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#11701

Winifred Sargent

1905 - 1979 (74 years)

Winifred Lydia Caunden Sargent was an English mathematician. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and carried out research into Lebesgue integration, fractional integration and differentiation and the properties of BK-spaces.

#11702

Rudolph Snellius

Rudolph Snellius

1546 - 1613 (67 years)

Rudolph Snel van Royen , Latinized as Rudolphus Snellius, was a Dutch linguist and mathematician who held appointments at the University of Marburg and the University of Leiden. Snellius was an influence on some of the leading political and intellectual forces of the Dutch Golden Age.

#11703

Earnshaw Cook

1900 - 1987 (87 years)

Earnshaw Cook was an early researcher and proponent of sabermetrics, the analysis of baseball through statistical means. Engineering A member of the Princeton University class of 1921, Cook was an engineer specializing in metallurgy. He spent most of his working life at the American Brake Shoe Co. in Mahwah, New Jersey, later consulting on the Manhattan Project before retiring from the industry in 1945. In the 1950s and 1960s, Cook worked as a mechanical engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he published several academic papers.

#11704

Dmitrii Sintsov

Dmitrii Sintsov

1867 - 1946 (79 years)

Dmitrii Matveevich Sintsov was a Russian mathematician known for his work in the theory of conic sections and non-holonomic geometry. He took a leading role in the development of mathematics at the University of Kharkiv, serving as chairman of the Kharkov Mathematical Society for forty years, from 1906 until his death at the age of 78.

#11705

D. M. Smith

1884 - 1962 (78 years)

David Melville "Doc" Smith was an American professor and mathematician at the Georgia Institute of Technology . During his more than forty years at the school, he was particularly known for his teaching style and personality. Georgia Tech's D. M. Smith Building, which has housed numerous academic departments, is named in his honor.

#11706

Daniel da Silva

Daniel da Silva

1814 - 1878 (64 years)

Daniel da Silva was a Portuguese mathematician and marine officer. Born in Lisbon, he completed his first studies at the Portuguese Royal Naval Academy, and then proceeded his education in Mathematics at the University of Coimbra where he became a doctor.

#11707

Richard Pendlebury

1847 - 1902 (55 years)

Richard Pendlebury was a British mathematician, musician, bibliophile and mountaineer. Educated at Liverpool College, he went up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1866 and graduated senior wrangler in 1870: he was then elected to a college fellowship. He was appointed University Lecturer in Mathematics in 1888. He collected early mathematical books and printed music, donating his collections to his college and university. His presentation of a collection of music books and manuscripts to the Fitzwilliam Museum stimulated the formation of the Music Faculty at Cambridge University.

#11708

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

Arthur Sherburne Hardy

1847 - 1930 (83 years)

Arthur Sherburne Hardy was an American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet. Early life and education Hardy was born in 1847 in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of Alpheus and Susan W. Hardy. He received his elementary school education abroad and thus gained an exposure to languages. He attended Phillips Academy and completed one year at Amherst College before becoming a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1865, where he excelled in languages. He graduated tenth in the class of 1869 and was commissioned a second lieutenant of artillery. His first d...

#11709

Aleksandr Nekrasov

1883 - 1957 (74 years)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Nekrasov was a Soviet and Russian mathematician known for his mathematical contributions to hydromechanics and aeromechanics. The Nekrasov integral equation describing surface waves is named for him.

#11710

Tommy Bonnesen

1873 - 1935 (62 years)

Tommy Bonnesen was a Danish mathematician, known for Bonnesen's inequality. Bonnesen studied at the University of Copenhagen, where in 1902 he received his Ph.D. with thesis Analytiske studier over ikke-euklidisk geometri . He was the Professor for Descriptive Geometry at the Polytekniske Læreanstalt.

