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Wikipedia:Verónica Martínez de la Vega#0 | Verónica Martínez de la Vega y Mansilla is a Mexican mathematician whose research involves topology and hypertopology. She is a researcher in the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). == Education and career == Martínez de la Vega was born in Mexico City, on January 5, 1971. H... |
Wikipedia:Veselin Jungić#0 | Veselin Jungić (born June 12, 1955) is a Canadian mathematician who is a teaching professor of mathematics at the Simon Fraser University, in its Department of Mathematics. His research interests are in Ramsey theory and mathematical education. == Early life and education == Veselin Jungić was born in the city of Banja... |
Wikipedia:Viacheslav V. Nikulin#0 | Viacheslav Valentinovich Nikulin (Slava) is a Russian mathematician working in the algebraic geometry of K3 surfaces and Calabi–Yau threefolds, mirror symmetry, the arithmetic of quadratic forms, and hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Liverpool. A third chair of mathema... |
Wikipedia:Vicsek fractal#0 | In mathematics the Vicsek fractal, also known as Vicsek snowflake or box fractal, is a fractal arising from a construction similar to that of the Sierpiński carpet, proposed by Tamás Vicsek. It has applications including as compact antennas, particularly in cellular phones. Box fractal also refers to various iterated f... |
Wikipedia:Victor A. Vyssotsky#0 | Victor Alexander Vyssotsky (February 26, 1931 – December 24, 2012) was a mathematician and computer scientist. He was the technical head of the Multics project at Bell Labs and later executive director of Research in the Information Systems Division of AT&T Bell Labs. Multics, whilst not particularly commercially succe... |
Wikipedia:Victor Aladjev#0 | Victor Zakharovich Aladjev (Belarusian: Віктар Захаравіч Алад'еў; born June 14, 1942 - dead April 9, 2025) was an Estonian mathematician and cybernetician, creator of the scientific school on the theory of homogeneous structures. == Early life and education == Victor Aladjev was born in 1942 in Grodno to parents Zakhar... |
Wikipedia:Victor Buchstaber#0 | Victor Matveevich Buchstaber (Russian: Виктор Матвеевич Бухштабер, born 1 April 1943, Tashkent, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his work on algebraic topology, homotopy theory, and mathematical physics. == Work == Buchstaber's first research work was in cobordism theory. He calculated the ... |
Wikipedia:Victor Hugo Duarte de Lemos#0 | The University of Lisbon (UL; Portuguese: Universidade de Lisboa, pronounced [univɨɾsiˈðaðɨ ðɨ liʒˈβoɐ]; Latin: Universitas Olisiponensis) was a public university in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1911 after the fall of the Portuguese monarchy and was later integrated in the new University of Lisbon along with the... |
Wikipedia:Victor Isakov#0 | Victor Isakov (November 4, 1947 – May 14, 2021) was a mathematician working in the field of inverse problems for partial differential equations and related topics (potential theory, uniqueness of continuation and Carleman estimates, nonlinear functional analysis and calculus of variation). He was a distinguished profes... |
Wikipedia:Victor Ivrii#0 | Victor Ivrii (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Иврий), (born 1 October 1949) is a Russian, Canadian mathematician who specializes in analysis, microlocal analysis, spectral theory and partial differential equations. He is a professor at the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. He was an invited speaker at Internat... |
Wikipedia:Victor Kac#0 | Victor Gershevich (Grigorievich) Kac (Russian: Виктор Гершевич (Григорьевич) Кац; born 19 December 1943) is a Soviet and American mathematician at MIT, known for his work in representation theory. He co-discovered Kac–Moody algebras, and used the Weyl–Kac character formula for them to reprove the Macdonald identities. ... |
Wikipedia:Victor Kolyvagin#0 | Victor Alexandrovich Kolyvagin (Russian: Виктор Александрович Колывагин, born 11 March, 1955) is a Russian mathematician who wrote a series of papers on Euler systems, leading to breakthroughs on the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Iwasawa's conjecture for cyclotomic fields. His work also influenced Andrew Wi... |
Wikipedia:Victor Lidskii#0 | Victor Borisovich Lidskii (Russian: Виктор Борисович Лидский, 4 May 1924, Odessa – 29 July 2008, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who worked in spectral theory, operator theory, and shell theory. Lidskii discovered the Lidskii theorem in 1959. His adviser at Moscow State University was Israel Gelfand. == ... |
