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#11051

M. C. Chakrabarti

Mukund Chand Chakrabarti a statistician from Bengal of the British India was the founder head of the department of statistics, University of Mumbai India. He nurtured the department from its birth in 1948 until he died in 1972. The department of mathematics at University of Mumbai was established later in 1963 under the guidance of Professor S. S. Shrikhande.

#11052

John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

1807 - 1892 (85 years)

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Whittier is remembered particularly for his anti-slavery writings, as well as his 1866 book Snow-Bound.

#11053

Ernest Barnes

1874 - 1953 (79 years)

Ernest William Barnes was a British mathematician and scientist who later became a liberal theologian and bishop. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Master of the Temple from 1915 to 1919. He was made Bishop of Birmingham in 1924, the only bishop appointed during Ramsay MacDonald's first term in office. His modernist views, in particular objection to Reservation, led to conflict with the Anglo-Catholics in his diocese. A biography by his son, Sir John Barnes, Ahead of His Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham, was published in 1979.

#11054

Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt

1807 - 1851 (44 years)

Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen. He is also known as Benjamin Goldschmidt, C. W. B. Goldschmidt, Carl Goldschmidt, and Karl Goldschmidt.

#11055

Matthew Stewart

Matthew Stewart

1717 - 1785 (68 years)

Matthew Stewart FRS FRSE was a Scottish mathematician and minister of the Church of Scotland. Life He was born in the manse at Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, on 15 January 1717, the son of Rev Dugald Stewart, the local minister, and his wife, Janet Bannantyne.

#11056

Joseph Tilly

1837 - 1906 (69 years)

Joseph Marie de Tilly was a Belgian military man and mathematician. He was born in Ypres, Belgium. In 1858, he became a teacher in mathematics at the regimental school. He began with studying geometry, particularly Euclid's fifth postulate and non-Euclidean geometry. He found similar results as Lobachevsky in 1860, but the Russian mathematician was already dead at that time. Tilly is more known for his work on non-Euclidean mechanics, as he was the one who invented it. He worked thus alone on this topic until a French mathematician, Jules Hoüel, showed interest in that field. Tilly also wrote on military science and history of mathematics.

#11057

Fritz Carlson

1888 - 1952 (64 years)

Fritz David Carlson was a Swedish mathematician. After the death of Torsten Carleman, he headed the Mittag-Leffler Institute. Carlson's contributions to analysis include Carlson's theorem, the Polyá–Carlson theorem on rational functions, and Carlson's inequalityIn number theory, his results include Carlson's theorem on Dirichlet series.

#11058

Alfredo Niceforo

1876 - 1960 (84 years)

Alfredo Niceforo was an Italian statistician and scientific racist. Biography Niceforo was born in Castiglione di Sicilia, Catania, Italy, and died March 2, 1960, in Rome. He was an Italian sociologist, criminologist, and statistician who posited the theory that every person has a “deep ego” of antisocial, subconscious impulses that represent a throwback to precivilized existence. Accompanying this ego, and attempting to keep its latent delinquency in check, according to his concept, is a “superior ego” formed by man's social interaction. This theory, which he published in 1902, bears some re...

#11059

Claribel Kendall

1889 - 1965 (76 years)

Claribel Kendall was an American mathematician. Education Born in Denver, Colorado, Kendall received her Bachelor and Bachelor of Education from the University of Colorado in 1912. Kendall also went on to receive her master's degree in 1914 with a focus in mathematics. She studied mathematics in an era when women were increasingly seeking a college education and slowly beginning to move into math and science, fields that had traditionally been exclusively male. Her master's thesis was on “Pre Associative Syzygies in Linear Algebra."

#11060

Ludwig Tieck

1773 - 1853 (80 years)

Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck was born in Berlin, the son of a rope-maker. His siblings were the sculptor Christian Friedrich Tieck and the poet Sophie Tieck. He was educated at the , where he learned Greek and Latin, as required in most preparatory schools. He also began learning Italian at a very young age, from a grenadier with whom he became acquainted. Through this friendship, Tieck was given a first-hand look at the poor, which could be linked to his work as a Romanticist.

