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#11101

Fyodor Gakhov

1906 - 1980 (74 years)

Fyodor Dmitriyevich Gakhov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and a specialist in the field of boundary value problems for analytic functions of a complex variable. Biography Fyodor Dmitriyevich Gakhov was born on 19 February 19 1906 in Batalpashinskaya village in the family of a shoemaker. His father died when he was a boy. After graduating from the Circassian Pedagogical College in 1925, he entered Gorsky Pedagogical Institute in Vladikavkaz.

#11102

Campanus of Novara

Campanus of Novara

1210 - 1296 (86 years)

Campanus of Novara was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and physician who is best known for his work on Euclid's Elements. In his writings he refers to himself as Campanus Nouariensis; contemporary documents refer to him as Magister Campanus; and the full style of his name is Magister Campanus Nouariensis. He is also referred to as Campano da Novara, Giovanni Campano or similar. Later authors sometimes applied the forename Johannes Campanus or Iohannes Campanus.

#11103

Hu Dunfu

1886 - 1978 (92 years)

Hu Dunfu was a Chinese mathematician and pioneer in higher education. He won a Qing government scholarship to study at Cornell University, and became the first dean of Tsinghua University at the age of 25. He was then briefly dean of Fudan University, before establishing Utopia University in 1912 and developing it into one of China's best private universities. He also served as head of the mathematics department of National Chiao Tung University and the first president of the Chinese Mathematical Society, which he co-founded in 1935.

#11104

Lev Tumarkin

1901 - 1974 (73 years)

Lev Abramovich Tumarkin was a Russian mathematician. He was dean of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. He was a student of Pavel Aleksandrov. He attended the First International Topological Conference in Moscow, 1935 as a host but made no presentation.

#11105

Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov

1874 - 1926 (52 years)

Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov Russian Empire statistician who worked on mathematical statistics, sample survey theory and demography. Chuprov was born in Mosal'sk but grew up and was educated in Moscow where his father, Alexander Ivanovich , a distinguished economist and statistician, was a professor. Alexander Alexandrovich graduated from the physico-mathematical faculty of Moscow University in 1896 with a dissertation on "The theory of probability as the foundation of theoretical statistics." He spent the years 1897-1901 studying political economy in Germany, in Berlin and Strasbourg. H...

#11106

Aimé Bonpland

1773 - 1858 (85 years)

Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific results of their expedition.

#11107

Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi

1135 - 1213 (78 years)

Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī known more often as Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī or Sharaf ad-Dīn aṭ-Ṭūsī, was an Iranian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age .

#11108

David Gibb

1883 - 1946 (63 years)

David Gibb FRSE was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was the first person to use the term numerical integration. Life Gibb was born in Methil near Leven, Fife on 31 October 1883, the eldest son of Robert Gibb, a salt manufacturer, and his wife Joanna. He attended Leven Public School then George Watsons College in Edinburgh . He studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Edinburgh graduating in 1906 with a MA/BSc. While a student he lodged with a Mr Flockhart at 3 West Preston Street, Edinburgh. In 1909 he began lecturing in mathematics at the University.

#11109

Gaston Milhaud

1858 - 1918 (60 years)

Gaston Milhaud was a French philosopher and historian of science. Gaston Milhaud studied mathematics with Gaston Darboux at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1881 he took a teaching post at the University of Le Havre. In 1891 he became professor of mathematics at Montpellier University, and in 1895 became professor of philosophy there. In 1909 a chair in the history of philosophy in its relationship to the sciences was created for him at the Sorbonne. Milhaud's successor in the chair was Abel Rey.

#11110

Cora Ratto de Sadosky

1912 - 1981 (69 years)

Corina Eloísa Ratto de Sadosky was an Argentine mathematician, educator and militant activist in support of human and women's rights in Argentina and beyond. She played an important part in the Argentine University Federation supporting republican interests during the Spanish Civil War and helping victims of Falangist oppression. In 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, she established and headed the anti-fascist Junta de la Victoria which stood for democracy and women's suffrage. In 1965, Ratto founded Columna 10, a journal denouncing the conduct of the United States in the Vietnam War.

