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Wikipedia:Yuri Petunin#0 | Yuri Ivanovich Petunin (Russian: Юрий Иванович Петунин) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician. Petunin was born in the city of Michurinsk (USSR) on September 30, 1937. After graduating from the Tambov State Pedagogical Institute he began his studies at Voronezh State University under the supervision of S.G Krein. He... |
Wikipedia:Yurii Egorov#0 | Yurii (or Yuri) Vladimirovich Egorov (Юрий Владимирович Егоров, 11 July 1938 – 6 October 2018) was a Russian-Soviet mathematician who specialised in differential equations. == Life and career == In 1960 he completed his undergraduate studies at the Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University (MSU). In ... |
Wikipedia:Yurii Nesterov#0 | Yurii Nesterov is a Russian mathematician, an internationally recognized expert in convex optimization, especially in the development of efficient algorithms and numerical optimization analysis. He is currently a professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain). == Biography == In 1977, Yurii Nesterov graduated in ap... |
Wikipedia:Yuriy Drozd#0 | Yuriy Drozd (Ukrainian: Юрій Анатолійович Дрозд; born October 15, 1944) is a Ukrainian mathematician working primarily in algebra. He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and head of the Department of Algebra and Topology at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sci... |
Wikipedia:Yury Drobyshev#0 | Yury Aleksandrovich Drobyshev (Russian: Юрий Александрович Дробышев; 24 June 1955 – 22 April 2024) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, Doctor of Education, professor and rector of Kaluga State University from 2004 to 2010. == Biography == Drobyshev was born on 24 June 1955, in Abakan into a family of employees. In 1972... |
Wikipedia:Yury Yershov#0 | Yury Leonidovich Yershov (Russian: Ю́рий Леони́дович Ершо́в, born 1 May 1940 [1]) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. Yury Yershov was born in 1940 in Novosibirsk. In 1958 he entered the Tomsk State University and in 1963 graduated from the Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University. In 1964 he succ... |
Wikipedia:Yusu Wang#0 | Yusu Wang is a Chinese computer scientist and mathematician who works as a professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego . Her research concerns computational geometry and computational topology, including results on discrete Laplace operators, curve simplification, and F... |
Wikipedia:Yutaka Taniyama#0 | Yutaka Taniyama (谷山 豊, Taniyama Yutaka, 12 November 1927 – 17 November 1958) was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture. == Life == Taniyama was born on 22 November 1927 in Kisai, a town in Saitama. He was the sixth of eight children born to a doctor's family. He studied at Urawa High School... |
Wikipedia:Yuval Peres#0 | Yuval Peres (Hebrew: יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is an Israeli mathematician best known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Mark... |
Wikipedia:Yves Le Jan#0 | Yves Le Jan (born 15 April 1952 in Grenoble) is a French mathematician working in probability theory and stochastic processes. Le Jan studied from 1971 to 1974 at the École normale supérieure, finishing with an Agrégation. 1975 he became a researcher (Attaché de Recherche) at the CNRS (from 1987 Directeur de Recherche)... |
Wikipedia:Yves Meyer#0 | Yves F. Meyer (French: [mɛjɛʁ]; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017. == Biography == Born in Paris, Yves Meyer studied at the Lycée Carnot in Tunis; he won the French General Student Comp... |
Wikipedia:Yves Pomeau#0 | Yves Pomeau, born in 1942, is a French mathematician and physicist, emeritus research director at the CNRS and corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences. He was one of the founders of the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He is the son of literature professor René Pomeau... |
Wikipedia:Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach#0 | Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (born 30 April 1941) is a French mathematician and professor. == Education and career == Kosmann-Schwarzbach obtained her doctoral degree in 1970 at the University of Paris under supervision of André Lichnerowicz on a dissertation titled Dérivées de Lie des spineurs (Lie derivatives of spinor... |
Wikipedia:Yvonne Dold-Samplonius#0 | Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (20 May 1937 – 16 June 2014) was a Dutch mathematician and historian who specialised in the history of Islamic mathematics during the Middle Ages. She was particularly interested in the mathematical methods used by Islamic architects and builders of the Middle Ages for measurements of volumes and... |
