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Wikipedia:Walther Mayer#0 | Walther Mayer (11 March 1887 – 10 September 1948) was an Austrian mathematician, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary. With Leopold Vietoris he is the namesake of the Mayer–Vietoris sequence in topology. He served as an assistant to Albert Einstein and subsequently worked with him several years as a close collaborator, leadin... |
Wikipedia:Wanda Szmielew#0 | Wanda Szmielew née Montlak (5 April 1918 – 27 August 1976) was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups. == Life == Wanda Montlak was born on 5 April 1918 in Warsaw. She completed high school in 1935 and married, taking the name Szmielew. In the same y... |
Wikipedia:Wang algebra#0 | In algebra and network theory, a Wang algebra is a commutative algebra A {\displaystyle A} , over a field or (more generally) a commutative unital ring, in which A {\displaystyle A} has two additional properties:(Rule i) For all elements x of A {\displaystyle A} , x + x = 0 (universal additive nilpotency of degree 1).(... |
Wikipedia:Warren Ewens#0 | Warren John Ewens (born 23 January 1937 in Canberra) is an Australian-born mathematician who has been Professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania since 1997. (He also held that position 1972–1977.) He concentrates his research on the mathematical, statistical and theoretical aspects of population genetics. E... |
Wikipedia:Warsaw School (mathematics)#0 | Warsaw School of Mathematics is the name given to a group of mathematicians who worked at Warsaw, Poland, in the two decades between the World Wars, especially in the fields of logic, set theory, point-set topology and real analysis. They published in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, founded in 1920—one of the worl... |
Wikipedia:Warwick Tucker#0 | Warwick Tucker is an Australian mathematician at Monash University (previously deputy Chair and Chair at the Department of Mathematics at Uppsala University 2009–2020) who works on dynamical systems, chaos theory and computational mathematics. He is a recipient of the 2002 R. E. Moore Prize, and the 2004 EMS Prize. Tuc... |
Wikipedia:Watson's lemma#0 | In mathematics, Watson's lemma, proved by G. N. Watson (1918, p. 133), has significant application within the theory on the asymptotic behavior of integrals. == Statement of the lemma == Let 0 < T ≤ ∞ {\displaystyle 0<T\leq \infty } be fixed. Assume φ ( t ) = t λ g ( t ) {\displaystyle \varphi (t)=t^{\lambda }\,g(t)} ,... |
Wikipedia:Wave front set#0 | In mathematical analysis, more precisely in microlocal analysis, the wave front (set) WF(f) characterizes the singularities of a generalized function f, not only in space, but also with respect to its Fourier transform at each point. The term "wave front" was coined by Lars Hörmander around 1970. == Introduction == In ... |
Wikipedia:Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics#0 | The Waynflete Professorships are four professorial fellowships at the University of Oxford endowed by Magdalen College and named in honour of the college founder William of Waynflete, who had a great interest in science. These professorships are statutory professorships of the University, that is, they are professorshi... |
Wikipedia:Weierstrass Nullstellensatz#0 | In mathematics, Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (German for "theorem of zeros", or more literally, "zero-locus-theorem") is a theorem that establishes a fundamental relationship between geometry and algebra. This relationship is the basis of algebraic geometry. It relates algebraic sets to ideals in polynomial rings over alg... |
Wikipedia:Weight function#0 | A weight function is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set. The result of this application of a weight function is a weighted sum or weighted average. Weight functions occur frequently in ... |
Wikipedia:Weighted arithmetic mean#0 | The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others. The notion of weighted mean plays a role in descriptive statistics and also oc... |
Wikipedia:Weighted geometric mean#0 | In statistics, the weighted geometric mean is a generalization of the geometric mean using the weighted arithmetic mean. Given a sample x = ( x 1 , x 2 … , x n ) {\displaystyle x=(x_{1},x_{2}\dots ,x_{n})} and weights w = ( w 1 , w 2 , … , w n ) {\displaystyle w=(w_{1},w_{2},\dots ,w_{n})} , it is calculated as: x ¯ = ... |