#11711

Elizur Wright

1804 - 1885 (81 years)

Elizur Wright III was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described in the United States as "the father of life insurance", or "the father of insurance regulation", as he campaigned that life insurance companies must keep reserves and provide surrender values. Wright served as an insurance commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

#11712

Alfred Lodge

1854 - 1937 (83 years)

Professor Alfred Lodge MA , was an English mathematician, author, and the first president of The Mathematical Association. Alfred Lodge was born in 1854 at Penkhull, Staffordshire, one of nine children to Oliver Lodge and Grace, née Heath . His siblings included physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, and historians Sir Richard Lodge and Eleanor Constance Lodge. He attended Horncastle Grammar School, afterwards studying at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1876 he became a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and in 1884 joined the Royal Indian Engineering College at Egham, there becoming a professor of pure mathematics, succeeding Joseph Wolstenholme in 1889.

#11713

Vassilios Lakon

1830 - 1900 (70 years)

Vassilios Lakon was an astronomer, mathematician, experimental physicist, philologist, author, and professor. He was a pioneer in 19th-century Greek geometry. He did research in the fields of physics and mathematics. His professors were world-renowned physicist Dimitrios Stroumpos and astronomer Georgios Konstantinos Vouris. He also studied in France with Joseph Bertrand. He was exposed to the works of Joseph Liouville, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Bernard Lamy, and Jacques Charles François Sturm. Lakon's math textbooks were used in high schools across Greece during the second half of the 19t...

#11714

Wilhelm Specht

1907 - 1985 (78 years)

Wilhelm Otto Ludwig Specht was a German mathematician who introduced Specht modules. He also proved the Specht criterion for unitary equivalence of matrices. Works Gruppentheorie. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Springer, 1956.Elementare Beweise der Primzahlsätze. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1956.Algebraische Gleichungen mit reellen oder komplexen Koeffizienten. Enzyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften. 1958.

#11715

Abu Sahl al-Quhi

Abu Sahl al-Quhi

940 - 1000 (60 years)

was a Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was from Kuh , an area in Tabaristan, Amol, and flourished in Baghdad in the 10th century. He is considered one of the greatest geometers, with many mathematical and astronomical writings ascribed to him.

#11716

Howard Hawks Mitchell

1885 - 1943 (58 years)

Howard Hawks Mitchell was an American mathematician who worked on group theory and number theory and who introduced Mitchell's group. In 1910 he received a PhD from Princeton University as Oswald Veblen's first doctoral student. During the academic year 1910/1911 Mitchell was an instructor at Yale University. At the University of Pennsylvania he was an instructor from 1911 to 1914 and then a professor until his death in 1943 at age 58 from coronary thrombosis.

#11717

Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin of Tudela

1130 - 1173 (43 years)

Benjamin of Tudela was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the twelfth century. His vivid descriptions of western Asia preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years. With his broad education and vast knowledge of languages, Benjamin of Tudela is a major figure in medieval geography and Jewish history.

#11718

Dmitry Fyodorovich Selivanov

Dmitry Fyodorovich Selivanov

1855 - 1932 (77 years)

Dmitry Fyodorovich Selivanov, was a Russian mathematician, known for his work on differential calculus and finite difference calculus. Biography The son of a district marshal and justice of the peace, Selivanov was born into a noble family in Penza Oblast, where he attended secondary school. He then studied mathematics and physics at the University of St. Petersburg, where he was taught by, among others, Pafnuty Chebyshev. In 1878 Selivanov graduated and in 1880–1881 studied in Paris under Charles Hermite and in Berlin under Karl Weierstraß and Leopold Kronecker. In Berlin he became friends w...

#11719

Antonio Schinella Conti

1677 - 1749 (72 years)

Antonio Schinella Conti , also known by his religious title as Abate Conti, was an Italian writer, translator, mathematician, philosopher and physicist. He was born in Padua on 22 January 1677 and died there on 6 April 1749.

#11720

Yves Marie André

Yves Marie André

1675 - 1764 (89 years)

Yves Marie André , also known as le Père André, was a French Jesuit mathematician, philosopher, and essayist. André entered the Society of Jesus in 1693. Although distinguished in his scholastic studies, he adhered to Gallicanism and Jansenism and was thus considered unsuitable for responsible office by Church authorities. He therefore pursued scientific studies and became royal professor of mathematics at Caen.