#11111

Whittaker Chambers

Whittaker Chambers

1901 - 1961 (60 years)

Whittaker Chambers was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member and Soviet spy , he defected from the Soviet underground , worked for Time magazine , and then testified about the Ware Group in what became the Hiss case for perjury , often referred to as the trial of the century, all described in his 1952 memoir Witness. Afterwards, he worked as a senior editor at National Review . US President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.

#11112

Pietro Cataldi

1548 - 1626 (78 years)

Pietro Antonio Cataldi was an Italian mathematician. A citizen of Bologna, he taught mathematics and astronomy and also worked on military problems. His work included the development of continued fractions and a method for their representation. He was one of many mathematicians who attempted to prove Euclid's fifth postulate.

#11113

Giovanni Ricci

1904 - 1973 (69 years)

Giovanni Ricci was an Italian mathematician. He was born and brought up in Florence, where he did his school education. He then moved to Pisa to study mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore . He was an assistant professor at the University of Rome for two years until 1928 when he moved to his alma mater Scuola Normale Superiore, where he was a professor for 8 years and produced research works in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, mathematical analysis, and theory of series, with highly significant results being obtained on the Goldbach conjecture and Hilbert's seventh pr...

#11114

Thomas Abbt

1738 - 1766 (28 years)

Thomas Abbt was a German mathematician and writer. Biography Born in Ulm as the son of a wig-maker, Abbt visited a secondary school in Ulm, then moved in 1756 to study theology, philosophy and mathematics at the University of Halle, receiving a Magister degree in 1758. In 1760 he was appointed as an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt , where he wrote his most well-known work Vom Tode für's Vaterland .

#11115

Ferdinand Joachimsthal

Ferdinand Joachimsthal

1818 - 1861 (43 years)

Ferdinand Joachimsthal was a German mathematician. He was born on March 9, 1818, at Goldberg , Silesia and died on April 5, 1861, at Breslau . In the year of his graduation he was appointed teacher at a Realschule in Berlin, and in 1846 was admitted to the philosophical faculty of the university as privatdozent. In 1856, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Halle, and in 1858 at Breslau.

#11116

George Ballard Mathews

George Ballard Mathews

1861 - 1922 (61 years)

George Ballard Mathews, FRS was an English mathematician. He was born in London. He studied at the Ludlow Grammar School which had instruction in Hebrew and Sanscrit as well as in Greek and Latin. He proceeded to University College, London where Olaus Henrici made him "realise that mathematics is an inductive science, not a set of rules and formulae." He then took up preparation for Cambridge Mathematical Tripos under the guidance of William Henry Besant. He came out Senior Wrangler for 1883. He was elected a Fellow of St John's College.

#11117

David Livingstone

David Livingstone

1813 - 1873 (60 years)

David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. David was the husband of Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th-century missionary family, Moffat. Livingstone had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion. As a result, Livingstone beca...

#11118

Anton Sushkevich

Anton Sushkevich

1889 - 1961 (72 years)

Anton Kazimirovich Sushkevich was a Russian mathematician and textbook author who expanded group theory to include semigroups and other magmass. Sushkevich attended secondary school in Voronezh and studied in Berlin from 1906 to 1911. There he attended lectures of F. G. Frobenius, Issai Schur, and Hermann Schwarz. Sushkevich studied piano with L. V. Rostropovich, father of Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1906 he was a cello student at Stern Conservatory . In 1911 he moved to Saint Petersburg, graduating from the Imperial University in 1913.

#11119

Bertram Martin Wilson

1896 - 1935 (39 years)

Prof Bertram Martin Wilson FRSE was an English mathematician, remembered primarily as a co-editor, along with G. H. Hardy and P. V. Seshu Aiyar, of Srinivasa Ramanujan's Collected Papers. Life He was born in London on 14 November 1896 the son of Rev Alfred Henry Wilson and his wife, Ellen Elizabeth Vincent.

#11120

Angelina Cabras

1898 - 1993 (95 years)

Angelina Cabras was an Italian mathematician and physicist. She earned degrees in mathematics from the University of Turin in 1924 and in physics from the University of Cagliari in 1927. She obtained a position in mathematical physics at Cagliari, later moving to the institute of theoretical mechanics there. Her research concerned higher dimensional rigid body dynamics, the theory of relativity, and inductance.

