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#11251

Ottó Szász

1884 - 1952 (68 years)

Otto Szász was a Hungarian mathematician who worked on real analysis, in particular on Fourier series. He proved the Müntz–Szász theorem and introduced the Szász–Mirakyan operator. The Hungarian Mathematical and Physical Society awarded him the Julius Kőnig prize in 1939.

#11252

Albert Demangeon

Albert Demangeon

1872 - 1940 (68 years)

Albert Demangeon was a Professor of social geography at the Sorbonne in Paris for many years. He was an educator, a prolific author, and in the 1930s was the leading French academic in the field of human geography. He was a pioneer in the use of surveys to collect information on social questions.

#11253

Johannes van der Corput

1890 - 1975 (85 years)

Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput was a Dutch mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He was appointed professor at the University of Fribourg in 1922, at the University of Groningen in 1923, and at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. He was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, of which he also was the first director. From 1953 on he worked in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

#11254

Noel Slater

1912 - 1973 (61 years)

Prof Noel Bryan Slater FRAS FRSE was a 20th-century British mathematician and astronomer. Life He was born on 29 July 1912 in Blackburn, Lancashire the son of Minnie Jane Bryan, and her husband, Doctor Albert Slater. His father was not a doctor but was christened with the name Doctor. He was generally known as D. Albert Slater. Slated was educated at Blackburn Grammar School. His parents then moved to Scotland where he was educated at North Berwick High School then Fordyce Academy in Banff.

#11255

John R. Ragazzini

John R. Ragazzini

1912 - 1988 (76 years)

John Ralph Ragazzini was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Biography Ragazzini was born in Manhattan, New York City from Italian immigrants Luigi Ragazzini and Angelina Badelli and received the degrees of B.S. and E.E. at the City College of New York in 1932 and 1933 and earned the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 1939 and 1941.

#11256

Yozo Matsushima

1921 - 1983 (62 years)

was a Japanese mathematician. Early life Matsushima was born on February 11, 1921, in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Osaka Imperial University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in September 1942. At Osaka, he was taught by mathematicians Kenjiro Shoda. After completing his degree, he was appointed as an assistant in the Mathematical Institute of Nagoya Imperial University . These were difficult years for Japanese students and researchers because of World War II.

#11257

Guido Fubini

1879 - 1943 (64 years)

Guido Fubini was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Life Born in Venice, he was steered towards mathematics at an early age by his teachers and his father, who was himself a teacher of mathematics. In 1896 he entered the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where he studied differential geometry under Ulisse Dini and Luigi Bianchi. His 1900 doctoral thesis was about Clifford's parallelism in elliptic spaces.

#11258

Edward Marczewski

Edward Marczewski

1907 - 1976 (69 years)

Edward Marczewski was a Polish mathematician. He was born Szpilrajn but changed his name while hiding from Nazi persecution. Marczewski was a member of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. His life and work after the Second World War were connected with Wrocław, where he was among the creators of the Polish scientific centre.

#11259

Earle Raymond Hedrick

1876 - 1943 (67 years)

Earle Raymond Hedrick , was an American mathematician and a vice-president of the University of California. Education and career Hedrick was born in Union City, Indiana. After undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, he obtained a Master of Arts from Harvard University. With a Parker fellowship, he went to Europe and obtained his PhD from Göttingen University in Germany under the supervision of David Hilbert in 1901. He then spent several months at the École Normale Supérieure in France, where he became acquainted with Édouard Goursat, Jacques Hadamard, Jules Tannery, Émile Picard and Paul Émile Appell, before becoming an instructor at Yale University.

#11260

William Lloyd Garrison Williams

1888 - 1976 (88 years)

William Lloyd Garrison Williams was an American-Canadian Quaker and mathematician, known for the founding of the Canadian Mathematical Society and overseeing Elbert Frank Cox's doctorate in mathematics.

