81. FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION: PERSONS MENTIONED IN ISAAC ASIMOV'S SCIENCE COLUMN (b Gauss, Karl Friedrich, (17771855) german mathematician astronomer; (1845-1918) Russian-born german mathematician; about 1895, he worked out the http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/bibliography/fsfsciencewho01.htm

Index Abbreviations Issue Date Column Title Person Comments 1958 DEC Catching Up With Newton Newton, Isaac 1958 NOV Dust of Ages, The Petterson, Hans his atmosphere's meteoric dust measurements, reported in Nature, 1 FEB 1958 1959 DEC Thin Air Aristotle 1959 DEC Thin Air 1959 DEC Thin Air Appleton, Edward Victor 1959 DEC Thin Air Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis 1959 DEC Thin Air Jeffries, John American hot-air balloonist took a barometer up with him 1959 DEC Thin Air (1740-1810; 1745-1799) brothers whose hot-air balloon made the first human flight on 21 NOV 1783 1959 DEC Thin Air Boyle, Robert 1959 DEC Thin Air Guericke, Otto von 1959 DEC Thin Air Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647) Italian physicist, secretary for Galileo, in 1643 discovered that air has weight, invented the barometer to measure atmospheric pressure, at the same time created the first decent vacuum (the 'Torricelli vacuum') 1959 DEC Thin Air de Bort, Leon P. Teisserenc French meteorologist, in the 1890's divided the atmosphere into 2 layers, the lower being the troposphere, or 'the sphere of change', and the upper the stratosphere, or 'sphere of layers', separated by the tropopause, or 'end of change'(10 miles up) 1959 DEC Thin Air Galilei, Galileo

82. Review Of "Prime Obsession" In an 1859 paper, Bernhard Riemann, a 33year-old german mathematician, observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very closely related to the http://olimu.com/Riemann/Reviews/Economist.htm

Review of Prime Obsession Navigate up Reviews The Economist July 12th, 2003 Riemann's Riddle [No byline] WHEN Andrew Wiles, a British mathematician working at Princeton University, announced a decade ago that he had solved Fermat's last theorem, his discovery was reported on front pages around the world. The Frenchman's mathematical conundrum, which had taken more than 350 years to unravel, went on to inspire a television documentary, a bestselling book, and even "Fermat's Last Tango" a musical that boasts such lines as: "Elliptical curves, modular forms, Shimura-Taniyama. It's all made up, it doesn't exist, algebraic melodrama." Three new books grapple with what is arguably an even tougher problem: the Riemann hypothesis, a puzzle that has perplexed mathematicians for the last century and a half. Riemann's hypothesis is just 15 words: "The non-trivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function have real part equal to 1/2". But explaining it so that non-mathematicians can understand it is more complicated. The distribution of prime numbers, such as 5, 7 and 11, does not follow any regular pattern but they become less common as they grow bigger. In an 1859 paper, Bernhard Riemann, a 33-year-old German mathematician, observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very closely related to the behaviour of an elaborate function, "Zeta(

83. Review Of "Prime Obsession" In 1859 german mathematician Bernhard Riemann uncovered an apparent key to unlocking the pattern, but he couldn t verify it. Many great minds have become http://olimu.com/Riemann/Reviews/ScientificAmerican.htm

Review of Prime Obsession Navigate up Reviews Scientific American May 2003 Math's Most Wanted A trio of books traces the quest to prove the Riemann Hypothesis By Kristin Leutwyler The unpredictable drip from a leaky faucet can drive almost anyone mad. Prime numbers, those divisible only by one and themselves, present a numerical equivalent. For centuries, mathematicians have tried to find a simple formula to describe where these numbers fall along the number line. But their spacing 1, 2, 3, drip, 5, drip, 7, drip, drip, drip, 11, drip, and so forth seems to defy prediction. In 1859 German mathematician Bernhard Riemann uncovered an apparent key to unlocking the pattern, but he couldn't verify it. Many great minds have become obsessed with proving his guess, referred to as the Riemann Hypothesis (RH), ever since. Three books published in April chronicle this quest. The books cover much of the same ground, but each has a different strength. The text with the simplest title, The Riemann Hypothesis , by science writer Karl Sabbagh, provides ample hand-holding for anyone who pales at the sight of symbols or can't quite distinguish an asymptote from a hole in the graph. In

84. Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich friend of the german mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, under the influence of the german mathematician Bernhard Riemann s ideas on the principles http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/web_projects/giants/lobachevsky.html

Britannica CD Index Articles Dictionary Help Lobachevsky, Nikolay Ivanovich (b. Bolyai of Hungary, is considered the founder of non-Euclidean geometry. Lobachevsky was the son of an impecunious government official. His entire life centred around the University of Kazan, beginning at age 14, when he entered as a student. In 1811 he received the M.A. degree and then taught, from 1816 as extraordinary professor and from 1822 as ordinary professor. His administrative talents were soon recognized; in 1820 he became dean of the faculty of mathematics and physics, in 1825 university librarian, and in 1827 rector of the university, a position he held, with repeated reelections, until 1846. In all of his duties, he exercised remarkable organizing and educational skill in rescuing the university from the chaotic conditions into which it had drifted. The previous administration had reflected the spirit of the later years of Tsar Alexander I, who was distrustful of modern science and philosophy, particularly that of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, as evil products of the French Revolution and a menace to orthodox religion. The results at Kazan during the years 1819-26 were factionalism, decay of academic standards, dismissals, and departure of some of the best professors, including Johann Martin Christian Bartels, friend of the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Lobachevsky's teacher of mathematics. In 1826 a more tolerant period was inaugurated with the accession of Tsar Nicholas I, and Lobachevsky became the leading innovator at the university, restoring academic standards and faculty harmony. He was active in saving lives during the cholera epidemic of 1830, in rebuilding several university buildings after a devastating fire in 1842, and in popularizing science and modernizing primary and secondary education in the region of Kazan. Although burdened with this work, in addition to a heavy administrative teaching load, he still found time for extensive mathematical research.

85. Hilbert Hilbert and Minkowski were commissioned by the german Mathematical was greatly pleased at his assignment from the german Mathematical Society. http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/hilbert.html

Hilbert I. Introduction II. Biography David Hilbert was born on January 23, 1862 in Konigsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia. His father, Otto Hilbert, was a city judge, a very respectable position in a small city. Constance Reid indicates that Hilbert largest influence came from his mother Maria, "an unusual woman... interested in philosophy and astronomy and fascinated by prime numbers." As a young boy, Hilbert quickly found that mathematics came very easily to him. Since the gymnasium he attended emphasized language, particularly Latin, over math and science, he put aside his love for mathematics temporarily and concentrated on his weaker subjects, vowing to return to mathematics as soon as possible. He attended the university in Konigsberg, studying under Heinrich Weber, the only full professor of mathematics in Konigsberg. He visited the university in Heidelberg for a semester to hear lectures on differential equations by Leonard Fuchs. In 1882, Hermann Minkowski, a fellow student at Konigsberg, won the prestigious Grand Prix des Sciences Mathmatiques of the Paris Academy at the age of 17. Hearing of this unprecedented accomplishment, Hilbert quickly became friends with the shy Minkowski. In 1884, Adolf Hurwitz became an Extraordinarius, or assistant professor, at Konigsberg. They developed the habit of taking daily walks "to the apple tree... precisely at five" to discuss philosophy, literature, women, and, above all, mathematics. The three had formed a friendship that would last to their graves.

86. Documenta Mathematica Documenta Mathematica 1 was founded in 1996 by the german Mathematical Society (Deutsche MathematikerVereinigung, DMV). It is peer reviewed and edited by http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/8/papers/3/

High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine Home Editorial Board Contents Issue 8 HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 8 / October 2003 Documenta Mathematica A Community-Driven Scientific Journal Ulf Rehmann Abstract: Documenta Mathematica is an electronically produced, peer-reviewed, scientific journal, founded in 1996 by the German Mathematical Society (DMV). It is produced and distributed without any commercial publisher. Its foundation was one of the responses of the scientific community in order to cope with the ever increasing prices of scientific journals. Since May 1996, Documenta Mathematica is freely available on the Internet, and printed versions of its annual volumes are available at low cost. In this article we describe its management and its 'business model'. Documenta Mathematica, a Free Scientific Journal Documenta Mathematica [ ] was founded in 1996 by the German Mathematical Society (Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, DMV). It is peer reviewed and edited by an international editorial board. It is electronically produced and offers its articles in various formats such as dvi, postscript, and pdf free of charge on the Internet. Its main servers are located in Bielefeld, Germany (