Wikipedia:Weil algebra#0 | The term "Weil algebra" is also sometimes used to mean a finite-dimensional real local Artinian ring. In mathematics, the Weil algebra of a Lie algebra g, introduced by Cartan (1951) based on unpublished work of André Weil, is a differential graded algebra given by the Koszul algebra Λ(g*)⊗S(g*) of its dual g*. == Refe... |
Wikipedia:Weil conjectures#0 | In mathematics, the Weil conjectures were highly influential proposals by André Weil (1949). They led to a successful multi-decade program to prove them, in which many leading researchers developed the framework of modern algebraic geometry and number theory. The conjectures concern the generating functions (known as l... |
Wikipedia:Weitzenböck identity#0 | In mathematics, in particular in differential geometry, mathematical physics, and representation theory, a Weitzenböck identity, named after Roland Weitzenböck, expresses a relationship between two second-order elliptic operators on a manifold with the same principal symbol. Usually Weitzenböck formulae are implemented... |
Wikipedia:Wenxian Shen#0 | Wenxian Shen is a Chinese-American mathematician known for her work in topological dynamics, almost-periodicity, waves and other spatial patterns in dynamical systems. She is Don Logan Chair of Mathematics at Auburn University. == Education == Shen graduated from Zhejiang Normal University in 1982, and earned a master'... |
Wikipedia:Werner Fenchel#0 | Moritz Werner Fenchel (German: [ˈfɛnçəl]; 3 May 1905 – 24 January 1988) was a German-Danish mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to optimization theory. Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonli... |
Wikipedia:Weyl algebra#0 | In abstract algebra, the Weyl algebras are abstracted from the ring of differential operators with polynomial coefficients. They are named after Hermann Weyl, who introduced them to study the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. In the simplest case, these are differential operators. Let F {\displayst... |
Wikipedia:Weyl expansion#0 | In physics, the Weyl expansion, also known as the Weyl identity or angular spectrum expansion, expresses an outgoing spherical wave as a linear combination of plane waves. In a Cartesian coordinate system, it can be denoted as e − j k 0 r r = 1 j 2 π ∫ − ∞ ∞ ∫ − ∞ ∞ d k x d k y e − j ( k x x + k y y ) e − j k z | z | k... |
Wikipedia:Weyl's inequality#0 | In linear algebra, Weyl's inequality is a theorem about the changes to eigenvalues of an Hermitian matrix that is perturbed. It can be used to estimate the eigenvalues of a perturbed Hermitian matrix. == Weyl's inequality about perturbation == Let A , B {\textstyle A,B} be Hermitian on inner product space V {\textstyle... |
Wikipedia:Weyr canonical form#0 | In mathematics, in linear algebra, a Weyr canonical form (or, Weyr form or Weyr matrix) is a square matrix which (in some sense) induces "nice" properties with matrices it commutes with. It also has a particularly simple structure and the conditions for possessing a Weyr form are fairly weak, making it a suitable tool ... |
Wikipedia:Whitney extension theorem#0 | In mathematics, in particular in mathematical analysis, the Whitney extension theorem is a partial converse to Taylor's theorem. Roughly speaking, the theorem asserts that if A is a closed subset of a Euclidean space, then it is possible to extend a given function of A in such a way as to have prescribed derivatives at... |
Wikipedia:Wild problem#0 | In the mathematical areas of linear algebra and representation theory, a problem is wild if it contains the problem of classifying pairs of square matrices up to simultaneous similarity. Examples of wild problems are classifying indecomposable representations of any quiver that is neither a Dynkin quiver (i.e. the unde... |
Wikipedia:Wilf Malcolm#0 | Wilfred Gordon Malcolm (29 November 1933 – 6 October 2018) was a New Zealand mathematician and university administrator. He was professor of pure mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington from the mid 1970s, until serving as vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato between 1985 and 1994. == Biography == Born... |
