The Houses for Visiting Mathematicians (also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses) are a set of five houses and two flats, built for academics...
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Library, Clark University, designed by John M. Johansen. June – Houses for Visiting Mathematicians, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, designed by Bill...
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Church—originally built in the 14th century—and the newest are the Houses for Visiting Mathematicians at the University of Warwick, completed in 1969. Sir William...
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designed the Houses for Visiting Mathematicians (also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses), a set of five houses and two flats, built for academics...
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Foundation to build five houses and two flats as accommodation for mathematicians visiting conferences at Warwick; these houses are Grade II* listed and...
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the sunbathing terraces and gardens". Coventry Cathedral Houses for Visiting Mathematicians Historic England. "Coventry Central Baths (original part including...
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John N. Mather (redirect from John Mather (Mathematician))
Norman Mather (June 9, 1942 – January 28, 2017) was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics...
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Joan Birman (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
model; and for sponsoring multiple prize initiatives for women". The AWM also included her in a deck of cards featuring notable women mathematicians. Birman...
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Oscar Zariski (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Collected papers. Vol. II: Holomorphic functions and linear systems, Mathematicians of Our Time, Cambridge, Massachusetts-London: MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-01038-2...
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Heisuke Hironaka (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
the highest honor in mathematics, at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Nice in 1970 at 39, just under the 40 year age limit. List of Awards:...
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David Blackwell (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
his summers at RAND Corporation with Meyer Abraham Girshick and other mathematicians exploring the game theory of duels. In 1954, Girshick and Blackwell...
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Michel Raynaud (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
1970 Raynaud was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In 1987 he received the Prize Ampère from the French Academy...
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Cédric Villani (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Universitaire de France 2006: Invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Madrid) 2007: Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand [fr] (French Academy of Sciences)...
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Maryam Mirzakhani (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
achieved milestones that cemented her reputation as one of the greatest mathematicians of her time, such as the "magic wand theorem", which tied together fields...
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R. H. Bing (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Steven G. (2002). Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and anecdotes of mathematicians and the mathematical. Spectrum (1 ed.). Washington: The Mathematical...
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Daniel Biss (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
published in Inventiones Mathematicae in 2006, thanking mathematicians Masatoshi Sato and Tom Church for helping to explain the problem. Another of his papers...
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Christian Goldbach (category 18th-century German mathematicians)
1724 through Europe, visiting other German states, England, the Netherlands, Italy, and France, meeting with many famous mathematicians, such as Gottfried...
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Emmy Noether (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
of mathematicians from all over the world to Göttingen, which had become a major hub of mathematical and physical research. Russian mathematicians Pavel...
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Carl M. Bender (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
positions as professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg and as visiting professor of applied mathematics and mathematical physics at Imperial College...
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Stephen Smale (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was...
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Kenkichi Iwasawa (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Cambridge, Massachusetts to give a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians on his method to study Dedekind zeta functions using integration over...
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Chandler Davis (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
CPUSA membership for good. He remained a political activist. For example, in 1971, he traveled to North Vietnam with other mathematicians including Laurent...
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accommodated in 1960 with the new houses, or north houses: Lloyd House, Page House, and Ruddock House (later renamed to Venerable House). A new state-of-the-art...
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a B.A. degree in 1629, he corresponded with Henry Briggs and other mathematicians. He was promoted by seniority to M.A. in 1630 and taught in the short-lived...
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Alekandrov had a personal love for poetry, writing and translating. Once, on a trip to London, he was received as a visiting Shakespeare scholar. He was...
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Benoit Mandelbrot (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
The Fractal Geometry of Nature had been previously described by other mathematicians. Before Mandelbrot, however, they were regarded as isolated curiosities...
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Christopher Zeeman (category 20th-century English mathematicians)
"to honour mathematicians who have excelled in promoting mathematics and engaging with the general public. They may be academic mathematicians based in...
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (redirect from John Forbes Nash Jr. (mathematician))
his theorem in a contributed paper at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950, although he had not yet worked out the details of its proof...
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the best mathematicians and physicists they could find. The rise of fascism and the associated anti-semitism forced many prominent mathematicians to flee...
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Hing Tong (category Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars)
Barnard College (Columbia University). In 1955, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Also in 1955, he was appointed...
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