Wikipedia:Victor Lomonosov#0 | Victor Lomonosov (7 February 1946 – 29 March 2018) was a Russian-American mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in 1973 on the invariant subspace problem, which was described by Walter Rudin in his classical book on Functional Analysis as "Lomonosov's... |
Wikipedia:Victor Mazurov#0 | Victor Danilovich Mazurov (Russian: Виктор Данилович Мазуров; born January 31, 1943) is a Russian mathematician. He is well known for his works in group theory and is the founder of the Novosibirsk school of finite groups. Mazurov is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mazurov's parents Daniil Pe... |
Wikipedia:Victor W. Marek#0 | Victor Witold Marek, formerly Wiktor Witold Marek known as Witek Marek (born 22 March 1943) is a Polish mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. == Biography == Victor Witold Marek studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of ... |
Wikipedia:Victor Zalgaller#0 | Victor (Viktor) Abramovich Zalgaller (Hebrew: ויקטור אבּרמוביץ' זלגלר; Russian: Виктор Абрамович Залгаллер; 25 December 1920 – 2 October 2020) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in the fields of geometry and optimization. He is best known for the results he achieved on convex polyhedra, linear and dynamic programming,... |
Wikipedia:Vicumpriya Perera#0 | Vicumpriya Perera (Sinhala: විකුම්ප්රිය පෙරේරා) is a Sri Lankan born mathematician, lyricist, poet and music producer. He has published three books of Sinhala poetry, Mekunu Satahan (Sinhala: මැකුනු සටහන්) in 2001, Paa Satahan (Sinhala: පා සටහන්) in 2013, and Mawbime Suwandha (Sinhala: මව්බිමේ සුවඳ) in 2023. He has wr... |
Wikipedia:Vida Dujmović#0 | Vida Dujmović is a Canadian computer scientist and mathematician known for her research in graph theory and graph algorithms, and particularly for graph drawing, for the structural theory of graph width parameters including treewidth and queue number, and for the use of these parameters in the parameterized complexity ... |
Wikipedia:Vieta's formulas#0 | In mathematics, Vieta's formulas relate the coefficients of a polynomial to sums and products of its roots. They are named after François Viète (1540-1603), more commonly referred to by the Latinised form of his name, "Franciscus Vieta." == Basic formulas == Any general polynomial of degree n P ( x ) = a n x n + a n − ... |
Wikipedia:Vigen Malumian#0 | Vigen Malumian (Armenian: Վիգեն Հայկի Մալումյան) (Russian: Виген Гайкович Малумян) (11 March 1932 – 2 February 2013) was an Armenian astrophysicist who specialized in radio galaxies and the radio characteristics of spiral galaxies. He was a prominent scientist at the Byurakan Observatory in Armenia (BAO), a lecturer at... |
Wikipedia:Viggo Brun#0 | Viggo Brun (13 October 1885 – 15 August 1978) was a Norwegian professor, mathematician and number theorist. == Contributions == In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and ... |
Wikipedia:Viggo Stoltenberg-Hansen#0 | Viggo, also spelled Wiggo, is a Nordic male name. There are two main theories about its origins: a latinised form of the Old Norse name Viggeir, which is also found in the form of other Germanic names, such as Ludvig. It stems from old Norse vig-, meaning "battle, fight". a variant of the Icelandic name Vöggur, coming ... |
Wikipedia:Viktor Bunyakovsky#0 | Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (Russian: Виктор Яковлевич Буняковский; Ukrainian: Віктор Якович Буняковський, romanized: Viktor Yakovych Buniakovskyi; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1804 – 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1889) was a Russian mathematician, member and later vice president of the Petersburg Academy of Scien... |
Wikipedia:Viktor Korolev#0 | Viktor Korolev (Russian: Ви́ктор Юрьевич Королёв) (born 1954) is a Russian scientist in the field of mathematical statistics, Professor, Dr. Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. He defended the thesis «Limit distributions of random sequences with independent random indices... |
Wikipedia:Viktor Sadovnichiy#0 | Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy (Russian: Виктор Антонович Садовничий; born 3 April 1939) is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 the rector of Moscow State University. One of the main opinion leaders in Russia, Sadovnichiy has significant political and social influence. == Biograp... |