Wikipedia:Wilfred Cockcroft#0 | Sir Wilfred Halliday Cockcroft (7 June 1923 – 27 September 1999) was an eminent mathematics educator from the University of Hull. == Early life == He attended Keighley Boys' Grammar School, now called Beckfoot Oakbank, and studied Mathematics at Balliol College, Oxford. During WWII he worked in radar. == Career == === ... |
Wikipedia:Wilfried Imrich#0 | Wilfried Imrich (born 25 May 1941) is an Austrian mathematician working mainly in graph theory. He is known for his work on graph products, and authored the books Product Graphs: Structure and Recognition (Wiley, 2000, with Sandi Klavžar), Topics in graph theory: Graphs and their Cartesian Products (AK Peters, 2008, wi... |
Wikipedia:William Feller#0 | William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian–American mathematician specializing in probability theory. == Early life and education == Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croatian–Austrian Catholic, and Eugen Viktor Feller, son of a Polish–Jewish fa... |
Wikipedia:William G. McCallum#0 | William G. McCallum (born 1956 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. His professional interests include arithmetical algebraic geometry and mathematics education. == Education and professional work == McCallum received a bachelor's degree from... |
Wikipedia:William H. Bossert#0 | William H. Bossert (born 1937) is an American mathematician. He is the David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science, Emeritus at Harvard University. He was the housemaster of Lowell House for 23 years. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1963. == Publications == With Edward O. Wilson A primer of population biology (1971) ... |
Wikipedia:William Hamilton Martin#0 | In September 1960, two U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) cryptologists, William Hamilton Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell, defected to the Soviet Union. A secret 1963 NSA study said that: "Beyond any doubt, no other event has had, or is likely to have in the future, a greater impact on the Agency's security program." Ma... |
Wikipedia:William Hanson Dodge#0 | William Hanson Dodge (March 5, 1866 – February 1, 1932) was an American photographer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, living in Lowell, Massachusetts. His son, Harold F. Dodge, a noted mathematician, was a pioneer in the field of statistical quality control. William Dodge was employed by the Lowell... |
Wikipedia:William Kingdon Clifford#0 | William Kingdon Clifford (4 May 1845 – 3 March 1879) was a British mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour. The operations of geometric algebra have the effect of mirroring, r... |
Wikipedia:William Metzler#0 | William Henry Metzler (1863–1943) was a Canadian mathematician. == Career == He was born in Odessa, Canada West on 18 September 1863. He studied mathematics at the University of Toronto under Henry Taber from 1886, graduating in 1888 and then continuing as a postgraduate. He gained his doctorate in 1892. In 1895 he was... |
Wikipedia:William S. Burnside#0 | This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920). William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. Burnside was born in London in 1852. He went to school at... |
Wikipedia:William Yslas Vélez#0 | William "Bill" Yslas Vélez is an American mathematician, a current Emeritus Professor at the University of Arizona, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. From 1992–96, Vélez served as the president of Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in S... |
Wikipedia:Winfried Scharlau#0 | Winfried Scharlau (12 August 1940, in Berlin – 26 November 2020) was a German mathematician. == Biography == Scharlau received his doctorate in 1967 from the University of Bonn. His doctoral thesis Quadratische Formen und Galois-Cohomologie (Quadratic Forms and Galois Cohomology) was supervised by Friedrich Hirzebruch.... |
Wikipedia:Wirtinger derivatives#0 | In complex analysis of one and several complex variables, Wirtinger derivatives (sometimes also called Wirtinger operators), named after Wilhelm Wirtinger who introduced them in 1927 in the course of his studies on the theory of functions of several complex variables, are partial differential operators of the first ord... |