#11721

Andrew Gray

1847 - 1925 (78 years)

Andrew Gray was a Scottish physicist and mathematician. Life Born in Lochgelly, Fife, the son of John Gray, he was educated at Lochgelly School and then studied at the University of Glasgow , where he was appointed the Eglinton Fellow in Mathematics in 1876. Perhaps more significantly, however, in 1875 he became the assistant and private secretary of Professor William Thomson . He held this post – an official University one after 1880 – until 1884, when he was appointed Professor of Physics at the newly founded University College of North Wales.

#11722

Edward Lindsay Ince

1891 - 1941 (50 years)

Prof Edward Lindsay Ince FRSE was a British mathematician who worked on differential equations, especially those with periodic coefficients such as the Mathieu equation and the Lamé equation. He introduced the Ince equation, a generalization of the Mathieu equation.

#11723

Sigmund Gundelfinger

1846 - 1910 (64 years)

Sigmund Gundelfinger was a German-Jewish mathematician who introduced the Gundelfinger quartic and proved the completeness of the invariants of a ternary cubic. Gundelfinger quartic In mathematics, the Gundelfinger quartic is a quartic surface in projective space studied by .

#11724

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

1643 - 1687 (44 years)

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle , was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico; there, on 9 April 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River basin for France after giving it the name La Louisiane. One source states that "he acquired for France the most fertile half of the North American continent". A later ill-fated expediti...

#11725

Ruth Gentry

1862 - 1917 (55 years)

Ruth Gentry was a pioneering American woman mathematician during the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. She was the first Indiana-born woman to acquire a PhD degree in mathematics, and most likely the first woman born in Indiana to receive a doctoral degree in any scientific discipline.

#11726

Luigi Berzolari

Luigi Berzolari

1863 - 1949 (86 years)

Luigi Berzolari was an Italian mathematician. Life and work The son of an infantry officer, Berzolari studied at Pavia, under professor Salvatore Pincherle. From 1880 to 1884 he studied at the University of Pavia, where he graduated in mathematics. He subsequently taught at high schools in Pavia and Vigevano, keeping in touch with Pavia's university as an assistant docent. In 1888 he obtained the venia legendi, and in 1892 the university's venia legendi.

#11727

Antonín Václav Šourek

1857 - 1926 (69 years)

Antonín Václav Šourek was a Czech mathematician, noteworthy as one of the founders of modern mathematics in Bulgaria Antonín Šourek graduated in 1876 from a Realschule in Písek. From 1876 to 1878 he studied at TU Wien, where he attended lectures on mathematics, physics, and descriptive geometry. He was a student of Emil Weyr. Šourek then went to Czech Technical University in Prague, where he furthered his knowledge of mathematics, physics, and descriptive geometry. In 1880 he passed the examination certifying teaching competence in mathematics and descriptive geometry and went to Bulgaria. There in September 1880 he became a mathematics teacher at the Realschule in Slivna.

#11728

Heinrich Friedrich Gretschel

1830 - 1892 (62 years)

Heinrich Friedrich Gretschel was a German mathematician and scientist. In 1847, Gretschel became a student at the Technischen Bildungsanstalt . On 28 April 1851 he was enrolled at Leipzig University, where he studied mathematics, natural sciences and ancient languages. In 1854, he passed the examination for the higher school office in the first ranking and became a teacher at the Leipziger Gesamtgymnasium.

#11729

Mario Bettinus

1582 - 1657 (75 years)

Mario Bettinus was an Italian Jesuit philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651. Biography Mario Bettinus studied mathematics under the Belgian Jean Verviers and Giuseppe Biancani at the Jesuit school in Parma. He was responsible for teaching military architecture in Parma during the period 1624–1630. Among the students attending his classes at the seminarium nobilium were the two sons of Duke Ranuccio, Ottavio and Odoardo. Besides being Ottavio's teacher of military mathematics, Bettinus also served as military consul...

