometry over the complex number field. == Publications == Ruggiero Torelli (1913). "Sulle varietà di Jacobi". Rendiconti della Reale accademia nazionale dei Lincei.... |
Wikipedia:Rule of Sarrus#0 | In matrix theory, the rule of Sarrus is a mnemonic device for computing the determinant of a 3 × 3 {\displaystyle 3\times 3} matrix named after the French mathematician Pierre Frédéric Sarrus. Consider a 3 × 3 {\displaystyle 3\times 3} matrix M = [ a b c d e f g h i ] {\displaystyle M={\begin{bmatrix}a&b&c\\d&e&f\\g&h&... |
Wikipedia:Ruma Falk#0 | Ruma Falk (Hebrew: רומה פלק, née Oren-Aharonovich, 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics. Falk was born in Jerusalem, and educated at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and Hebrew University of Jeru... |
Wikipedia:Ruriko Yoshida#0 | Ruriko (Rudy) Yoshida is a Japanese-American mathematician and statistician whose research topics have ranged from abstract mathematical problems in algebraic combinatorics to optimized camera placement in sensor networks and the phylogenomics of fungi. She works at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California... |
Wikipedia:Ruslan Smelyansky#0 | Ruslan Smelyansky (Russian: Русла́н Леони́дович Смеля́нский) (born 1950) is a Russian mathematician, Dr. Sc., Professor, a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He defended the thesis «Analysis of the performance of multipro... |
Wikipedia:Ruth Baker#0 | Ruth Madoc (born Margaret Ruth Llewellyn Baker; 16 April 1943 – 9 December 2022) was a British actress who had a career on stage and screen spanning over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Gladys Pugh in the BBC television comedy Hi-de-Hi! (1980–1988), for which she received a BAFTA TV award nomination for Be... |
Wikipedia:Ruth Kellerhals#0 | Ruth Kellerhals (born 17 July 1957) is a Swiss mathematician at the University of Fribourg, whose field of study is hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory and polylogarithm identities. == Biography == As a child, she went to a gymnasium in Basel and then studied at the University of Basel, graduating in 1982 with ... |
Wikipedia:Ruth Lawrence#0 | Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק, born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. In the public eye, she is best known for havi... |
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