Wikipedia:Viktor Wagner#0 | Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner, also Vagner (Russian: Виктор Владимирович Вагнер) (4 November 1908 – 15 August 1981) was a Russian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and on semigroups. Wagner was born in Saratov and studied at Moscow State University, where Veniamin Kagan was his advisor. He b... |
Wikipedia:Vilhelm Bjerknes#0 | Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes ( BYURK-niss, Norwegian: [ˈʋɪlˌhɛlm ˈbjæɾknɛs]; 14 March 1862 – 9 April 1951) was a Norwegian mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who did much to lay the foundation of the modern practice of weather forecasting. He formulated the primitive equations that are still in use in numeric... |
Wikipedia:Vilmos Totik#0 | Vilmos Totik (Mosonmagyaróvár, March 8, 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in classical analysis, harmonic analysis, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, potential theory. He is a professor of the University of Szeged. Since 1989 he is also a part-time professor at the University of South Florida (Tam... |
Wikipedia:Vinay V. Deodhar#0 | Vinay Vithal Deodhar (3 December 1948 – 18 January 2015) was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Indiana University. He worked in the area of algebraic groups and representation theory. == Early life == Deodhar was born in Mumbai (Bombay), India in 1948. == Career == Deodhar earned his Ph.D. from t... |
Wikipedia:Vinayak Vatsal#0 | Vinayak Vatsal is a Canadian mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic geometry. == Education == Vatsal received his B.Sc. degree in 1992 from Stanford University and a Ph.D. (thesis title: Iwasawa Theory, modular forms and Artin representations) in 1997 from Princeton University under the supervision of An... |
Wikipedia:Vincent Reno#0 | Franklin Vincent Reno (14 May 1911 – 1 May 1990) was a mathematician and civilian employee at the United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland in the 1930s. Reno was a member of the "Karl group" of Soviet spies which was being handled by Whittaker Chambers until 1938. Reno confessed in late 1948 to his espion... |
Wikipedia:Vincenzo Mollame#0 | Vincenzo Mollame (Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 4 July 1848 – Catania, 23 June 1912) was an Italian mathematician. Mollame was privately tutored by Achille Sanni and then studied Mathematics at the University of Naples Federico II. After obtaining his degree, he became a high-school teacher, first at Benevento an... |
Wikipedia:Viorel P. Barbu#0 | Viorel P. Barbu (born 14 June 1941) is a Romanian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, control theory, and stochastic differential equations. == Biography == He was born in Deleni, Vaslui County, Romania. He attended the Mihail Kogălniceanu High School in Vaslui and then the Costache Negruzzi ... |
Wikipedia:Virasena#0 | Acharya Virasena (792-853 CE), also spelt as Veerasena, was a Digambara monk and belonged to the lineage of Acharya Kundakunda. He was an Indian mathematician and Jain philosopher and scholar. He was also known as a famous orator and an accomplished poet. His most reputed work is the Jain treatise Dhavala. The late Dr.... |
Wikipedia:Virgil of Salzburg#0 | Virgil (c. 700– 27 November 784), also spelled Vergil, Vergilius, Virgilius, Feirgil or Fearghal, was an Irish priest and early astronomer. He left Ireland around 745, intending to visit the Holy Land; but, like many of his countrymen, he settled in Francia. Virgil served as abbot of Aghaboe, bishop of Ossory and later... |
Wikipedia:Vissarion Alekseyev#0 | Vissarion Grigorievich Alekseyev (Russian: Виссарион Григорьевич Алексеев; 18 June 1866 – 1943) was a Russian mathematician. 1909-1914 and 1917–1918 he was the rector of Tartu University. He was graduated from Moscow University. Since 1891 he worked at Tartu University. In 1920 he moved permanently to Estonia. He died ... |
Wikipedia:Vitaly Khonik#0 | Khonik Vitaly Alexandrovich (Russian: Хоник Виталий Александрович; born 17 December 1955) is a Russian physicist, doctor of physics and mathematics, professor, head of a laboratory researching the physics of non-crystalline materials, and head of the Department of General Physics at Voronezh State Pedagogical Universit... |
Wikipedia:Vitold Belevitch#0 | Vitold Belevitch (2 March 1921 – 26 December 1999) was a Belgian mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Born to parents fleeing the Bolsheviks, he settled in Belgium where he worked on early computer construction projects. Bele... |
