61. The Most Tantalizing Marginal Note In The History Of Mathemat-ics In 1908, the german mathematician P. Wollskehl bequeathed 100000 marks to the Academy of Science at Gottingen as a prize for the first complete proof of the http://library.thinkquest.org/22494/stories/Fermat.htm

Pierre de Fermat The most tantalizing marginal note in the history of mathematics. Of the well over three thousand mathematical papers and notes that he wrote, Fermat published only one, and that just five years before his death and under the concealing initials M. P. E. A. S. Many of his mathematical findings were disclosed in letters to fellow mathematicians and in marginal notes inserted in his copy of Bachet's translation of Diophantus's Arithmetical At the side of Problem 8 of Book II in his copy of Diophantus, Fermat wrote what has become the most tantalizing marginal note in the history of mathematics. The considered problem in Diophantus is: " To divide a given square number into two squares." Fermat's accompanying marginal note reads: To divide a cube into two cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever above the second, into two powers of the same denomination, is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it. This famous conjecture, which says that

62. IMU Bulletin No. 43 At the beginning of this century, the great german mathematician David Hilbert As President of the german Mathematical Society I ask you to elect by http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Bulletins/43/manuscripts.html

IMU Bulletin no. 43, October SPEECH BY DAVID MUMFORD, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL UNION Minister Rüttgers, State Secretaries Staudacher and Hauser, Governing Mayor Diepgen, Professors Hoffmann, Hirzebruch and Grötschel, fellow mathematicians, ladies and gentlemen: Let me welcome you to the ICM'98, the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians. It is a great honor and a great pleasure to open this Congress. Thirdly, I want to say that I am accustomed, as a mathematician, to being in a nearly invisible field of work. Mathematics is neither a hard science whose discoveries are widely broadcast nor an Art, which delights a major part of the public. So I am especially pleased that our Congress here in Berlin has attracted the attention of the Federal Minister of Education and Science, the State Secretaries of the German President and the Ministry of Finance and the Governing Mayor of Berlin. I am further delighted that there is a stronger public awareness here in Berlin of mathematics and of our Congress than I can recall at any previous Congresses. During this Congress we have an opportunity to present mathematics to people engaged in other professions and the organizing committee has put together an exciting program to accomplish this, as you will hear shortly. Let me do my part by saying a few words about how mathematics relates to the broader cultural world. Mathematics is usually explained and justified to the world at large by giving examples of important inventions that could not have been made without its help. This is embodied in the myth that we mathematicians concern ourselves with eternal truths, which we hand on to physicists, who pass them on to chemists and engineers, etc. who finally pass them on to mankind as a whole. There are definitely important examples of ideas passing along this chain (in fact in both directions!) but I also think it is a rather narrow view to isolate mathematics on such a pedestal. There is a more socially grounded view, which says that mathematics and mathematicians are deeply embedded in human culture and are tied to the Arts in particular where the love of abstraction also flourishes. Let me illustrate this.

63. Mathematical Societies german Mathematical Society. Address, GAMM Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik / german Society for Mathematical Didactics http://www.mathunion.org/Information/MathSocieties/

Mathematical Societies International Societies IMU - International Mathematical Union ICIAM - International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics AMU - African Mathematical Union EMS - European Mathematical Society SEAMS - South-East Asia Mathematical Society UMALCA AWM - Association for Women in Mathematics EWM - European Women in Mathematics BSMSP - Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability ECMI - European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry IACR - International Association for Cryptologic Research IASC - International Association for Statistical Computing IASE - International Association for Statistics Education IFNA - International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts ILAS - International Linear Algebra Society IQSA - International Quantum Structures Association ISBA - International Society for Bayesian Analysis ISDG - International Society of Dynamic Games ISSMO - International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization KGS MPS - Mathematical Programming Society RTS - Risk Theory Society SJDM - Society for Judgment and Decision Making SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology YMN - Young Mathematicians Network National Societies List of all Addresses Address Society (language of name = language of webpage) A Argentina: Armenia: Armenian Mathematical Union Australia: AustMS - Australian Mathematical Society SSAI - Statistical Society of Australia Inc Austria: Austrian Mathematical Society B Belarus: Byelorussian Mathematical Society Belgium: Belgisch Wiskundig Genootschap /

64. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried A portrait of the german mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz discovered calculus at about the same time as Isaac http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0004458.html

// Show bread crumbs navigation path. breadcrumbs('four'); //> From: www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/ ENCYCLOPAEDIA Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia Men's Health ... Wildlife Frames not supported Frames not supported Encyclopaedia Search Click a letter for the index A B C D ... Z Or search the encyclopaedia: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm A portrait of the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz. Leibniz discovered calculus at about the same time as Isaac Newton, and made other progress in the field of abstract mathematics. As well as this, he sought the reunion of Catholics and Protestants and wrote metaphysical studies, laying the foundation for 18th century philosophy. German mathematician, philosopher, and diplomat. Independently of, but concurrently with, English scientist Isaac Newton , he developed the branch of mathematics known as calculus and was one of the founders of symbolic logic. Free from all concepts of space and number, his logic was the prototype of future abstract mathematics. Calculus and controversy It was in London in 1673 that Leibniz became acquainted with the work of Newton and Isaac Barrow and began to work on problems that led him to his independent discovery of differential and integral calculus. Leibniz is due the credit for first using the

65. Zaadz Quotes By Author - Karl Friedrich Gauss Quotes german mathematician, known for theory of electricity system of magnetic units the gauss . More quotes about God http://zaadz.com/quotes/authors/karl_friedrich_gauss/

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66. WNYC - Reading Room: The Golden Ratio this term was first used by the german mathematician Martin Ohm (brother of and repeatedly in the german mathematical and art history literature. http://www.wnyc.org/books/11057

Fed Funding Update Listen Online Now Windows Overnight Music Windows The Brian Lehrer Show Audio Help Schedules Podcasting Search WNYC.org The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number By Mario Livio Random House ISBN: 0-7679-0815-5 Available for purchase at Amazon.com Chapter One PRELUDE TO A NUMBER Numberless are the world's wonders.-Sophocles (495-405 b.c.) Less known than pi is another number, phi (f), which is in many respects even more fascinating. Suppose I ask you, for example: What do the delightful petal arrangement in a red rose, Salvador Dali's famous painting "Sacrament of the Last Supper," the magnificent spiral shells of mollusks, and the breeding of rabbits all have in common? Hard to believe, but these very disparate examples do have in common a certain number or geometrical proportion known since antiquity, a number that in the nineteenth century was given the honorifics "Golden Number," "Golden Ratio," and "Golden Section." A book published in Italy at the beginning of the sixteenth century went so far as to call this ratio the "Divine Proportion." In everyday life, we use the word "proportion" either for the comparative relation between parts of things with respect to size or quantity or when we want to describe a harmonious relationship between different parts. In mathematics, the term "proportion" is used to describe an equality of the type: nine is to three as six is to two. As we shall see, the Golden Ratio provides us with an intriguing mingling of the two definitions in that, while defined mathematically, it is claimed to have pleasingly harmonious qualities.

67. MSN Encarta - Mathematics Cantor and another german mathematician, Julius WR Dedekind, Immediately after Hamilton’s discovery, german mathematician Hermann Grassmann and American http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761578291_10/Mathematics.html

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Sign In Web Search: Encarta Subscriber Sign In Help Home ... Upgrade your Encarta Experience Search Encarta Upgrade your Encarta Experience Spend less time searching and more time learning. Learn more Tasks Find in this article Print Preview Related Items Math Homework Help Mathematics more... Further Reading Editors' picks for Mathematics Search for books and more related to Mathematics Encarta Search Search Encarta about Mathematics Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Mathematics ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 10 of 12 Mathematics Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 45 items Article Outline Introduction Mathematics: The Language of Science Branches of Mathematics History of Mathematics a Gauss: All Fields Carl Friedrich Gauss ranks as one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived. Diaries from his childhood show that he had already made important discoveries in the theory of numbers. His book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Inquiries into Arithmetic), published in 1801, marks the beginning of the modern era in number theory. Gauss also provided a geometric explanation of complex numbers as points on a plane, and the