#11121

Rodolphe Radau

1835 - 1911 (76 years)

Jean Charles Rodolphe Radau was an astronomer and mathematician who worked in Paris at the Revue des deux Mondes for most of his life. He was the co-founder of the Bulletin Astronomique. Radau was born in Angerburg, Province of Prussia , and after studying in Königsberg and working on the Three-body problem, he moved to Paris to collaborate with other scientists. In 1871 he was given the Ph.D. in honor of his work in mathematics.

#11122

Henry Perigal

1801 - 1898 (97 years)

Henry Perigal, Jr. FRAS MRI was a British stockbroker and amateur mathematician, known for his dissection-based proof of the Pythagorean theorem and for his unorthodox belief that the moon does not rotate.

#11123

Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano

Giulio Carlo de' Toschi di Fagnano

1682 - 1766 (84 years)

Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, Marquis de Toschi was an Italian mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals. Fagnano was born in Senigallia , and also died there.

#11124

Karl Menninger

1898 - 1963 (65 years)

Karl Menninger was a German teacher of and writer about mathematics. His major work was Zahlwort und Ziffer , about non-academic mathematics in much of the world.

#11125

Käte Fenchel

1905 - 1983 (78 years)

Käte Fenchel née Käte Sperling was a German-born Jewish mathematician, best known for her work on non-abelian groups. Life Käte was born in Berlin to a newspaper reporter and a bookkeeper, Rusza Sperling . As a child, she quickly learned to read and write, faster than most children. She was allowed to skip several grade levels and was awarded scholarships to attend private school. She enrolled at the University of Berlin, but she found that she faced daunting obstacles there in the form of gender discrimination because she was pursuing studies in pure mathematics. She was encouraged to write ...

#11126

Jan Tesánek

1728 - 1788 (60 years)

Jan Tesánek was a Bohemian scholar and author of scientific literature. Biography Tesánek studied at a gymnasium in Prague and later at Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University. In 1745, he became a Jesuit and studied mathematics, physics and astronomy under Joseph Stepling, a student of Ignatz Mühlwenzel. Stepling introduced Tesánek to the works of Isaac Newton. After finishing under the Faculty of Philosophy, Tesánek continued with study of theology. He was then ordained a priest and became professor of physics at Charles University. Later, he taught mathematics at the University of Olomouc.

#11127

Antoine Parent

1666 - 1716 (50 years)

Antoine Parent was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who wrote in 1700 on analytical geometry of three dimensions. His works were collected and published in three volumes at Paris in 1713.

#11128

John Casey

1820 - 1891 (71 years)

John Casey was a respected Irish geometer. He is most famous for Casey's theorem on a circle that is tangent to four other circles, an extension of Ptolemy's theorem. However, he contributed several novel proofs and perspectives on Euclidean geometry. He and Émile Lemoine are considered to be the co-founders of the modern geometry of the circle and the triangle.

#11129

Václav Jeřábek

1845 - 1931 (86 years)

Václav Jeřábek was a Czech mathematician, specialized in constructive geometry. Life and work Jeřábek studied at the lower school of Pardubice and at the higher school of Písek, then he was to Vienna and studied at Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute where he graduated. Although he participated in several leading intellectual circles of Vienna, he remained a Czech with a clear view of patriotism. He began his teaching at the Realschule of Litomyšl , being transferred two years after to the Realschule of Telč. In 1881, he was appointed professor of the Czech Realschule in Brno, and became its director in 1901.

#11130

Davis Rich Dewey

1858 - 1942 (84 years)

Davis Rich Dewey was an American economist and statistician. He was born at Burlington, Vermont. Like his well-known younger brother, John Dewey, he was educated at the University of Vermont and Johns Hopkins University. He later became professor of economics and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the Massachusetts state board on the question of the unemployed , member of the Massachusetts commission on public, charitable, and reformatory interests , special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of a state commission on industrial rela...

#11131

James Thomson

1786 - 1849 (63 years)

James Thomson was an Irish mathematician, notable for his role in the formation of the thermodynamics school at the University of Glasgow. He was the father of the engineer and physicist James Thomson and the physicist Lord Kelvin.