#11061

Olga Tsuberbiller

Olga Tsuberbiller

1885 - 1975 (90 years)

Olga Tsuberbiller was a Russian mathematician noted for her creation of the textbook Problems and Exercises in Analytic Geometry. The book has been used as a standard text for high schools since its creation in 1927. Sophia Parnok, noted Russian poet dedicated her verses in the Half-voiced cycle to Tsuberbiller, and the educator cared for Parnok during her final illness, later becoming her literary executor. She later became the partner of the noted opera singer, Concordia Antarova. Tsuberbiller was designated as an Honored Scientist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1955...

#11062

Robert J. T. Bell

1876 - 1963 (87 years)

Robert J. T. Bell RSE FRSE was a Scottish mathematician. He held the positions of Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science, at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

#11063

Hendrik Kloosterman

1900 - 1968 (68 years)

Hendrik Douwe Kloosterman was a Dutch mathematician, known for his work in number theory and in representation theory. After completing his master's degree at Leiden University from 1918–1922 he studied at the University of Copenhagen with Harald Bohr and the University of Oxford with G. H. Hardy. In 1924 he received his Ph.D. in Leiden under the supervision of J. C. Kluyver. From 1926 to 1928 he studied at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg, and he was an assistant at the University of Münster from 1928-1930. Kloosterman was appointed lector at Leiden University in 1930 and full professor in 1947.

#11064

C. V. Durell

1882 - 1968 (86 years)

Clement Vavasor Durell was an English schoolmaster who wrote mathematical textbooks. Background and early life A son of John Vavasor Durell , Rector of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, and his wife Ellen Annie Carlyon, Durell had four older brothers. He was educated at Felsted School and Clare College, Cambridge , where he gained a first class in part two of the mathematics tripos and was seventh wrangler.

#11065

Maurice Janet

1888 - 1983 (95 years)

Maurice Janet was a French mathematician. Education and career In 1912, as a student he visited the University of Göttingen. He was a professor at the University of Caen. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 in Toronto, in 1932 in Zürich, and in 1936 in Oslo.

#11066

Nicolaas Hartsoeker

1656 - 1725 (69 years)

Nicolaas Hartsoeker was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who invented the screw-barrel simple microscope . Biography He was the son of Anna van der Meij and Christiaan Hartsoeker , a Remonstrant minister in Moordrecht near Gouda. His father took the family to Alkmaar in 1661 and finally to Rotterdam in 1669. Nicolaas started to make a living as a lens maker in Rotterdam, and was instructed in optics by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. In 1674, he and a fellow student, assisted by Van Leeuwenhoek, were the first to observe semen, a situation that would later lead to a priority dispute between Hart...

#11067

Yurii Shirokov

1925 - 1980 (55 years)

Yurii Shirokov, was a writer, physicist, and professor. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1948. He worked in the same university, then in the Steklov Mathematical Institute . He wrote more than 100 scientific papers and several monographs, among which the textbook "Nuclear Physics" is particularly relevant. .

#11068

Marc Krasner

1912 - 1985 (73 years)

Marc Krasner was a Russian Empire-born French mathematician, who worked on algebraic number theory. Krasner emigrated from the Soviet Union to France and received in 1935 his PhD from the University of Paris under Jacques Hadamard with thesis Sur la théorie de la ramification des idéaux de corps non-galoisiens de nombres algébriques. From 1937 to 1960 he was a scientist at CNRS and from 1960 professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand. From 1965 he was a professor at the University of Paris VI , where he retired in 1980 as professor emeritus.

#11069

Alfred Loewy

1873 - 1935 (62 years)

Alfred Loewy was a German mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him. His graduate students included Wolfgang Krull and Friedrich Karl Schmidt.

#11070

Clarence Abiathar Waldo

Clarence Abiathar Waldo

1852 - 1926 (74 years)

Clarence Abiathar Waldo was an American mathematician, author and educator, most famous, today, for the role he played in the Indiana Pi Bill affair. Life and career Born in Hammond, New York, Waldo married Abby Wright Allen in Stamford, Connecticut in 1881. In 1884 they had a daughter, Alice.