68. ICM98-CL28 (98/06/11): Electronic Publishing/Mathematical Software/Comparison Of Among the panelists are K.H. Hoffmann (President of the german german Mathematical Society) Information and communication networks Joachim Heinze http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/CL/ICM98-CL28.html

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69. Chibaf¤ÎÆüµ­ - Memo ¦Hermann Hankel, a german mathematician. http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hankel ¦Hermann von Helmholtz, a german physician and physicist http://d.hatena.ne.jp/chibaf/20050810

chibaf¤ÎÆüµ­ memo Methods of Numerical Simulation in Fluids and Plasmas by Antonius Otto http://what.gi.alaska.edu/ao/sim/ Hermann Hankel, a German mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hankel Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physician and physicist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz Erik Ivar Fredholm, a Swedish mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Fredholm Simeon Denis Poisson, a French mathematician, geometer and physicis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson Hermann Weyl, a German mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl Lie group, an analytic real or complex manifold that is also a group such that the group operations multiplication and inversion are analytic maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group Sophus Lie, a Norwegian-born mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophus_Lie G. H. Hardy, a prominent British mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy John Edensor Littlewood, a British mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood Srinivasa Ramanujan, a groundbreaking Indian mathematician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

70. Talks June 2001, Thurnau (germany); Bavarian Mathematical Kolloquium Jena (germany); Annual Meeting of the german Mathematical Union, Real analysis section http://www.math.ethz.ch/~farkas/research/Talks.html

PD Dr. Erich Walter Farkas Delivered talks Colloquia- and invited seminar talks May 14, 2004, University of Coimbra (Portugal), "Negative definite functions and pseudo-differential operators generating Markov processes" (60 min.). March 27, 2003, University of Aveiro (Portugal), "Sobolev spaces of generalised smoothness associated to a continuous negative definite function" (60 min.). March 14, 2003, University Autonoma of Madrid (Spain), "On Sobolev spaces of generalised smoothness and pseudo-differential operators associated to a continuous negative definite function" (60 min.). March 13, 2003, University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), "Pseudo-differential operators associated to a continuous negative definite function" (60 min.). June 4, 2002, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), Kolloquium of the Math. Department: "On Sobolev spaces of generalised smoothness in the theory of sub-Markovian semigroups" (50 min.). Colloquium of the Institute for Applied Mathematics: "Domains of definition for generators of sub-Markovian semigroups - between functional analysis and stochastics'' (60 min.).

71. Physics.org - Physics Evolution Text Version, Page 3 Gottfried von Leibniz, german mathematician Developed calculus and other On the other hand, the german mathematician Leonhard Euler developed http://www.physics.org/evolution/physics_evolution_text3.asp

Click here for animated version The Renaissance (Page 3 of 7) 1400 to 1680 The Renaissance - or rebirth - began in Italy and saw the ideas of The Greeks returning to Europe. The message spread northwards and explorers spread west to cover the globe. Within 300 years through religious and civil conflicts, natural philosophers had rewritten the Ancient foundations and tools of philosophy. Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance man- Left handed mirror writer! (1452 to 1519) Renaissance man born in Florence In his lifetime, Leonardo da Vinci was primarily an artist, living off commissions and patronage from the rich and powerful. However, he was also an inventive designer- though none of his 'inventions' was ever built. In the fields of anatomy, optics and hydraulics, he anticipated many of the developments of modern science - he even designed a workable flying machine. His scientific theories, like his artistic innovations, were based on careful observation and precise documentation. His notebooks were written in mirror script - either to keep them secret or because he was left handed. This may have contributed to the fact that no-one really knew of his findings in his own lifetime; had they been published, they would have been of great interest to engineers and designers in the 16th and following centuries.

