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  1. Introducing C++ for Scientists, Engineers and Mathematicians by Derek Capper, 2001-10-16
  2. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany: Individual Fates and Global Impact by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, 2009-07-06
  3. I am a Mathematician: An Autobiography by Norbert Wiener, 1956
  4. Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician by Neal Koblitz, 2007-12-18
  5. Selected Papers: 2 Volumes (Contemporary Mathematicians) (Vols 1-2) by S. Kakutani, 1986-01-01
  6. Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in Mathematics and Physics: A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists (v. 1) by Eberhard Zeidler, 2006-08-14
  7. Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Allen Paulos, 2009-06-09
  8. Secret Life of Numbers: 50 Easy Pieces on How Mathematicians Work And Think
  9. Mathematicians at war: Volterra and his French colleagues in World War I (Archimedes) by Laurent Mazliak, Rossana Tazzioli, 2009-12-22
  10. Quantum Field Theory II: Quantum Electrodynamics: A Bridge between Mathematicians and Physicists by Eberhard Zeidler, 2008-11-17
  11. A Course in Mathematical Logic for Mathematicians (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) by Yu. I. Manin, 2009-10-30
  12. Mathematical Modeling of Biosensors: An Introduction for Chemists and Mathematicians (Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors) by Romas Baronas, Feliksas Ivanauskas, et all 2009-12-02
  13. G.W. Stewart: Selected Works with Commentaries (Contemporary Mathematicians)
  14. DÜRER, ALBRECHT (14711528): An entry from Charles Scribner's Sons' <i>Europe, 1450 to 1789: An Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World</i> by JANE CAMPBELL HUTCHISON, 2004

41. German Mathematical Society: Information From Answers.com
german mathematical society The german mathematical society ( german Deutsche MathematikerVereinigung - DMV) is the main professional society of.
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42. List Of Jewish Scientists And Philosophers: Information From Answers.com
Georg Cantor, germanRussian mathematical logician; Philip Dawid, British statistician; Paul Erdös, Hungarian mathematician; John Fox, British statistician
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43. Encyclopedia: Georg Cantor
The Cantor set, introduced by german mathematician Georg Cantor, is a remarkable construction involving only the real numbers between zero and one.
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    Encyclopedia: Georg Cantor
    Updated 4 days 9 hours 14 minutes ago. Other descriptions of Georg Cantor Georg Cantor Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor March 3 January 6 ) was a mathematician who was born in Russia and lived in Germany for most of his life. He is best known as the creator of modern set theory . He is recognized by mathematicians for having extended set theory to the concept of transfinite numbers , including the cardinal and ordinal number classes. Cantor is also known for his work on the unique representations of functions by means of trigonometric series (a generalized version of a Fourier series Georg Cantor Cantor died in 1918; therefore, all photographs of him are in the public domain. ...

    44. Persona Mathematica (German Mathematical Search Engine)
    MathNet, PERSONA MATHEMATICA Find people on more than 100 mathematical Web-Sites in Germany and Austria. Name (Substring matching). Search in
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    45. About Emmy Noether
    in 1909 to join the german Mathematical Society but she still could not either of it or its maker — Emily Noether, a great german mathematician.
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    Amalie Noether, Emily Noether, Amelie Noether Born in Germany and named Amalie Emmy Noether, she was known as Emmy. Her father was a mathematics professor at the University of Erlangen and her mother was from a wealthy family. Emmy Noether studied arithmetic and languages but was not permitted as a girl to enroll in the college preparatory school, the gymnasium. Her graduation qualified her to teach French and English in girls' schools, apparently her career intention but then she changed her mind and decided she wanted to study mathematics at the university level. To enroll in a university, she had to get permission of the professors to take an entrance exam she did and she passed, after sitting in on mathematics lectures at the University of Erlangen. She was then allowed to audit courses first at the University of Erlangen and then the University of G

