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#9801

Guido Ascoli

1887 - 1957 (70 years)

Guido Ascoli was an Italian mathematician, known for his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, and for his works on the teaching of mathematics in secondary high schools. Selected publications . A book collecting the winning papers of the 1935 prize of the Annali della Reale Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. An English translation of the title reads as:-"Partial differential equations of elliptic and parabolic type".

#9802

Stefan Kaczmarz

1895 - 1939 (44 years)

Stefan Marian Kaczmarz was a Polish mathematician. His Kaczmarz method provided the basis for many modern imaging technologies, including the CAT scan. Kaczmarz was a professor of mathematics in the faculty of mechanical engineering of Jan Kazimierz University of Lwów from 1919 to 1939, where he collaborated with Stefan Banach.

#9803

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf

1870 - 1946 (76 years)

Ernst Leonard Lindelöf was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him. He was the son of mathematician Lorenz Leonard Lindelöf and brother of the philologist .

#9804

Bohuslav Hostinský

1884 - 1951 (67 years)

Bohuslav Hostinský was a Czechoslovak mathematician and theoretical physicist. Family His father Otakar Hostinský was a musicologist and professor of aesthetics at Charles University. Bohuslav Hostinský was the eldest of four siblings.

#9805

Valentin Belousov

Valentin Belousov

1925 - 1988 (63 years)

Valentin Danilovich Belousov was a Soviet and Moldovan mathematician and a corresponding member of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR . He graduated from the Kishinev Pedagogical Institute , Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences , Professor , honored worker of science and technology of the Moldavian SSR.

#9806

Oscar P. Snyder

Oscar P. Snyder

1895 - 1983 (88 years)

Oscar Peter Snyder was a United States Army major general who served in the Army Medical Department as a Chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps from 1954 to 1956. Biography World War I Oscar Peter Snyder was born to Emil and Anna Snyder on 6 January 1895 near Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio. He attended the Orrsville public schools graduating in 1912. He entered The Ohio State University College of Dentistry and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in June 1916. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Regular Army on 24 October 1916. He first served at Columbus Barracks...

#9807

Félix Pollaczek

1892 - 1981 (89 years)

Félix Pollaczek was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory. He is best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula in queueing theory , and the Pollaczek polynomials.

#9808

Sōichi Kakeya

1886 - 1947 (61 years)

Sōichi Kakeya was a Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem. He received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1928, and was elected to the Japan Academy in 1934.

#9809

Herman Auerbach

1901 - 1942 (41 years)

Herman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Second World War because of his Jewish descent he was imprisoned by the Germans in the Lwów ghetto. In 1942 he was murdered at Bełżec extermination camp.

#9810

Harold Loukes

1912 - 1980 (68 years)

Harold Loukes was a British academic in India and at the University of Oxford. Loukes was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Central Secondary School in Sheffield before studying English at Jesus College, Oxford. He obtained a first-class degree in 1934 and then spent 10 years teaching at the University of Delhi and at the New School in Darjeeling, where he was headmaster. In 1945, he returned to Britain, teaching for four years before being appointed a lecturer in the Department of Education of the University of Oxford. In 1951, he was promoted to Reader in Education; he spent a total of 30 years in the department.

#9811

Olive Hazlett

1890 - 1974 (84 years)

Olive Clio Hazlett was an American mathematician who spent most of her career working for the University of Illinois. She mainly researched algebra, and wrote seventeen research papers on subjects such as nilpotent algebrass, division algebras, modular invariants, and the arithmetic of algebras.

#9812

Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk

1936 - 1987 (51 years)

Vladimir Gennadievich Sprindzuk was a Soviet-Belarusian number theorist. Education and career Sprindzuk studied from 1954 at Belarusian State University and from 1959 at the University of Vilnius. There he received in 1963 his Ph.D. with Jonas Kubilius as primary advisor and Yuri Linnik as secondary advisor and with thesis entitled "Метрические теоремы о дыяфантавых приближение алгебраическими числами ограниченной степени" . In 1965 he received his Russian doctorate of sciences from the State University of Leningrad with thesis entitled "Проблема Малера в метрической теории чисел" . In 196...