Wikipedia:Wirtinger's inequality for functions#0 | For other inequalities named after Wirtinger, see Wirtinger's inequality. In the mathematical field of analysis, the Wirtinger inequality is an important inequality for functions of a single variable, named after Wilhelm Wirtinger. It was used by Adolf Hurwitz in 1901 to give a new proof of the isoperimetric inequality... |
Wikipedia:Witold Kosiński#0 | Witold Kosiński (August 13, 1946 in Kraków – March 14, 2014 in Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist. He was the lead inventor and main propagator of Ordered Fuzzy Numbers (now named after him: Kosiński's Fuzzy Numbers). For many years Professor Witold Kosiński was associated with the Institute of F... |
Wikipedia:Witold Nowacki#0 | Prof Witold Nowacki HFRSE PPAS (1911–1986) was a Polish mathematician and expert on the mechanics of elasticity and thermoelasticity. He served as President of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1980 and was the first President of the Society of the Interaction of Mathematics and Mechanics. == Life == He was b... |
Wikipedia:Witten zeta function#0 | In mathematics, the Witten zeta function, is a function associated to a root system that encodes the degrees of the irreducible representations of the corresponding Lie group. These zeta functions were introduced by Don Zagier who named them after Edward Witten's study of their special values (among other things). Note... |
Wikipedia:Wojciech Samotij#0 | Wojciech Samotij (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛx saˈmɔtij]) is a Polish mathematician and a full professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Tel Aviv University. He is known for his work in combinatorics, additive number theory, Ramsey theory and graph theory. == Education and career == He studied at the University of ... |
Wikipedia:Wojciech Szpankowski#0 | Wojciech Szpankowski (born February 18, 1952, in Wapno) is the Saul Rosen Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his work in analytic combinatorics, analysis of algorithms and analytic information theory. He is the director of the NSF Science and Technology Center for Science of Information... |
Wikipedia:Wojciech Zaremba#0 | Wojciech Zaremba (born 30 November 1988) is a Polish computer scientist and founding team member of OpenAI (2016–present). He initially led OpenAI's work on robotics, notably creating a robotic arm capable of solving Rubik's Cube. When the team was dissolved in 2020, he began leading teams working on OpenAI's GPT model... |
Wikipedia:Wolfgang Sternberg#0 | Wolfgang Sternberg (1887–1953) was a German-American mathematician. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1912 at Breslau and his habilitation in 1920 at Heidelberg University. In 1935 Sternberg was dismissed by the non-Aryan laws from his post at Breslau, and briefly went to Palestine. However, in Palestine he was... |
Wikipedia:Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Numerical Radii#0 | Workshop on Numerical Ranges and Numerical Radii (WONRA) is a biennial workshop series on numerical ranges and numerical radii which began in 1992. == About == Numerical ranges and numerical radii are useful in the study of matrix and operator theory. These topics have applications in many subjects in pure and applied ... |
Wikipedia:Worley noise#0 | Worley noise, also called Voronoi noise and cellular noise, is a noise function introduced by Steven Worley in 1996. Worley noise is an extension of the Voronoi diagram that outputs a real value at a given coordinate that corresponds to the distance of the nth nearest seed (usually n=1) and the seeds are distributed ev... |
Wikipedia:Wrangler (University of Cambridge)#0 | At the University of Cambridge in England, a "Wrangler" is a student who gains first-class honours in the Mathematical Tripos competition. The highest-scoring student is the Senior Wrangler, the second highest is the Second Wrangler, and so on. By contrast, the person who achieves the lowest exam marks while still earn... |
Wikipedia:Wu's method of characteristic set#0 | Wenjun Wu's method is an algorithm for solving multivariate polynomial equations introduced in the late 1970s by the Chinese mathematician Wen-Tsun Wu. This method is based on the mathematical concept of characteristic set introduced in the late 1940s by J.F. Ritt. It is fully independent of the Gröbner basis method, i... |
