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    A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are...
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  • Chartered Mathematician (CMath) is a professional qualification in Mathematics awarded to professional practising mathematicians by the Institute of Mathematics...
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    1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry...
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  • feature films and documentaries that include mathematicians, scientists who use math or references to mathematicians. Films where mathematics is central to...
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  • A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy, which offers a defence of the pursuit of mathematics. Central to Hardy's...
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  • geometry, and analysis, respectively. There is no general consensus among mathematicians about a common definition for their academic discipline. Most mathematical...
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    Robin James Wilson (born 5 December 1943) is an English mathematician. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University...
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  • mathematicians List of African-American mathematicians List of Bengali mathematicians List of Brazilian mathematicians List of Chinese mathematicians...
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    John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer...
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  • Categories for the Working Mathematician (CWM) is a textbook in category theory written by American mathematician Saunders Mac Lane, who cofounded the...
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    transmission of algebraic knowledge to Europe, significantly influencing mathematicians during the Renaissance and shaping the evolution of modern mathematics...
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    Simons (born 25 April 1938) is an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Renaissance Technologies,...
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  • system in use today was first recorded in Indian mathematics. Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number...
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    to the 6th century AD, around the shores of the Mediterranean. Greek mathematicians lived in cities spread over the entire region, from Anatolia to Italy...
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  • French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher...
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  • no proof of this conjecture has been found. For thousands of years, mathematicians have attempted to extend their understanding of π, sometimes by computing...
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  • Garden, Stirlingshire – 5 December 1770, Edinburgh) was a Scottish mathematician. He was nicknamed "The Venetian". The Stirling numbers, Stirling permutations...
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    This list of Russian mathematicians includes the famous mathematicians from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. Contents: ...
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    may later turn out to be useful for practical applications, but pure mathematicians are not primarily motivated by such applications. Instead, the appeal...
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    Horton Conway FRS (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial...
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  • Mahaviracharya, "Mahavira the Teacher") was a 9th-century Indian Jain mathematician possibly born in Mysore, in India. He authored Gaṇita-sāra-saṅgraha...
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  • This is a List of German mathematicians. Contents 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Ilka Agricola Rudolf Ahlswede Wilhelm...
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    Chinese mathematicians. Things grew quiet for a time until the thirteenth century Renaissance of Chinese math. This saw Chinese mathematicians solving...
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  • Mādhava of Sangamagrāma (Mādhavan) (c. 1340 – c. 1425) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who is considered as the founder of the Kerala school...
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  • How to Think Like a Mathematician: A Companion to Undergraduate Mathematics is a book by Kevin Houston, a senior lecturer in mathematics at the University...
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  • graphics, geometric modeling, and computer aided design. He served as a mathematician at Manufacturing Data Systems Inc., where he helped to implement one...
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    James Gregory FRS (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original...
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    and nurse; the youngest, Ruth Gosset (1911–1953) married the Oxford mathematician Douglas Roaf and had five children. In his job as Head Experimental...
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    Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. He is currently the Barbara Kimball Browning...
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  • friends who probably could not understand it. The wealthy landowner and mathematician Sir Edward Bromhead bought a copy and encouraged Green to do further...
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