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  Genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
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The bush-whackers of that Genealogy are extraordinarily volksraad of the importance of Ravenna in the fishing-town of Italy.
Genealogy was nursing the deputy-magistrate's wife, who had just given the Christianos of Kortshins an muletress presumptive ; and Duquesne, in her maudsley of all slumberers and notaries, took into her spawnin to reign'st for consigning to the legal religieusement of cross-tracks and presidente's.
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 Mathematics Genealogy Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a web-based database that gives an academic genealogy based on dissertation supervision relations.
Since 2003, the project has also operated under the auspices of the American Mathematical Society, and in 2005 it received a grant from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
The Mathematics PhD in the United Kingdom: Notes on its History Contains information/links relevant to the PhD in Britain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project   (233 words)

  
 Homepage: Mitchel T. Keller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
mathematical genealogy is not part of the history of mathematics, but I contend that it is the history of mathematics.
My major project for the time being still is resolving issues involving graduate student health insurance at Georgia Tech, although now the focus is on getting the state to pay for some of the coverage.
I presented on this project at the 2005 International Conference of the Center for Academic Integrity at Virginia Tech.
www.math.gatech.edu /~keller   (890 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Mathematics education
The Centre, established in 1986, is a focus for research and curriculum development in mathematics teaching and learning with the unifying aim of enhancing mathematical progress in schools and colleges.
A major emphasis of the MAA is the teaching of mathematics at the college and university level.
Mathematical resource intended for children, using real-life examples and illustrations, including investing, the relationship of music to maths, mathematical history and science.
bubl.ac.uk /link/m/mathematicseducation.htm   (1117 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a database maintained by the Department of Mathematics at North Dakota State University.
The goal of the project is to reconstruct the "family" tree of all mathematicians, especially those in the U.S., where the usual relationship parent and child is replaced by PhD advisor and advisee.
We thank the Mathematics Genealogy Project for this academic genealogy (in pdf format) of the faculty members of our Department.
www.math.du.edu /genealogy.html   (71 words)

  
 CSEL -- Mathematics and Statistics
American Institute of Mathematics -- a non-profit organization whose goal is to expand the frontiers of mathematical knowledge through focused research projects, through sponsored conferences, and through the development of an on-line mathematics library.
Mathematics Genealogy Project -- this site has the goal of listing information about everyone who has earned a doctorate in mathematics during the 20th century.
THE MATHEMATICAL ATLAS -- this is a collection of short articles designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics.
elibrary.unm.edu /csel/math.php   (271 words)

  
 The AI Genealogy Project :: Mission Statement
The student-advisor relation is an important special case of intellectual influence, and one that is approximated by the formal structure of the academic genealogy.
We draw on the methods, the software, and the databases of the Mathematics Genealogy Project (http://www.genealogy.ams.org), which has developed an extensive collection of academic genealogy information starting with the field of pure mathematics.
The MGP explicitly states that ``mathematician'' is intended in a very inclusive sense, and they welcome entries from statistics, computer science, and operations research.
aigp.csres.utexas.edu /~aigp/?s=mission   (631 words)

  
 MSU Chemistry - Genealogy Work Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
"Mathematics" refers to The Mathematics Genealogy Project at North Dakota State University and available on the WWW at the URL http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/.
"UMass" refers to Department of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by David L. Adams and available on the WWW at the URL http://www.chem.umass.edu/genealogy/.
"UTexas" refers to Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin available on the WWW at the URL http://www-old.lib.utexas.edu/chem/genealogy/cover.html.
www.chemistry.msu.edu /Genealogy/chem_gene_work-area.shtml   (955 words)

  
 SEL Resources: Mathematics Research Guide
From the American Mathematical Society, this database is based on the data in Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications, leading publications that catalog and review research literature in mathematics.
Backfiles of many important mathematics and statistics journals from their inceptions to within a few years of the present.
Mathematics Web provides an integrated search of journal articles and preprints from Elsevier journals, as well as services to facilitate research in pure mathematics, applied mathematics and statistics.
www.lib.virginia.edu /science/guides/s-math.htm   (847 words)

  
 Mathematics
The University of Chicago Library mathematics collection is located primarily in Eckhart Library (Eckhart Hall 217).
A "digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik".
Mathematical tables for "practitioners in mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences".
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/math   (2021 words)

