| 1. | Walter Schachermayer | | | Home page of Walter Schachermayer Full Professor of Mathematics at Department of Statistics, Group for Actuarial and Financial Mathematics, University of Technology Vienna, Austria
www.fam.tuwien.ac.at |
| 2. | Brown, Kevin | | | MathPages: Tutorials and arguments in recreational and graduate mathematics.
www.seanet.com |
| 3. | Rowlett - Russ Rowlett's Home Page | | | Mathematics educator at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, serving as Director of the Center for Mathematics and Science Education.
www.unc.edu |
| 4. | Huygens, Christiaan (1629-1695) | | | Dutch physicist who was the leading proponent of the wave theory of Light, was also the mentor of Leibniz in math and mechanics.
www.treasure-troves.com |
| 5. | Mathematics (History) | | | Mathematics arose in response to the practical needs, the Greeks Thales, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, and Zeno of Elea profoundly changed the nature of mathematics, introducing abstract notions
www.encyclopedia.com |
| 7. | Joyce - David Joyce's Home Page | | | Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610. Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1979. Research interests: mathematics and computer science.
aleph0.clarku.edu |
| 9. | Klein, Felix (1849-1925) | | | Plücker's assistant at Bonn who studied Analytic Geometry, describing geometry as the study of properties of figures which remain invariant under a Group of Transformations. He systemized Non-Euclidean Geometry.
www.treasure-troves.com |
| 10. | Shallit - Home page of Jeffrey O. Shallit | | | Algorithmic number theory (primality testing, factoring, etc.), formal languages and automata theory (especially connections with number theory), history of mathematics and computer science, ethical use of computers.
math.uwaterloo.ca |
| 17. | Cohen, Don - The MATHMAN | | | What parents, teachers, kids, Martin Gardner, Morris Klein, W.W. Sawyer, the MAA, the ASCD, Kodansha, Mary Pride in her 'Big Book of Home Learning', The Home Schooling magazine say about Don's materials
www.shout.net |
| 18. | Kanada - Yasusi Kanada's Hub Page | | | Papers on information extraction, search and organization. Explanation of self-reproductive Web page. CCM (Chemical Casting Model) is a model for emergent computation.
www.kanadas.com |
| 20. | López-Ortiz, Alex - Prof. Lopez-Ortiz' Home Page | | | Frequently Asked Questions in Mathematics, On-line Path Planning, Position Independent Street Searching, Lower Bounds for Searching in Generalized Streets, Adaptive Set Intersections.
www.cs.unb.ca |
| 22. | Merriman - Barry Merriman | | | Genetics, Nuclear fusion energy ( UCLA , UCSD), Software for modeling complex fluid flows Numerical Methods
www.math.ucla.edu |
| 23. | Noll - Landon Curt Noll's home page | | | chongo, prime, Mersenne, computer, programmer, calc, lavarand, number theory, crytography, crytoplogy, Usenet, INN, bio, biography, vita, resume
reality.sgi.com |
| 24. | Mersenne, Marin - Luke's Marin Mersenne Page | | | (1588-1648), French philosopher, mathematician, Minim theologian, scientist, Mersenne Number, Mersenne Prime, Factor, Lucas, Lehmer, GIMPS, Donald Knuth, Euler, Luther Welsh, Luke Welsh
www.scruznet.com |
| 25. | Severi - Francesco Severi (1879-1961) | | | His most important contributions are to algebraic geometry, work on enumerative geometry and birational geometry of surfaces.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 27. | Somos - Michael Somos at CSU Home Page | | | interested in mathematics and computers, particularly software like Linux and Forth, Four Color Theorem, knot theory, Somos Polynomials, rational triangles, The busy beaver Turing Machine contest
grail.cba.csuohio.edu |
| 30. | Fisher - Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) | | | Made important discoveries in statistics (eg. maximum likelihood), genetics, selection and (genetic) dominance. It could be said that he invented a large part of modern statistics.
www.cs.monash.edu.au |
| 32. | Hippocrates of Chios - Mid fifth century B.C.E. | | | One of the greatest geometers of antiquity, started out as a merchant. The first to have written an Elements of Geometry, which contained most of Book I of the Elements.
mathserv.math.sfu.ca |
| 34. | Eratosthenes (276?-196? BC) | | | Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and poet, who measured the circumference of the earth with extraordinary accuracy
encarta.msn.com |
| 35. | Kronecker - Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) | | | Pimary contributions were in the theory of equations and higher algebra; elliptic functions, theory of algebraic equations, and the theory of algebraic numbers.
lemma.vma.bme.hu |
| 40. | Lie - Sophus Lie (1842-1899) | | | His study of contact transformations arising from partial differential equations led him to develop Lie groups. This is now a central part of 20th-century mathematics, important in quantum theory.
www.imada.ou.dk |
| 42. | The History of Mathematics | | | History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
www.maths.tcd.ie |
| 43. | Lipschitz - Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (1832-1903) | | | Worked on quadratic differential forms and mechanics. His work on the Hamilton-Jacobi method for integrating the equations of motion of a general dynamical system led to important applications in celestial mechanics.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 44. | Hesse - Ludwig Otto Hesse (1811-1874) | | | Main work was in the development of the theory algebraic functions and the theory of invariants. He introduced the Hessian determinant in a paper in 1842 during an investigation of cubic and quadratic curves.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 46. | Weyl - Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) | | | The greatest mathematician of his generation, Weyl made major contributions to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity Theory, and created a new branch of mathematics by uniting function theory and geometry, worked with Einstein.