#11261

Nikolai Smirnov

Nikolai Smirnov

1900 - 1966 (66 years)

Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov was a Soviet Russian mathematician noted for his work in various fields including probability theory and statistics. Smirnov's principal works in mathematical statistics and probability theory were devoted to the investigation of limit distributions by means of the asymptotic behaviour of multiple integrals as the multiplicity is increased with limit. He was one of the creators of the nonparametric methods in mathematical statistics and of the theory of limit distributions of order statistics.

#11262

Ruth Lyttle Satter

Ruth Lyttle Satter

1923 - 1989 (66 years)

Ruth Lyttle Satter was an American botanist best known for her work on circadian leaf movement. Biography Ruth Lyttle Satter was born March 8, 1923, in New York City as Ruth Lyttle. Satter received a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Barnard College in 1944. After graduating, she worked at Bell Laboratories and Maxson Company. In 1946 she married Robert Satter and in 1947 she became a homemaker, devoting herself to raising her and Robert's four children, Mimi, Shoshana, Jane and Dick. While raising her children, her love of plants led her to complete the New York Botanical Garden's horticu...

#11263

Jane Worcester

1901 - 1989 (88 years)

Jane Worcester was a biostatistician and epidemiologist who became the second tenured female professor, after Martha May Eliot, and the first female chair of biostatistics in the Harvard School of Public Health.

#11264

Szolem Mandelbrojt

Szolem Mandelbrojt

1899 - 1983 (84 years)

Szolem Mandelbrojt was a Polish-French mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1938 to 1972, where he held the Chair of Analytical Mechanics and Celestial Mechanics.

#11265

Edward Schaumberg Quade

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

Edward Schaumberg Quade was an American mathematician at the Rand Corporation who worked on trigonometric series and systems analysis.

#11266

Arnold Scholz

1904 - 1942 (38 years)

Arnold Scholz was a German mathematician who proved Scholz's reciprocity law and introduced the Scholz conjecture. Scholz participated in the Second Conference on the Epistemology of the Exact Sciences contributing the paper "On the Use of the Term Holism in Axiomatics" to the discussion on the foundation of mathematics.

#11267

Duncan Sommerville

Duncan Sommerville

1879 - 1934 (55 years)

Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the first secretary of the New Zealand Astronomical Society.

#11268

Kenjiro Shoda

1902 - 1977 (75 years)

Kenjiro Shoda was a Japanese mathematician. Early life and career Kenjiro Shoda was born on February 25, 1902, in Tatebayashi, Gunma to a wealthy family. He was the second son of , who was the founder of Nisshin Flour , one of the biggest companies in Japan, a member of the House of Peers, and a great-grandfather of the Emperor. He was educated in Tokyo until he finished junior high school. He went to the National Eighth High School in Nagoya, today succeeded to Faculty of Liberal Arts of Nagoya University.

#11269

Felix Behrend

1911 - 1962 (51 years)

Felix Adalbert Behrend was a German mathematician of Jewish descent who escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Australia. His research interests included combinatorics, number theory, and topology. Behrend's theorem and Behrend sequences are named after him.

#11270

Paul Koebe

1882 - 1945 (63 years)

Paul Koebe was a 20th-century German mathematician. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. He did his thesis at Berlin, where he worked under Hermann Schwarz. He was an extraordinary professor at Leipzig from 1910 to 1914, then an ordinary professor at the University of Jena before returning to Leipzig in 1926 as an ordinary professor. He died in Leipzig.

#11271

David van Dantzig

David van Dantzig

1900 - 1959 (59 years)

David van Dantzig was a Dutch mathematician, well known for the construction in topology of the dyadic solenoid. He was a member of the Significs Group. Biography Born to a Jewish family in Amsterdam in 1900, Van Dantzig started to study Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam in 1917, where Gerrit Mannoury lectured. He received his PhD at the University of Groningen in 1931 with a thesis entitled "" under supervision of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.

