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Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik Abel , 1802-29, Norwegian mathematician. While a student at the Univ. of Christiania (Oslo) he did fundamental work on the integration of functional expressions and proved the impossiblity of representing a solution of a general equation of fifth degree or higher by a radical expression... Read more
Antoine Augustin Cournot
Antoine Augustin Cournot , 1801-77, French mathematician and economist. He developed mathematical theories of chance and probability and was one of the first to attempt the application of mathematics to economic problems. His writings include Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theor... Read more
Johannes de Sacrobosco
Johannes de Sacrobosco , or John of Hollywood, c.1200-1256, English mathematician and astronomer. He wrote several widely read and influential books: Algorismus, a study of arithmetic; a treatise on the calendar; and the most popular medieval introductory textbook on astronomy, the Tractatus ... Read more
Willebrord Snell
Willebrord Snell , 1591-1626, Dutch mathematician. He is generally credited with the discovery (1621) of the law of the refraction of light. In 1613 he became professor of mathematics at the Univ. of Leiden. His two chief works are Eratosthenes Batavus (1617) and Cyclometricus (1621). ... Read more
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli , 1608-47, Italian physicist and mathematician. He was Galileo's secretary (1641-42) and his successor as professor of philosophy and mathematics at Florence. He invented the barometer (1643), called the Torricelli tube, and a microscope, and he improved the telescope. ... Read more
Thomas Bradwardine
Thomas Bradwardine , c.1295-1349, English mathematician, natural philosopher, and theologian. He was chaplain to Edward III (c.1338) and later Archbishop of Canterbury. As a mathematician he is known for his Tractatus de proportionibus velocitatum (1328), which attempted to derive novel quantitati... Read more
Boolean algebra
Boolean algebra , an abstract mathematical system primarily used in computer science and in expressing the relationships between sets (groups of objects or concepts). The notational system was developed by the English mathematician George Boole c.1850 to permit an algebraic manipulation of logic... Read more
Nicolas Bourbaki
Nicolas Bourbaki pseudonym under which a group of 20th cent. mathematicians has written a series of treatises on pure mathematics. The mathematicians have all been associated with the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris at some point in their careers; among them are the French scholars Claud... Read more
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton 1805-65, Irish mathematician and astronomer, b. Dublin. A child prodigy, he had mastered 13 languages by the age of 13 and was still an undergraduate when he became professor of astronomy at the Univ. of Dublin (1827). Hamilton was one of the most original and creative ma... Read more
linear programming
linear programming solution of a mathematical problem concerning maximum and minimum values of a first-degree (linear) algebraic expression, with variables subject to certain stated conditions (restraints). For example, the problem might be to find the minimum value of the expression x + y subjec... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mathematician"

Jakob Bernoulli
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Bernoulli Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli...of Bernoulli mathematicians that furthered...the works of mathematician and philosopher...know prominent mathematicians of the day and...essay in Notable Mathematicians. "Among Leibniz...became an eminent mathematician in his day...
Number Theory
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...number. The Greek mathematician Euclid (c. 325...are of interest to mathematicians, for one reason...one have intrigued mathematicians for over 2,000...They fascinate mathematicians simply because they...discovery made by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat...
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...world for a budding mathematician. Originally designed...nation's finest mathematicians created pure mathematics...most influential mathematician in the world, the...Cauchy the hobbyist mathematician, it was dazzled...the world's best mathematicians. In the following...
Amicable numbers
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...220 and 284 were discovered by European mathematicians until 1636, when French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601 – 1665...Paganini. During the medieval period, Arabian mathematicians preserved and developed the mathematical...
Fractal
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...BC) but at least from Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandra (c. 325...books on geometry. Intuitively, mathematicians think of dimension as being equal...dimension, proposed by German mathematician Felix Hausdorff (1868 –...
Theorem
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...created by Greek mathematician and philosopher...507 BC). Mathematicians develop new theorems...theorems, Greek mathematicians used logical...true. Early mathematician and philosopher...developed by Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandra...At this time mathematicians, such as Karl...
Transcendental Numbers
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...realm of algebraic numbers. Mathematicians have defined algebraic numbers...718). In 1844, French mathematician Joseph Liouville (1809...Much earlier, German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz...was probably the first mathematician to consider the existence...
Euclid
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...whether he was a creative mathematician himself or was simply good...that most of the earlier mathematicians upon whose work the Elements...investigate those earlier mathematicians whose works were probably...About 600 B.C. the Greek mathematician Thales is said to have discovered...
William Oughtred
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...as a well-known mathematician, he remained dedicated...gained renown as a mathematician and soon began to...whom were future mathematicians Richard Delamain...Pleased by the mathematician's efforts on behalf...Oughtred's fellow mathematicians. By the time the...
Mathematics
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...question has fascinated mathematicians for hundreds of years...Algebra was established as mathematicians recognized the fact that...founded in the early 1600s as mathematicians learned to combine algebra...by English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton (1642...