Wikipedia:Vittorio Francesco Stancari#0 | Vittorio Francesco Stancari (1678 – 1709) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna who undertook research into the measurement of sounds, and into optics and hydrostatics. == Career == Vittorio Francesco Stancari was born in Bologna in 1678. In 1698 he became a professor of mathematics at the Univers... |
Wikipedia:Vittorio Grünwald#0 | Vittorio Grünwald (Verona, Italy, 13 June 1855 – Florence, Italy, March 1943) was an Italian professor of mathematics and German language. His father Guglielmo (Willhelm) Grünwald (son of Aronne and Regina) was Hungarian, his mother Fortuna Marini (daughter of Mandolino Marini and Ricca Bassani) was Italian. In 1861 he... |
Wikipedia:Vivek Shende#0 | Vivek Vijay Shende is an American mathematician known for his work on algebraic geometry, symplectic geometry and quantum computing. He is a professor of Quantum Mathematics at Syddansk Universitet while on leave from University of California Berkeley. == Doctoral studies and early career == Shende defended his Ph.D. d... |
Wikipedia:Viveka Erlandsson#0 | Viveka Erlandsson is a Swedish mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology and geometry, and known in particular for extending the work of Maryam Mirzakhani on counting geodesics on hyperbolic manifolds. She is a lecturer at the University of Bristol and in a part position an associate professor at UiT The A... |
Wikipedia:Viviane Baladi#0 | Viviane Baladi (born 23 May 1963) is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Originally Swiss, she has become a naturalized citizen of France. Her research concerns dynamical systems. == Education and career == Baladi earned master's degr... |
Wikipedia:Vivien Challis#0 | Vivien Joy Challis is an Australian applied mathematician whose research involves topology optimisation through the level-set method and its application to bone implants, piezoelectric metamaterials, and robotics. She is a senior lecturer in applied and computational mathematics at the Queensland University of Technolo... |
Wikipedia:Viète's formula#0 | In mathematics, Viète's formula is the following infinite product of nested radicals representing twice the reciprocal of the mathematical constant π: 2 π = 2 2 ⋅ 2 + 2 2 ⋅ 2 + 2 + 2 2 ⋯ {\displaystyle {\frac {2}{\pi }}={\frac {\sqrt {2}}{2}}\cdot {\frac {\sqrt {2+{\sqrt {2}}}}{2}}\cdot {\frac {\sqrt {2+{\sqrt {2+{\sqr... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Andrunakievich#0 | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Andrunakievich (Russian: Владимир Александрович Андрунакиевич; 3 April 1917 – 22 July 1997) was a Soviet and Moldovan mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1958), academician (1961) and vice-president (1964—1969, 1979—1990) ... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Arnold#0 | Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (or Arnol'd; Russian: Влади́мир И́горевич Арно́льд, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ˈiɡərʲɪvʲɪtɕ ɐrˈnolʲt]; 12 June 1937 – 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems, and contributed to several a... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Bening#0 | Vladimir Bening (Russian: Влади́мир Евге́ньевич Бе́нинг) (born 1954) is a Russian mathematician, Professor, Dr.Sc., a professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Moscow State University. He defended the thesis «Asymptotic analysis of distributions of some asymptotically efficient statistics in problems of hypot... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Burkov#0 | Vladimir Nikolaevich Burkov (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Бурков; 17 November 1939 – 24 April 2025) was a Russian control theorist and the author of more than four hundred publications on control problems, game theory, and combinatorial optimization. A laureate of the USSR State Prize, of the Prize of the Cabinet Counc... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Dragović#0 | Vladimir Dragović (born 1967 in Belgrade, SR Serbia) is Professor and Head of the Mathematical Sciences Department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to this he was a Full Research Professor at Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the founder and president of the Dynamical Systems group and co-president of Th... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Entov#0 | Vladimir Markovich Entov (January 8, 1937 – April 10, 2008) was an applied mathematician and physicist. == Biography == During his high school years, Entov won multiple awards at the all-Union Physics Olympiads. In 1954 he graduated from a high school with a Gold Medal (valedictorian). He applied to the Physics Departm... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Gerdt#0 | Vladimir P. Gerdt (21 January 1947 – January 5, 2021) was a Russian mathematician and a full professor at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) where he was the head of the Group of Algebraic and Quantum Computations. His research interests were concentrated in computer algebra, symbolic and algebraic computa... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Korepin#0 | Vladimir E. Korepin (born 1951) is a professor at the C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Stony Brook University. Korepin made research contributions in several areas of mathematics and physics. == Educational background == Korepin completed his undergraduate study at Saint Petersburg State University, g... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Lefebvre#0 | Vladimir Alexandrovich Lefebvre (Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Лефе́вр, 22 September 1936 in Leningrad, USSR – 9 April 2020) was a mathematical psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. With his wife, V. I. Dubovskaya, Lefebvre left USSR for USA in 1974. He created equations to predict the large-scale consequenc... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Levenshtein#0 | Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein (Russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Левенште́йн, IPA: [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr ɨˈosʲɪfəvʲɪtɕ lʲɪvʲɪnˈʂtʲejn] ; 20 May 1935 – 6 September 2017) was a Russian and Soviet scientist who did research in information theory, error-correcting codes, and combinatorial design. Among other contributions, he is know... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Makanin#0 | Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin (Russian: Владимир Семёнович Маканин; 13 March 1937 in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union – 1 November 2017 in Krasny, Aksaysky District, Rostov Oblast, Russia) was a Russian writer of novels and short stories. == Life == Makanin graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathemati... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Malanin#0 | Vladimir Vladimirovich Malanin (born August 30, 1942, Sylvensk, Kungursky District, USSR) is a Russian mathematician. Rector, vice-rector and president of Perm University. Head of the Department of Control Processes and Information Security of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Perm University. Confidant of Ru... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Mazya#0 | Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya (Russian: Владимир Гилелевич Мазья; born 31 December 1937) (the family name is sometimes transliterated as Mazya, Maz'ja or Mazja) is a Russian-born Swedish mathematician, hailed as "one of the most distinguished analysts of our time" and as "an outstanding mathematician of worldwide reputati... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Miklyukov#0 | Vladimir Michaelovich Miklyukov (Russian: Миклюков, Владимир Михайлович, also spelled Miklioukov or Mikljukov) (8 January 1944 – October 2013) was a Russian educator in mathematics, and head of the Superslow Process workgroup based at Volgograd State University. == Biography == In 1970, as a student of Georgy D. Suvoro... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Neuvazhaev#0 | Vladimir Emelyanovich Neuvazhaev was born in 1935. He is a Soviet and Russian specialist in the field of computational mathematics, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1972), professor (1989), USSR State Prize Laureate (1972), and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2006). == Biography == Neuvazhaev was born on... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Platonov#0 | Vladimir Petrovich Platonov (Belarusian: Уладзімір Пятровіч Платонаў, Uladzimir Piatrovic Platonau; Russian: Влади́мир Петро́вич Плато́нов; born 1 December 1939, Stayki village, Vitebsk Region, Byelorussian SSR) is a Soviet, Belarusian and Russian mathematician. He is an expert in algebraic geometry and topology and me... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Popov (mathematician)#0 | Vladimir Leonidovich Popov (Russian: Влади́мир Леони́дович Попо́в; born 3 September 1946) is a Russian mathematician working in the invariant theory and the theory of transformation groups. == Education and career == In 1969 he graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. In 1972 ... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Retakh#0 | Vladimir Solomonovich Retakh (Russian: Ретах Владимир Соломонович; 20 May 1948) is a Russian-American mathematician who made important contributions to Noncommutative algebra and combinatorics among other areas. == Biography == Retakh graduated in 1970 from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. Beginning as an under... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Rokhlin Jr.#0 | Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. (born August 4, 1952) is a mathematician and professor of computer science and mathematics at Yale University. He is the co-inventor with Leslie Greengard of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1985, recognised as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century. In 2008, Rokhlin was elected as a m... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Smirnov (mathematician)#0 | Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Смирно́в; 10 June 1887 – 11 February 1974) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Smirnov worked on diverse areas of mathematics, such as complex functions and co... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Uspensky (mathematician)#0 | Vladimir Andreyevich Uspensky (Russian: Влади́мир Андре́евич Успе́нский; 27 November 1930 – 27 June 2018) was a Russian mathematician, linguist, writer, doctor of physics and mathematics (1964). He was the author of numerous papers on mathematical logic and linguistics. In addition, he also penned a number of memoir es... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Vapnik#0 | Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is a statistician, researcher, and academic. He is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning and the co-inventor of the support-vector machine method and support-vector clustering algorithms. =... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Varićak#0 | Vladimir Varićak (sometimes also spelled Vladimir Varičak; March 1, 1865 – January 17, 1942) was a Croatian Serb mathematician and theoretical physicist. == Biography == Varićak, an ethnic Serb, was born on March 1, 1865, in the village of Švica near Otočac, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia). He studied physics and... |
Wikipedia:Vladimir Zakalyukin#0 | Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin (in Russian: Владимир Михайлович Закалюкин; 9 July 1951 – 30 December 2011) was a Russian mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. He obtained his Ph.D. at Moscow State University in 1977 (the thesis: "Lagrangian and... |
Wikipedia:Vladimír Palko#0 | Vladimír Palko (born 20 May 1957 in Čuňovo) is a Slovak politician. He is a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and former interior minister of Slovakia. On 12 March 2008 he established a new party called Conservative Democrats of Slovakia after he left Christian Democratic Movement in February 2008, ... |
Wikipedia:Vladimír Šverák#0 | Vladimír Šverák (born 1959) is a Czech mathematician. Since 1990, he has been a professor at the University of Minnesota. Šverák made notable contributions to calculus of variations. Šverák obtained his doctorate from the Charles University in Prague in 1986, under supervision of Jindřich Nečas. He worked on problems i... |
Wikipedia:Vlastimil Dlab#0 | Vlastimil Dlab (born 5 August 1932) is a Czech-born Canadian mathematician who has worked in Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Australia and especially Canada where he founded and led an influential department of modern mathematics. == Biography == Dlab was born on August 5, 1932, in Bzí, Czechoslovakia, a historical village whos... |
Wikipedia:Vogan diagram#0 | In mathematics, a Vogan diagram, named after David Vogan, is a variation of the Dynkin diagram of a real semisimple Lie algebra that indicates the maximal compact subgroup. Although they resemble Satake diagrams they are a different way of classifying simple Lie algebras. == References == Knapp, Anthony W. (2002), Lie ... |
Wikipedia:Vojtěch Rödl#0 | Vojtěch Rödl (born 1 April 1949) is a Czech American mathematician, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is noted for his contributions mainly to combinatorics having authored hundreds of research papers. == Academic Background == Rödl obtained his PhD from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Cha... |