    46. Britannica Student Encyclopedia
    Biography of this german mathematician who also made contributions to other sciences. Article on the life and works of this german mathematician.
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    47. Riemann, Bernhard --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
    The german mathematician Bernhard Riemann, by extending Euclid s Biography of this 19thcentury german mathematician best known for his work in
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    48. The Fairy Tale Beauty Of Color And The Physical Phenomena Will Be
    A Swissgerman mathematician, astronomer, physicist and philosopher. A german mathematician and astronomer. 1776 08-00-15. Moses Harris
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    COLOR PHENOMENA Page: 08. 00 Introduction Ingredients Spectra Attributes ... Contents Color Spaces PERIOD 450 BC to 1860 THIS PAGE PERIOD 1860 to 1928 Page 08. 01 PERIOD 1928 to 1955 Page 08. 02 PERIOD 1955 to 1976 Page 08. 03 COLOR SPACE PERIOD (from 450 BC to 1860) Year Photo Inventors/Physicists/Mathematicians/etc. A simple 2D or 3D color space 450 B.C.
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    for Earth both hot and dry both cold and wet both wet and hot both dry and cold 400 B.C. Democritus b-460 B.C. in Abdera (town on the coast of Thrace) d-370 B.C. Greek p hilosopher White Black Red Yellow-Green 390 B.C. Plato b-427 B.C. in Athens or Aegina in Greece d-347 B.C. in Athens in Greece Greek p hilosopher White Black Red Shiny 334 B.C. Aristoteles b-384 B.C. in Stagira - Chalcidice in Greece d-322 B.C. in Chalcis - Euboea in Greece

    49. CEIC Recommendations: The Math-Net Page
    Almost all german mathematical departments and research institutes have installed MathNet Pages. Under the guidance of CEIC, these concepts have been
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    International Mathematical Union IMU on the Web WDML EWDM ... Further Info
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    Call to All Mathematical Institutions to Install Math-Net Pages Recommended by the Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) of the IMU on February 17, 2002
    (endorsed by the Executive Committee of the IMU on April 12, 2002) Almost every mathematics department or research institute has a homepage that provides basic information about people and activities in the department. In order to be useful to those outside, the homepage should have an easily recognizable, clear, and intuitive structure. Unfortunately, while many of the current homepages are beautifully designed, they differ dramatically in both structure and content. The IMU wants to improve this situation and help users to find high-quality mathematical information. The Math-Net Page for departments or research institutes provides a way to standardize the presentation of basic information about the department. The Math-Net Page is not meant to replace a nicely designed homepage, but rather to serve as a "secondary homepage" with a uniform and intuitive structure. The uniform structure allows users to find information easily and reliably. Based on the recommendation of its Committee on Electronic Information and Communication, IMU asks every mathematics institution throughout the world to create a

    50. Biographical And Historical Notes
    german mathematician working in Berlin, mainly on algebra and the He was a german mathematician of French extraction (the family had fled France after
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    Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics Evans M. Harrell II and James V. Herod*
    This document contains some brief biographical and historical notes as part of the hypertext, Linear Methods of Applied Mathematics . When a name such as Fourier in the text is highlighted, it usually indicates a link to part of this document. Much more historical information is available from the History of Mathematics Archive or the Museum of the History of Science Sir George Biddell Airy , b. 1801, Alnwick, England, d. 1892. British astronomer who studied diffraction (among other topics), in which he used Airy functions, which satisfy a differential equation of the form u'' = x u. Actually, these are equivalent to Bessel functions with a fractional index. Jean le Rond d' Alembert In our text we encounter his original idea for solving the wave equation, which evolved into the method of characteristics . He also contributed to celestial mechanics, geometry, hydrodynamics, and complex analysis. His most important scientific writing was his (1743), but perhaps his greatest contribution to mankind was his development of the theory of the construction of eyeglasses.

    51. Georg Cantor -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
    In the words of (german mathematician (18621943)) David Hilbert No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.
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    Georg Cantor
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    Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician who was born in Russia and lived in Germany for most of his life. He is best known as the creator of modern (The branch of pure mathematics that deals with the nature and relations of sets) set theory . He is recognized by mathematicians for having extended set theory to the concept of (Click link for more info and facts about transfinite numbers) transfinite numbers , including the ((Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes) cardinal and (The number designating place in an ordered sequence) ordinal number classes. Cantor is also known for his work on the (Click link for more info and facts about unique representations of functions by means of trigonometric series) unique representations of functions by means of trigonometric series (a generalized version of a (The sum of a series of trigonometric expressions; used in the analysis of periodic functions)