#11071

Emanuel Beke

1862 - 1946 (84 years)

Emanuel Beke was a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in differential equations, determinants, and mathematical physics. He is known for reforming the teaching of mathematics in Hungary. Education and career At the University of Budapest he received a mathematics-physics degree in 1883 and a doctorate in 1884.

#11072

Thomas Fincke

1561 - 1656 (95 years)

Thomas Fincke was a Danish mathematician and physicist, and a professor at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years. Biography Thomas Jacobsen Fincke was born in Flensburg in Schleswig. Fincke was the son of Councillor Jacob Fincke and Anna Thorsmede. He completed his primary schooling at Flensburg. From 1577, he studied mathematics, rhetoric and other philosophical studies for five years at the University of Strasbourg.

#11073

Pekka Myrberg

1892 - 1976 (84 years)

Pekka Juhana Myrberg was a Finnish mathematician known for developing the concept of period-doubling bifurcation in a paper published in the 1950s. The concept was further developed by Mitchell Feigenbaum during the 1970s.

#11074

Emil Weyr

1848 - 1894 (46 years)

Emil Weyr was an Austrian-Czech mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry. Born in Prague, Weyr attended the Prague Polytechnic, where he was taught by Heinrich Durège and Otto Wilhelm Fiedler.

#11075

Joseph Diez Gergonne

Joseph Diez Gergonne

1771 - 1859 (88 years)

Joseph Diez Gergonne was a French mathematician and logician. Life In 1791, Gergonne enlisted in the French army as a captain. That army was undergoing rapid expansion because the French government feared a foreign invasion intended to undo the French Revolution and restore Louis XVI to the throne of France. He saw action in the major battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792. He then returned to civilian life but soon was called up again and took part in the French invasion of Spain in 1794.

#11076

Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy

Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy

1859 - 1935 (76 years)

Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky was a Russian Empire and Soviet mathematician who gained fame for his work on mechanics, notably the motion of bodies of variable mass. Biography Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshcherskiy was born in Arkhangelsk. After graduation from Arkhangelsk Gymnasium, Meshcherskiy studied mathematics at the Saint Petersburg Imperial University from 1878 to 1882.

#11077

Marcello Boldrini

1890 - 1969 (79 years)

Marcello Boldrini was an Italian statistician. Biography Beginning in 1922, he taught courses in statistics, biometry, and demography at Bocconi University of Milan, and then at the University of Rome as Emeritus Professor. He was also a member of several academies and institutes in Italy and abroad, serving for several years as president of the International Statistical Institute. His scientific research was on both methodological and applied statistics, particularly on demography, anthropometry, and economics. As a statistician, he has been particularly interested in the foundations of the method, and he proposed a view of statistics as an empirical history of all the positive sciences.

#11078

Maria Pastori

1895 - 1975 (80 years)

Maria Pastori was an Italian mathematician. Life Pastori was born in Milan on 10 March 1895, to a family of eight children. The family was of limited means and could not afford education for the children beyond what was provided by the public school system. Pastori excelled in mathematics, which was encouraged by one of her teachers, who aided her in getting a scholarship to Maria Agnesi School, a magisterial school . After completing her studies at the magisterial school, Pastori then went on to teach elementary school near Milan. While teaching, Pastori studied further with her sister Giuseppina .

#11079

Gerhard Thomsen

1899 - 1934 (35 years)

Gerhard Thomsen was a German mathematician, probably best known for his work in various branches of geometry. Life Thomsen was born on 23 June 1899 in Hamburg. His father, Georg Thomsen, was a physician. Thomsen grew up in Hamburg and attended the Johanneum from 1908 to 1917. After completing school he served in the army during the last year of World War I. In 1919 he became of the first students at the newly founded University of Hamburg majoring in mathematics and natural science. Aside from a temporary interlude Thomsen studied in Hamburg until 1923. He received a certification to teach at highschools the fall of 1922 and finally his PhD in the summer of the following year.

#11080

Barnaba Tortolini

Barnaba Tortolini

1808 - 1874 (66 years)

Barnaba Tortolini was a 19th-century Italian priest and mathematician who played an early active role in advancing the scientific unification of the Italian states. He founded the first Italian scientific journal with an international presence and was a distinguished professor of mathematics at the University of Rome for 30 years. As a mathematics researcher, he had more than one hundred mathematical papers to his credit in Italian, French, and German journals.