#11730

Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov

1905 - 1980 (75 years)

Dmitrii Abramovich Raikov was a Russian mathematician who studied functional analysis. Raikov studied in Odessa and Moscow, graduating in 1929. He was secretary of the Komsomol at Moscow State University and was active in the 1929–1930 campaign against the mathematician Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov. At that time he and his fellow campaigners also rejected non-applied research, but this soon changed. In 1933, he was dismissed from the Communist Party on charges of Trotskyism and exiled to Voronezh, but was rehabilitated two years later and returned to Moscow. From 1938 to 1948, he was at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences and in the Second World War in the militia.

#11731

Samuel Roberts

1827 - 1913 (86 years)

Samuel Roberts FRS was a British mathematician. Roberts studied at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle. He matriculated in 1845 at the University of London, where he earned in 1847 his bachelor's degree in mathematics and in 1849 his master's degree in mathematics and physics, as first in his class. Next he studied law and became a solicitor in 1853. After a few years of law practice he abandoned his law career and returned to mathematics, although he never had an academic position. He had his first mathematical paper published in 1848. In 1865 he was an important participant in the founding of the London Mathematical Society .

#11732

Levi L. Conant

1857 - 1916 (59 years)

Levi Leonard Conant was an American mathematician specializing in trigonometry. Education and career He attended Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth College and later Syracuse University , studying mathematics.

#11733

Susan Jane Cunningham

Susan Jane Cunningham

1842 - 1921 (79 years)

Susan Jane Cunningham was an American mathematician instrumental in the founding and development of Swarthmore College. She was born in Maryland, and studied mathematics and astronomy with Maria Mitchell at Vassar College as a special student during 1866–67. She also studied those subjects during several summers at Harvard University, Princeton University, Newnham College, Cambridge, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Williams College.

#11734

Cooper Harold Langford

1895 - 1964 (69 years)

Cooper Harold Langford was an American analytic philosopher and mathematical logician who co-authored the book Symbolic Logic with C. I. Lewis. He is also known for introducing the Langford–Moore paradox.

#11735

James Dickson Murray

#11736

Honda Toshiaki

1744 - 1821 (77 years)

Honda Toshiaki was a Japanese political economist in the late Edo period. Born in Echigo, Toshiaki went to Edo to study astronomy, mathematics and kendo. At the age of 24, he opened his own school. He wrote A Secret Plan of Government , in which he proposed lifting a ban of a foreign trade and colonization of Ezo, and Tales of the West , both in 1798.

#11737

Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko

Mikhail Vaschenko-Zakharchenko

1825 - 1912 (87 years)

Mikhail Yegorovich Vaschenko-Zakharchenko was a Russian mathematician, member of Moscow Mathematical Society from 1866 and Privy Councillor of Russia from 1908. His major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.

#11738

Peter Štefan

1941 - 1978 (37 years)

Peter Štefan was a Slovak mathematician who was known for his works on dynamical systems and mathematical entropy. He attended school in Bratislava, and then Charles University in Prague. In 1968, he was involved in politics in Czechoslovakia, supporting the political movement that sought to humanize Communist rule during the Prague Spring. As he was visiting the University of Warwick, though, the Soviet Union and several Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country, installing a Soviet-controlled regime. Štefan feared that he would be in danger if he returned, and he decided to stay in Britain. He remained in Warwick, where he studied for a Ph.D.

#11739

William Smellie

William Smellie

1740 - 1795 (55 years)

William Smellie was a Scottish printer who edited the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also a naturalist and antiquary. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a friend of Robert Burns.

#11740

Marie Georges Humbert

Marie Georges Humbert

1859 - 1921 (62 years)

Marie Georges Humbert was a French mathematician who worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces. His son was the mathematician Pierre Humbert. He won the Poncelet Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1891.

#11741

Mahmut Bajraktarević

1909 - 1985 (76 years)

Mahmut Bajraktarević was a Bosnian mathematician and academician. He graduated from the University of Belgrade in 1933 and received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1953 with the dissertation Sur certaines suites itérées. Bajraktarević was a professor at the University of Sarajevo and had a great influence on the development of mathematics in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He contributed to the research areas of functional equations, iterative sequences and summability theory.

#11742

Peter Carl Fabergé

Peter Carl Fabergé

1846 - 1920 (74 years)

Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé , was a Russian jeweller best known for the famous Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials. He was one of the sons of the founder of the famous jewelry legacy House of Fabergé.