Wikipedia:Wucao Suanjing#0 | Wucao Suanjing (五曹算經; Mathematical Manual of the Five Administrative Departments) is one of the books in the collection of mathematical texts assembled by Li Chunfeng and collectively referred to as The Ten Computational Canons by later writers. The text was designed for the teaching of those entering the five governme... |
Wikipedia:Wujing Suanshu#0 | Wujing Suanshu (五經算術; translated as Mathematical Procedures of the Five Canons or Arithmetic methods in the Five Classics) is a 6th-century Chinese mathematical text written by Zhen Luan (535 – 566). During the early Tang dynasty, the text was selected to be part of the collection Ten Computational Canons. == Reference... |
Wikipedia:Władysław Matwin#0 | Władysław Matwin (17 July 1916 – 21 October 2012) was a Polish politician, journalist and mathematician who was one of the pioneers of computer science in Poland. == Biography == After his parents divorced, he and his mother found themselves in Poznań, where he studied economics. At that time he belonged to the Communi... |
Wikipedia:Władysław Zajączkowski#0 | Władysław Zajączkowski (April 12, 1837, in Strzyżów near the Rzeszów – October 7, 1898, in Lwów) was a Polish mathematician. Professor of Warsaw Main School, Imperial University of Warsaw (now University of Warsaw), Technical Academy in Lviv (now Lviv Polytechnic; twice a rector). Member of Polish Academy of Learning a... |
Wikipedia:Włodzimierz Marek Tulczyjew#0 | Włodzimierz Marek Tulczyjew (18 June 1931 – 4 December 2022) was a Polish-Italian physicist and mathematician, known for his contributions to the geometric formulation of classical mechanics and field theory. He was a professor emeritus of mathematical methods of physics at the University of Camerino and a member of th... |
Wikipedia:Xavier Tolsa#0 | Xavier Tolsa (born 1966) is a Catalan mathematician, specializing in analysis. Tolsa is a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), the Catalan Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies. Tolsa does research on harmonic analysis (Calderón-Zy... |
Wikipedia:Xhezair Teliti#0 | Xhezair Teliti (born 17 February 1948, in Kavajë) is a professor of mathematics and has served as chief of the Department of Mathematics at Tirana University since 2008. He was Albania's Minister of Education from 1993–1996. == Career == His field of study is Functional Analysis and Theory of Mass and Integration. Teli... |
Wikipedia:Xiahou Yang Suanjing#0 | Xiahou Yang Suanjing (Xiahou Yang's Mathematical Manual) is a mathematical treatise attributed to the fifth century CE Chinese mathematician Xiahou Yang. However, some historians are of the opinion that Xiahou Yang Suanjing was not written by Xiahou Yang. It is one of the books in The Ten Computational Canons, a collec... |
Wikipedia:Xiaojun Chen#0 | Xiaojun Chen is a Chinese applied mathematician, Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization, complementarity theory, and stochastic equilibrium problems. == Education and career == Chen completed her Ph.D. in 1987 at Xi... |
Wikipedia:Xiaoying Han#0 | Xiaoying (Maggie) Han is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns random dynamical systems, stochastic differential equations, and actuarial science. She is Marguerite Scharnagle Endowed Professor in Mathematics at Auburn University. == Education and career == Han graduated from the University of Science and Tec... |
Wikipedia:Xiaoyu Luo#0 | Xiaoyu Luo (Chinese: 罗小玉, born 1960) is a Chinese and British applied mathematician who studies biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and the interactions of fluid flows with soft biological tissues. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Glasgow. == Education and career == Luo was born in the UK but gr... |
Wikipedia:Xu-Jia Wang#0 | Xu-Jia Wang (Chinese: 汪徐家; pinyin: Wāng Xújiā; born September 1963) is a Chinese-Australian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Australian National University and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. He joined Westlake University in Hangzhou, China in September 2024 as full-time Chair Profe... |
Wikipedia:Xuan tu#0 | Xuan tu or Hsuan thu (simplified Chinese: 弦图; traditional Chinese: 絃圖; pinyin: xuántú; Wade–Giles: hsüan2 tʻu2) is a diagram given in the ancient Chinese astronomical and mathematical text Zhoubi Suanjing indicating a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Zhoubi Suanjing is one of the oldest Chinese texts on mathematics. T... |
