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Wikipedia:Contour set#0 | In mathematics, the Cantor set is a set of points lying on a single line segment that has a number of unintuitive properties. It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and mentioned by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883. Through consideration of this set, Cantor and others helped lay the foundations ... |
Wikipedia:Contraction principle (large deviations theory)#0 | In probability theory, the theory of large deviations concerns the asymptotic behaviour of remote tails of sequences of probability distributions. While some basic ideas of the theory can be traced to Laplace, the formalization started with insurance mathematics, namely ruin theory with Cramér and Lundberg. A unified f... |
Wikipedia:Control variable#0 | A control variable (or scientific constant) in scientific experimentation is an experimental element which is constant (controlled) and unchanged throughout the course of the investigation. Control variables could strongly influence experimental results were they not held constant during the experiment in order to test... |
Wikipedia:Controlled invariant subspace#0 | In control theory, a controlled invariant subspace of the state space representation of some system is a subspace. If the system's state is initially in the subspace, it can be controlled so that the state is always in the subspace. This concept was introduced by Giuseppe Basile and Giovanni Marro (Basile & Marro 1969)... |
Wikipedia:Convergence proof techniques#0 | Convergence proof techniques are canonical patterns of mathematical proofs that sequences or functions converge to a finite limit when the argument tends to infinity. There are many types of sequences and modes of convergence, and different proof techniques may be more appropriate than others for proving each type of c... |
Wikipedia:Convex combination#0 | In convex geometry and vector algebra, a convex combination is a linear combination of points (which can be vectors, scalars, or more generally points in an affine space) where all coefficients are non-negative and sum to 1. In other words, the operation is equivalent to a standard weighted average, but whose weights a... |
Wikipedia:Convex cone#0 | In linear algebra, a cone—sometimes called a linear cone to distinguish it from other sorts of cones—is a subset of a real vector space that is closed under positive scalar multiplication; that is, C {\displaystyle C} is a cone if x ∈ C {\displaystyle x\in C} implies s x ∈ C {\displaystyle sx\in C} for every positive s... |
Wikipedia:Conway base 13 function#0 | The Conway base 13 function is a function created by British mathematician John H. Conway as a counterexample to the converse of the intermediate value theorem. In other words, it is a function that satisfies a particular intermediate-value property — on any interval ( a , b ) {\displaystyle (a,b)} , the function f {\d... |
Wikipedia:Conway polynomial (finite fields)#0 | In mathematics, the Conway polynomial Cp,n for the finite field Fpn is a particular irreducible polynomial of degree n over Fp that can be used to define a standard representation of Fpn as a splitting field of Cp,n. Conway polynomials were named after John H. Conway by Richard A. Parker, who was the first to define th... |
Wikipedia:Coordinate singularity#0 | In mathematics, a singularity is a point at which a given mathematical object is not defined, or a point where the mathematical object ceases to be well-behaved in some particular way, such as by lacking differentiability or analyticity. For example, the reciprocal function f ( x ) = 1 / x {\displaystyle f(x)=1/x} has ... |
Wikipedia:Coordinate vector#0 | In linear algebra, a coordinate vector is a representation of a vector as an ordered list of numbers (a tuple) that describes the vector in terms of a particular ordered basis. An easy example may be a position such as (5, 2, 1) in a 3-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system with the basis as the axes of this system. C... |
Wikipedia:Cora Sadosky#0 | Cora Susana Sadosky de Goldstein (May 23, 1940 – December 3, 2010) was an Argentine mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Howard University. == Early life and education == Sadosky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of mathematicians Manuel Sadosky and Corina Eloísa "Cora" Ratto de Sadosky. At the... |
Wikipedia:Coralie Colmez#0 | Coralie Colmez is a French author and tutor in mathematics and mathematics education. == Early life and career == Coralie Colmez is the daughter of mathematicians Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps. Colmez was raised in Paris. After completing her secondary education in Paris, Colmez moved to the United Kingdom and attend... |
Wikipedia:Corank#0 | A rank is a position in a hierarchy. It can be formally recognized—for example, cardinal, chief executive officer, general, professor—or unofficial. == People == === Formal ranks === Academic rank Corporate title Diplomatic rank Hierarchy of the Catholic Church Imperial, royal and noble ranks Military rank Police rank ... |