#11081

František Koláček

František Koláček

1851 - 1913 (62 years)

František Koláček was a Czech physicist. Koláček studied at the German gymnasium in Brno , then at the technical universities in Prague and Vienna. At the Charles University in Prague, under guidance of Ernst Mach, he obtained the doctoral decree in 1877. He worked as a teacher at the gymnasium in Brno and then in Prague . Only in 1891 was he named professor of mathematical physics at Charles university. During 1900 - 1902 he worked as a professor at the university in Brno but then returned to Prague.

#11082

Thomas Muir

1844 - 1934 (90 years)

Sir Thomas Muir was a Scottish mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. Life He was born in Stonebyres in South Lanarkshire, and brought up in the small town of Biggar. He was educated at Wishaw Public School.

#11083

Pierre Méchain

1744 - 1804 (60 years)

Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets. Life Pierre Méchain was born in Laon, the son of the ceiling designer and plasterer Pierre François Méchain and Marie–Marguerite Roze. He displayed mental gifts in mathematics and physics but had to give up his studies for lack of money. However, his talents in astronomy were noticed by Jérôme Lalande, for whom he became a friend and proof-reader of the second edition of his book "L'Astronomie". Lalande then secured a position...

#11084

Hugo Gernsback

1884 - 1967 (83 years)

Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish–American editor and magazine publisher, whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".

#11085

Vera Myller

1880 - 1970 (90 years)

Vera Myller-Lebedev was a Russian Empire-born mathematician who earned her doctorate in Germany with David Hilbert and became the first female university professor in Romania. Education Vera Lebedev was born in Saint Petersburg and educated in Novgorod. From 1897 through 1902 she participated in the Bestuzhev Courses in Saint Petersburg. She then traveled to the University of Göttingen, where she completed a doctorate in 1906 under the supervision of David Hilbert. Her dissertation was Die Theorie der Integralgleichungen in Anwendungen auf einige Reihenentwickelungen, and concerned integral e...

#11086

Salih Zeki

1864 - 1921 (57 years)

Salih Zeki Bey was an Ottoman mathematician, astronomer and the founder of the mathematics, physics, and astronomy departments of Istanbul University. He was sent by the Post and Telegraph Ministry to study electrical engineering at the École Polytechnique in Paris. He returned to Istanbul in 1887 and started working at the Ministry as an electrical engineer and inspector. He was appointed as the director of the state observatory after Coumbary in 1895. In 1912, he became Under Secretary of the Ministry of Education and in 1913 the president of Istanbul University. In 1917, he resigned as t...

#11087

Reinhold Hoppe

1816 - 1900 (84 years)

Ernst Reinhold Eduard Hoppe was a German mathematician who worked as a professor at the University of Berlin. Education and career Hoppe was a student of Johann August Grunert at the University of Greifswald, graduating in 1842 and becoming an English and mathematics teacher. He completed his doctorate in 1850 in Halle and his habilitation in mathematics in 1853 in Berlin under Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet. He also tried to obtain a habilitation in philosophy at the same time, but was denied until a later re-application in 1871. He worked at Berlin as a privatdozent, and then after 1870 as ...

#11088

Thomas Turton

1780 - 1864 (84 years)

Thomas Turton was an English academic and divine, the Bishop of Ely from 1845 to 1864. Life Thomas Turton was son of Thomas and Ann Turton of Hatfield, West Riding. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1801 but migrated to St Catharine's College in 1804. In 1805 he graduated BA as senior wrangler and equal Smith's Prizeman. Elected a fellow of St Catharine's in 1806, he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1822 to 1826 and Regius Professor of Divinity from 1827 to 1842.

#11089

Gheorghe Călugăreanu

Gheorghe Călugăreanu

1902 - 1976 (74 years)

Gheorghe Călugăreanu was a Romanian mathematician, professor at Babeș-Bolyai University, and full member of the Romanian Academy. He was born in Iași, the son of physician, naturalist, and physiologist Dimitrie Călugăreanu. From 1913 to 1921 he studied at the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest, after which he attended University of Cluj, graduating in 1924. In 1926 he went to Paris to pursue his studies at the Sorbonne, supported by a scholarship from the Romanian government. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1929, with thesis Sur les fonctions polygènes d'une variable complexe wri...