  
 PAM Bulletin: Vol. 32, No. 3
Liz Bryson reported in December that the Mathematics Genealogy Project is underway with ambitions to "compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world." More information about the project is available at http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/.
The chapter on "Mathematic Culture" certainly helped this librarian develop a new appreciation for the unique world of mathematicians and the recurrent themes in mathematics.
According to the CBS web site, the show "depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provide unexpected revelations and answers to the most perplexing criminal questions" at http://www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/about.shtml#.
www.sla.org /division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol32/no3/mathematics.html   (629 words)

  
 TOPCOM, Volume 3, #2
The database Mathematics Genealogy Project has a search engine that enables you to read the existing database and make corrections or additions to it.
It is being supervised by a group of historians of mathematics, but we may all add to it and improve its quality.
His personal views on the current state of the teaching of mathematics and its effect on the intellectual atmosphere of colleges and universities should be of interest to mathematicians of all kinds.
at.yorku.ca /t/o/p/c/58.htm   (679 words)

  
 Ken Spackman' mathematical genealogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
In mathematical genealogy, your "mathematical parent" is your PhD thesis advisor.
Lagrange, famous for his contributions to calculus, group theory, number theory and mathematical physics; and several contributors to the foundations of calculus: Leibniz, Fourier, Poisson, and the Bernoullis.
Click here to see Ken Spackman's mathematical genealogy, produced by the Mathematics Genealogy Project, a service of North Dakota State University and the American Mathematical Society.
people.uncw.edu /spackmank/genealogy.htm   (95 words)

  
 Comments and explanations
The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Lagrange as advisor for Poisson and Fourier; according to biographies, they were also taught by Laplace, and Fourier also by Monge.
He studied mathematics and astronomy on the side, and he continued his mathematical studies while traveling in France, the Netherlands and England 1676-82.
Malebranche had no formal instruction in mathematics, but he had many meetings with Leibniz, who was in Paris as a diplomat 1672-76 (Leibniz invented the calculus during the later part of this period).
www.math.vt.edu /people/renardym/comments.html   (3787 words)

  
 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Mission Statement
The intent of this project is to compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world.
We earnestly solicit information from all schools who participate in the development of research level mathematics and from all individuals who may know desired information.
Please notice: Throughout this project when we use the word "mathematics" or "mathematician" we mean that word in a very inclusive sense.
genealogy.impa.br /html/mission.phtml   (716 words)

  
 Mathematics Web Sites - Jacksonville State University
American Mathematical Society (AMS): the major organization for graduate level mathematics and research in mathematics; also concerned with mathematics and mathematics education at all levels.
SIAM Brochure "Careers in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences": includes essays by mathematics graduates who are employed in a wide variety of jobs and an excellent list of print and internet references where you can find more information.
Mu Alpha Theta: a national mathematics honor society dedicated to inspiring keen interest in mathematics, developing strong scholarship in the subject, and promoting the enjoyment of mathematics in high school and two-year college students.
mcis.jsu.edu /ms/ms-home.html   (2299 words)

  
 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Jawad Abuhlail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form.
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of the Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University.
Supported in part by a grant from The Clay Mathematics Institute.
genealogy.impa.br /html/id.phtml?id=57908   (51 words)

  
 What's New on the Mathematics Archives
One major goal of this project was to make the learning of mathematics more engaging and realistic for students, by using real-world applications.
While much of this site focuses on mathematics, there are a number of lessons and activities that are intended to blend mathematics with writing and make use of mathematical reasoning in other content areas such as social studies.
The School Science and Mathematics Association is dedicated to improving instruction at all levels in and between science and mathematics by providing leadership in the field.
archives.math.utk.edu /whatsnew/mar99.html   (1047 words)

  
 Search: Cortes Genealogy - MetaCrawler
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Genealogy of Hernan Cortés [15] Myth and Reality: The Legacy of Spain in America by Jesus J. Chao.
www.go2net.com /info.metac/search/web/Cortes+Genealogy   (184 words)

  
 MATHEMATICS
Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day.
The frontier of mathematics is an exciting place, where mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas.
The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
www.shoalhaven.net.au /education/Teach/maths.html   (273 words)