Wikipedia:Volodymyr Melnykov#0 | Volodymyr Melnykov (Ukrainian: Володимир Миколайович Мельников; born September 14, 1951) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, songwriter, author of lyrics and music for songs, inventor, composer and public figure, Merited Figure of Arts of Ukraine. == Biography == Volodymyr Melnykov was born on September 14, 1951 in the city o... |
Wikipedia:Volodymyr Shcherbyna#0 | Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Shcherbyna (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Щербина; 3 February 1935 – 19 January 2023) was a Ukrainian mathematician and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994. Shcherbyna died in Kharkiv on 19 January 2023, at the age of 87. == Refer... |
Wikipedia:Volterra's function#0 | In mathematics, Volterra's function, named for Vito Volterra, is a real-valued function V defined on the real line R with the following curious combination of properties: V is differentiable everywhere The derivative V ′ is bounded everywhere The derivative is not Riemann-integrable. == Definition and construction == T... |
Wikipedia:Vsevolod Romanovsky#0 | Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky (Russian: Всеволод Иванович Романовский; 4 December 1879, Verny – 6 December 1954, Tashkent) was a Russian, Soviet and Uzbek mathematician, founder of the Tashkent school of mathematics. == Education and career == In 1906 Romanovsky received, under the supervision of Andrey Markov, his doc... |
Wikipedia:Vyacheslav Feodoritov#0 | Vyacheslav Petrovich Feodoritov (Russian: Вячесла́в Петро́вич Феодори́тов)(February 28, 1928 - January 2, 2004), k.N, was a Russian physicist in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons. He was a co-designer of the first two-stage Soviet thermonuclear device, the RDS-37, and became a chief of laboratory at Arzamas-... |
Wikipedia:Václav Benda#0 | Václav Benda (August 8, 1946, Prague – June 2, 1999) was a Czech Roman Catholic activist and intellectual, and mathematician. Under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, Benda and his wife were rare in that they were devout Roman Catholics among the leadership of the anti-communist dissident organization Charter 77. After ... |
Wikipedia:Václav Chvátal#0 | Václav (Vašek) Chvátal (Czech: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈxvaːtal]) is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and a visiting professor at Charles University in Prague. He has published extensively on topics in graph theory, combinatorics... |
Wikipedia:Václav Hlavatý#0 | Václav Hlavatý (27 January 1894 – 11 January 1969) was a noted Czech-American mathematician, who wrote on the theory of relativity and corresponded extensively with Albert Einstein on the subject. In particular, Hlavatý solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory, which was featured... |
Wikipedia:Václav Šimerka#0 | Václav Šimerka (20 December 1819 – 26 December 1887) was a Czech mathematician, priest, physicist and philosopher. He wrote the first Czech text on calculus and is credited for discovering the first seven Carmichael numbers in 1885. == Biography == Šimerka was born on 20 December 1819 in Vysoké Veselí in Bohemia to a f... |
Wikipedia:Věra Kůrková#0 | Věra Kůrková (born 1948) is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist, affiliated with the Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include neural networks, computational learning theory, and nonlinear approximation theory. She formulated the abstract concept of a variat... |
Wikipedia:Věra Trnková#0 | Věra Šedivá-Trnková (March 16, 1934 – 27 May 2018) was a Czech mathematician known for her work in topology and in category theory. == Early life and education == Trnková was born on March 16, 1934, in Berehove, then in Czechoslovakia and now in Ukraine; her father was a forester. By the time she was in high school, he... |
Wikipedia:WKB approximation#0 | In mathematical physics, the WKB approximation or WKB method is a method for finding approximate solutions to linear differential equations with spatially varying coefficients. It is typically used for a semiclassical calculation in quantum mechanics in which the wavefunction is recast as an exponential function, semic... |
Wikipedia:Wacław Marzantowicz#0 | Wacław Bolesław Marzantowicz is a Polish mathematician known for his contributions in number theory and topology. He was President of the Polish Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2019. == Biography == In 1967 he became the finalist of the 18th Mathematical Olympiad. In 1972, he graduated in mathematics at Adam Mickiewi... |