Wikipedia:YBC 7289#0 | YBC 7289 is a Babylonian clay tablet notable for containing an accurate sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2, the length of the diagonal of a unit square. This number is given to the equivalent of six decimal digits, "the greatest known computational accuracy ... in the ancient world". The tablet is believ... |
Wikipedia:Yael Dowker#0 | Yael Naim Dowker (Hebrew: יעל נעים דוקר; born Yael Naim; 30 October 1919 – 28 January 2016) was an Israeli-born English mathematician, prominent especially due to her work in the fields of measure theory, ergodic theory and topological dynamics. == Biography == Yael Naim (later Dowker) was born in Tel Aviv. She left fo... |
Wikipedia:Yael Karshon#0 | Yael Karshon (Hebrew: יעל קרשון; born 1964) is an Israeli and Canadian mathematician who has been described as "one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry". She works as a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Tel Aviv University . == Education and career == Karshon took part in the 1982 In... |
Wikipedia:Yair Censor#0 | Yair Censor (Hebrew: יאיר צנזור; born November 29, 1943) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at the University of Haifa, specializing in computational mathematics and optimization, as well as applications of these fields, in particular to medical imaging and radiation therapy treatment planning. == Biography ==... |
Wikipedia:Yakov Geronimus#0 | Yakov Lazarevich Geronimus, sometimes spelled J. Geronimus (Russian: Я́ков Лазаре́вич Геро́нимус; February 6, 1898, Rostov – July 17, 1984, Kharkov) was a Russian mathematician known for contributions to theoretical mechanics and the study of orthogonal polynomials. The Geronimus polynomials are named after him. == Ref... |
Wikipedia:Yakov Pesin#0 | Yakov Borisovich Pesin (Russian: Яков Борисович Песин) was born in Moscow, Russia (former USSR) on December 12, 1946. Pesin is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Director of the Anatole Katok Center for Dynamical Systems and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU). ... |
Wikipedia:Yan Rachinsky#0 | Yan Zbignevich Rachinsky (Russian: Ян Збигневич Рачинский, also spelt Jan Raczynski, born 6 December 1958 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian human rights activist, programmer and mathematician. He has been a human rights activist since the late 1980s when he first became involved in the work and activities of Memorial, a hu... |
Wikipedia:Yan Soibelman#0 | Iakov (Yan) Soibelman (Russian: Яков Семенович Сойбельман) born 15 April 1956 (Kiev, USSR) is a Russian American mathematician, professor at Kansas State University (Manhattan, USA), member of the Kyiv Mathematical Society (Ukraine), founder of Manhattan Mathematical Olympiad. == Scientific work == Yan Soibelman is a s... |
Wikipedia:Yaroslav Lopatynskyi#0 | Yaroslav Borysovych Lopatynskyi (1906–1981) was a Soviet mathematician. Born in Tbilisi, Lopatinskii acquired wide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of differential equations. He is especially known for his condition of stability for boundary-value problems in elliptic equations and for initial boundary-value... |
Wikipedia:Yash Mittal#0 | Yashaswini Deval Mittal (born 1941) is a retired mathematician specializing in probability theory and mathematical statistics. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Arizona. Mittal has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, completed in 1972. Her dissertation, Limiting Behaviou... |
Wikipedia:Yasuo Akizuki#0 | Yasuo Akizuki (23 August 1902 – 11 July 1984) was a Japanese mathematician. He was a professor at Kyoto University. Alongside Wolfgang Krull, Oscar Zariski, and Masayoshi Nagata, he is famous for his early work in commutative algebra. In particular, he is most well known in helping to demonstrate Akizuki–Hopkins–Levitz... |
Wikipedia:Yasuyuki Kawahigashi#0 | Yasuyuki Kawahigashi (河東 泰之, born 1962), formerly known as Yasuyuki Asano, is a Japanese mathematician and a professor at the Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo. His primary area of expertise is operator algebra theory. == Career == Born in Ōta, Tokyo, Kawahigashi was raised in a family w... |
