Extractions: The following list was researched on the Internet. The individuals listed are just a tiny sample of noteworthy Americans. If you find any errors, I would appreciate your sending me corrections. Links are to biographical information where possible. In some cases biographical information was not available. In such cases, a link is made to some resource on the Internet in which the individual is identified.
Extractions: SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Pages from the history of the Indian sub-continent: Science and Mathematics in India History of Mathematics in India In all early civilizations, the first expression of mathematical understanding appears in the form of counting systems. Numbers in very early societies were typically represented by groups of lines, though later different numbers came to be assigned specific numeral names and symbols (as in India) or were designated by alphabetic letters (such as in Rome). Although today, we take our decimal system for granted, not all ancient civilizations based their numbers on a ten-base system. In ancient Babylon, a sexagesimal (base 60) system was in use. The Decimal System in Harappa In India a decimal system was already in place during the Harappan period, as indicated by an analysis of Harappan weights and measures. Weights corresponding to ratios of 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500 have been identified, as have scales with decimal divisions. A particularly notable characteristic of Harappan weights and measures is their remarkable accuracy. A bronze rod marked in units of 0.367 inches points to the degree of precision demanded in those times. Such scales were particularly important in ensuring proper implementation of town planning rules that required roads of fixed widths to run at right angles to each other, for drains to be constructed of precise measurements, and for homes to be constructed according to specified guidelines. The existence of a gradated system of accurately marked weights points to the development of trade and commerce in Harappan society.
WMY2000 4 EDITORIAL Latin American Mathematical Society and the South East asian MathematicalSociety. These organizations help mathematicians in the respective regions to http://wmy2000.math.jussieu.fr/4_edito.html
Extractions: Attia A. Ashour Mathematics enjoys the same popularity as other disciplines, (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences, etc.) with neither the governments of the developing countries nor the International Organizations whose aim is to help these countries. However, certain aspects of mathematics or related to it, such as Computer Science, Information Theory, Statistics & Probability, Modelling, etc., have been established as worthy of support. It is not my intention here to enlarge on this or to give reasons for it. What I want to emphasize is that there is a need to recognize the importance of mathematics at large in its own right and to provide institutes of mathematics and mathematicians in the developing countries with the help needed to continue and improve their work and in particular to develop the "critical mass" which does not yet exist in some of these countries. Regional Unions and Societies of Mathematics also exist. Examples of these are the African Mathematical Union, the Latin American Mathematical Society and the South East Asian Mathematical Society. These organizations help mathematicians in the respective regions to hold meetings and to publish regional journals. Again, UNESCO plays an important role in funding the activities of these organizations.
U.S.-Asian Workshop On Nonlinear Dynamics And SPDEs This workshop is the first USasian workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic A delegation of over a dozen of US mathematicians and scientists will http://www.iit.edu/~duan/Beijing.html
Extractions: Jinqiao Duan (duan@iit.edu) Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA Zhujun Jing (jingzj@math.ac.cn) The Chinese Academy of Sciences Kening Lu (klu@math.msu.edu) Michigan State University, USA Zaijiu Shang, Co-Chair ( zaijiu@math.ac.cn The Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiangdong Ye, Co-Chair (yexd@ustc.edu.cn) The University of Science and Technology of China Solutions to the important dynamical problems increasingly require techniques from several areas of mathematics. The research in these are as is becoming increasingly collaborative, especially crossing country borders. In fact, rapid progress requires an organized collaborative effort like this Workshop. This workshop is the first U.S.-Asian workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. A delegation of over a dozen of U.S. mathematicians and scientists will attend the workshop. It will serve as a venue for developing communication and establishing collaborative research among research groups from U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, and local regions Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Extractions: GOLDSEA CAREER CENTER JOBS AT FEATURED EMPLOYERS Career Choices of Elite Asian American Grads Recent heavy demand for video games have created a lucrative niche: videogame programmers with under two years experience earn an average annual salary of $59,400, according to a 2003 survey from San Francisco-based Game Developer magazine. Law Brainy young Asian Americans who are allergic to test tubes and calculators are discovering law to be an attractive default profession. Not only does it offer the opportunity to enjoy status and potentially major-league earnings, it offers the added advantage of defying expectations of those with stereotypical notions of suitable careers for Asian Americans. Like engineering, law is a broad field in which practitioners' days are as varied as stitching together boilerplate provisions into massive contracts or going down to the courthouse on a daily basis to argue pretrial motions. [CONTINUED BELOW] There are also huge differences in salaries, depending mainly on the size of the firm you work for and the city in which it's located. After three years of law school, top grads of top-10 law schools vie for offers from big national firms that pay starting salaries of $90,000-$150,000. Those who work for smaller firms can expect to start at about half those amounts.