Wikipedia:Yvonne Pothier#0 | Sister Yvonne Marie Pothier (born 1937) is a Canadian mathematics educator and educational psychologist known for her work in the development of numerical concepts in children, and an activist for refugees. She is a professor emerita of education at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a Sister o... |
Wikipedia:Z-order curve#0 | In mathematical analysis and computer science, functions which are Z-order, Lebesgue curve, Morton space-filling curve, Morton order or Morton code map multidimensional data to one dimension while preserving locality of the data points (two points close together in multidimensions with high probability lie also close t... |
Wikipedia:Zafar Usmanov#0 | Zafar Juraevich Usmanov (Tajik: Усмонов Зафар Ҷӯраевич; 26 August 1937 – 13 October 2021) was a Soviet and Tajik mathematician, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1974), professor (1983), full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan (1981), Honored scientist of the Republic of Tajikis... |
Wikipedia:Zahid Khalilov#0 | Zahid Ismayil oghlu Khalilov (Azerbaijani: Zahid İsmayıl oğlu Xəlilov, 14 January 1911, Sarachly – 4 February 1974, Baku) was an Azerbaijani mathematician (Professor since 1946) and engineer. Being the founder of Azerbaijani functional analysis school, he was elected President of the Azerbaijan Mathematical Society. Kh... |
Wikipedia:Zariski's finiteness theorem#0 | In algebra, Zariski's finiteness theorem gives a positive answer to Hilbert's 14th problem for the polynomial ring in two variables, as a special case. Precisely, it states: Given a normal domain A, finitely generated as an algebra over a field k, if L is a subfield of the field of fractions of A containing k such that... |
Wikipedia:Zassenhaus algorithm#0 | In computational algebra, the Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm is a method for factoring polynomials over finite fields (also called Galois fields). The algorithm consists mainly of exponentiation and polynomial GCD computations. It was invented by David G. Cantor and Hans Zassenhaus in 1981. It is arguably the dominant alg... |
Wikipedia:Zdeněk Dvořák#0 | Zdeněk Dvořák (born April 26, 1981) is a Czech mathematician specializing in graph theory. Dvořák was born in Nové Město na Moravě. He competed on the Czech national team in the 1999 International Mathematical Olympiad, and in the same year in the International Olympiad in Informatics, where he won a gold medal. He ear... |
Wikipedia:Zdeněk Frolík#0 | Zdeněk Frolík (March 10, 1933 – May 3, 1989) was a Czech mathematician. His research interests included topology and functional analysis. In particular, his work concerned covering properties of topological spaces, ultrafilters, homogeneity, measures, uniform spaces. He was one of the founders of modern descriptive the... |
Wikipedia:Zdeněk Hedrlín#0 | Zdeněk Hedrlín (1933 – April 22, 2018) was a Czech mathematician, specializing in universal algebra and combinatorial theory, both in pure and applied mathematics. Zdeněk Hedrlín received his PhD from Prague's Charles University in 1963. His thesis on commutative semigroups was supervised by Miroslav Katětov. Hedrlín h... |
Wikipedia:Zdzisław Józef Porosiński#0 | Zdzisław Józef Porosiński (19 March 1955 in Kłodzko, Poland – 19 March 2016 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish mathematician and statistician. == Biography == In 1979, he graduated in mathematics from Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Technology with a master's degree. After graduation,... |
Wikipedia:Zdzisław Pawlak#0 | Zdzislaw I. Pawlak (10 November 1926 – 7 April 2006) was a Polish mathematician and computer scientist. He was affiliated with several organization, including the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw School of Information Technology. He served as the director of the Institute of Computer Science at the Warsaw Univ... |
Wikipedia:Zdzisław Skupień#0 | Zdzisław Skupień (27 November 1938 – 1 January 2025) was a Polish mathematician, expert in optimization, discrete mathematics, and graph theory, academic, and dr. hab. (1982). Skupień was born in Świlcza, Poland. In 1964, Skupień introduced the concept of "locally Hamiltonian graphs". In 1976, Skupień introduced the co... |
Wikipedia:Zech's logarithm#0 | Zech logarithms are used to implement addition in finite fields when elements are represented as powers of a generator α {\displaystyle \alpha } . Zech logarithms are named after Julius Zech, and are also called Jacobi logarithms, after Carl G. J. Jacobi who used them for number theoretic investigations. == Definition ... |
Wikipedia:Zeev Rudnick#0 | Zeev Rudnick or Ze'ev Rudnick (Hebrew: זאב רודניק; born 1961 in Haifa, Israel) is a mathematician, specializing in number theory and in mathematical physics, notably quantum chaos. Rudnick is a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Cissie and Aaron Beare Chair in Number Theory at Tel Aviv University.... |