Wikipedia:Yboon García Ramos#0 | Yboon Victoria García Ramos is a Peruvian mathematician with a Ph.D. from the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane and the National University of Engineering.[2] Currently, García is an ordinary professor and researcher at Universidad del Pacífico. == Education == Her interest in science led her to pursue a career i... |
Wikipedia:Yevgeny Dyakonov#0 | Evgenii Georgievich Dyakonov (Russian: Евгений Георгиевич Дьяконов) (July 2, 1935 – August 11, 2006) was a Russian mathematician. Dyakonov was a Ph.D. student of Sergei Sobolev. He worked at the Moscow State University. He authored over hundred papers and several books. Dyakonov was recognized for his pioneering work i... |
Wikipedia:Yigu yanduan#0 | Yigu yanduan (益古演段 Old Mathematics in Expanded Sections) is a 13th-century mathematical work by Yuan dynasty mathematician Li Zhi. == Overview == Yigu yanduan was based on Northern Song mathematician Jiang Zhou's (蒋周) Yigu Ji (益古集 Collection of Old Mathematics) which is not extant. However, from fragments quoted in Yan... |
Wikipedia:Yilin Wang#0 | Wang Yilin (Chinese: 王宜林; pinyin: Wáng Yílín; born September 1956) is a Chinese business and oil magnate who was the chairman of the Board of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the chairman of the Board of PetroChina. Wang, as the country's most influential business leader, has accompanied Chinese Communis... |
Wikipedia:Yingda Cheng#0 | Yingda Cheng (Chinese: 程颖达, born 1983) is a Chinese-American applied mathematician specializing in scientific computation and numerical analysis, including Galerkin methods for the computational solution of differential equations and the simulation of nonlinear optics and plasma physics. She is a professor of mathemati... |
Wikipedia:Yiqun Lisa Yin#0 | Yiqun Lisa Yin (Chinese: 殷益群; pinyin: Yīn Yìqún) is a Chinese-American cryptographer and independent security consultant. Yin is known for breaking the SHA-1 cryptographic hash function, for developing the RC6 block cipher, and for her service as editor of the IEEE P1363 project for the standardization of public-key cr... |
Wikipedia:Yitzhak Katznelson#0 | Yitzhak Katznelson (Hebrew: יצחק כצנלסון; born 1934) is an Israeli mathematician. Katznelson was born in Jerusalem. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Paris in 1956. He is a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. He is the author of An Introduction to Harmonic Analysis, which won the Steel... |
Wikipedia:Yoneda product#0 | In algebra, the Yoneda product (named after Nobuo Yoneda) is the pairing between Ext groups of modules: Ext n ( M , N ) ⊗ Ext m ( L , M ) → Ext n + m ( L , N ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {Ext} ^{n}(M,N)\otimes \operatorname {Ext} ^{m}(L,M)\to \operatorname {Ext} ^{n+m}(L,N)} induced by Hom ( N , M ) ⊗ Hom (... |
Wikipedia:Yoshie Katsurada#0 | Yoshie Katsurada (Japanese: 桂田 芳枝, 3 September 1911 – 10 May 1980) was a Japanese mathematician specializing in differential geometry. She became the first Japanese woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, in 1950, and the first to obtain an imperial university professorship in mathematics, in 1967. == Life == Katsura... |
Wikipedia:Yoshiko Ogata#0 | Yoshiko Ogata (Japanese: 緒方 芳子) is a Japanese mathematical physicist whose research concerns quantum statistical mechanics, quantum information theory, and the quantum many-body problem. She is a professor of mathematics at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University. == Education and career == O... |
Wikipedia:Yoshiko Wakabayashi#0 | Yoshiko Wakabayashi (born 21 May 1950) is a Brazilian computer scientist and applied mathematician whose research interests include combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, packing problems, and graph algorithms. She is a professor in the department of computer science and institute of mathematics and stat... |
Wikipedia:Yoshio Shimamoto#0 | Yoshio Shimamoto was a nuclear physicist who also did work in mathematics and computer science. While at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1954-1987), he designed the logic for the MERLIN digital computer in 1958, and served as chairman of the Applied Mathematics Department from 1964 to 1975. Shimamoto researched in comb... |