Wikipedia:Corinna Ulcigrai#0 | Corinna Ulcigrai (born 3 January 1980, Trieste) is an Italian mathematician working on dynamical systems. With Krzysztof Frączek in 2013, Ulcigrai is known for proving that in the Ehrenfest model (a mathematical abstraction of billiards with an infinite array of rectangular obstacles, used to model gas diffusion) most ... |
Wikipedia:Cornelia Fabri#0 | Cornelia Fabri (Ravenna, 9 September 1869 – Florence, 24 May 1915) was an Italian mathematician and the first woman to graduate in mathematics from University of Pisa (1891). == Life and work == Cornelia Fabri was born in Ravenna, Italy, into a noble family headed by Ruggero Fabri and Lucrezia Satanassi de Sordi. Her i... |
Wikipedia:Correlation (projective geometry)#0 | In projective geometry, a correlation is a transformation of a d-dimensional projective space that maps subspaces of dimension k to subspaces of dimension d − k − 1, reversing inclusion and preserving incidence. Correlations are also called reciprocities or reciprocal transformations. == In two dimensions == In the rea... |
Wikipedia:Correlation dimension#0 | In chaos theory, the correlation dimension (denoted by ν) is a measure of the dimensionality of the space occupied by a set of random points, often referred to as a type of fractal dimension. For example, if we have a set of random points on the real number line between 0 and 1, the correlation dimension will be ν = 1,... |
Wikipedia:Council for the Mathematical Sciences#0 | The Council for the Mathematical Sciences (CMS) is an organisation that represents all types of British mathematicians at a national level. It is not a professional institution, but a collaboration of them. == History == It was established in 2001 by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the London Mathema... |
Wikipedia:Count On#0 | Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Especially in earlier medieval periods the term often implied not only a certain status, but also that the count had specific responsibilities ... |
Wikipedia:Counting rods#0 | Counting rods (筭) are small bars, typically 3–14 cm (1" to 6") long, that were used by mathematicians for calculation in ancient East Asia. They are placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any integer or rational number. The written forms based on them are called rod numerals. They are a true positional n... |
Wikipedia:Covariant (invariant theory)#0 | In invariant theory, a branch of algebra, given a group G, a covariant is a G-equivariant polynomial map V → W {\displaystyle V\to W} between linear representations V, W of G. It is a generalization of a classical convariant, which is a homogeneous polynomial map from the space of binary m-forms to the space of binary ... |
Wikipedia:Cover (algebra)#0 | In abstract algebra, a cover is one instance of some mathematical structure mapping onto another instance, such as a group (trivially) covering a subgroup. This should not be confused with the concept of a cover in topology. When some object X is said to cover another object Y, the cover is given by some surjective and... |
Wikipedia:Craig S. Kaplan#0 | Craig S. Kaplan is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, and mathematical artist. He is an editor of the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (formerly chief editor), and an organizer of the Bridges Conference on mathematics and art. He is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo,... |
Wikipedia:Crank–Nicolson method#0 | In numerical analysis, the Crank–Nicolson method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar partial differential equations. It is a second-order method in time. It is implicit in time, can be written as an implicit Runge–Kutta method, and it is numerically stable. The metho... |
Wikipedia:Cristian Calude#0 | Cristian Sorin Calude (born 21 April 1952) is a Romanian-New Zealand mathematician and computer scientist. == Biography == After graduating from the Vasile Alecsandri National College in Galați, he studied at the University of Bucharest, where he was student of Grigore C. Moisil and Solomon Marcus. Calude received his ... |
Wikipedia:Cristiana De Filippis#0 | Cristiana De Filippis (born 1992) is an Italian mathematician whose research concerns regularity theory for elliptic partial differential equations and parabolic partial differential equations. She is an associate professor at the University of Parma. == Education and career == De Filippis was born in Bari in 1992 and ... |
Wikipedia:Cristina Pereyra#0 | María Cristina Pereyra (born 1964) is a Venezuelan mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of New Mexico, and the author of several books on wavelets and harmonic analysis. Pereyra was an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Council member at large from 2019 - 2021. == Education... |