Wikipedia:Zero divisor#0 | In abstract algebra, an element a of a ring R is called a left zero divisor if there exists a nonzero x in R such that ax = 0, or equivalently if the map from R to R that sends x to ax is not injective. Similarly, an element a of a ring is called a right zero divisor if there exists a nonzero y in R such that ya = 0. T... |
Wikipedia:Zero mode#0 | In physics, a zero mode is an eigenvector with a vanishing eigenvalue. In various subfields of physics zero modes appear whenever a physical system possesses a certain symmetry. For example, normal modes of multidimensional harmonic oscillator (e.g. a system of beads arranged around the circle, connected with springs) ... |
Wikipedia:Zero object (algebra)#0 | In algebra, the zero object of a given algebraic structure is, in the sense explained below, the simplest object of such structure. As a set it is a singleton, and as a magma has a trivial structure, which is also an abelian group. The aforementioned abelian group structure is usually identified as addition, and the on... |
Wikipedia:Zero of a function#0 | In mathematics, a zero (also sometimes called a root) of a real-, complex-, or generally vector-valued function f {\displaystyle f} , is a member x {\displaystyle x} of the domain of f {\displaystyle f} such that f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)} vanishes at x {\displaystyle x} ; that is, the function f {\displaystyle f} at... |
Wikipedia:Zero to the power of zero#0 | Zero to the power of zero, denoted as 00, is a mathematical expression with different interpretations depending on the context. In certain areas of mathematics, such as combinatorics and algebra, 00 is conventionally defined as 1 because this assignment simplifies many formulas and ensures consistency in operations inv... |
Wikipedia:Zero-product property#0 | In algebra, the zero-product property states that the product of two nonzero elements is nonzero. In other words, if a b = 0 , then a = 0 or b = 0. {\displaystyle {\text{if }}ab=0,{\text{ then }}a=0{\text{ or }}b=0.} This property is also known as the rule of zero product, the null factor law, the multiplication proper... |
Wikipedia:Zero-symmetric graph#0 | In the mathematical field of graph theory, a zero-symmetric graph is a connected graph in which each vertex has exactly three incident edges and, for each two vertices, there is a unique symmetry taking one vertex to the other. Such a graph is a vertex-transitive graph but cannot be an edge-transitive graph: the number... |
Wikipedia:Zeta function regularization#0 | In mathematics and theoretical physics, zeta function regularization is a type of regularization or summability method that assigns finite values to divergent sums or products, and in particular can be used to define determinants and traces of some self-adjoint operators. The technique is now commonly applied to proble... |
Wikipedia:Zhang Pingwen#0 | Zhang Pingwen (Chinese: 张平文; born July 1966) is a Chinese mathematician and university administrator, currently serving as president of Wuhan University. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. == Biography == Zhang was born in Changsha County, Hunan, in July 1966. He attended Changsha County No. 1 Hig... |
Wikipedia:Zhang Qiujian Suanjing#0 | Zhang Qiujian Suanjing (張邱建算經; The Mathematical Classic of Zhang Qiujian) is the only known work of the fifth century Chinese mathematician, Zhang Qiujian. It is one of ten mathematical books known collectively as Suanjing shishu (The Ten Computational Canons). In 656 CE, when mathematics was included in the imperial e... |
Wikipedia:Zhao Youqin's π algorithm#0 | Zhao Youqin's π algorithm is an algorithm devised by Yuan dynasty Chinese astronomer and mathematician Zhao Youqin (赵友钦, ? – 1330) to calculate the value of π in his book Ge Xiang Xin Shu (革象新书). == Algorithm == Zhao Youqin started with an inscribed square in a circle with radius r. If ℓ {\displaystyle \ell } denotes t... |
Wikipedia:Zhilan Feng#0 | Zhilan Julie Feng (born 1959) is a Chinese-American applied mathematician whose research topics include mathematical biology, population dynamics, and epidemiology. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University, and a program director in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation.... |
Wikipedia:Zhongwei Shen#0 | Zhongwei Shen (Chinese: 申仲伟; born c. 1964) is a Chinese-American mathematician, currently a Distinguished Professor at University of Kentucky and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Shen received his B.S. in mathematics from Peking University in 1982 at the age of 18. He has been a visiting scholar at Lanzho... |
Wikipedia:Zhoubi Suanjing#0 | The Zhoubi Suanjing, also known by many other names, is an ancient Chinese astronomical and mathematical work. The Zhoubi is most famous for its presentation of Chinese cosmology and a form of the Pythagorean theorem. It claims to present 246 problems worked out by the Duke of Zhou as well as members of his court, plac... |