#11272

Robert H. Coats

1874 - 1960 (86 years)

Robert Hamilton Coats was Canada's first Dominion Statistician. He was born in Clinton, Huron County, Ontario in 1874, the son of Robert Coats, who came to Canada from Scotland. In 1896, Coats received a B.A. from the University College in Toronto. He worked as a journalist for The Toronto World and then the Toronto Globe until 1902 when, at the request of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, he became editor of the Labour Gazette; King himself had been the first editor of this publication which included statistical information related to labour.

#11273

Robert Edouard Moritz

1868 - 1940 (72 years)

Robert Edouard Moritz was a German-American mathematician. He published about 75 books and papers. For over 30 years he was head of the mathematics department at the University of Washington. Biography Moritz was born in Schleswig-Holstein to Karl R. and Maria Stahlhut Moritz, and emigrated to the United States at the age of twelve where the family settled on a farm in Nebraska. From 1885 to 1892 he attended Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, and then studied another year at the University of Chicago. After two summer quarters in the next years he received his MA in mathematics in 1896.

#11274

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

1888 - 1945 (57 years)

Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning . His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. For a time Mazurkiewicz was a professor at the University of Paris; however, he spent most of his career as a professor at the University of Warsaw.

#11275

Heinrich Wieleitner

1874 - 1931 (57 years)

Heinrich Wieleitner was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He became an honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Munich but for much of his career worked in school- and college-level education.

#11276

Temple Rice Hollcroft

1889 - 1967 (78 years)

Temple Rice Hollcroft, Sr. was an American mathematician and local historian. Hollcroft received B.S. in 1912 and A.B. in 1914 from Hanover College and then A.M. in 1915 from the University of Kentucky. He received in 1917 his Ph.D. from Cornell University under Virgil Snyder and during WW I served in France as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery. Hollcroft was a mathematics professor at Wells College from 1918 to 1954, when he retired as professor emeritus. He served for 14 years as associate secretary of the American Mathematical Society. In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker o...

#11277

Taira Honda

1932 - 1975 (43 years)

was a Japanese mathematician working on number theory who proved the Honda–Tate theorem classifying abelian varieties over finite fields.

#11278

Hitoshi Kumano-Go

1935 - 1982 (47 years)

Hitoshi Kumano-Go was a Japanese mathematician who specialized in partial differential equations. He is especially recognized for his work on pseudo-differential operators and Fourier integral operators.

#11279

Henri Lebesgue

1875 - 1941 (66 years)

Henri Léon Lebesgue was a French mathematician known for his theory of integration, which was a generalization of the 17th-century concept of integration—summing the area between an axis and the curve of a function defined for that axis. His theory was published originally in his dissertation Intégrale, longueur, aire at the University of Nancy during 1902.

#11280

Alexander Weinstein

Alexander Weinstein

1897 - 1979 (82 years)

Alexander Weinstein was a mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Early life, family and personal life Weinstein was born to Judel Jejb Weinstein and Praskovya Levkovich, his family were Jewish, and his father was a doctor. His family moved to Astrakhan, but later decided to emigrate to Germany, there Weinstein completed his schooling, having studied first in Würzburg, then at the University of Göttingen during 1913/14.

#11281

Alfred Brauer

1894 - 1985 (91 years)

Alfred Theodor Brauer was a German-American mathematician who did work in number theory. He was born in Charlottenburg, and studied at the University of Berlin. As he served Germany in World War I, even being injured in the war, he was able to keep his position longer than many other Jewish academics who had been forced out after Hitler's rise to power. In 1935 he lost his position and in 1938 he tried to leave Germany, but was not able to until the following year. He initially worked in the Northeast, but in 1942 he settled into a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A good deal of his works, and the Alfred T.

