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  PlanetMath: list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1
These are mathematicians who have co-authored at least one paper with Paul Erdős.
"list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1" is owned by Mravinci.
This is version 10 of list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1, born on 2006-09-18, modified 2007-03-03.
www.planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ListOfMathematiciansWithErdHosNumber1.html   (311 words)

  
 Mennonite Mathematicians
Below you will find a list of mathematicians who have had some contact with a group of Mennonite mathematicians whose sole function is to enjoy food and fellowship during one evening at national mathematics meetings.
To use an email address on the list you must replace " AT " with the "@" symbol.
This has been done to prevent spammers from using this list.
www.wooster.edu /Math/mennomath.html   (89 words)

  
  PlanetMath: list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1
These are mathematicians who have co-authored at least one paper with Paul Erdős.
"list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1" is owned by Mravinci.
This is version 9 of list of mathematicians with Erdős number 1, born on 2006-09-18, modified 2006-09-24.
planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ListOfMathematiciansWithErdHosNumber1.html   (306 words)

  
 Mathematicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A list of all of the important mathematicians working in a given century.
Davis archive of women mathematicians, A bibliography of the History of Mathematics, Distribution of birth and death days...
People who apply mathematics to other fields, but do not contribute directly to mathematics, are generally not considered mathematicians.
www.gradebook.org /Mathematicians.htm   (145 words)

  
 PlanetMath: list of Fields medalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is a list of mathematicians who've been awarded the Fields Medal, sorted by year.
"list of Fields medalists" is owned by Mravinci.
This is version 4 of list of Fields medalists, born on 2006-08-25, modified 2006-09-07.
planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ListOfFieldsMedalists.html   (266 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Mathematicians
The Institute is a forum for qualified and practising mathematicians which aims to promote mathematics and its applications in industry, commerce, education, the public sector, and research.
Includes biographies of mathematicians, a history topics index covering mathematics in various cultures, a listing of famous curves, and a chronology of the development of maths from 30000 BC onwards.
Searchable directory of mathematicians holding details of all individuals who have received a doctorate in mathematics worldwide, giving their complete name, university attended, year awarded, dissertation title, and names of advisors.
www.bubl.ac.uk /Link/m/mathematicians.htm   (474 words)

  
 The Panda's Thumb: Mathematicians and Evolution
Readers of this blog are doubtless familiar with the Discovery Institute's anemic list of scientists who “dissent from Darwinism.” The list is sadly short on biologists, forcing the DI to accept anyone with a PhD in any branch of science as a possible signatory.
Casey Luskin attempts to defend this practice by explaining why mathematicians are supremely well-placed to offer authoritative pronouncements on the merits of evolutionary theory.
In Part One I discuss the question of whether mathematicians, or non-biologists generally, have any authority to be discussing evolutionary theory.
www.pandasthumb.org /archives/2006/07/mathematicians.html   (189 words)

  
 EEVL | Mathematics Section | Browse
This resource was originally developed as part of the Starry Messenger Project by the Whipple Museum of the History of Science with the University of Cambridge for students of the history and philosophy of science.
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD) is maintained by Dr. Scott W. Williams at the University at Buffalo.
MacTutor presents a list of mathematicians who were born or died on this day.
www.eevl.ac.uk /mathematics/math-browse-page.htm?searchst=&method=&locat=&browsestart=346&leafdata=350&exact=&titles=&is_pager=2   (1288 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Mathematicians
The Institute is a forum for qualified and practising mathematicians which aims to promote mathematics and its applications in industry, commerce, education, the public sector, and research.
Includes biographies of mathematicians, a history topics index covering mathematics in various cultures, a listing of famous curves, and a chronology of the development of maths from 30000 BC onwards.
Searchable directory of mathematicians holding details of all individuals who have received a doctorate in mathematics worldwide, giving their complete name, university attended, year awarded, dissertation title, and names of advisors.
bubl.ac.uk /link/m/mathematicians.htm   (474 words)

  
 Famous Mathematicians: The National Curve Bank - A MATH Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This convention of mathematicians felt deeply honored by the citizens of Beijing.
To list only honorees since the invention of printing, or the establishment of national societies, is narrow in definition, but enormous in terms of execution.
In keeping with our mission statement, we have decided to select only mathematicians who have been sufficiently prominent to be honored by their communities.
curvebank.calstatela.edu /mathematicians/mathematicians.htm   (434 words)