Wikipedia:Cristina Toninelli#0 | Cristina Toninelli is an Italian mathematician who works in France as a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), at the Centre de recherche en mathématiques de la décision (Ceremade) of Paris Dauphine University. Her research concerns the probability theory and statistical mec... |
Wikipedia:Cristóbal de Losada y Puga#0 | Cristóbal de Losada y Puga (14 April 1894 – 30 August 1961) was a Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer. He was Minister of Education of Peru in the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero and Director of the National Library of Peru between 1948 and 1961. == Biography == He was born in New York, son of Enriqu... |
Wikipedia:Crystal Ball function#0 | The Crystal Ball function, named after the Crystal Ball Collaboration (hence the capitalized initial letters), is a probability density function commonly used to model various lossy processes in high-energy physics. It consists of a Gaussian core portion and a power-law low-end tail, below a certain threshold. The func... |
Wikipedia:Crystallographic restriction theorem#0 | The crystallographic restriction theorem in its basic form was based on the observation that the rotational symmetries of a crystal are usually limited to 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, and 6-fold. However, quasicrystals can occur with other diffraction pattern symmetries, such as 5-fold; these were not discovered until 1982 ... |
Wikipedia:Cube root#0 | In mathematics, a cube root of a number x is a number y that has the given number as its third power; that is y 3 = x . {\displaystyle y^{3}=x.} The number of cube roots of a number depends on the number system that is considered. Every real number x has exactly one real cube root that is denoted x 3 {\textstyle {\sqrt... |
Wikipedia:Cubic equation#0 | In algebra, a cubic equation in one variable is an equation of the form a x 3 + b x 2 + c x + d = 0 {\displaystyle ax^{3}+bx^{2}+cx+d=0} in which a is not zero. The solutions of this equation are called roots of the cubic function defined by the left-hand side of the equation. If all of the coefficients a, b, c, and d ... |
Wikipedia:Curl (mathematics)#0 | In vector calculus, the curl, also known as rotor, is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote the magnitude and axis of the maximum circulation. Th... |
Wikipedia:Curl operator#0 | In vector calculus, the curl, also known as rotor, is a vector operator that describes the infinitesimal circulation of a vector field in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote the magnitude and axis of the maximum circulation. Th... |
Wikipedia:Cycle basis#0 | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, a cycle basis of an undirected graph is a set of simple cycles that forms a basis of the cycle space of the graph. That is, it is a minimal set of cycles that allows every even-degree subgraph to be expressed as a symmetric difference of basis cycles. A fundamental cycle basis ... |
Wikipedia:Cycle detection#0 | In computer science, cycle detection or cycle finding is the algorithmic problem of finding a cycle in a sequence of iterated function values. For any function f that maps a finite set S to itself, and any initial value x0 in S, the sequence of iterated function values x 0 , x 1 = f ( x 0 ) , x 2 = f ( x 1 ) , … , x i ... |
Wikipedia:Cycle graph (algebra)#0 | In group theory, a subfield of abstract algebra, a cycle graph of a group is an undirected graph that illustrates the various cycles of that group, given a set of generators for the group. Cycle graphs are particularly useful in visualizing the structure of small finite groups. A cycle is the set of powers of a given g... |
Wikipedia:Cycle space#0 | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the (binary) cycle space of an undirected graph is the set of its even-degree subgraphs. This set of subgraphs can be described algebraically as a vector space over the two-element finite field. The dimension of this space is the circuit rank of the graph. The same space can al... |
Wikipedia:Cycles and fixed points#0 | In mathematics, the cycles of a permutation π of a finite set S correspond bijectively to the orbits of the subgroup generated by π acting on S. These orbits are subsets of S that can be written as { c1, ..., cn }, such that π(ci) = ci + 1 for i = 1, ..., n − 1, and π(cn) = c1. The corresponding cycle of π is written a... |
Wikipedia:Cyclic algebra#0 | In algebra, a cyclic division algebra is one of the basic examples of a division algebra over a field and plays a key role in the theory of central simple algebras. == Definition == Let A be a finite-dimensional central simple algebra over a field F. Then A is said to be cyclic if it contains a strictly maximal subfiel... |
Wikipedia:Cyclic subspace#0 | In mathematics, in linear algebra and functional analysis, a cyclic subspace is a certain special subspace of a vector space associated with a vector in the vector space and a linear transformation of the vector space. The cyclic subspace associated with a vector v in a vector space V and a linear transformation T of V... |