motlc.wiesenthal.org |
| 49. | Neumann, John von (1903-1957) | | | built a solid framework for quantum mechanics, worked in game theory, pioneers of computer science, von Neumann algebras, development of the hydrogen bomb
www.stat.purdue.edu |
| 50. | Poincare - Henri Poincare (1854-1912) | | | ounded the modern qualitative theory of dynamical systems, created topology, The Problem of Three Bodies and the Equations of Equilibrium, the first signs of Chaos
netra.exploratorium.edu |
| 53. | Taylor, Brook (1685-1731) | | | Invented the method for expanding functions in terms of polynomials about an arbitrary point known as Taylor Series, Taylor series were a generalization of the Maclaurin Series.
www.treasure-troves.com |
| 54. | Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 ) | | | Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.
history.math.csusb.edu |
| 56. | Tartaglia - Niccolo Fontana known as Tartaglia (1499-1557) | | | Few European mathematicians of the 16th century had been as directly affected by war, In 1512 he received a facial wound during the sack of Brescia by the French. Left with a speech defect he adopted the nickname of Tartaglia ('stammerer').
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk |
| 57. | Briggs, Henry (1561-1630) | | | His work in mathematics was devoted to making computation more easy, known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.
es.rice.edu |
| 58. | Offner - Carl Offner | | | Includes: 1. Expository papers in mathematics and computer science. 2. A critique of dumbing down of mathematics and science education, as proposed by Theodore Sizer and some other educational theorists.
www.cs.umb.edu |
| 59. | Viète - Francois Viète (1540-1603) | | | Introduced the first systematic algebraic notation, during the war with Spain (1590), Viète served Henry IV of France and deciphered the Spanish code in intercepted messages.
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk |
| 60. | Seki - Takakazu Seki Kowa (1642-1708) | | | Born into a samurai warrior family, Seki derives from the noble family who adopted him, an infant prodigy in mathematics, self-educated in mathematics, known as 'The Arithmetical Sage', a term which is carved on his tombstone.
www.vma.bme.hu |
| 61. | Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) | | | Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 62. | Monge - Gaspard Monge, Conte de Péluse (1746-1818) | | | The father of differential geometry, he devised a system called Geometrie descriptive, now known as orthographic projection, the graphical method used in modern mechanical drawing.
history.math.csusb.edu |
| 63. | Poncelet - Jean Victor Poncelet (1788-1867) | | | His development of the pole and polar lines associated with conics led to the principle of duality, applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 64. | Legendre - Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) | | | His major work on elliptic integrals provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics, in 1782 he determined attractive force by introducing an infinite series of polynomials Pn now called Legendre polynomials.
physics.hallym.ac.kr |
| 65. | Argand - Jean Robert Argand (1768-1822) | | | accountant, amateur mathematician, famed for his geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers where i is interpreted as a rotation through 90, gave concept of the modulus of a complex number.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 67. | JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804-1851) | | | Elliptic functions, determinant theory, theory of numbers, theory of both ordinary and partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, the three-boby problem, and other dynamical problems.
library.advanced.org |
| 68. | Moivre - Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) | | | Pioneer in PROBABILITY theory and TRIGONOMETRY, discovered the approximation of the BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION known as the NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. He also investigated mortality statistics, devised DE MOIVRE'S THEOREM.
euler.ciens.ucv.ve |
| 71. | Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) | | | Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.
www.astro.uni-bonn.de |
| 73. | Birkhoff - George David Birkhoff (1884-1944) | | | First dynamicist in the New World, picked up where Poincare left off, created a rigorous theory of ergodic behavior, and foresaw dynamical models for chaos.
www.exploratorium.edu |
| 74. | Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) | | | Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
www.vma.bme.hu |
| 75. | Weierstraß - Karl Weierstraß (1815-1897) | | | German mathematician who is considered the father of modern Analysis. His father enrolled him in law school, where Weierstraß majored in fencing and beer-drinking. He left without his degree.
www.treasure-troves.com |
| 77. | Noether - Emmy Amalie Noether (1882-1935) | | | Best known for her contributions to abstract algebra, in particular, her study of chain conditions on ideals of rings, father was Max Noether.
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk |
| 79. | Goldbach, Christian (1690-1764) | | | Did important work in number theory, much of it in correspondence with Euler, best remembered for his conjecture that every even integer greater than 2 can be represented as the sum of two primes.
www.vma.bme.hu |
| 80. | Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932) | | | Pioneer in mathematical logic and axiomatization of mathematics, important discoveries in the field of analysis, leading authoritie on auxiliary languages.
www.geocities.com |
| 82. | Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761) | | | Best remembered for his work on interpolation and numerical methods of integration, first job was as a weaver, taught mathematics privately, write texts on mathematics.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |
| 83. | Poisson - Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) | | | Most important works were a series of papers on definite integrals and his advances in Fourier series, important work on probability the Poisson distribution first appeared.
physics.hallym.ac.kr |
| 86. | Kalamangalam, Giridhar | | | a neurologist who works on mathematical modelling of nonlinear dynamical processes known to occur in physiology.
129.11.148.73 |
| 87. | Shasha, Dennis | | | biological computing, fault-tolerant parallel computing, professor of Computer Science at New-York University, author of "The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco" (Dover, 1998), "Code, Puzzles and Conspiracy" (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1992).
www.cs.nyu.edu |
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