  
 All About Sets
Mathematicians and computer scientists on the other hand mean one or the other, possibly both (including both).
Mathematicians term the former exclusive or (EOR or XOR) and the latter inclusive or.
He is known as a mathematician, scientist, and inventor, but his greatest contributions were in geometry, such as the relationship between the surface area and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder.
www.andrews.edu /~calkins/math/webtexts/numb01.htm   (1851 words)

  
 Birthplace Maps Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You can see a map of Europe on which one can click on a country and get a list of the mathematicians born in that country and eight larger scale maps on which one may click on individual locations and see the mathematicians born in these places.
There is a list of Other countries in which mathematicians were born.
Mathematicians whose birthplaces are very close have sometimes been included under a single place.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/BirthplaceMaps/MapIndex.html   (111 words)

  
 About "A Chronology of Mathematicians"
Where either the birth or death of a mathematician is unknown (mostly for those in the era BC) the life-span is given as 60 years for the purpose of the diagrams.
There is also a list of mathematicians alive at a particular date.
The Math Forum is a research and educational enterprise of the Drexel School of Education.
www.mathforum.com /library/view/7879.html   (90 words)

  
 Math Lesson Plans
The history of mathematicians unfolds the story of man's struggle to explain the quantitative aspects of the world in which he lives.
A list of mathematicians can be printed from web sites and each student group choses one of the famous men or women.
After researching the mathematician the student group will create a one page poster to place on the timeline in the classroom with the name of that person, the invention or theory developed, the country where he/she lived and the time in which he/she lived.
www.coe.uh.edu /archive/math/math_lessons/mathles2.html   (1067 words)

  
 Sharing your Birthday
Introduction: This is a writing assignment in which the student uses the Internet to locate a famous mathematician that shares his or her own birthday.
On your worksheet, list the Mathematicians that were born (or died) on your birth date.
Investigate the Mathematicians on your list, then choose one of them.
score.kings.k12.ca.us /lessons/brthday.htm   (495 words)

  
 POP Mathematics
Over the years, I've put together a list of well-known people who were math majors (or some equivalent in other countries and times), although not all of them completed their degrees.
This is a list of mathematical mistakes made over and over by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists, and in general many non-math people.
Notably absent from this list is an award for Mathematics.
archives.math.utk.edu /popmath.html   (2425 words)

  
 History of Mathematics Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
By the 20th century the edge of that unknown had receded to where only a few could see.
One was David Hilbert, a leading mathematician of the turn of the century.
In 1900 he addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris, and described 23 important mathematical problems.
aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/mathhist/mathhist.html   (278 words)

  
 IDA: Interactive Document on Algebra
Euclid of Alexandria (around 325-265 BC) is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity.
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was one of the most brilliant mathematicians.
He made many contributions to almost every part of mathematics and is probably published more mathematical articles than anyone else.
www.win.tue.nl /ida/demo/mathematicians.html   (286 words)

  
 Math and Mathematicians
The listing of women are categorized under areas of work or education.
Many women are listed multiple times as their careers have progressed or span various areas.
Included are areas on the ancients in Africa, modern historical significance, the greatest Black mathematicians, Black research mathematicians, profiles of Black mathematicians, outside North America, special articles such as mathematicians of the last two centuries, sources/references, scholarships and fellowships, and related links.
www.mccsc.edu /~kmcglaun/math/mathematician.htm   (370 words)

  
 The Ten Greatest Mathematicians
Although he was one of the first great mathematicians to focus on abstract mathematics (another was Euler), he also made important contributions to mathematical physics, e.g.
Poincaré was clumsy and frail and supposedly flunked an IQ test, but he was one of the most creative mathematicians ever, and surely the greatest mathematician of the ``intuitionist'' style.
I've stopped in the 19th century and left the list size at ten, but three prime candidates for expanding this list would be Cantor, Hilbert, and Gödel, who all lived after Poincaré.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~jamesdow/Tech/mathmen.htm   (2482 words)

  
 Information for Journalists
The JPBM (Joint Policy Board for Mathematics) Public Information Resource Committee provides a list of mathematicians to whom questions about their specialties can be directed.
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a searchable database of over 74,000 records, and includes the nationality, degree-granting institution, advisors and students of each mathematician.
The Combined Membership List is a directory of mathematicians who are members of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Association for Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
www.ams.org /ams/info-for-journalists.html   (263 words)