Wikipedia:Cyclic vector#0 | In the mathematics of operator theory, an operator A on an (infinite-dimensional) Banach space or Hilbert space H has a cyclic vector f if the vectors f, Af, A2f,... span H. Equivalently, f is a cyclic vector for A in case the set of all vectors of the form p(A)f, where p varies over all polynomials, is dense in H. == ... |
Wikipedia:Cyclical monotonicity#0 | In mathematics, cyclical monotonicity is a generalization of the notion of monotonicity to the case of vector-valued function. == Definition == Let ⟨ ⋅ , ⋅ ⟩ {\displaystyle \langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle } denote the inner product on an inner product space X {\displaystyle X} and let U {\displaystyle U} be a nonempty sub... |
Wikipedia:Cyclically reduced word#0 | In mathematics, cyclically reduced word is a concept of combinatorial group theory. Let F(X) be a free group. Then a word in F(X) is said to be cyclically reduced if and only if every cyclic permutation of the word is reduced. == Properties == Every cyclic shift and the inverse of a cyclically reduced word are cyclical... |
Wikipedia:Cyclotomic identity#0 | In mathematics, the cyclotomic identity states that 1 1 − α z = ∏ j = 1 ∞ ( 1 1 − z j ) M ( α , j ) {\displaystyle {1 \over 1-\alpha z}=\prod _{j=1}^{\infty }\left({1 \over 1-z^{j}}\right)^{M(\alpha ,j)}} where M is Moreau's necklace-counting function, M ( α , n ) = 1 n ∑ d | n μ ( n d ) α d , {\displaystyle M(\alpha ,... |
Wikipedia:Cyclotomic polynomial#0 | In mathematics, the nth cyclotomic polynomial, for any positive integer n, is the unique irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients that is a divisor of x n − 1 {\displaystyle x^{n}-1} and is not a divisor of x k − 1 {\displaystyle x^{k}-1} for any k < n. Its roots are all nth primitive roots of unity e 2 i π k n... |
Wikipedia:Cylinder (algebra)#0 | In mathematics, the notion of cylindric algebra, developed by Alfred Tarski, arises naturally in the algebraization of first-order logic with equality. This is comparable to the role Boolean algebras play for propositional logic. Cylindric algebras are Boolean algebras equipped with additional cylindrification operatio... |
Wikipedia:Cylindrical algebraic decomposition#0 | In mathematics, cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) is a notion, along with an algorithm to compute it, that is fundamental for computer algebra and real algebraic geometry. Given a set S of polynomials in Rn, a cylindrical algebraic decomposition is a decomposition of Rn into connected semialgebraic sets called ... |
Wikipedia:Cynthia Vinzant#0 | Cynthia Vinzant is an American mathematician specializing in real algebraic geometry; her research has also involved algebraic combinatorics, matroid theory, Hermitian matrices, and spectrahedra in convex optimization. She is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. == Education and career... |
Wikipedia:Cynthia Y. Young#0 | Cynthia Yvonne Young (also published as Cynthia Y. Hopen) is an American applied mathematician, textbook author, and academic administrator. Her research has included mathematical modeling of the effects of atmospheric turbulence on electromagnetic radiation with applications to laser-based communication with satellite... |
Wikipedia:Czesław Olech#0 | Czesław Olech (22 May 1931 – 1 July 2015) was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski. == Education and career == In 1954 he completed his mathematical studies at the Jagiellonian University, in Kraków obtained... |
Wikipedia:Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski#0 | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the Ryll-Nardzewski fixed-point theorem states that if E {\displaystyle E} is a normed vector space and K {\displaystyle K} is a nonempty convex subset of E {\displaystyle E} that is compact under the weak topology, then every group (or equivalently: every semigroup) of ... |
Wikipedia:Cândido Lima da Silva Dias#0 | Cândido Lima da Silva Dias (Mococa, December 31, 1913 – São Paulo, September 15, 1998) was a Brazilian mathematician and one of the first graduates in mathematics from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo (FFCL). He was an important figure in the creation of the Institute of Ma... |
Wikipedia:D. B. Singh#0 | Dinesh Bahadur Singh is a career India civil servant, mathematician and a scholar who formerly served as Secretary of Rajya Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India, i.e. the Upper House in the Indian Parliament (similar to the House of Lords but different as most Rajya Sabha members are elected by people... |
Wikipedia:D. N. Mishra#0 | Devendra Nath Mishra was an Indian mathematician, and academic administrator. He was the 19th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from February 1994 to June 1995. Mishra died in 2020. == References == |