Extractions: PAGE 1 OF 2 iotech is one industry that won't experience a shortage of job openings for the forseeable future. The harnessing of massive computing power for both research and development is enabling the industry to emerge from the Dark Ages of trial and error methods to a brave new world of gene-based therapies, bio-engineering and nano-medicine. Brand-new strategies for attacking diseases and disabilities are being born practically by the day. Each product opportunity takes the efforts of hundreds or thousands to exploit commercially, creating an insatiable demand for trained biotech professionals. If the personal computer industry is any gauge, the demand for biotech talent won't be satisfied for at least two decades.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH AND 8TH ASIAN LOGIC CONFERENCES The 7th and the 8th asian Logic Conferences belong to the series of logic Readership Logicians, computer scientists, research mathematicians and http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/5186.html
Extractions: The 7th and the 8th Asian Logic Conferences belong to the series of logic conferences inaugurated in Singapore in 1981. This meeting is held once every three years and rotates among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, with interests in the broad area of logic, including theoretical computer science. It is now considered a major conference in this field and is regularly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. This book contains papers many of them surveys by leading experts of both the 7th meeting (in Hsi-Tou, Taiwan) and the 8th (in Chongqing, China). The volume planned for the 7th meeting was interrupted by the earthquake in Taiwan and the decision was made to combine the two proceedings. The 8th conference is also the ICM2002 Satellite Conference on Mathematical Logic.
Advanced Technology Council In Mathematics, Inc. The 9th asian Technology Conference in Mathematics (ATCM 04) Researchers,mathematicians, educators and teachers are invited to share their knowledge http://www.atcminc.com/mConferences/ATCM04/index.shtml
Extractions: We are looking for technology companies that provide software that brings Internet technology and mathematical software 'closer' together in an integrated user environment. If you think you are one of these companies, we are happy to put your company logo for free here up until the start date of the conference. Please send us an email. [posted: November 16, 2004] "Technology in Mathematics: Engaging Learners, Empowering Teachers and Enabling Research" There is little doubt that technology has made an impact on the teaching and Mathematics. In this conference, we shall go beyond justifying the use of technology in Mathematics to discuss and examine the best practices of applying technology in the teaching and learning of Mathematics and in Mathematics research. In particular, the conference will focus on how technology can be exploited to enrich and enhance Mathematics learning, teaching and research at all levels.
ATCM Home Page The First asian Technology Conference in Mathematics provided mathematics educators, The foreign participants are mathematicians, mathematics educators, http://www.atcminc.com/mConferences/ATCM95/
Extractions: Chair, International Program Committee (IPC), ATCM 95 The First Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics provided mathematics educators, computer specialists, technologists, researchers, policy and teachers with the opportunity to share and discuss the latest developments in their areas of specialization. The conference also provided an avenue for the possibility of collaborating research among the participants. There were over 80 presentations and over 300 participants at ATCM'95 from over 22 countries. Papers received comprise the following topical groups: pedagogy computational mathematics , and computer algebra By Lee, Peng Yee The First Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics was held from 18th to 21st December 1995 at the National Institute of Education. Singapore. The objective is to initiate a series of conferences in Asia concerning the innovative use of technology for teaching and research in mathematics. The emphasis of the first conference was on the use of mathematics softwares in mathematics teaching and research. There were 7 plenary lectures given by David C Johnson, J J Uhl, Ki Hyoung Oh, Z Karian, Tateaki Sasaki, Marston Conder, Wu Wentsun.