#11132

Divsha Amirà

1899 - 1966 (67 years)

Divsha Amirà was an Israeli mathematician and educator. Biography Amirà was born in Brańsk, Russian Empire to Rivka and Aharon Itin. She immigrated to Israel with her family in 1906. Her father was one of the founders of Ahuzat Bayit , a founder of the Tel Aviv Great Synagogue, and the owner of the first publishing house in Jaffa. She graduated in the second class of the Herzliya Gymnasium in 1914.

#11133

Antonio Fais

1841 - 1925 (84 years)

Antonio Fais was an Italian mathematician and railway engineer. He was rector at the University of Cagliari from 1897 to 1898. As an engineer he worked for the Royal Sardinian Railways for the development of the rail line sector located next to the town of Oristano.

#11134

Thomas Jones

1756 - 1807 (51 years)

Thomas Jones was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. He is notable as a mentor of Adam Sedgwick. Biography Jones was born at Berriew, Montgomeryshire, in Wales.

#11135

Harald Ludvig Westergaard

Harald Ludvig Westergaard

1853 - 1936 (83 years)

Harald Ludvig Westergaard was a Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics. Harald Westergaard was born in Copenhagen and apart from a period studying in England and Germany in 1877-78 he lived there all his life. His subject at the University of Copenhagen was mathematics but he became interested in economics and, while he was in England, he seems to have met William Stanley Jevons. In the preface to the second edition of the Theory of Political Economy Jevons refers to Westergaard's mathematical suggestions. However, after this spectac...

#11136

Abel Transon

1805 - 1876 (71 years)

Abel Étienne Louis Transon was a French mathematician, utopian socialist and journalist. Life Abel Transon was born in Versailles on 25 December 1805 . In 1823 he won a mathematical competition and was admitted to the prestigious École Polytechnique, from which he graduated with top honours in 1825. Like many of his fellow Polytechniciens, , he was attracted to the doctrines of Henri de Saint-Simon. He contributed to Le Globe and was a frequent and popular orator at the Salle Taitbout. Like other Saint-Simonians, Transon believed in the equality of the sexes, but his special rapport with wome...

#11137

Antonio Monteiro

Antonio Monteiro

1907 - 1980 (73 years)

António Aniceto Monteiro was a mathematician born in Portuguese Angola who later emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and finally to Argentina in 1950. Monteiro is best known for establishing a school of algebraic logic at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. His efforts to promote theoretical computer science research in Argentina were less successful.

#11138

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler

1770 - 1843 (73 years)

Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler was a Swiss-American surveyor who is considered the forefather of both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology for his achievements as the first Superintendent of the U.S. Survey of the Coast and the first U.S. Superintendent of Weights and Measures.

#11139

Robert Franklin Muirhead

1860 - 1941 (81 years)

Robert Franklin Muirhead , was a Scottish mathematician who discovered Muirhead's inequality. Early life and education Born at Shawlands, Glasgow, in January 1860, Robert Franklyn Muirhead received his early education from private tutors and the village school at Lochwinnoch. After attending the Hamilton Academy and Paisley Grammar school he entered the University of Glasgow, graduating BSc and MA gaining highest honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy and the Ferguson Scholarship. Winning the four year George A. Clark Scholarship from Glasgow, Muirhead then continued his studies at St...

#11140

Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa

Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa

1618 - 1667 (49 years)

Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa was a Jesuit mathematician who contributed to the understanding of logarithms, particularly as areas under a hyperbola. Alphonse de Sarasa was born in 1618, in Nieuwpoort in Flanders. In 1632 he was admitted as a novice in Ghent. It was there that he worked alongside Gregoire de Saint-Vincent whose ideas he developed, exploited, and promulgated. According to Sommervogel, Alphonse de Sarasa also held academic positions in Antwerp and Brussels.

#11141

A. H. Lightstone

A. H. Lightstone

1926 - 1976 (50 years)

Albert Harold Lightstone was a Canadian mathematician. He was one of the pioneers of non-standard analysis, a doctoral student of Abraham Robinson, and later a co-author with Robinson of the book Nonarchimedean Fields and Asymptotic Expansions.