Wikipedia:Zhusuan#0 | The suanpan (simplified Chinese: 算盘; traditional Chinese: 算盤; pinyin: suànpán), also spelled suan pan or souanpan) is an abacus of Chinese origin, earliest first known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BCE during the Han dynasty, and later, described in a 190 CE book of the Eastern Ha... |
Wikipedia:Zinovy Reichstein#0 | Zinovy Reichstein (born 1961) is a Russian-born American mathematician. He is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He studies mainly algebra, algebraic geometry and algebraic groups. He introduced (with Joe P. Buhler) the concept of essential dimension. == Early life and education == In high ... |
Wikipedia:Znám's problem#0 | In number theory, Znám's problem asks which sets of integers have the property that each integer in the set is a proper divisor of the product of the other integers in the set, plus 1. Znám's problem is named after the Slovak mathematician Štefan Znám, who suggested it in 1972, although other mathematicians had conside... |
Wikipedia:Zoghman Mebkhout#0 | Zoghman Mebkhout (born 1949 ) (زغمان مبخوت) is a French-Algerian mathematician. He is known for his work in algebraic analysis, geometry and representation theory, more precisely on the theory of D-modules. == Career == Mebkhout is currently a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and ... |
Wikipedia:Zoia Ceaușescu#0 | Zoia Ceaușescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈzoja tʃe̯a.uˈʃesku]; 28 February 1949 – 20 November 2006) was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia). == Biography == Zoia Ceaușescu studied at High School nr. 24 (now ... |
Wikipedia:Zonal polynomial#0 | In mathematics, a zonal polynomial is a multivariate symmetric homogeneous polynomial. The zonal polynomials form a basis of the space of symmetric polynomials. Zonal polynomials appear in special functions with matrix argument which on the other hand appear in matrixvariate distributions such as the Wishart distributi... |
Wikipedia:Zoran Vondraček#0 | Zoran Vondraček (born July 28, 1959) is a Croatian mathematician specializing in Lévy processes, transformed Brownian motions, and probabilistic potential theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Zagreb. == Education and career == Vondraček graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1982, and obtai... |
Wikipedia:Zuhair Nashed#0 | M. Zuhair Nashed (born May 14, 1936, in Aleppo, Syria) is an American mathematician, working on integral and operator equations, inverse and ill-posed problems, numerical and nonlinear functional analysis, optimization and approximation theory, operator theory, optimal control theory, signal analysis, and signal proces... |
Wikipedia:Zvi Arad#0 | Zvi Arad (Hebrew: צבי ארד; 16 April 1942, in Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine – 4 February 2018, in Petah Tikva, Israel) was an Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, and president of Netanya Academic College. == Biography == Zvi Arad began his academic studies in the Mathematics Department of ... |
Wikipedia:Zvi Galil#0 | Zvi Galil (Hebrew: צבי גליל; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. He has served as the dean of the Columbia University School of Engineering and as president of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Comp... |
Wikipedia:Zvika Brakerski#0 | Zvika Brakerski (Hebrew: צביקה ברקרסקי) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work on homomorphic encryption, particularly in developing the foundations of the second generation FHE schema, for which he was awarded the 2022 Gödel Prize. Brakerski is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and ... |
Wikipedia:Ágnes Szendrei#0 | Ágnes Szendrei is a Hungarian-American mathematician whose research concerns clones, the congruence lattice problem, and other topics in universal algebra. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and the author of the well-cited book Clones in Universal Algebra (1986). In May 2022, Dr. ... |
Wikipedia:Édouard Le Roy#0 | Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (French: [edwaʁ ləʁwa] ; 18 June 1870 in Paris – 10 November 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. == Life == Le Roy entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1892, and received the agrégation in mathematics in 1895. He became Doctor in Sciences in 1898, taught in... |
Wikipedia:Élisabeth Gassiat#0 | Élisabeth Gassiat (née Granier, born 1961) is a French mathematical statistician whose research interests include maximum likelihood estimation for mixture models, latent variables, high-dimensional structured data, the relation between statistics and coding theory, and the statistics of sequence data over finite alpha... |