Read This: Stamping Through Mathematics asian countries have also honored their great mathematicians Ibnal-Haithamappears on a Pakistani stamp; Omar Khayyam on one from Dubai; Jamshid al-Kashi http://www.maa.org/reviews/stamping.html
Extractions: by Robin Wilson If you are interested in the beauty of mathematics, you must go out and buy Robin Wilson's absolutely stunning book of mathematical stamps, a book which traces the history of mathematics through images on the postage of countries around the globe. Why mathematics on stamps, you may wonder? After all, there are illustrations of mathematical ideas as well as portraits of mathematicians in other media. If we limit ourselves to just that mathematics which has been pictured on stamps, we cannot give a full or balanced history of mathematics. And the United States has very rarely portrayed a mathematician or a mathematical idea on its own postage stamps. Naturally, many countries have also honored mathematicians from elsewhere, because their influence has been global. Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton, among others, appear on stamps of many countries. Wilson has shown but a small sample of these, including some which make some effort to represent the ideas of these great men. Many countries in fact believe that mathematical ideas are worth presenting on stamps to teach their populations. For example, in 1971 Nicaragua issued a series of ten stamps depicting the "ten mathematical formulae that changed the face of the earth." Most of these formulas are, of course, physical formulas, such as Einstein's formula expressing the equivalence of mass and energy and Newton's law of gravitation. But these also include the Pythagorean theorem and the relationship of logarithms to exponentials. Several more sophisticated ideas have appeared explicitly on stamps, including the basic formulas for the quaternions on an Irish stamp, the factorization of an ideal as a product of prime ideals on a German stamp, and the statement of Fermat's Last Theorem on a Czech stamp.
Multicultural Mathematicians And Scientists Treasue Hunt First known female mathematician. Edited Apollonius book on conic sections and First asian to be awarded the Nobel prize. Wrote Analytical Institutions http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons/treasure/worksheet.html
Extractions: Lesson by Eldred Marshall Use the internet to answer the following questions about a famous mathematician or scientist. Fact Person Designed the first English-language data-processing compiler and coined the word "bug" Collaborating with Babbage, wrote the first "computer program program" and anticipated the computer by 100 years Invented toilet system for railroad cars and electric lamp. Published book that became guide for lighting engineers First person to study determinants (10 years before Leibniz) and discovered Bernoulli's numbers before Bernoulli Became wealthy publishing almanacs in the United States and Europe First woman to receive a doctorate in any field in Germany. Collaborated with her husband in writing 220 math articles and several books. Wrote a paper on the foundations of calculus that won the Gamble Prize at Cambridge in 1915 Prolific inventor who invented 15 appliances for electric railways and was awarded more than 60 patents Developed many industrial applications from agricultural products One of the first African-American females to get a doctorate in math. Worked on N.A.S.A.'s Apollo program
Asian American Personalities asian American Scientists, mathematicians, Science. Shiingshen Chern Mathematicianand educator. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) Nobel Laureate in http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/pavithra/asian american personalities.htm
Extractions: Philip Ahn Actor Toshiko Akiyoshi Pianist; Jazz conductor with Toshiko Akioyshi Jazz Orchestra Tia Carrere Actress Han-Na Chang Cellist Sarah Chang Violinist. Margaret Cho Comedian Connie Chung Television reporter Kyung-Wha Chung Violinist Ann Curry News Anchor Woman Dean Devlin Phoebe Eng Sessue Hayakawa (1889-1973) Film actor,producer and writer. Nancy Kwan Actress Brooke Lee Miss Universe 1997 Ang Lee Movie Director Chris Lee Founder Chris Lee Productions K. W. Lee Journalist Cho-Liang (Jimmy) Lin Violinist Felicia Lowe Producer/Director Yo Yo Ma Cellist; Winner of 1998 Best Classical Album Grammy Award Pat Morita Actor; Haing Ngor Actor Dustin Nguyen Actor Yoko Ono Artist; musician; author Seiji Ozawa Symphony conductor Nam June Paik Beulah Quo Actress Keanu Reeves Actor Phil Rhee Actor/producer. Peter Shiao Film producer James Shigeta Actor Kamiyama Sojin (1891-1954) Actor. Shoji Tabuchi Violinist; country western star in Branson, MO. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Actor George Takei Actor; Sulu from Star Trek
Dream 2047 : January 99 The central asian world mostly by mathematicians and astronomers. The centralasian mathematician AlKnowarismi (825 AD) used these Indian numerals in his http://www.vigyanprasar.com/dream/june99/JUNEArticle2.htm
Extractions: INDIA'S GREATES CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD SCIENCE -Gunakar Muley It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers of means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value, a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit.... We shall appreciate the gradeur of this achievement when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men of antiquity. French Mathematician-Astronomer Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749-1827) Today we can write numbers, from the smallest of biggest, with the aid of ten symbols, including zero. The uniqueness of this system, used all over the civilised world, lies in the fact that each symbol, from one to nine, has a fixed value and also an infinite number of positional values. The zero, that material 'nothing', has the magic power to raise any number ten-fold when placed at the end of it. In this method of numeration, called the decimal place-value system, the tends, hundreds and thousands are not represented by different signs but by the same digit signs placed in different positions. Only then does position become significant. It alone shows which are tens, which are hundreds and which are thousands. Such a system needs only ten signs, the digits from 1 to 9 and a zero, or atleast a blank space. This unique system of numeration originated in ancient India. The concept of and the symbol for the zero is one of the grandest creations of Indian genius. As the noted historian of mathematics Prof. G.B. Halsted said, "The importance of the creation of the zero mark can never be exaggerated. This giving to airy nothing not merely a local habitation and a name, a picture, a symbol, but helpful power, is the characteristic of the Hindu race whence it sprang. It is like coining the Nirvana (dissolution) into dynamos. No single mathematical creation has been more potent for the general go-on of intelligence and power."