Wikipedia:Young symmetrizer#0 | In mathematics, a Young symmetrizer is an element of the group algebra of the symmetric group S n {\displaystyle S_{n}} whose natural action on tensor products V ⊗ n {\displaystyle V^{\otimes n}} of a complex vector space V {\displaystyle V} has as image an irreducible representation of the group of invertible linear t... |
Wikipedia:Young tableau#0 | In mathematics, a Young tableau (; plural: tableaux) is a combinatorial object useful in representation theory and Schubert calculus. It provides a convenient way to describe the group representations of the symmetric and general linear groups and to study their properties. Young tableaux were introduced by Alfred Youn... |
Wikipedia:Young's lattice#0 | In mathematics, Young's lattice is a lattice that is formed by all integer partitions. It is named after Alfred Young, who, in a series of papers On quantitative substitutional analysis, developed the representation theory of the symmetric group. In Young's theory, the objects now called Young diagrams and the partial ... |
Wikipedia:Yousef Saad#0 | Yousef Saad (born 1950) in Algiers, Algeria from Boghni, Tizi Ouzou, Kabylia is an I.T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He holds the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing since January 2006. He is known for his co... |
Wikipedia:Yuan Wang (control theorist)#0 | Yuan Wang (Chinese: 王沅) is a Chinese-American mathematician specializing in control theory and known for her research on input-to-state stability. She is a professor of mathematics at Florida Atlantic University, chair of the university's Department of Mathematical Sciences, and a moderator for the arXiv mathematical p... |
Wikipedia:Yuktibhāṣā#0 | Yuktibhāṣā (Malayalam: യുക്തിഭാഷ, lit. 'Rationale'), also known as Gaṇita-yukti-bhāṣā: xxi and Gaṇitanyāyasaṅgraha (English: Compendium of Astronomical Rationale), is a major treatise on mathematics and astronomy, written by the Indian astronomer Jyesthadeva of the Kerala school of mathematics around 1530. The treatise... |
Wikipedia:Yulij Ilyashenko#0 | Yulij Sergeevich Ilyashenko (Юлий Сергеевич Ильяшенко, 4 November 1943, Moscow) is a Russian mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems, differential equations, and complex foliations. Ilyashenko received in 1969 from Moscow State University his Russian candidate degree (Ph.D.) under Evgenii Landis and Vladimir A... |
Wikipedia:Yupana#0 | A Yūpa (यूप), or Yūpastambha, was a Vedic sacrificial pillar used in Ancient India. It is one of the most important elements of the Vedic rituals for animal sacrifice. The execution of a victim (generally an animal), who was tied at the yūpa, was meant to bring prosperity to everyone. Most yūpa, and all from the Vedic ... |
Wikipedia:Yuri A. Kuznetsov#0 | Yuri A. Kuznetsov is a Russian-American mathematician currently the M. D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mathematics at University of Houston and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Numerical Mathematics. == References == |
Wikipedia:Yuri Babayev#0 | Yuri Nikolayevich Babayev (Russian: Юрий Николаевич Бабаев; 21 May 1928 – 6 October 1986), k.N, was a Soviet physicist who spent a long career in the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons, and known as one of the principles who designed the Tsar Bomba, the largest-ever nuclear weapon. == Early life == He was born in... |
Wikipedia:Yuri Manin#0 | Yuri Ivanovich Manin (Russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Ма́нин; 16 February 1937 – 7 January 2023) was a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics. == Life and career == Manin was born on 16 February 1937... |
Wikipedia:Yuri Nesterenko (mathematician)#0 | Yuri Valentinovich Nesterenko (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Нестере́нко; born 5 December 1946 in Kharkov, USSR, now Ukraine) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician who has written papers in algebraic independence theory and transcendental number theory. In 1997, he was awarded the Ostrowski Prize for his proof that the ... |
Wikipedia:Yuri Ofman#0 | Yuri Petrovich Ofman (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Офман, born 1939) is a Russian mathematician who works in computational complexity theory. He obtained his Doctorate from Moscow State University, where he was advised by Andrey Kolmogorov. He did important early work on parallel algorithms for prefix sums and their applic... |
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