#9813

Arthur Wieferich

1884 - 1954 (70 years)

Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich was a German mathematician and teacher, remembered for his work on number theory, as exemplified by a type of prime numbers named after him. He was born in Münster, attended the University of Münster and then worked as a school teacher and tutor until his retirement in 1949. He married in 1916 and had no children.

#9814

Yoshie Katsurada

1911 - 1980 (69 years)

Yoshie Katsurada was a Japanese mathematician specializing in differential geometry. She became the first Japanese woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, in 1950, and the first to obtain an imperial university professorship in mathematics, in 1967.

#9815

Henri Milloux

1898 - 1980 (82 years)

Paul Henri Milloux was a French mathematician, specializing in holomorphic functions and meromorphic functions in complex analysis. Milloux did his secondary and undergraduate studies at the University of Lille from 1916–1921, although his studies were seriously disrupted by WW I. In 1921 he passed the agrégation. He received his PhD from the University of Paris in 1924 with thesis Le théorème de M. Picard. Suites de functions holomorphes. Fonctions méromorphes et functions entières. After several teaching jobs, he was appointed in 1926 as lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Strasbourg.

#9816

Heinrich Behmann

Heinrich Behmann

1891 - 1970 (79 years)

Heinrich Behmann was a German mathematician. He performed research in the field of set theory and predicate logic. Behmann studied mathematics in Tübingen, Leipzig and Göttingen. During World War I, he was wounded and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class. David Hilbert supervised the preparation of his doctoral thesis, Die Antinomie der transfiniten Zahl und ihre Auflösung durch die Theorie von Russell und Whitehead. In 1922 Behmann proved that the monadic predicate calculus is decidable. In 1938 he obtained a professorial chair in mathematics at Halle . In 1945 he was dismissed for having been ...

#9817

Sergei Chernikov

1912 - 1987 (75 years)

Sergei Nikolaevich Chernikov was a Russian mathematician who contributed significantly to the development of infinite group theory and linear inequalities. Biography Chernikov was born on 11 May 1912 in Sergiyev Posad, in Moscow Oblast, Russia, to Nikolai Nikolaevich, a priest, and Anna Alekseevna, a housewife. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as a labourer, as a driver, as a book-keeper and as an accountant. Until November 1931 he taught mathematics in a school for workers. From 1930 he was an external student of the Pedagogic Institute of Saratov State University, where he graduated in 1933.

#9818

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma

1904 - 1964 (60 years)

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma was a Dutch mathematician who specialized in analytic number theory. Koksma received his Ph.D. degree in 1930 at the University of Groningen under supervision of Johannes van der Corput, with a thesis on Systems of Diophantine Inequalities. Around the same time, aged 26, he was invited to become full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He accepted and in 1930 became the first professor in mathematics at this university. Koksma is also one of the founders of the Dutch Mathematisch Centrum .

#9819

Vitalii Ditkin

1910 - 1987 (77 years)

Vitalii Arsenievich Ditkin was a Soviet mathematician who introduced Ditkin sets. Biography Studied at the Moscow State University in 1932–1935; in 1938 got PhD degree . From 1943 to 1948 he was with the Steklov Institute of Mathematics; from 1948 to 1955, with the Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering. In 1949, got the Doctor of Sciences degree. In 1955, he became a deputy director of newly formed Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He remained with the Computing Centre till his death.

#9820

Charles C. Conley

1933 - 1984 (51 years)

Charles Cameron Conley was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him. Early life and education Conley was born in Royal Oak, Michigan and graduated from Royal Oak High School in 1949. Starting in 1949, he attended Wayne State University in Detroit for one year before he joined the United States Air Force. After four and a half years in the Air Force, mostly stationed in England, he returned to Wayne State. At Wayne State, he earned a B.S. degree in 1957, where he with the Phi Beta Kappa Key, and an M.S.

