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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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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three other mathematicians. Creativity and rigor are not the only psychological aspects of the activity of mathematicians. Some mathematicians can see their...
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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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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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Jim Simons (redirect from Jim Simons (mathematician))
1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. At the time of his death, Simons's net worth was...
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (redirect from John Forbes Nash Jr. (mathematician))
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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Chinese mathematics (redirect from Chinese mathematicians)
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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List of women in mathematics (redirect from List of women mathematicians)
French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Italian mathematician and philosopher...
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Indian mathematics (redirect from Indian mathematician)
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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John Dee (redirect from John Dee (mathematician))
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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John Horton Conway (redirect from John Conway (mathematician))
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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Pure mathematics (redirect from Pure mathematician)
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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Number: The Language of Science (redirect from Number: The Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician)
Survey Written for the Cultured Non-Mathematician is a popular mathematics book written by Russian-American mathematician Tobias Dantzig. The original U.S...
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Norbert Wiener (redirect from I Am a Mathematician)
(November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American computer scientist, mathematician and philosopher. He became a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts...
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Greek mathematics (redirect from Ancient Greek mathematicians)
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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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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transmission of algebraic knowledge to Europe, significantly influencing mathematicians during the Renaissance and shaping the evolution of modern mathematics...
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Ptolemy (redirect from Ptolemy (mathematician))
Latin: Claudius Ptolemaeus; c. 100 – c. 170 AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about...
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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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Recreational mathematics (redirect from Recreational mathematician)
stories and coincidences about mathematics, and the personal lives of mathematicians. Mathematical games are multiplayer games whose rules, strategies, and...
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John Wilson (English judge) (redirect from John Wilson (Mathematician))
Westmorland – 18 October 1793, Kendal, Westmorland) was an English mathematician and judge. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Wilson attended school...
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William Sealy Gosset (redirect from Student (mathematician))
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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Samuel Merrill III (redirect from Samuel Merrill (mathematician))
Samuel Merrill III (born 1939) is an American mathematician, social choice theorist, and political scientist best known for his work on alternative voting...
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André Weil (redirect from The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician)
French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the...
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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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A mathematician is a scholar in the fields of mathematics. They solve and research mathematical problems which can be applied in real life or completely...
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