Dictionary entries related to "Mathematician"

Leo the Mathematician
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Leo the Mathematician also known as Leo the Philospher ( b . Constantinople[?], ca . 790; d . Constantinople[?], after 869) mathematics, astronomy...
Bourbaki, Nicolas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...of brilliant young mathematicians who had made important...among the most eminent mathematicians of their generation). Many younger French mathematicians have joined the group...journals, as any mathematician would. He soon gave...
Bromwich, Thomas John I’anson
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Described by G. H. Hardy as the “ best pure mathematician among the applied mathematicians at Cambridge, and the best applied mathematician among the pure mathematicians, ” Bromwich was well known for his precision...
Craig, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...correspondence with many Scottish mathematicians, including Gregory, the noted mathematician and astronomer Colin...were thrown open to mathematicians at the close of the...application of this that the mathematicians of the period directed...
Germain, Sophie
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x2019; s greatest female mathematician prior to the present ear...that she too must become a mathematician. After teaching herself...Germain was no ivory-tower mathematician became evident in 1807...their chief effect on French mathematicians was to emphasize that there...
Hardy, Godfrey Harold
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...day a famous nursery of mathematicians. He went on to Trinity...x2019; s development into a mathematician can be so vivid as his own...inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt...mathematics really meant [ A Mathematician ’ s Apology...
Aida Yasuaki
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...determined to become the best mathematician in Japan, and worked as...disciples of the famous mathematician Sadasuke Fujita. Aida wanted...and temples by recognized mathematicians as votive offerings...between the Seki school of mathematicians and the Saijyo school established...
Blichfeldt, Hans Frederick
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...encouraged him to become a mathematician. He entered the recently...among the better-known mathematicians, he borrowed the money...studied under the famous mathematician Sophus Lie. In one year...was an achievement for a mathematician. From 1924 to 1927 he was...
Euler, Leonhard
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...part, artisans; but the mathematician ’ s father, Paul...Burckhardt, an amateur mathematician. In the autumn of 1720...Nikolaus II, and by other mathematicians of the time. Simultaneously...prizes from the Academy. For mathematicians beginning their careers...
Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān Ibn Thābit Ibn Qurra
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...physician, astronomer, and mathematician, and the grandson of Thabit...twenty propositions. Another mathematician, one al-Mah ā...one of the foremost Arab mathematicians to treat problems of mathematical...in showing how the Arab mathematicians pursued the mathematics...

Thesaurus entries related to "Mathematician"

brainteaser
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus brainteaser • noun  brainteasers for mathematicians synonyms : puzzle, problem, riddle, conundrum, poser, enigma, stumper.
live
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus live 1 • verb   1. the greatest mathematician who ever lived synonyms : exist, be alive, be, have life; breathe, draw breath, walk the earth. antonyms: die, be dead...
egotism
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...physical or mental attributes (the beautiful young actress had a reputation for narcissism), while solipsism refers to someone who is completely wrapped up in his or her own concerns (the solipsism of the theoretical mathematician).
congress
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus congress • noun   1. a congress of mathematicians synonyms : conference, convention, seminar, colloquium, symposium, forum, meeting, assembly, gathering, rally, summit...
egoism
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...physical or mental attributes (the beautiful young actress had a reputation for narcissism), while solipsism refers to someone who is completely wrapped up in his or her own concerns (the solipsism of the theoretical mathematician).

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Children as Mathematicians.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...mathematicians. The Characteristics of Young Mathematicians Two articles present a variety of viewpoints. In "The Mathematician as a Child and Children as Mathematicians," a prominent mathematician recalls mathematical moments from his childhood...
Exploring Children's Thinking about Mathematicians and Their Work.
Magazine article from: Teaching Children Mathematics; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...seem to think that mathematicians are both smart and...are great!" "A mathematician is good in mathematics...children portrayed mathematicians as people engaged...children picture mathematicians in the same way that...that the work of a mathematician is the same as that...
Mathematician May Have Solved 100-Year-Old Problem
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 7/29/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Many great mathematicians have at various...problems that any mathematician would love to...physicist as a mathematician. In fact, he...we mean what mathematicians call a topological...respected Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman...conjecture. Mathematicians around the world...
Grades 4-6: Was a mathematician born on your birthday?(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Curriculum Review; 10/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...questions about the mathematician and write a short...Resources: The Mathematicians' Anniversaries...Investigate the Mathematicians on your list...information about the mathematician, then answer...List any other mathematicians he/she worked...facts about the mathematician you may ...
NERDS? OR NUTS? POP CULTURE PORTRAYALS OF MATHEMATICIANS.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...The theme of mathematicians suffering from...movies. The Mathematician Protagonist Mathematicians are rarely main...an anonymous mathematician reviewer of this...remarked: "The mathematicians in this novel...
Nerds? Or nuts? Pop culture portrayals of mathematicians
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...The theme of mathematicians suffering from...movies. The Mathematician Protagonist Mathematicians are rarely main...an anonymous mathematician reviewer of this...remarked: "The mathematicians in this novel...
Career opportunities for mathematicians. (Annual Jobs Issue)(Career Reports/Mathematics and Science)
Magazine article from: The Black Collegian; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...graduation, as a mathematician/data analyst at...I found out what mathematicians at GSFC did. They...question "What do mathematicians do?" still persists...of a contemporary mathematician who is not an educator...and government. Mathematicians teach at all levels...
The Case of the Disappearing Mathematician
Transcript from: Talk of the Nation (NPR); 11/17/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...The Artist and the Mathematician): Thank you. It...here. FLATOW: Did mathematicians know this was a hoax...The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas...Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed...joke, really, of mathematicians who are because they...
Grades 4-6: Meet famous mathematicians.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Curriculum Review; 10/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...life: Hall of Great Mathematicians, http://www...Biographies of Women Mathematicians, http://www...the letter of the mathematician in the space in front...secret society of mathematicians -- was considered...world's greatest mathematician A. Pythagoras B...
Top mathematicians worry about future of China's maths studies
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 8/22/2002; 688 words ; ...appraisal of mathematicians' performances...a Chinese mathematician's research...said. The mathematicians, especially...lectures our mathematicians will deliver...American master mathematician.