#9821

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein

1914 - 1988 (74 years)

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Laplace transform. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.

#9822

Joseph P. LaSalle

1916 - 1983 (67 years)

Joseph Pierre LaSalle was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.

#9823

Arthur Bleksley

1908 - 1984 (76 years)

Arthur Edward Herbert Bleksley was a South African Professor of Applied Mathematics and an astronomer. Bleksley's early research involved the astrophysics and astronomy of variable stars. He encouraged science awareness in South Africa by publishing articles about science, by being on a popular radio show, and through his presentations at the Johannesburg Planetarium.

#9824

Beryl May Dent

1900 - 1977 (77 years)

Beryl May Dent was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of schoolteachers. The family left Chippenham in 1901, after her father became head teacher of the then recently established Warminster County School. In 1923, she graduated from the University of Bristol with First Class Honours in applied mathematics. She was awarded the Ashworth Hallett scholarship by the university and was accepted as a postgraduate student a...

#9825

Richard V. Andree

1919 - 1987 (68 years)

Richard Vernon Andree was an American mathematician and computer scientist. Andree taught at the University of Oklahoma for 37 years, and served as a professor emeritus there until his death. He and his wife, Josephine, founded the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honor society. Andree wrote a book on abstract algebra entitled Selections From Modern Abstract Algebra which was first published in 1958. He also wrote and published at his own expense numerous puzzle books and enjoyed cryptography. Andree and his students developed the ALPS programming language for the Bendix G-15 computer.

#9826

Meier Eidelheit

1910 - 1943 (33 years)

Meier "Maks" Eidelheit was a Polish mathematician belonging to the Lwów School of Mathematics who worked in Lwów and was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography Meier Eidelheit left the Lwów Gymnasium in 1929 and then studied mathematics at the scientific faculty in Lwów, completing his study in 1933 with a thesis on the theory of summation. In 1938, with Stefan Banach as supervisor, he gained a doctorate from the Jan-Kazimierz-University of Lwów with a Dissertation über die Auflösbarkeit eines linearen Gleichungssystems mit unendlich vielen Unbekannten. From 1933 to 1939 he gave private lectur...

#9827

Wallie Abraham Hurwitz

Wallie Abraham Hurwitz

1886 - 1958 (72 years)

Wallie Abraham Hurwitz was an American mathematician who worked on analysis. Hurwitz graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree and then went to Harvard to do graduate work. He won a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which enabled him to study at the University of Göttingen, where he earned a doctoral degree under Hilbert in 1910. In 1912 Hurwitz joined the mathematics faculty of Cornell University, where he remained until he died in 1958 at age seventy-one. His doctoral students include R. H. Cameron and Florence M. Mears.

#9828

Richard Baldus

1885 - 1945 (60 years)

Richard Baldus was a German mathematician, specializing in geometry. Richard Baldus was the son of a station chief of the Anatolian Railway. After his graduation in 1904 at Wilhelmsgymnasium München, he studied in Munich and at the University of Erlangen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1910 under Max Noether with thesis Über Strahlensysteme, welche unendlich viele Regelflächen 2. Grades enthalten and where he received his Habilitierung in 1911. He became in 1919 Professor für Geometrie at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe and served there as rector in 1923–1924. In 1932 he became Professo...

#9829

James Henry Taylor

1893 - 1972 (79 years)

James Henry Taylor was a professor of mathematics at George Washington University from 1929–1958, and professor emeritus from 1959 until his death. Early life Born on February 21, 1893, in Sharon, Pennsylvania, Taylor died of cancer on March 30, 1972, at the age of 79. In addition to the title of professor, Taylor was also referred to as an emeritus of mathematics in Residence from 1958 until his death.

#9830

Thorold Gosset

1869 - 1962 (93 years)

John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher, and for his generalization of Descartes' theorem on tangent circles to four and higher dimensions.