    52. Richard Dedekind -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article
    His help was salutary for Cantor against (german mathematician (18231891)) Kronecker s objections to the general infinity in number theory.
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    Richard Dedekind
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    Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (A person of German nationality) German (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician and (Click link for more info and facts about Ernst Eduard Kummer) Ernst Eduard Kummer 's closest follower in (The branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations) arithmetic
    Dedekind was born in (A city in central Germany) Braunschweig Brunswick ) the youngest of four children of Julius Levin Ulrich Dedekind. He later rejected his first names Julius Wilhelm. He lived with his unmarried sister Julia until her death in 1914; he himself also never married. In 1848, he entered Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick and in 1850 with the solid knowledge in mathematics he entered the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Göttingen) University of Göttingen
    In (Click link for more info and facts about Göttingen) Göttingen (A unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter) Gauss taught mathematics mostly at an elementary level. In the departments of mathematics and physics, Dedekind learnt about

    53. Math On The Web: Societies, Associations And Organizations
    Danish Mathematical Society / Dansk Matematisk Forening (Lynby, Denmark); DMV, Deutscher Mathematiker Vereinigung (german Mathematical Society, Berlin,
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    54. Mathematician - Definition Of Mathematician By The Free Online Dictionary, Thesa
    Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel german mathematician and astronomer who made Felix Klein, Klein - german mathematician who created the Klein bottle
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    Cite / link Email Feedback math·e·ma·ti·cian (m th -m -t sh n) n. A person skilled or learned in mathematics. Thesaurus Legend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Noun mathematician - a person skilled in mathematics math mathematics maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement algebraist - a mathematician whose specialty is algebra arithmetician - someone who specializes in arithmetic geometer geometrician - a mathematician specializing in geometry number theorist - a mathematician specializing in number theory probability theorist - a mathematician who specializes in probability theory man of science scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences mathematical statistician statistician - a mathematician who specializes in statistics trigonometrician - a mathematician specializing in trigonometry Abel Niels Abel Niels Henrik Abel - Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829) Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham al-Haytham Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)

    55. Tensen Physics Dictionary (biographies)
    Bernard Reimann was a german mathematician who is credited with laying the groundwork for the study of nonEuclidean, curved spaces.
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    A B C D ... Z Niels Henrik Abel ) was a Norwegian mathematician. ( pg.703) Andre Marie Ampere ) was a French mathematician, chemist, and physicist who experimentally quantified the relationship between the electrical current and the magnetic field . His works were summarized in a treatise published in , The units of electrical current are named after him. ( pg.5) The Bernoulli Family consisted of nine Swiss mathematicians in three generations. The father, Johan , lived from to Daniel has been called the "Father of Mathematical Physics." All were followers of Leibniz Charles A. Coulomb ) was a French engineer and physicist who published the laws of electrostatics in seven memoirs to the French Academy of Science between and . His name is associated with the units of electrical charge pg.5) ) was a French mathematician who "fathered" modern mathematics." ( Pierre de Fermat ) was a French lawyer, linguist and amateur mathematician who extended ideas about algebra and contributed to optics with his "Principle of Least Time." ( Leonard Euler ) (rhymes with boiler not ruler ) was probably the most prolific mathematician (student of Johan Bernoulli , friend of Daniel Bernoulli ) of all time, known for the quality of his vast works. (

    56. SLATES, SLIDERULES AND SOFTWARE - TEACHING MATH IN AMERICA
    A few years later, the german mathematician and model maker Ludwig Brill published models of projections of polytopes. These examples on the right were
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    The World Stage The Early Republic The World Stage The Cold War The Information Age Resources From the 1870s, Americans began to play a larger role in discovering new mathematical principles. Some studied abroad, especially in Germany, and a few American universities began to offer graduate degrees in mathematics. Mathematicians purchased teaching equipment linked to recent advances in their discipline. They and others also introduced devices to help the rapidly growing number of high school students. WELLESLEY COLLEGE MATH CLASS From ancient times, mathematicians had studied regular solids like the tetrahedron, the cube, and the octahedron. In the 1850s, the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli described the six regular figures, or polytopes, that can exist in four-dimensional space.
    In 1880, W. I. Stringham, a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on these figures. A few years later, the German mathematician and model maker Ludwig Brill published models of projections of polytopes. These examples on the right were purchased and displayed by Wesleyan University in Connecticut. GEOMETRIC MODELS
    OF POLYTYPES TOP OF PAGE College students studied figures that could be generated by the motion of straight lines. This

