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For questions about those who did mathematics
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Are Arthur C. Clarke and Arthur A. Clarke the same?
MathSciNet has
Arthur Albert Clarke, Ph.D. 1964 at Yeshiva University
I think that rules out the Sci Fi writer Arthur Charles Clarke
Arthur A. Clarke's translation of Disquisitiones arithmeticae …
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Who were some mathematicians who have had a musical background?
Per Enflo (see Wikipedia for a longer summary)
concert pianist, mathematician (solutions for the basis problem, the approximation problem, the invariant subspace problem in Banach space theory )
At a …
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What are some famous mathematicians that disappeared?
Ted Kazynski
Ph.D. Univ. Michigan, 1967
specialty: complex analysis
Prize-winning dissertation, his advisor Alan Shields called it the best thesis he had ever directed.
1968, appointed Assistant Profe …
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Source of Laurent Schwartz's quote about lobster and math
Here it is in the original language
« pourquoi faire des mathématiques ? ». La première médaille Fields française affirmait alors : « Parce que les mathématiques, ça sert à faire de la physique. L …
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Mathematical results that became known long after their authors passed away
Bolzano.
Here is a copy of an answer of mine from MathOverflow:
Bernhard Bolzano .... ( interesting reading ) Much of his work was unpublished until much later (for reasons see the link), thus remain …
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Who coined the term random variable?
The interesting material from mathwords
Random variable is found in 1914 in Biometrika: “nDx and nDy are now random variables independent of time.” [OED]
Variabile casuale is found in 1916 in F. P. C …
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (1894-1919).
Known for "Suslin sets" and the "Suslin hypothesis".
He died of typhus following the Russian Revolution. He was 25.
LINK
I recently read a very interesting bo …
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Felix Hausdorff LINK
This is not "very young" but it is still tragic.
Hausdorff was a German Jewish mathematician. He is also known for his work in astronomy, philosohy, and even literature (under …
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Are there any anonymous contributions to mathematics that had a great impact?
LINK
The t-statistic was introduced in 1908 by William Sealy Gosset, a chemist working for the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland... The t-test work was submitted to and accepted in the journal B …
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Who is John B. Walsh?
Yes, that is the one.
More information HERE
(If your library subscribes to MathSciNet, and you go to that page from your library, then you will be able to get links to Walsh's 70 or so publications, r …
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Where did John Wallis get the idea for $\infty$?
from "Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols"
Infinity. The $\infty$ symbol was introduced by John Wallis (1616-1703) in 1655 in his De sectionibus conicis (On Conic Sections) as follows:
Su …
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History of the word "scales" in graphing
Scale
3. a graduated range of values forming a standard system for measuring or grading something
From Latin scala, ladder
For example, in Chaucer, 1391:
Next the forseide cercle of the …
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What is the international standing of Italian mathematics?
The very top of the mathematics profession is shown by the Fields Medal.
The Italian mathematician Enrico Bombieri received the Fields Medal in 1974. So there is an Italian in that august list. ( …
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From which university did Riemann acquired Ph.D?
Math genealogy says Bernhard Riemann received the
Dr. phil. degree in 1851 from
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen.
His advisor was C. F. Gauß .
Dissertation title: "Grundlagen für eine allgemeine Th …
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Did John von Neumann solve any unsolved problem in mathematics?
One guess: There was a question from physics on how to formulate quantum mechanics. Von Neumann proposed doing it using operators on Hilbert space. (1927-1929)
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