#9831

Boyd Crumrine Patterson

Boyd Crumrine Patterson

1902 - 1988 (86 years)

Boyd Crumrine Patterson was an American mathematician and the ninth president of Washington & Jefferson College. Patterson was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1902, and graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1923, completing his studies in three years. He was a member of the well-known Crumrine family of Washington County and a third-generation W&J graduate. His father, John P. Patterson, was a member of W&J's class of 1885; his grandfather, Boyd Crumrine, a noted local historian, was in Jefferson College's class of 1860. He was also a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fra...

#9832

Samuel Lattès

1873 - 1918 (45 years)

Samuel Lattès was a French mathematician. From 1892 to 1895 he studied at the École Normale Superieure. After this he was a teacher in Algiers, Dijon and Nice. After a promotion to Paris in 1906 he moved first to Montpellier in 1908 and then to Besançon, before he took up a professorship at the University of Toulouse in 1911. He died of typhus in 1918.

#9833

Giovanni Boaga

1902 - 1961 (59 years)

Giovanni Boaga was an Italian mathematician and geodesy professor. He was born in Trieste and died in Tripoli, Libya. His Gauss-Boaga Projection is the standard projection used in Italian topography by the Istituto Geografico Militare.

#9834

Rollo Davidson

1944 - 1970 (26 years)

Rollo Davidson was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis, and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to early-career probabilists.

#9835

Charles Coulson

1910 - 1974 (64 years)

Charles Alfred Coulson was a British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist. Coulson's major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. He was also a Methodist lay preacher, served on the World Council of Churches from 1962 to 1968, and was chairman of Oxfam from 1965 to 1971.

#9836

Ernesto Laura

1879 - 1949 (70 years)

Ernesto Laura was an Italian mathematician born in Porto Maurizio. Biography He graduated in mathematics in 1901 at the University of Turin, where he was a student of Morera and of Somigliana. He taught rational mechanics at the Universities of Messina, Pavia and Padua.

#9837

Ebenezer Cunningham

1881 - 1977 (96 years)

Ebenezer Cunningham was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. Biography Cunningham went up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1899 and graduated Senior Wrangler in 1902, winning the Smith's Prize in 1904.

#9838

Benjamin Finkel

Benjamin Finkel

1865 - 1947 (82 years)

Benjamin Franklin Finkel was a mathematician and educator most remembered today as the founder of the American Mathematical Monthly journal. Born in Fairfield County, Ohio and educated in small country schools, Finkel received both a BS and MA from Ohio Northern University, then known as Ohio Normal University . In 1888 he copyrighted A Mathematical Solution Book. The purpose of the book was to provide mathematics teachers a text utilizing a systematic method of problem solving, "The Step Method", representing a chain of reasoning, in logical order, to arrive at the correct result. The first edition was postponed until 1893, due to financial problems of the original publisher.

#9839

Boris Demidovich

1906 - 1977 (71 years)

Boris Pavlovich Demidovich was a Soviet Belarusian mathematician. Family and early life Demidovich was born in a family of teachers. His father, Pavel , was able to get higher education, graduating in 1897 in Vilna; Pavel Demidovich was a teacher throughout his life, first teaching in different towns in the Minsk and Vilna Governorates, and then in Minsk; he was very attached to his family, and to Belarusian beliefs and rituals. He also recorded some anonymous literary works of the Belarusian tradition. In 1908 Pavel Demidovich was nominated member of the Imperial Officer of the Company Enthusiasts science, Anthropology at Moscow University.

#9840

Margherita Piazzola Beloch

1879 - 1976 (97 years)

Margherita Beloch Piazzolla was an Italian mathematician who worked in algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and photogrammetry. Biography Beloch was the daughter of the German historian Karl Julius Beloch, who taught ancient history for 50 years at Sapienza University of Rome, and American Bella Bailey.