87. Adventures In CyberSound: Plücker, Julius Julius Plücker, german mathematician and physicist who specialized in Analytic May 22, 1868, Bonn), german mathematician and physicist whose work http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/PLUCKER_BIO.html

A D V E N T U R E S in C Y B E R S O U N D In 1859 whilst establishing an important principle for the future of electronics, the German mathematician and physicist Julius Plucker discovers that cathode rays (electrons) are deflected by a magnetic field. Source: Eric's Treasure Trove , German mathematician and physicist who specialized in Analytic Geometry . He presented the logical justification for the Duality Principle in geometry, and published a book about geometry entitled Analytisch-geometrische Entwicklungen Neue Geometrie des Raumes . He worked with Hittorf in investigating Vacuum Tubes Source: http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/bios/Plucker.html His work on combinatorics considers Steiner type systems. He also introduced the notion of a ruled surface. In 1847 he turned to physics, accepting the chair of physics at Bonn working on magnetism, electronics and atomic physics. He anticipated Kirchhoff and Bunsen in indicating that spectral lines were characteristic for each chemical substance. In 1865 he returned to mathematics and Klein served as his assistant 1866-1888. Source: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plucker.html

88. Gauss I thought you meant the greatest german mathematician, replied Laplace, Gauss is the greatest mathematician alive. For more details on his life, click here. http://www.math.fau.edu/schonbek/MAPcourses/diffeqbio1777.html

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Dates: There is so much to say about Carl Friedrich Gauss that once one begins it is very hard to stop, so we will present only a few facts about this man who was also known as Princeps mathematicorum , the Prince of Mathematics . He was a child prodigy, as so many others and one of his achievements of which he was most proud was to have discovered, at age nineteen, that the regular 17 sided polygon was constructible with ruler and compass. His book Disquisitiones arithmeticae , published in 1801, is probably the most influential mathematics book published in the nineteenth century. By then Gauss had already received his doctorate; in his doctoral dissertation he gave six different proofs of what is known as the fundamental theorem of algebra. Gauss' great love was always number theory; he once said "Mathematics is the queen of science, and number theory is the queen of mathematics," but there is no area of mathematics or physics in which he did not make fundamental contributions. Concerning calculus, the theorems known as Gauss' divergence theorem and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem (or formula) play a big role in the applications of calculus to mathematical physics. An anecdote, which may or may not be true, shows that he was quite highly regarded in his time. When Napoleon occupied the part of Germany where Gauss worked, and Gauss was briefly in financial difficulties, the famous German philantropist and geographer, baron Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) tried to get Gauss some income. To this effect he consulted with the French mathematician Laplace, asking Laplace who was the greatest of German mathematicians. Convinced that Laplace would select Gauss, he was very surprised when Laplace came up with a couple of other names. So Humboldt asked Laplace point blank what about Gauss. I thought you meant the greatest

89. History Of Fermat S Last Theorem % By Andrew Granville % A Version Ernst Kummer, the german mathematician of the last century who did so much to In 1983, a young german mathematician, Gerd Faltings, proved a result far, http://math.albany.edu:8010/g/Math/topics/fermat/granville.hist

90. MM_Conferences Annual Meeting of the german Mathematical Society, September 1217, 2004 , Heidelberg , germany. Colloquium in Honour of Prof. G. Wittstock s Retirement and http://www.qub.ac.uk/mp/pmt/mm&seminar/NewPages/MM_Conferences.htm

Dr. Martin Mathieu Recently attended conferences and meetings North British Functional Analysis Seminar Ma rch 4, 2005 , Leeds Operator Theory Workshop Ma rch 5, 2005 , Leeds Symposium in Memory of G K Pedersen, April 29-May 1, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark Conference in Honour of Heydar Radjavi's 70th Birthday, May 14 and 15, 2005, Bled, Slovenia 4th Linear Algebra Workshop, May 16-24, 2005, Bled, Slovenia Operator Algebras and Applications, June 1-4, 2005, Cork Conference in Honour of 125th Birthday of L. Fejér and F. Riesz, June 9-13, 2005, Eger, Hungary Conference in Memory of J T Lewis, June 14-17, 2005, Dublin Canadian Operator Symposium 2005 (COSy2005), June 19-24, 2005, Ottawa, Canada Banach Algebras 2005 Conference, July 3-13, 2005, Bordeaux, France Canadian Operator Symposium 2004 May 19-23, 2004 Waterloo, ON Canada Great Plains Operator Theory Symposium 2004 May 26-30, 2004 College Station, TX, USA North British Functional Analysis Seminar May 3 1-June 1, 2004 , Edinburgh 20th Operator Theory Conference, Annual Meeting of the German Mathematical Society September 12-17, 2004