#11090

Steven L. Heston

1900 - Present (125 years)

Steven "Steve" L. Heston is an American mathematician, economist, and financier. He's also prominently active in the field of gambling-related research, where he sometimes uses the pen name Kim Lee. Education Steve Heston studied Mathematics and Economics at the University of Maryland, wherefrom he obtained his B.S. In 1985, he completed his M.B.A. studies in Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Industrial Administration. From the same university, Carnegie Mellon, in 1987, he received his M.S. in Finance and in 1990 his Ph.D.

#11091

Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji

1825 - 1917 (92 years)

Dadabhai Naoroji , was an Indian political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to 1907. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, representing Finsbury Central between 1892 and 1895. He was the second person of Asian descent to be a British MP, the first being Indian MP David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, who was disenfranchised for corruption after nine months in office.

#11092

Gustav Doetsch

1892 - 1977 (85 years)

Gustav Doetsch was a German mathematician, aviation researcher, decorated war veteran, and Nazi supporter. Early life Doetsch was born into a strict Catholic family on 29 November 1892 in Cologne. From 1904 to 1911 he attended Wohler High School in Frankfurt, going on to attend the universities at Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin between 1911 and 1914, studying mathematics, physics and philosophy.

#11093

Fabio Conforto

1909 - 1954 (45 years)

Fabio Conforto was an Italian mathematician. His contributed to the fields of algebraic geometry, projective geometry and analytic geometry. External links

#11094

Emil Müller

1861 - 1927 (66 years)

Emil Adalbert Müller was an Austrian mathematician. Biography Born in Lanškroun, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology. In 1898 he defended his dissertation at the University of Königsberg with Wilhelm Franz Meyer. One year later he received his habilitation at the same university. Since 1902 he was professor for descriptive geometry at the Vienna University of Technology and founder of the Vienna school of descriptive geometry. He also served as dean and president . In 1903 he founded the Austrian Mathematical Society together with Ludwig Boltzmann and Gustav von Escherich.

#11095

P Kesava Menon

1917 - 1979 (62 years)

Puliyakot Keshava Menon was an Indian mathematician best known as Director of the Joint Cipher Bureau. His sudden demise on 22 October 1979, ended active research in the areas of number theory, combinatorics, algebra and cryptography.

#11096

Hans Ferdinand Mayer

1895 - 1980 (85 years)

Hans Ferdinand Mayer was a German mathematician and physicist. He was the author of the "Oslo Report", a major military intelligence leak which revealed German technological secrets to the British Government shortly after the start of World War II.

#11097

Alexander Anderson

Alexander Anderson

1582 - 1620 (38 years)

Alexander Anderson was a Scottish mathematician. Life He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617. It is unknown where he was educated, but it is likely that he initially studied writing and philosophy in his home city of Aberdeen.

#11098

Georg von Peuerbach

Georg von Peuerbach

1423 - 1461 (38 years)

Georg von Peuerbach was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum. Peuerbach was instrumental in making astronomy, mathematics and literature simple and accessible for Europeans during the Renaissance and beyond.

#11099

William Emerson

William Emerson

1701 - 1782 (81 years)

William Emerson was an English mathematician. He was born in Hurworth, near Darlington, where his father, Dudley Emerson, also a mathematician, taught a school. Biography William himself had a small estate in Weardale called Castle Gate situated not far from Eastgate where he would repair to work throughout the summer on projects as disparate as stonemasonry and watchmaking. Unsuccessful as a teacher, he devoted himself entirely to studious retirement. Possessed of remarkable energy and forthrightness of speech, Emerson published many works which are singularly free from errata.

#11100

Simon Sidon

1892 - 1941 (49 years)

Simon Sidon or Simon Szidon was a reclusive Hungarian mathematician who worked on trigonometric series and orthogonal systems and who introduced Sidon sequences and Sidon sets. Death On 27 April 1941, Sidon died from pneumonia in the hospital after a ladder fell on him and broke his leg.

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