#11743

L. Gustave du Pasquier

1876 - 1957 (81 years)

Louis-Gustave du Pasquier was a Swiss mathematician and historian of mathematics and mathematical sciences. Education and career Du Pasquier studied at l'École Polytechnique, the University of Zurich, La Sorbonne, the Collège de France, and the Collège Libre des Sciences Sociales. He received his doctorate in 1906 from the University of Zurich with dissertation Zahlentheorie der Tettarionen under the supervision of Adolf Hurwitz. Du Pasquier then taught at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Kusnacht, Frauenfeld, Winterthur, and Zurich before he became in 1911 a professor at the University of Neuchâtel. Du Pasquier wrote more than 60 articles published in scientific journals.

#11744

Roy C. Geary

1896 - 1983 (87 years)

Robert Charles Geary was an Irish statistician and founder of both the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute. He held degrees from University College Dublin and the Sorbonne. He lectured in mathematics at University College Southampton and in applied economics at Cambridge University . He was a statistician in the Department of Industry and Commerce between 1923 and 1957. The National University of Ireland conferred a Doctorate of Science on him in 1938. He was the founding director of the Central Statistics Office . He was head of the National Accounts Branch of the United Nations in New York from 1957 to 1960.

#11745

Robert Wedderburn

1947 - 1975 (28 years)

Robert William Maclagan Wedderburn was a Scottish statistician who worked at the Rothamsted Experimental Station. He was co-developer, with John Nelder, of the generalized linear model methodology, and then expanded this subject to develop the idea of quasi-likelihood.

#11746

Bartholomew Price

Bartholomew Price

1818 - 1898 (80 years)

Reverend Bartholomew Price was an English mathematician, clergyman and educator. Life He was born at Coln St Denis, Gloucestershire, in 1818. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, of which college he became fellow in 1844 and tutor and mathematical lecturer in 1845. He at once took a leading position in the mathematical teaching of the university, and published treatises on the Differential calculus and the Infinitesimal calculus , which for long were the recognized textbooks there. This latter work included the differential and integral calculus, the calculus of variations, the theo...

#11747

Leif Erikson

970 - 1020 (50 years)

Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky , was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America, approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. According to the sagas of Icelanders, he established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which is usually interpreted as being coastal North America. There is ongoing speculation that the settlement made by Leif and his crew corresponds to the remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows, which was occupied approximately 1,000 years ago.

#11748

Sarada Devi

1853 - 1920 (67 years)

Sri Sarada Devi , born Kshemankari / Thakurmani / Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, was the wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth-century Hindu mystic. Sarada Devi is also reverentially addressed as the Holy Mother by the followers of the Sri Ramakrishna monastic order. The Sri Sarada Math and Ramakrishna Sarada Mission situated at Dakshineshwar is based on the ideals and life of Sarada Devi. She played an important role in the growth of the Ramakrishna Movement.

#11749

Jacques Saly

1717 - 1776 (59 years)

Jacques François Joseph Saly, also known as Jacques Saly , French-born sculptor who worked in France, Italy and Malta. He is commonly associated with his time in Denmark he served as Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Art . His most noteworthy work is the equestrian statue Frederik V on Horseback at Amalienborg.

#11750

Kazimierz Jelski

Kazimierz Jelski

1782 - 1867 (85 years)

Kazimierz Jelski was a Polish-Lithuanian Classicist architect and sculptor active in Lithuania. Jelski was born in Ejsymonty near Grodno, today in Belarus. He was the son of Karol Jelski who was a Polish sculptor, painter and stucco artist. He first studied under his father. Between 1800 and 1808 he studied painting and architecture at the Vilnius University. For painting he studied under Laurynas Gucevičius and Franciszek Smuglewicz, architecture with Michała Szulca and sculpture with Andrzej Le Brun. From 1809 he studied sculpture at the Imperial Academy of Arts. From 1811 to 1826, Jelski worked as a professor of the University of Vilnius, where he trained many renowned sculptors.

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