#11142

Emilio Artom

1888 - 1952 (64 years)

Emilio Artom was a Jewish Italian mathematician who was born and died in Torino. For two years he was assistant to Federigo Enriques in Bologna and subsequently became a high-school teacher. Biography He was born in a Jewish family of modest economic conditions. Immediately after graduation he stayed two years at the University of Bologna as an assistant of Federigo Enriques, but he renounced in 1911 convinced that, as he had produced little, it was better to start teaching.

#11143

Władysław Zajączkowski

1837 - 1898 (61 years)

Władysław Zajączkowski was a Polish mathematician. Professor of Warsaw Main School, Imperial University of Warsaw , Technical Academy in Lviv . Member of Polish Academy of Learning and French Academy of Sciences. He was specialising mainly in mathematical analysis and differential equations.

#11144

Hsien Chung Wang

1918 - 1978 (60 years)

Hsien Chung Wang was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, Lie groups, and algebraic topology. Biography Part of a family, from Shandong Province, that had produced distinguished scholars for several generations, Hsien Chung Wang studied in Tianjin at Nankai High School, where he had an outstanding academic record. In 1936 he matriculated at Tsing Hua University in Beijing.

#11145

George F. C. Griss

1898 - 1953 (55 years)

George François Cornelis Griss , usually cited as G. F. C. Griss, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher, who was occupied with Hegelian idealism and Brouwers intuitionism and stated a negationless mathematics.

#11146

Baldassarre Boncompagni

Baldassarre Boncompagni

1821 - 1894 (73 years)

Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi , was an Italian historian of mathematics and aristocrat. Biography Boncompagni was born in Rome, into an ancient noble and wealthy Roman family, the Ludovisi-Boncompagni, as the third son of Prince Luigi Boncompagni Ludovisi and Princess Maria Maddalena Odescalchi. He studied under the mathematician Barnaba Tortolini and astronomer Ignazio Calandrelli, developing an interest in the history of science. In 1847 Pope Pius IX appointed him a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. Between 1850-1862 he produced studies on mathematicians of the Middle Ages and in 1868 founded the Bullettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche.

#11147

Helen Abbot Merrill

1864 - 1949 (85 years)

Helen Abbot Merrill was an American mathematician, educator and textbook author. Biography Merrill was born on March 30, 1864, in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey; her father was a New Jersey insurance claims adjustor of colonial stock. She moved to Massachusetts as a child. She entered Wellesley College in 1882, intending to major in Greek and Latin, but switching to mathematics after one year, and graduated in 1886. In 1893 she began teaching at Wellesley while also studying and guest lecturing abroad. In 1903 she earned a PhD in mathematics at Yale under the direction of James Pierpont. In 1920 she was appointed vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America.

#11148

Magnus Georg Paucker

1787 - 1855 (68 years)

Magnus Georg von Paucker was a Baltic German astronomer and mathematician and the first Demidov Prize winner in 1832 for his work Handbuch der Metrologie Rußlands und seiner deutschen Provinzen. Biography Paucker was born in the small Estonian village of Sankt Simonis . In 1805, he began his studies in astronomy and physics at the University of Dorpat, where his professors included Georg Friedrich Parrot and Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff. Between 1808 and 1809, Paucker took part in the surveying of the Emajõgi river which was the first geodetic expedition on the territory of Estonia. In 1809 ...

#11149

Hermann Kober

1888 - 1973 (85 years)

Hermann Kober was a Jewish-German mathematician who introduced Erdélyi–Kober operators. He taught , up to the early 1960s, at some of the King Edward VI Foundation schools in Birmingham.

#11150

Luigi Amoroso

1886 - 1965 (79 years)

Luigi Amoroso was an Italian neoclassical economist influenced by Vilfredo Pareto. He provided support for and influenced the economic policy during the fascist regime. Work The microeconomical concept of the Amoroso–Robinson relation is named after him : according to paper he is one of the first economists to have studied the dynamical equilibrium theory by using an analogy between economic systems and classical mechanics, thus applying to theories of economical behaviour mathematical tools as the calculus of variation. In his young years he contributed to the theory of functions of several...

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