  
 List of mathematics categories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basque mathematicians -- Belarusian mathematicians -- Belgian mathematicians -- Belgian statisticians -- Bengali mathematicians -- Brazilian logicians -- Brazilian mathematicians -- British logicians -- British mathematicians -- British statisticians -- Buddhist mathematicians -- Bulgarian mathematicians --
Egyptian mathematicians -- English logicians -- English mathematicians -- English statisticians -- European mathematician stubs --
These categories are somewhat mathematics-related, and may show up in a "true" mathematics category, but they are not mathematical enough for their contents to be in either the list of mathematics articles or the list of mathematicians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_mathematics_categories   (1062 words)

  
 History of Mathematics: Chronology of Mathematicians
Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China, and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere, Europe, Greece, India, and Japan.
*MT: Mathematicians noted *MT have biographies in the Mathematical MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematical and Compuational Sciences of the University of St Andrews.
*W: Mathematicians noted *W have biographies compiled by Richard S. Westfall, Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, and appear in theCatalogue of the Scientific Community, a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries.
babbage.clarku.edu /~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html   (693 words)

  
 Math Renaissance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Research a famous mathematician from the Renaissance Period.
Write a song or poem about the mathematician and his/her discoveries using the TEN facts.
Also, include your list of mathematicians with their fact plus source cards.
www.screst.weber.k12.ut.us /Math_Renaissance.html   (245 words)

  
 SciNet Science & Technology Search, News, Articles
Mathematicians are ones who have studied pi, have used pi in their work or were chosen by students for personal reasons.
The data submitted by the Estonian Mathematical Society to the World Directory of Mathematicians.
Information on the whereabouts of Mathematicians currently working in Hong Kong, with research subject index.
www.scinet.cc /dir/Science/Mathematics/Mathematicians   (124 words)

  
 A Time Line of Mathematicians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Although they will arrive quite quickly (each picture is between 10K and 35K), the pictures occupy rather a large area so you will have to use your browser to scroll both vertically and horizontally.
Note: Where either the birth or death of a mathematician is unknown (mostly for those in the era BC) the life-span is given as 60 years for the purpose of these diagrams.
You may wish to see a list of mathematicians alive at a particular date.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Timelines   (112 words)

  
 Live Numerology Chat And Readings
The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras (569BC - 475BC), considered one of the greatest mathematicians, is also considered the father of Numerology.
All numerology readers listed here provide readings online by chat, audio or video...
You can have a FREE 3 minutes to meet any of the readers before asking for a numerology reading.
www.psychicsdirectory.com /numerology-chat.html   (245 words)

  
 Thirteen Ed Online - Tracing Math's Evolution
Introduce the topic by telling students that they are going to find out about the background of some of the concepts and theories they study in math class.
To generate interest, you could brainstorm ideas about what mathematicians do in their working lives, and list the kinds of jobs and fields in which they might work.
When students have discovered the identity of their mathematicians, they should work in groups to devise a presentation about them.
www.thirteen.org /edonline/lessons/mathevolution/b.html   (762 words)

  
 MMJ: Vol.2 (2002), N.2. Yuri Ivanovich Manin
The complete list of mathematicians regarding him as their teacher can hardly be cited.
The example he set for those around him was not that of a monomaniac mathematician, but of a deep scholar with wide interests, for whom penetration into the mystery of knowledge is much more important than professional success.
When the famous Russian writers, the Strugatski brothers, portrayed a mathematician as a hero of one of their novels, the portrait — recognizably — was that of Yu.
www.ams.org /distribution/mmj/vol2-2-2002/dedication.html   (468 words)

  
 WebQuest
mathematician and who is going to be the questioner.
how the mathematician's concepts are used today, if the student has ever used the concept, and how the concepts impact the world.
Throughout the process of creating your television segment for the History Channel, you managed to find 8 notable mathematicians and describe how they assisted in shaping geometry, created a visual summarizing your information in the form of a timeline, familiarized yourself with a particular mathematician, and finally presented your television segment to a live audience.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~ep239499/website/studentpage.htm   (765 words)

  
 New Page 1
Today students, you will take a journey back in time as part of a research team to research famous mathematicians and what each mathematician contributed to the mathematical world.
I hope you will be grateful for these mathematicians and many more for there hard work and dedication to mathematical studies.
If it was not for these mathematicians you would not have text books or others items to help you understand mathematical problems.
www.georgiasouthern.edu /~ccalhou5   (298 words)

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