Wikipedia:D. S. Malik#0 | Davender Singh Malik (14 August 1958 – 13 May 2025) was an Indian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics and computer science at Creighton University. == Education == Malik attended the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India, receiving his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics, where he won the P... |
Wikipedia:Da Ruan#0 | The ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings. Its four strings were formerly made of silk but since the 20th century they have been made of steel (flatwound for the lower strings). The modern ruan has 24 frets... |
Wikipedia:Dainton Report#0 | The Dainton Report was a 1968 British government report on secondary schools in the UK, also known as The Swing away from Science. == History == The report was produced in March 1968 by Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton FRS, who was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. In October 1966 there were 1,600 va... |
Wikipedia:Dale W. Lick#0 | Dale Wesley Lick (born June 1, 1933) is an American mathematician, professor and college president at three universities. == Early life and education == Born in Marlette, Michigan, Lick was raised in the heart of the rural Michigan Thumb. His father was a farmer and he was the younger of two brothers. He graduated from... |
Wikipedia:Damir Filipović#0 | Damir Filipović (born 1970 in Switzerland) is a Swiss mathematician specializing in quantitative finance. He holds the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance and is the director of the Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). == Career == Filipović studied mathematics at ETH Zurich ... |
Wikipedia:Damodara#0 | Vatasseri Damodara Nambudiri was an astronomer-mathematician of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics who flourished during the fifteenth century CE. He was a son of Paramesvara (1360–1425) who developed the drigganita system of astronomical computations. The family home of Paramesvara was Vatasseri (sometimes... |
Wikipedia:Damping#0 | In physical systems, damping is the loss of energy of an oscillating system by dissipation. Damping is an influence within or upon an oscillatory system that has the effect of reducing or preventing its oscillation. Examples of damping include viscous damping in a fluid (see viscous drag), surface friction, radiation, ... |
Wikipedia:Dan Laksov#0 | Dan Laksov (10 July 1940 – 25 October 2013) was a Norwegian-Swedish mathematician and human rights activist. He was primarily active within the field of algebraic geometry. == Biography == Laksov was born in Oslo in 1940, the same year that Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany. He was a son of Amalie Laksov (née Scheer)... |
Wikipedia:Dan-Virgil Voiculescu#0 | Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [dan virˈd͡ʒil vojkuˈlesku]; born 14 June 1949) is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory. == Ed... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Abibi#0 | Daniel Abibi (born 1942) is a Congolese politician, mathematician and diplomat. During the 1980s, he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Information and as Minister of Secondary and Higher Education. Later, during the 1990s, he was Congo-Brazzaville's Permanent Representative to the United Nati... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong#0 | Daniel Afedzi Akyeampong (24 November 1938 – 7 March 2015) was a Ghanaian academic. He was the first Ghanaian to attain full professorship status in mathematics at the University of Ghana, Legon. In 1966, Daniel Akyeampong and Francis Allotey became the first Ghanaians to obtain a doctorate in mathematical sciences. He... |
Wikipedia:Daniel B. Szyld#0 | Daniel B. Szyld (born 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian and American mathematician who is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has made contributions to numerical and applied linear algebra as well as matrix theory. == Education == He was admitted without an undergraduate degree to the graduate sc... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Bernoulli#0 | Daniel Bernoulli ( bur-NOO-lee; Swiss Standard German: [ˈdaːni̯eːl bɛrˈnʊli]; 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1700 – 27 March 1782) was a Swiss-French mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathe... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Brélaz#0 | Daniel Brélaz (born 4 January 1950, in Lausanne) is a Swiss mathematician and politician, member of the Green Party of Switzerland and 93th mayor of Lausanne between 2001 and 2016. In 1979, Daniel Brélaz became the first green representative elected to sit in a national parliament. == Biography == Brélaz received a deg... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Hershkowitz#0 | Daniel Hershkowitz (Hebrew: דניאל הרשקוביץ; born 2 January 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli politician, mathematician, and Orthodox rabbi. Since 2018, he has headed the Israel Civil Service Commission. He is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Technion, and is also rabbi of the Ahuza neighborhood in Haifa. He ... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Kráľ#0 | Daniel Kráľ (born June 30, 1978) is a Czech mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the Masaryk University. His research primarily concerns graph theory and graph algorithms. == Education and career == He obtained his Ph.D. from Charles University in Prague i... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Makinde#0 | Oluwole Daniel Makinde is a Nigerian professor of Theoretical and Applied Physics, the Secretary General of African Mathematical Union (AMU), General Secretary and Vice President of Southern Africa Mathematical Science Association (SAMSA) and the Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Mathematical Modeling ... |
Wikipedia:Daniel Revuz#0 | Daniel Revuz (born 1936 in Paris) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory, particularly in functional analysis applied to stochastic processes. He is the author of several reference works on Brownian motion, Markov chains, and martingales. == Family and early life == Revuz is the son of mathematici... |
Wikipedia:Daniela di Serafino#0 | Daniela di Serafino (8 April 1966 – 22 August 2022) was an Italian applied mathematician and numerical analyst whose research involved numerical linear algebra, gradient descent methods for nonlinear optimization, and applications in scientific computing. She was a professor of numerical analysis in the Department of M... |
Wikipedia:Daniele Cassani#0 | Daniele Cassani is an Italian mathematician. He is a full professor of Mathematical Analysis at Università degli Studi dell'Insubria. == Education == Cassani completed his PhD in pure Mathematics in 2006 at University of Milan, supervised by B. Ruf. == Career == From 2006 to 2007, he undertook a postdoctoral position a... |
Wikipedia:Danilo Blanuša#0 | Danilo Blanuša (7 December 1903 – 8 August 1987) was a Croatian mathematician, physicist, engineer and a professor at the University of Zagreb. == Biography == Blanuša was born in Osijek, Austria-Hungary (today Croatia). He attended elementary school in Vienna and Steyr in Austria and gymnasium in Osijek and Zagreb. He... |
Wikipedia:Danskin's theorem#0 | In convex analysis, Danskin's theorem is a theorem which provides information about the derivatives of a function of the form f ( x ) = max z ∈ Z ϕ ( x , z ) . {\displaystyle f(x)=\max _{z\in Z}\phi (x,z).} The theorem has applications in optimization, where it sometimes is used to solve minimax problems. The original ... |
Wikipedia:Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz#0 | Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz (25 May 1931 – 23 June 2012), was a Polish professor of mathematics and long-time employee of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. During World War II, as a child, she was a resistance fighter. == Life and work == Danuta Przeworska was born in Warsaw into the family... |
Wikipedia:Dany Leviatan#0 | Dany Leviatan (Hebrew: דני לויתן; born 21 February 1942) is an Israeli mathematician and former rector of Tel Aviv University. == Biography == Dany Leviatan completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A participant in the Academic Atuda program, Leviatan served as a mathematician in the Israel ... |
Wikipedia:Darboux's formula#0 | In mathematical analysis, Darboux's formula is a formula introduced by Gaston Darboux (1876) for summing infinite series by using integrals or evaluating integrals using infinite series. It is a generalization to the complex plane of the Euler–Maclaurin summation formula, which is used for similar purposes and derived ... |
Wikipedia:David A. Sánchez#0 | David A. Sánchez (born January 13, 1933) is a Mexican-American university and research administrator, mathematician, educator, and author. He held the posts of provost at Lehigh University, assistant director for the National Science Foundation and Los Alamos National Laboratory, and assistant Chancellor for the Texas ... |
Wikipedia:David Benney#0 | David John Benney (8 April 1930 – 9 October 2015) was a New Zealand applied mathematician, known for work on the nonlinear partial differential equations of fluid dynamics. == Education and early life == Born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 8 April 1930 to Cecil Henry (Matt) Benney and Phyllis Marjorie Jenkins, Benney w... |
Wikipedia:David Borwein#0 | David Borwein (March 24, 1924 – September 3, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born Canadian mathematician, known for his research in the summability theory of series and integrals. He also did work in measure theory and probability theory, number theory, and approximate subgradients and coderivatives. He latterly collaborated wi... |