#9841

Andrea Razmadze

1889 - 1929 (40 years)

Andrea Mikhailovich Razmadze was a Georgian mathematician, and one of the founders of Tbilisi State University, whose Mathematics Institute was renamed in his honor in 1944. The department's scientific journal, published continuously since 1937, was also renamed as the Proceedings of A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute in his honor.

#9842

Annette Smith Burgess

1899 - 1962 (63 years)

Annette Smith Burgess was an American medical illustrator and instructor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Early life Annette Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1899 to Richard Henry Smith and his wife. She attended public schools in Baltimore. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she studied under Max Brödel. She attended Johns Hopkins University from 1923 to 1926.

#9843

Walter Gage

1905 - 1978 (73 years)

Walter Henry Gage, was a Canadian professor and educational icon, widely acknowledged to have had a large impact on students during his 50 year career at the University of British Columbia, where he rose from undergraduate student to university president.

#9844

Anna Mullikin

1893 - 1975 (82 years)

Anna Margaret Mullikin was a mathematician who was one of the early investigators of point set theory. She received her BA from Goucher College in 1915 and went on to attend University of Pennsylvania for doctoral work. She was Robert Lee Moore's third student, graduating in 1922 with a dissertation titled Certain Theorems Relating to Plane Connected Point Sets. Her dissertation was published that year in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and subsequently became the catalyst for significant advances in the field. She spent most of her subsequent career as a secondary school mathematics teacher.

#9845

Carl Johannes Thomae

Carl Johannes Thomae

1840 - 1921 (81 years)

Carl Johannes Thomae was a German mathematician. Biography Thomae, son of Karl August Thomae and Emilie Gutsmuths, grew up in Laucha an der Unstrut and in 1864 attained a doctorate under Ernst Schering at the University of Göttingen. In 1866 Thomae attained the habilitation qualification at the University of Göttingen and one year later also at the University of Halle. In the year 1874, Thomae married Anna Uhde in Balgstädt in the proximity of his native city Laucha an der Unstrut. Their son Walter Thomae was born one year later on 5 November 1875, but Thomae's wife died 5 days after giving ...

#9846

Stefan Cohn-Vossen

Stefan Cohn-Vossen

1902 - 1936 (34 years)

Stefan Cohn-Vossen was a mathematician, who was responsible for Cohn-Vossen's inequality and the Cohn-Vossen transformation is also named for him. He proved the first version of the splitting theorem.

#9847

Vasily Zubov

1900 - 1963 (63 years)

Vasily Pavlovich Zubov was a Russian and Soviet philosopher who wrote on architecture, art, and the history of science based on studies of texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He received a posthumous George Sarton medal from the history of science society in 1963.

#9848

José Sebastião e Silva

1914 - 1972 (58 years)

José Sebastião e Silva was a Portuguese mathematician. Silva graduated from the University of Lisbon in 1937, and in 1942 he received a grant from the Instituto de Alta Cultura allowing him to travel to Rome, where he studied mathematics with several members of the Italian school of algebraic geometry. After writing a thesis on geometric transformations that was rejected by Federigo Enriques, he wrote a second thesis, on functional analysis, and earned his doctorate in 1949 from the University of Lisbon. He became a professor at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia from 1951 to 1961, and then ...

#9849

Mayme Logsdon

1881 - 1967 (86 years)

Mayme Farmer Irwin Logsdon was an American mathematician known for her research in algebraic geometry and mathematics education. She was the first woman to receive tenure in the University of Chicago mathematics department.

#9850

Fernando de Helguero

1880 - 1908 (28 years)

Fernando de Helguero was an Italian mathematician, statistician and pioneer of biostatistics. Fernando de Helguero was born near Florence. He studied mathematics at the University of Rome. After receiving his licentiate degree in 1903, he taught mathematics while he studied natural sciences, biology, statistics, and biometry. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in Rome in April 1908. However, he died later the same year in the 1908 Messina earthquake.

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