Wikipedia:Wadim Zudilin#0 | Wadim Zudilin (Вадим Валентинович Зудилин) is a Russian mathematician and number theorist who is active in studying hypergeometric functions and zeta constants. He studied under Yuri V. Nesterenko and worked at Moscow State University, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and t... |
Wikipedia:Waleed Al-Salam#0 | Waleed Al-Salam (born 15 July 1926 in Baghdad, Iraq – died 14 April 1996 in Edmonton, Canada) was a mathematician who introduced Al-Salam–Chihara polynomials, Al-Salam–Carlitz polynomials, q-Konhauser polynomials, and Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials. He was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. Born in Iraq, B... |
Wikipedia:Walk-regular graph#0 | In graph theory, a walk-regular graph is a simple graph where the number of closed walks of any length ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } from a vertex to itself does only depend on ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } but not depend on the choice of vertex. Walk-regular graphs can be thought of as a spectral graph theory analogue of vertex-t... |
Wikipedia:Wallis Professor of Mathematics#0 | The Wallis Professorship of Mathematics is a chair in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. It was established in 1969 in honour of John Wallis, who was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 to 1703. == List of Wallis Professors of Mathematics == 1969 to 1985: John Kingman 1985 to 1997: S... |
Wikipedia:Walter Craig (mathematician)#0 | Walter L. Craig (1953 – January 18, 2019) was a United States born Canadian mathematician and a Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Analysis and Applications at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. == Personal life == Craig was born in State College, Pennsylvania in 1953. His father, a professor at Pennsylvania St... |
Wikipedia:Walter Davis Lambert#0 | Walter Davis Lambert (January 12, 1879 – October 27, 1968) was an American geodesist. Known for his mathematics work with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey as well as at multiple educational institutions, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1949—that same year, he won the William Bowie Medal and the ... |
Wikipedia:Walter Eugene Clark#0 | Walter Eugene Clark (September 8, 1881 – September 30, 1960), was an American philologist. He was the second Wales Professor of Sanskrit at Harvard University and editor of the volumes 38-44 of the Harvard Oriental Series. He translated the Aryabhatiya of Aryabhata with critical notes which was published in 1930, by th... |
Wikipedia:Walter Gautschi#0 | Walter Gautschi (; GOW-chee; born December 11, 1927) is a Swiss-born American mathematician, writer and professor emeritus of Computer science and Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is primarily known for his contributions to numerical analysis and has authored over 200 papers in his area a... |
Wikipedia:Walter Hayman#0 | Walter Kurt Hayman FRS (formerly Haymann; 6 January 1926 – 1 January 2020) was a British mathematician known for contributions to complex analysis. He was a professor at Imperial College London. == Life and work == Hayman was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Roman law professor Franz Haymann (1874-1947) and Ruth Th... |
Wikipedia:Walter Murray Wonham#0 | Walter Murray Wonham (1934 – May 14, 2023) was a Canadian control theorist and professor at the University of Toronto. He focused on multi-variable geometric control theory, stochastic control and stochastic filters, and the control of discrete event systems from the standpoint of mathematical logic and formal language... |
Wikipedia:Walter Warwick Sawyer#0 | Walter Warwick Sawyer (or W. W. Sawyer; April 5, 1911 – February 15, 2008) was a mathematician, mathematics educator and author, who taught on several continents. == Life and career == Walter Warwick Sawyer was born in St. Ives, Hunts, England on April 5, 1911. He attended Highgate School in London. He was an undergrad... |
Wikipedia:Walter Whiteley#0 | Walter John Whiteley is a professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada. He specializes in geometry and mathematics education, and is known for his expertise in structural rigidity and rigidity matroids. == Education and career == Whiteley graduated from Queen's University in 19... |
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