#11282

Alfred Errera

1886 - 1960 (74 years)

Alfred Errera was a Belgian mathematician. Errera studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he received his Ph.D. in 1921 with dissertation Du coloriage des cartes et de quelques questions d'analysis situs. In his dissertation he introduced what is now called the Errera graph, which is a counterexample to the validity of the alleged proof of the four color theorem by Alfred Kempe. From 1928 to 1956 he was a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

#11283

Wanda Szmielew

1918 - 1976 (58 years)

Wanda Szmielew née Montlak was a Polish mathematical logician who first proved the decidability of the first-order theory of abelian groups. Life Wanda Montlak was born on 5 April 1918 in Warsaw. She completed high school in 1935 and married, taking the name Szmielew. In the same year she entered the University of Warsaw, where she studied logic under Adolf Lindenbaum, Jan Łukasiewicz, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Alfred Tarski. Her research at this time included work on the axiom of choice, but it was interrupted by the 1939 Invasion of Poland.

#11284

Arthur Milgram

1912 - 1961 (49 years)

Arthur Norton Milgram was an American mathematician. He made contributions in functional analysis, combinatorics, differential geometry, topology, partial differential equations, and Galois theory. Perhaps one of his more famous contributions is the Lax–Milgram theorem—a theorem in functional analysis that is particularly applicable in the study of partial differential equations. In the third chapter of Emil Artin's book Galois Theory, Milgram also discussed some applications of Galois theory. Milgram also contributed to graph theory, by co-authoring the article Verallgemeinerung eines graphe...

#11285

Elisha Netanyahu

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Elisha Netanyahu was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis. Over the course of his work at the Technion he was the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences and established the separate Department of Mathematics. Historian Benzion Netanyahu was his brother, while current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is his nephew.

#11286

Leonidas Alaoglu

1914 - 1981 (67 years)

Leonidas Alaoglu was a mathematician, known for his result, called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem.

#11287

Horace Yomishi Mochizuki

1937 - 1989 (52 years)

Horace Yomishi Mochizuki was an American mathematician known for his contributions to group theory. Mochizuki received a special award from the National Science Foundation for his work on the Burnside problem.

#11288

Matila Ghyka

1881 - 1965 (84 years)

Prince Matila Costiescu Ghyka , was a Romanian naval officer, novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher, academic and diplomat. He did not return to Romania after World War II, and was one of the most significant members of the Romanian diaspora. His first name is sometimes written as Matyla.

#11289

R. E. Siday

1912 - 1956 (44 years)

Raymond Eldred Siday was an English mathematician specialising in quantum mechanics. He obtained his BSc in Special Physics and later worked at the University of Edinburgh. He began collaborating with Werner Ehrenberg in 1933.

#11290

Shikao Ikehara

1904 - 1984 (80 years)

Shikao Ikehara was a Japanese mathematician. He was a student of Norbert Wiener at MIT . Following Wiener in 1928, in 1931 Ikehara used Wiener's Tauberian theory to derive another proof of the prime number theorem, demonstrated solely via the non-vanishing of the zeta function on the line Re s = 1. An improved version of Ikehara's 1931 result by Wiener in 1932 is now known as the Wiener–Ikehara theorem.

#11291

Moses Schönfinkel

Moses Schönfinkel

1888 - 1942 (54 years)

Moses Ilyich Schönfinkel was a logician and mathematician, known for the invention of combinatory logic. Life Moses Schönfinkel was born on in Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire . Moses Schönfinkel was born to a Jewish family. His father was Ilya Girshevich Schönfinkel, a merchant of first guild, who was in а grocery store trade, and his mother, Maria “Masha” Gertsovna Schönfinkel came from a prominent Lurie family. Moses had siblings named Deborah, Natan, Israel and Grigoriy. Schönfinkel attended the Novorossiysk University of Odessa, studying mathematics under Samuil Osipovich Shatunovskii , who worked in geometry and the foundations of mathematics.