91. Mathematics | Riemann's Riddle | Economist.com In an 1859 paper, Bernhard Riemann, a 33year-old german mathematician, observed that In 1900, David Hilbert, a german mathematician and contemporary of http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1907656

92. MATHEMATICAL OBJECTIVITY AND THE RIGHT OF INITIATIVE (10-Sep-1999) Already at the beginning of the 18th century, the german mathematician and As we shall see, the idea goes back to the german mathematician and http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/objectivity.html

MATHEMATICAL OBJECTIVITY AND THE POWER OF INITIATIVE Already at the beginning of the 18th century, the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz aspired to achieving objectivity in human affairs by logic and computation. Today we are somewhat closer to achieving Leibniz's dream when he wrote: ... when controversies arise, it will not be a work of learned disputation between two philosophers, but between two computists. It will be enough for them to take pen in hand, sit at the abacus, and say to each other, as friends: ``Let us calculate!'' We begin with the problem of initiating change. Who has the right of initiative? Everyone has the experience of thinking some government policy, business policy, school policy or social custom is wrong and ought to be changed and feeling frustrated by his inability to communicate his objections or even to learn what the rationale of the policy is or who is in charge. Even if the people responsible for the policy are nominally reachable, if the office is high, they have hundreds of letters or emails proposing change. Often the person who can be reached hasn't the power, and the people with the power are responsible for too many policies to pay attention. In many matters no one person has the power of initiative. In matters of social custom, no group, not even Congress, can initiate changes. We can describe this situation by saying that only certain positions in social organization give a person the power of initiative

93. Hirzebruch - CURRICULUM VITAE President german Mathematical Society (1961 62 and 1990) Centennial of the german Mathematical Society (Bremen, September 16th-22nd 1990) In http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~eni/hirzebruch_cv.html

This page is available also in German CURRICULUM VITAE Friedrich Ernst Peter HIRZEBRUCH Born October 17, 1927 in Hamm (Westfalen), Germany Father: Dr. Fritz Hirzebruch, director of a secondary school Mother: Martha Hirzebruch, née Holtschmit married with Ingeborg Hirzebruch, née Spitzley, since August 7, 1952 Children: Ulrike, Barbara, Michael (born 1953, 1956, 1958) Grandchildren: Stefan, Christof, Johannes, Martin, Christian, Susanne Study of Mathematics, Physics and Mathematical Logic at the University of Münster (1945 - 50) and at the Federal School of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland (1949 - 50) Promotion Dr. rer.nat. University of Münster (1950) Scientific Assistant, University of Erlangen, Germany (1950 - 52) Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1952 - 54) Stipend State Northrhine Westphalia, University of Münster (1954 - 55) Habilitation in Mathematics, University of Münster (1955) Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (1955 - 56)

94. UNITN - Periodico Di Informazione Politica E Cultura Dell'Università Degli Stud In the nineteenth century a german mathematician called Bernhard Riemann found a new perspective on the primes which he believed would explain how the http://www.unitn.it/unitn/numero71/art/sautoy_eng.htm

unitn. n°71 conferenze Prime Suspect by Marcus du Sautoy Prime numbers are the atoms of arithmetic. At school, we are taught that they are divisible only by themselves and the number one. What we are rarely taught is that they represent one of the most tantalizing enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. How can one predict when the next prime number will occur? Is there a formula which could generate primes? These apparently simple questions have confounded mathematicians ever since the Ancient Greeks. Prime numbers are the most important numbers in mathematics. Every number is built by multiplying together these indivisible numbers. For example 105 is built by multiplying the primes 3, 5 and 7. The primes are for the mathematician what atoms are for the chemist. They are the hydrogen, helium and lithium of the world of numbers. Chemistry has been very successful at producing a list of all the atoms that exist in Nature. Called the Periodic Table, it lists 109 chemical elements from which all molecules can be built. Despite several millennia of investigation mathematicians are still struggling to understand their own mathematical Periodic Table of primes. The reason they are so hard to understand is that, unlike atoms, the primes go on for ever. In the first great Theorem of mathematics, the Greek mathematician Euclid proved that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Gone is the hope of just making a list of 109 primes, like the chemists, from which all numbers can be built.

95. PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results The german Mathematical Society The german Mathematical Society ( Deutsche MathematikerVereinigung ) was founded in 1890 at a meeting of the Society of http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/search_webcatalogue2.pl?limit=1300&term1=

96. Geometry In Space Activity The first assumption was investigated by german mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss german mathematician Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (18261866) http://universe.sonoma.edu/activities/geometry.html

Geometry In Space What is the shape of the Universe? An interesting question, for sure, and one that carries with it other implications - like what the ultimate fate of the Universe will be. For many years, scientists have proposed that there are three possibilities for the curvature (or shape) of the Universe. The Universe can be flat, like a piece of paper. Or it can have a positive curvature, like a sphere. Or it can have a negative curvature, like the middle part of a horse's saddle. To a certain degree, the curvature the Universe has depends on how much mass there is in the Universe...and the amount of mass will determine its ultimate fate. So, it is of more than just a passing fancy that we might want to measure the curvature of the Universe. But how exactly do you do that? In this lesson, we will explore one possible way to measure the curvature of the Universe, namely, by measuring the sum of the angles in a triangle in the Universe. Depending on the shape of the Universe, the sum will be either less than, equal to, or greater than 180 degrees. Of course, we can't measure just ANY triangle...we have to use a very big triangle in order to be able to discern the shape of the Universe. Every triangle will give the result of 180 degrees if you measure just a teeny tiny part of a very big space...no matter what its curvature is. Flat Universe Positive Curvature Universe Negative Curvature Universe So how do you measure a very big triangle in the Universe? That will be discussed as well, since it is something that NASA's

97. Science -- Sign In The hypothesis was first published in 1859 by german mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who was investigating the properties of the socalled zeta function http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/288/5470/1328

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98. THEY SAY. WHAT THEY SAY, LET THEM SAY One Of The Most Formative Karl Weirstrass (181597), great german mathematician. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), great german mathematician. http://members.fortunecity.com/jonhays/theysay.htm

web hosting domain names photo sharing THEY SAY. WHAT THEY SAY, LET THEM SAY One of the most formative books of my life is Men of Mathematics , by Scot-American mathematician, Eric Temple Bell (1883-1960), which I read in its first year of publication when I was 17. It changed my thinking and played a role in my becoming a mathematician. Before the book itself begins, a page reads what I have in the title, "THEY SAY. WHAT THEY SAY, LET THEM SAY (Motto of Marischal College, Aberdeen)." This was Bell's college in Scotland. Bell's science fiction was published under the name, "John Taine". After stating this motto, Bell lists several sayings, of which I select a few. "A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.", Karl Weirstrass (1815-97), great German mathematician. "Mathematics is Queen of the Sciences, and Arithmetic is the Queen of Mathematics.", Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), great German mathematician. "The different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision." The Mock Turtle ( Alice in Wonderland "God made the integers, and all the rest is the work of man.", German mathematician, Leopold Kronecker (1823-91)

99. NZMS Newsletter #67 Professor Hirzebruch who was President of the german Mathematical Society at that time was authorized to prepare an application for the 1966 Congress. http://ifs.massey.ac.nz/mathnews/NZMS67/conferences.html

Conferences Call for Papers: DMTCS'96 First Conference of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 9-13 December 1996, Auckland, New Zealand The Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, a joint venture involving the Computer Science and Mathematics Departments of the Universities of Auckland and Waikato, was founded in 1995 to support basic research on the interface between mathematics and computing. DMTCS'96 is the first of a planned series of conferences organised by the Centre. The proceedings will be published by a major publishing company and will be mailed to the participants after the conference. INVITED SPEAKERS * G. J. Chaitin * J. Dinitz * R. L. Graham * S. Hayashi * G. Rozenberg * A. Salomaa * H. Siegelmann * K. Weihrauch IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: 15 June 1996 Notification: 15 August 1996 Final copies due: 1 October 1996 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE * Paul Bonnington, Auckland * Douglas Bridges, Waikato, co-chair * Cristian Calude, Auckland, co-chair

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