72. Mathematical Mysteries: Transcendental Meditation Nineteenthcentury german mathematician Leopold Kronecker once said The result was proved in 1882 by german mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann - but http://plus.maths.org/issue21/xfile/

about Plus support Plus ... Plus search plus with google home latest issue explore the archive ... news Permission is granted to print and copy this page on paper for non-commercial use. For other uses, including electronic redistribution, please contact us. Issue 21 September 2002 Contents Features Safety in numbers Beyond reasonable doubt Tying it all up Blast it like Beckham? Career interview Career interview: Games developer Regulars Plus puzzle Pluschat Mystery mix Reviews 'The Queen's Conjuror' 'Archimedes' 'Mathematical reflections and vistas' 'How long is a piece of string?' ... posters! September 2002 Regulars Mathematical mysteries: Transcendental meditation by Helen Joyce How would you like your maths displayed? If the character p doesn't look like the greek letter "pi", and the character isn't a square root sign, an alternative version of this page is available that should work with most browsers. New numbers from old Leopold Kronecker Nineteenth-century German mathematician Leopold Kronecker once said God created the integers, all the rest is the work of man.

73. Carl Friedrich Gauss Years Death Children 1809 Site Book number theory written by german mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and first published 1777 February 23, 1855) was a legendary german mathematician, http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Carl:Friedrich:Gauss.html

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74. Fractal Geometry named after the 19thcentury german mathematician Georg Cantor. however, when the german mathematician Felix Hausdorff put forward the idea in http://www.crystalinks.com/fractal.html

Fractal Geometry Reality is based on the patterns of sacred geometry which repeat in endless cycles. A fractal is a geometrical shape or pattern made up of identical parts, which are in turn identical to the overall pattern. The term "fractal" was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot about 1975 to describe a complex geometrical object that has a high degree of "self-similarity" and a fractional dimension that exceeds the normal, or "topological", dimension ( "D" ) for that type of object. The basic unit of the Koch snowflake , first constructed by the mathematician Helge von Koch (1870-1924), is the equilatorial triangle which can be built up into a much larger but still similar pattern. Any part of the snowflake is equally crinkly, whatever scale it is viewed at. Some of the most remarkable fractals are the Julia sets, devised by the French mathematician Gaston Julia (1893-1978). The Julia Sets are generated by applying an iterative non-linear process based on a very simple square-law function. F(z,C) = z2 + C where z is a point on the X-Y plane and C is a constant with both x and y components, Cx and Cy. The results were very surprising. No one expected that such a simple function could produce such complex images and be so difficult to analyze.

75. Regular Columns: EEVL Articles: The Secondary Homepages In Mathematics Initiativ They also offer a searchable index for german mathematical resources (SIGMA), a searchable index of preprints from several countries including Austria, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue28/eevl2/

EEVL Articles: The Secondary Homepages in Mathematics Initiative Greig Fratus , MathGate Manager, provides information about the Secondary Homepages in Mathematics initiative. An initiative of Math-Net [ ], the Secondary Homepage is a template that aims to sort the types of information usually found on departmental websites in mathematics into standardised sections and labels. By offering a user-friendly navigation and search, the Secondary Homepage overcomes the problem of significantly differing departmental homepages. As implied by the name, the Secondary Homepage is not meant to replace the department's homepage but rather to offer users another way of accessing information that is available on the department's website. MathGate [ ] is attempting to coordinate the UK version of this. Math-Net is an Internet Information Service for mathematicians, and the Secondary Homepage is only part of what they do. They also offer a searchable index for German mathematical resources (SIGMA), a searchable index of preprints from several countries including Austria, France and Germany, a collection of links to mathematical web resources, Persona Mathematica which allows the user to find German mathematicians, and a software search. The Math-Net charter has been endorsed by the International Mathematical Union's Committee for Electronic Information and Communication [

76. Pascal's Triangle - History In Europe Prior To Pascal Circa 1225 Jordanus of Nemore, a german mathematician, in his manuscript 1544 The german mathematician Michael Stifel publishes the extended Figurate http://binomial.csuhayward.edu/EuropePrior.html