Wikipedia:David Cheriton#0 | David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed computing and computer networking expert, with insight... |
Wikipedia:David Gans#0 | David Gans (Hebrew: דָּוִד בֶּן שְׁלֹמֹה גנז; 1541–1613), also known as Rabbi Dovid Solomon Ganz, was a German-Jewish chronicler, mathematician, historian, astronomer and astrologer. He is the author of "Tzemach David" (1592) and therefore also known by this title, the צמח דוד. == Biography == David was born in Lippst... |
Wikipedia:David Gauld (mathematician)#0 | David Barry Gauld (born 28 June 1942) is a New Zealand mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland. == Biography == Within mathematics, Gauld works in set-theoretic topology with emphasis on applications to non-metrisable manifolds and topological properties of manifolds close to metri... |
Wikipedia:David Gruen (economist)#0 | David William Gruen (born 31 August 1954) is an Australian statistician and mathematician. He is the current Australian Statistician at the Australian Bureau of Statistics serving since 11 December 2019. He previously served as Deputy Secretary, Economic and Australia's G20 Sherpa at the Department of the Prime Ministe... |
Wikipedia:David Holcman#0 | David Holcman is a computational neurobiologist, applied mathematician and biophysicist at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is recognized for his pioneering work in several areas of the sciences, showing that data modeling in biology can lead to predictions, quantifications and understanding, while developing comp... |
Wikipedia:David J. Thomson#0 | David J. Thomson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in statistics and signal processing, formerly a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a professional engineer in the province of Ontario, a fellow of the IEEE and a ch... |
Wikipedia:David Kazhdan#0 | David Kazhdan (Hebrew: דוד קשדן), born Dmitry Aleksandrovich Kazhdan (Russian: Дми́трий Александро́вич Кажда́н), is a Soviet and Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory. Kazhdan is a 1990 MacArthur Fellow. == Biography == Kazhdan was born on 20 June 1946 in Moscow, USSR. His father is Alexander Ka... |
Wikipedia:David Lovelock#0 | David Lovelock (born 1938) is a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is known for the Lovelock theory of gravity and Lovelock's theorem. == Notes == == Books == Lovelock, David; Rund, Hanno (1989), Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles, Dover, ISBN 978-0-486-65840-7 == External links ==... |
Wikipedia:David M. Jackson#0 | David M.R. Jackson is a professor at the University of Waterloo in the department of combinatorics and optimization. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1969. Jackson has been responsible for many developments in enumerative combinatorics in his career, as well as being a mathematical consultant to the Oxford Eng... |
Wikipedia:David Mayne#0 | David Quinn Mayne (23 April 1930 – 27 May 2024) was a South African-born British academic, engineer, teacher and author. His pioneering and lasting contribution is in the field of control systems engineering. His research interests centred on optimization and optimization-based design, nonlinear control, control of con... |
Wikipedia:David Nualart#0 | David Nualart (born 21 March 1951) is a Spanish mathematician working in the field of probability theory, in particular on aspects of stochastic processes and stochastic analysis. He is retired as Black-Babcock Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. == Education and career == Nualart obtain... |
Wikipedia:David Orrell#0 | David John Orrell is a Canadian writer and mathematician. He received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford. His work in the prediction of complex systems such as the weather, genetics and the economy has been featured in New Scientist, the Financial Times, The Economist, Adbusters, BBC Radio, Russ... |
Wikipedia:David Ruelle#0 | David Pierre Ruelle (French: [david pjɛʁ ʁɥɛl]; born 20 August 1935) is a Belgian and naturalized French mathematical physicist. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens, Ruelle coined the term strange attractor, and developed a new theory of turbulence. == Biography == Ruelle stud... |
Wikipedia:David Rytz#0 | David Rytz von Brugg (1 April 1801, in Bucheggberg – 25 March 1868, in Aarau) was a Swiss mathematician and teacher. == Life == Rytz von Brugg was son of a priest and studied mathematics at Göttingen and Leipzig. He had teaching positions at various cities, one of them 1835 until 1862 at Aarau, where he was „Professor ... |
Wikipedia:David Schmeidler#0 | David Schmeidler (Hebrew: דוד שמידלר; 1939 – 17 March 2022) was an Israeli mathematician and economic theorist. He was a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the Ohio State University. == Biography == David Schmeidler was born in 1939 in Kraków, Poland. He spent the war years in Russia and moved back to Poland... |
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