Wikipedia:Émile Cotton#0 | Émile Clément Cotton (5 February 1872 – 14 March 1950) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble. His PhD thesis studied differential geometry in three dimensions, with the introduction of the Cotton tensor. He held the professorship from 1904 until his 1942 retirement. He was awarded the Legion of H... |
Wikipedia:Éric Moulines#0 | Éric Moulines (born in Bordeaux on 24 January 1963) is a French researcher in statistical learning and signal processing. He received the silver medal from the CNRS in 2010, the France Télécom prize awarded in collaboration with the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was appointed a Fellow of the European Associati... |
Wikipedia:Étienne Bézout#0 | Étienne Bézout (French: [bezu]; 31 March 1730 – 27 September 1783) was a French mathematician who was born in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne, France, and died in Avon (near Fontainebleau), France. == Work == In 1758 Bézout was elected an adjoint in mechanics of the French Academy of Sciences. Besides numerous minor works, he ... |
Wikipedia:Étienne Fouvry#0 | Étienne Fouvry (French pronunciation: [etjɛn fuvʁi], born 1953) is a French mathematician working primarily in analytic number theory. Fouvry defended his dissertation in 1981 at the University of Bordeaux under the joint direction of Henryk Iwaniec and Jean-Marc Deshouillers. He is an emeritus professor at Paris-Sacla... |
Wikipedia:Étienne Pardoux#0 | Étienne Pardoux (born 1947) is a French mathematician working in the field of Stochastic analysis, in particular Stochastic partial differential equations. He is currently Professor at Aix-Marseille University. He obtained his PhD in 1975 at University of Paris-Sud under the supervision of Alain Bensoussan and Roger Me... |
Wikipedia:Étienne-Louis Malus#0 | Étienne-Louis Malus (; French: [e.tjɛn.lwi ma.lys]; 23 July 1775 – 23 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. Malus was born in Paris, France and studied at the military engineering school at Mezires where he was taught by Gaspard Monge. He participated in Napoleon's expedition into... |
Wikipedia:Ólafur Daníelsson#0 | Ólafur Dan Daníelsson (31 October 1877 – 10 December 1957) was an Icelandic mathematician. He was the first Icelandic mathematician to complete a doctoral degree. He was also the founder of the Icelandic Mathematical Society. == Life == === Early life and education === Danielsson was born in Viðvík in Viðvíkursveit in ... |
Wikipedia:Ülo Lumiste#0 | Ülo Lumiste (30 June 1929 Vändra – 20 November 2017) was an Estonian mathematician. In 1952 he graduated from the University of Tartu in mathematics. In 1968 he defended his doctoral thesis at Kazan University. Since 1959 he taught at the University of Tartu. Since 1993 he was a member of Estonian Academy of Sciences. ... |
Wikipedia:Āryabhaṭa numeration#0 | Āryabhaṭa numeration is an alphasyllabic numeral system based on Sanskrit phonemes. It was introduced in the early 6th century in India by Āryabhaṭa, in the first chapter titled Gītika Padam of his Aryabhatiya. It attributes a numerical value to each syllable of the form consonant+vowel possible in Sanskrit phonology, ... |
Wikipedia:Āryabhaṭa's sine table#0 | Āryabhata's sine table is a set of twenty-four numbers given in the astronomical treatise Āryabhatiya composed by the fifth century Indian mathematician and astronomer Āryabhata (476–550 CE), for the computation of the half-chords of a certain set of arcs of a circle. The set of numbers appears in verse 12 in Chapter 1... |
Wikipedia:Đuro Kurepa#0 | Đuro Kurepa (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђуро Курепа, pronounced [dʑǔːro kǔrepa]; 16 August 1907 – 2 November 1993) was a Yugoslav and Serbian mathematician, university professor and academic. Throughout his life, Kurepa published over 700 articles, books, papers, and reviews and over 1,000 scientific reviews. He lectured at uni... |
Wikipedia:Łojasiewicz inequality#0 | In real algebraic geometry, the Łojasiewicz inequality, named after Stanisław Łojasiewicz, gives an upper bound for the distance of a point to the nearest zero of a given real analytic function. Specifically, let ƒ : U → R be a real analytic function on an open set U in Rn, and let Z be the zero locus of ƒ. Assume that... |
Wikipedia:Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa#0 | Sankaranarayana (c. 840 – c. 900 AD) was an Indian astronomer-mathematician in the court of Sthanu Ravi Kulasekhara (c. 844 – c. 870 AD) of the early medieval Chera kingdom in Kerala. He is celebrated as the author of Laghubhaskariyavivarana or Laghubhaskariyavyakha, a detailed commentary on astronomical treatise Laghu... |
Wikipedia:Štefan Znám#0 | Štefan Znám (9 February 1936, Veľký Blh – 17 July 1993, Bratislava) was a Slovak- Hungarian mathematician, believed to be the first to ponder Znám's problem in modern times. Znám worked in the field of number theory and graph theory. He also co-founded journal Matematické obzory. == External links == Article on Štefan ... |
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