Asian American Studies Subject Guide writers in the literature section, mathematicians in the mathematics section.Also remember that material about asianAmerican issues may be written http://library.auraria.edu/findit/subj_guides/culture/asi_amer.html
Extractions: This subject guide will lead you to a variety of learning materials in the area of Asian-American studies. Article databases and indexes Asian American Studies America: History and Life, Digital Dissertations, JSTOR, Amache Digital Collections Project Education Full Text, LLB(Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts) Ethnic Studies additional databases: JSTOR, Historical Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts Culture/Ethnic Groups additional databases: Background Notes, Country Profiles, Country Studies
HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN | October 2002 | Briefs mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists have struggled to developmethods that can solve this problem in Draupadi on South asian tv. http://www.himalmag.com/2002/october/briefs.htm
Extractions: BRIEFS Prime or composite? Three computer scientists, Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, delighted the mathematical world by solving a problem that has frustrated mathematicians for many years. They figured out a clever way of quickly distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers. Mathematical results seldom get mentioned in newspapers like The New York Times; this ingenious work made it to the front page. In elementary school we learn about prime and composite numbers: a number whose only divisors are 1 and itself is called a prime number whereas if a number can be evenly divided by some other number, it is called a composite number. Thus 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 are prime numbers but 15, being divisible also by 3 and 5, apart from itself and 1, is a composite. Similarly, 62579459 is a prime number and 208598179 is not (sceptics, go ahead, verify this!). Euclid proved, some 2000 ago, that there are infinitely many prime numbers. Hence, we can never make an exhaustive list of them. However, the point is, given a number how do we tell if it is a prime number or not?
Chinese Mathematicians: Rebecca And Tommy but nobody really knows why they have been given this East asian origin. at length in mathematical terms by John Wallis in approximately 1685. http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/07305/pp.htm
Extractions: Diagram 13.Puzzle of the Rings. The above picture describes the 'Puzzle of the Chinese Rings'. This problem was first found by Cardan but was later treated at length in mathematical terms by John Wallis in approximately 1685. Lastly, in the nineteenth century it was discussed using binary arithmetic notation by Gros. This puzzle was commonly known in China, at the beginning of this century as 'Ring of Linked Rings' or in Chinese translation as Lien nuan chhuan Another geometrical puzzle related to the Chinese in the rearrangement of a set of wooden pieces (a square, a rhombus and five triangles of different sizes). This puzzle is known as being one of the oldest amusements of the East. To the Chinese this puzzle is known as the 'Seven Subtle Shapes' or Chhi Chhiao . However, to the Europeans it was known as 'tangrams'. This puzzle is related to geometrical dissections, static games and also to the great wealth of geometrical forms employed by Chinese builders through the centuries in the lattice-work of windows.