#11292

John Jay Gergen

1903 - 1967 (64 years)

John Jay Gergen was an American mathematician who introduced the Lebesgue–Gergen criterion for convergence of a Fourier series. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1925 and a Ph.D. from Rice University in 1928. His doctoral advisors were Griffith C. Evans and Szolem Mandelbrojt. From 1928 to 1930, as a National Research fellow, Gergen visited Princeton University, Oxford University, the University of Paris, and the University of Clermont. From 1930 to 1933 he was a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard University, and from 1933 to 1936 he was an assistant professor at the University of Rochester.

#11293

Johannes Tropfke

Johannes Tropfke

1866 - 1939 (73 years)

Johannes Tropfke was a German mathematician and teacher, who is best remembered for his influential work on the history of mathematics Geschichte der Elementarmathematik, which consists of seven volumes.

#11294

Oliver Edmunds Glenn

1878 - Present (147 years)

Oliver Edmunds Glenn was a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on finite groups and invariant theory. He received the degrees of A.B. in 1902 and A.M. in 1903 from Indiana University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He married Alice Thomas Kinnard on Aug. 18, 1903, and they had two sons, William James and Robert Culbertson. Glenn began his career instructing mathematics at Indiana University in 1902 and subsequently taught at Drury College . He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 where he became a full professor ...

#11295

Pia Nalli

1886 - 1964 (78 years)

Pia Maria Nalli was an Italian mathematician known for her work on the summability of Fourier series, on Morera's theorem for analytic functions of several variables and for finding the solution to the Fredholm integral equation of the third kind for the first time. Her research interests ranged from algebraic geometry to functional analysis and tensor analysis; she was a speaker at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians.

#11296

Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky

Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky

1879 - 1954 (75 years)

Vsevolod Ivanovich Romanovsky was a Russian-Soviet-Uzbek mathematician, founder of the Tashkent school of mathematics. Education and career In 1906 Romanovsky received, under the supervision of A. A. Markov, his doctoral degree from St. Petersburg University. During 1900–1908 he was a student and then a docent at St. Petersburg University. In 1911–1915 he was a senior lecturer and then professor at the Imperial University of Warsaw, in 1915–1918 a professor at the Imperial University of Warsaw in Rostov-on-Don, and from 1918 a professor of probability and mathematical statistics at what is now called the National University of Uzbekistan .

#11297

Iacopo Barsotti

1921 - 1987 (66 years)

Iacopo Barsotti, or Jacopo Barsotti was an Italian mathematician who introduced Barsotti–Tate groups. In 1942 he graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and became assistant professor Francesco Severi at the University of Rome in 1946. In 1948 he emigrated to the US, first as a guest professor at Princeton University, then as a full professor at the University of Pittsburgh and at Brown University. In 1961 he was recalled to Pisa as a teacher first of Geometry, then of Algebra. From 1968 to his death he taught Geometry at the University of Padua. Iacopo was a visiting scholar at ...

#11298

Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina

1899 - 1999 (100 years)

Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina was a Soviet and Russian applied mathematician, known for her work on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics, particularly, the application of Fuchsian equations, as well in the history of mathematics. She was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1946 and full member in 1958.

#11299

Ernst Jacobsthal

1882 - 1965 (83 years)

Ernst Erich Jacobsthal was a German mathematician, and brother to the archaeologist Paul Jacobsthal. In 1906, he earned his PhD at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Georg Frobenius, Hermann Schwarz and Issai Schur; his dissertation, Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste , provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. In 1934, he was fired from his professorship at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, because of his Jewish origins. In 1939 he fled to Norway and became after the war a professor at the Norwegian ...

#11300

Evgenii Nikishin

1945 - 1986 (41 years)

Evgenii Mikhailovich Nikishin was a Russian mathematician, who specialized in harmonic analysis. Biography Nikishin, at age of 24, earned his candidate doctorate at Moscow State University, becoming the youngest Candidate Doctorate in a history of MSU and in 1971 his habilitation at the Steklov Institute under Pyotr Ulyanov . In 1977 he became a professor at Moscow State University, where he remained until his death after a long battle with cancer.

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