    57. SparkNotes: The Elegant Universe: Key Figures & Terms
    Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954) A german mathematician. In 1919, Kaluza proposed that the George Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866) - A german mathematician.
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    saveBookmark("", "", ""); Home English Literature Study Guides The Elegant Universe - Navigate Here - Context Overview Themes Part I: The Edge of Knowledge Part II: The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta Part III: The Cosmic Symphony Part IV: String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime Part V: Unification in the Twenty-First Century Important Quotations Explained Key Facts Study Questions Quiz Suggestions for Further Reading Key Figures Greene mentions a number of contemporary physicists—Gabriele Veneziano, Pierre Ramond, and Shing-Tung Yau among them—who have made important contributions to the advancement of string theory. The following list focuses primarily on the predecessors of string theory: scientists and mathematicians from earlier eras who laid the groundwork for what is now the cutting edge of physics. Niels Bohr (1885–1962) - A Danish physicist and contemporary of Einstein Bohr developed quantum mechanics and was the first to apply the quantum theory to the problem of atomic structure. He received the Nobel Prize in 1922. Max Born (1882–1970) - A German physicist. In 1926

    58. Science Jokes:1. MATHEMATICS : 1.5 MATHEMATICS QUOTES
    In GF Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York Mcgraw Hill, Inc., 1992, p. 177. Karl F. Gauss (17771855), german mathematician
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    Bottom of page Index Send comment ... April 23 From: http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html Abel, Niels H. (1802 - 1829) [Norwegian Mathematician] [About Gauss' mathematical writing style] He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. In G. F. Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York: Mcgraw Hill, Inc., 1992, p. 177. [Karl F. Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician] mathematics
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    Bottom of page Index Send comment ... October 29 From: http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond (1717-1783) [French mathematician and encyclopedist] The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight. mathematics
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    Bottom of page Index Send comment ... December 1 Allen, Woody (1935-,American film director, writer,actor): Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to reevaluation of counting as a method of getting from one to ten. Students are taught advanced concepts of Boolean algebra, and formerly unsolvable equations are dealt with by threats of reprisals. In Howard Eves' Return to Mathematical Circles, Boston: Prindle, Weber, and Schmidt, 1988. Anglin, W.S.

    59. Help        Philosophy
    Dedekind was a 19th century german mathematician, and this is his attempt to explain Frege was a german mathematician, and was the first to show that in
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    Under the above heading I give a series of bookreferences that concern Western philosophy between 1600 and 1900. Background A. Encyclopedias, glossaries and references Philosophers Machiavelli
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    Hobbes Pascal ... Dedekind Cantor Machiavelli : 1. The Prince 2. The Discourses. Machiavelli was a very intelligent top civil servant in Florence (until he got dismissed) who tried to be a realistic political philosopher by studying what politicians and other political leaders do, rather than by believing their words. He is known as a cynic, which was very probably not true, and The Discourses probably give more of his real opinions than The Prince (which was an attempt to get into the favors of a Medici princeling). There is an edition of The Prince with my comments on my site. Montaigne : The Essays. These are three volumes of essays by a 16th Century Frenchman, dedicated to the question of what one really knows - "Que sais je?" in Montaigne's words: "What do I know?". They are very well-written, quite skeptical, and interesting for many reasons, among which is Montaigne's interest in what is now know as anthropological evidence: Information about the habits, ideas and ways of life of so-called "primitive peoples". There are many editions and translations, and the English one I like best is a rendering of John Florio's translation from the early 17th Century in "

    60. Math Chronology Table
    AD 1675, german mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz introduced the mordern notation AD 1892, german mathematician Georg Cantor showed that there are
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    Mathematics History Prehistoric human beings probably learned to count at least up to ten on their fingers. The Chinese, Hindus, Babylonians, and Egyptians all devised methods of counting and measuring that were of practical importance in their everyday lives. The first theoretical mathematician is held to be Thales of Miletus (c. 580 BC) who is believed to have proposed the first theorems in plane geometry. His disciple Pythagoras established geometry as a recognized science among the Greeks. The later school of Alexandrian geometers (4th and 3rd centuries BC) included Euclid and Archimedes. Our present decimal numerals are based on a Hindu-Arabic system that reached Europe about AD 100 from Arab mathematicians of the Middle East such as Khwarizmi. Mathematics Chronology Table 2500 BC The people of Mesopotamia ( now Irq) developed a positional numbering (place-value) system, in which the value of a digit depends in its position in a number 2000 BC Mesopotamian mathematicians solved quadratic equations (algebraic equations in which the highest power of a variable is 2) 0876 BC A symbol for zero was used for the first time, in India

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