Main Applications Identities History ... Algorithms Europeans Prior To Pascal Who Knew About The Triangle Blaise Pascal was not the first man in Europe to study the binomial coefficients, and never claimed to be such; indeed, both Blaise Pascal and his father Etienne had been in correspondence with Father Marin Mersenne, who published a book with a table of binomial coefficients in 1636. Many authors discussed the ideas with respect to expansions of binomials, answers to combinatorial problems and figurate numbers, numbers relating to figures such as triangles, squares, tetrahedra and pyramids. Here is a short list in chronolgical order of publishing. Ancient Greek Era Until recently, little had been known of the Greeks interest in combinatorics; it was known that they studied square numbers and triangular numbers, the second column of the Triangle, , so they knew that the sum of two consecutive triangular numbers forms a square, which is in our identity database as Recently a lost manuscript of Archimedes was rediscovered in a palimpsest , a text written over another older text. Archimedes' work was bleached out and the parchment was cut to make paper for a prayerbook about 1000 years ago. Using modern techniques, the work Archimedes did was restored, and it was shown he had correctly figured out the number of different ways a geometric puzzle called the

77. The Hindu : Ramanujan's Mentor On this scale, he gave the great german mathematician Hilbert a score of 80. Hardy gave himself a score of only 25, but said his colleague Littlewood http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/12/22/stories/2002122200040400.htm

Online edition of India's National Newspaper Sunday, Dec 22, 2002 Group Publications Business Line The Sportstar Frontline The Hindu About Us Contact Us Magazine Published on Sundays Features: Magazine Literary Review Life Metro Plus ... Magazine Ramanujan's mentor Today is Ramanujan's 115th birth anniversary. To mark the occasion, KRISHNASWAMI ALLADI describes the life and contributions of the British mathematician Hardy, and discusses his collaboration with Ramanujan. Ramanujan... Ranked 100 on a scale of 1-100 by Hardy. G. H. HARDY, a towering figure in analysis and number theory, had written several important research papers and influential textbooks on these subjects. When Ramanujan wanted to get the opinion of British mathematicians to evaluate his discoveries which lay at the interface between analysis and number theory, it was only natural that he close to write to Hardy. Actually Ramanujan communicated his remarkable findings to several British mathematicians, but it was only Hardy who responded. Realising that Ramanujan was a genius of the first magnitude who would profit immensely by contact with professional research mathematicians, Hardy invited Ramanujan to Cambridge University, England. The rest is history. The collaboration between Hardy and Ramanujan, the influence they had on each other, and the impact their work had over mathematicians of their generation and those succeeding them, was immense.

78. American Mathematical Monthly, The: Richard Brauer: Sketches From His Life And W At the annual meeting of the german Mathematical Society (Deutsche MathematikerVereinigung), held in Kissingen in September 1927, he was able to show her a http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3742/is_200310/ai_n9304206

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79. Topics In Algebra In 1489, the german mathematician Johann Widman first introduced the symbol +, The german Mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz used a period to http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/algebra.html

Topics in Algebra Topic Tree Home Following are some topics in algebra. Contents of this Page Algebra in Nature A History of Algebra Symbols Boolean Algebra The Hailstone (3n + 1 ) Problem ... Half-Life Algebra in Nature Over the centuries, as mathematical concepts have developed, mathematicians have discovered links from their work to nature. Here are a few topics with their link to the natural world. Fibonacci Numbers When we look a Fibonacci Numbers, we can quickly see the pattern. Many flower species have been found that produce petals that follow this sequence. For example: Enchanter's Nightshade flowers = 2 petals Lilies = 3 petals Wild Geranium = 5 petals Delphinium = 8 petals Corn Merigold = 13 petals Also, pineapple scales and pine cones spiral in two different directions. The number of spirals are Fibonacci numbers. The Golden Ratio The regular pentagon bears a very close relationship to the Golden Ratio. When you draw two diagonal lines from each verticee, you form Golden Triangles. This forms a pentagram. In nature we find a variety of examples that hold true to this concept. Five petaled flower blossoms have the shape of a pentagram. There are more flowers that have five petals than any other number of petals. If you measure the distance from the tip of one petal to the tip of a nonadjacent petal and then divide that distance by the distance between two adjacent petal tips, you will get an approximation of the Golden Ratio.

80. Mathematics David Hilbert, a german mathematician, 18621942. He is most remembered for the twenty-three problems Emmy Noether, a german mathematician, 1882-1935. http://www.math.wichita.edu/~richardson/math.html

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