Conference Proceedings PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH AND 8TH asian LOGIC CONFERENCES Readership Logicians,computer scientists, research mathematicians and graduate students. http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9812382615/9812382615.shtml
Extractions: Home For Organizers For Proceedings Editors For Proceedings Contributors Quick Links World Scientific Corporate Home WorldSciNet WorldSciBooks WorldSciNet Archives About Us Contact Us Browse by Subject Business and Management Chemistry Computer Science Economics and Finance Education Engineering General Interest Life Sciences Materials Science Mathematics Medicine and Healthcare Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Nonlinear Science Physics PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH AND 8TH ASIAN LOGIC CONFERENCES The 7th and the 8th Asian Logic Conferences belong to the series of logic conferences inaugurated in Singapore in 1981. This meeting is held once every three years and rotates among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, with interests in the broad area of logic, including theoretical computer science. It is now considered a major conference in this field and is regularly sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. This book contains papers many of them surveys by leading experts of both the 7th meeting (in Hsi-Tou, Taiwan) and the 8th (in Chongqing, China). The volume planned for the 7th meeting was interrupted by the earthquake in Taiwan and the decision was made to combine the two proceedings. The 8th conference is also the ICM2002 Satellite Conference on Mathematical Logic.
Extractions: collision detection send me yours back to collision detection February 07, 2003 Mathematicians: Huge nerds in the U.S., rock stars in China I got a fascinating piece of email from a reader the other day Linda Chen, a mathematician at Columbia University. She pointed me to a study recently done by the Center for Teaching Mathematics at Plymouth University, in which researchers polled young students to find their views about math teachers. The result? Mathematicians are fat, scruffy and have no friends in any language. Youngsters from seven countries, asked to come up with a portrait of the typical mathematician, showed a badly dressed, middle-aged nerd with no social life. Schoolchildren as far apart as Romania, England and America took part in the study conducted by a researcher from the Centre for Teaching Mathematics at Plymouth University. The 300 children, aged 12 and 13, also drew pen and ink portraits of the "archetypal mathematician". One English pupil added a caption that read: "Mathematicians have no friends, except other mathematicians, not married or seeing anyone, usually fat, very unstylish, wrinkles in their forehead from thinking so hard, no social life whatsoever, 30 years old, a very short temper." Most children drew white men with glasses, often with a beard, bald head or weird hair, and shirt pockets filled with pens, who were working at a blackboard or computer. Finnish children had an even more disturbing view of maths teachers: several portrayed them forcing children to do sums at gunpoint.
28 May 2002 2 I understand that the South East asian Conference on Mathematics Education has a From ancient times, many mathematicians were inspired to make great http://www.moe.gov.sg/speeches/2002/sp28052002b.htm
Extractions: Home Media Centre Printer-friendly page ADDRESS BY REAR-ADMIRAL (NS) TEO CHEE HEAN, MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND SECOND MINISTER FOR DEFENCE AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 2ND EAST ASIA REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (EARCOME2) AND THE 9TH SOUTH EAST ASIAN CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS EDUCATION (SEACME2) ON Tue 28 MAY 2002, 9.30AM AT LECTURE THEATRE 1, NIE Professor Leo Tan Director-General of Education Ladies and gentlemen 1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is a great pleasure for me to be present this morning at the opening of the 2nd East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education and the 9th South East Asian Conference on Mathematics Education. 2Â Â Â Â Â Â Â I understand that the South East Asian Conference on Mathematics Education has a long history of nearly a quarter of a century, having been hosted in turn by seven ASEAN nations. In fact, the National Institute of Education in Singapore hosted the fourth conference in 1987, and now, after 15 years it has the honour of hosting once again. 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It is appropriate that these conferences are held in Asia, for many educators in America and other western countries have shown increasing interest in the mathematics programmes in East Asia. In Singapore, our students have done well in international and regional mathematics competitions as well as in international surveys. Of particular significance is that Singapore students were ranked first in mathematics in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study in 1999. The study provided an objective measure of Singapore's mathematics and science education against world benchmarks as it sampled a broad cross-section of students from a wide range of schools. Key factors that have contributed to our success are the well-thought out and rigorous curriculum in Singapore schools, the significant value which parents and our society places on education, and the excellent work of our teachers. The high access to IT resources has also contributed to our good performance.
Asian Games: The Art Of Contest asian Games The Art of Contest It is significant that weiqi has become afavorite game of mathematicians in the West. At present, no computer has been http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/asiangames/war04.html
Extractions: War and Territory Chess Xiangqi Weiqi Weiqi The Chinese game of weiqi and its Korean and Japanese derivatives, baduk and go weiqi weiqi has become a favorite game of mathematicians in the West. At present, no computer has been able to defeat the top players, which suggests that the game requires a type of predictive ability that is not purely mathematical.