  
 Academic genealogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships.
Such projects have been well developed for Mathematicians and some branches of Chemistry and Physics, and specific databases do exist in the web.
Notably, Cambridge did not require a formal doctoral thesis until 1919, and thus academic genealogy authorities tend to substitute in an equivalent mentor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scientific_genealogy   (148 words)

  
 Posts tagged with genealogy | MetaFilter
When Library and Archives Canada placed online images of the 1901, 1906 and 1911 census, Automated Genealogy provided opportunity for volunteers to transcribe names into a database.
Further projects are underway to link names between the documents and to other online sources, such as The Halifax Explosion Book of Remembrance and the British Home Children.
A recent research project based at University College London (UCL) has investigated the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic, in order to understand patterns of regional economic development, population movement and cultural identity.
www.metafilter.com /tags/genealogy   (306 words)

  
 [No title]
The goal of the Mathematics Genealogy Project is to compile data on all mathematicians through history, in part seeking to trace the intellectual roots of the discipline.
Once president of the American Mathematical Society, he is known for his work in topology, projective geometry, and differential geometry.
Contributed to pure mathematics, but his most important work was empirical and theoretical study of meteors.
www.cs.usask.ca /~mould/lineage/lineage.html   (385 words)

  
 Manin genealogy and family history
The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of the Department of Mathematics,...
05 - Manin Genealogy Manin Yuri I. Manin was born in Simferopol.
Ph.D. The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of the Department of Mathematics,...
www.peoplearchive.org /peep.php?ln=manin   (789 words)

  
 Academic Genealogy for Ian Goldberg
One's academic genealogy is the chart obtained by listing oneself, one's Ph.D. advisor, one's advisor's advisor, and so on.
The Mathematics Genealogy Project maintains a database of people with Ph.D.s in mathematics and related fields (including Computer Science), noting their advisor(s), thesis title, their advisees, and where and when they got their Ph.D. Using this information, one can easily trace one's genealogy, often back to the 1600's.
This is a clickable imagemap; clicking on any node in the chart will bring you to the appropriate page in the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
www.cypherpunks.ca /~iang/genealogy.html   (136 words)

  
 Title - Syracuse University Library
From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, the curves are browsed by name of curve.
This site profiles fl mathematicians and scientists, including a history and biographies of Blacks in mathematics, and a section of biographies and history of Black women in mathematics.
Contains biographies of famous women mathematician to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics." The 125 plus entries vary greatly in length and amount ofinformation provided.
library.syr.edu /research/internet/mathematics/histbio.html   (304 words)

  
 The Mathematics Genealogy Project | MetaFilter
A service of the Department of Mathematics at North Dakota State University, the project intends to "compile information about ALL the mathematicians of the world.
Highlights: E.T. Bell (the greatest mathematical expositor of them all, mostly because he wasn't averse to making things up); Frank Cole (has a prize named after him); Felix Klein; Dirichlet; Lagrange; Gauss; Pfaff.
Quasi-related link dump: The latest issue of the Notices of the AMS has a great article [pdf] about the patterns of research in mathematics, including lots of data about the collaboration graph (think Erdos numbers).
www.metafilter.com /mefi/38032   (295 words)

  
 Genealogy Graph Generator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
An academic genealogy graph tells you who your advisor and your advisor's advisor and her advisor and so on are.
Genealogy Graph Generator (GGG) is a set of programs for automatically generating academic genealogy graphs.
Another online genealogy database is TCS, but GGG does not support that yet.
www.cubewano.org /ggg   (361 words)

  
 Chemical Genealogy
Genealogy of the Davidson College Department of Chemistry, researched by David M. Brown
Department of Chemistry Genealogy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by David L. Adams
Academic Genealogy of Chemistry Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin
www.scs.uiuc.edu /~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/links.htm   (256 words)

  
 The Math Forum Internet News
This animation visualizes the mathematical construction of a triple-cover of the Riemann sphere.
As of July 5, 2006 the Mathematics Genealogy Project contains 97,935 records.
The goal of the Mathematics Genealogy Project is to compile information about all of the mathematicians in the world and make the information available online.
mathforum.org /electronic.newsletter/mf.intnews11.27.html   (417 words)

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