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Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Indexes/alphname_W/7 Mar 2023: Click on a name below to see details of that mathematician.
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Michael Aschbacher (1944 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Aschbacher/28 Jun 2024: She wasn't sure that the cancer would not reoccur. So I agreed [and] ended up at Caltech. ... I'd already said I was going to be a mathematics major because I wasn't going to be a physics or chemistry major.
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Michael Atiyah (1929 - 2019) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Atiyah/28 Feb 2024: It's true that in mathematics you don't really need an enormous memory. ... C Bartocci, Michael F Atiyah: mathematics' deep reasons, in Mathematical lives (Springer, Berlin, 2011), 197-208.
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Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Indexes/alphname_T/7 Mar 2023: Click on a name below to see details of that mathematician.
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George Birkhoff (1884 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Birkhoff/24 May 2024: 1986). R C Archibald, A semicentennial history of the American Mathematical Society 1888-1938 (New York, 1980), 212-218. ... J Hadamard, Obituary: George David Birkhoff, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 220 (1945), 719-721.
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Schenberg stellar evolution - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Schenberg_stellar_evolution/26 Jun 2024: What's more extraordinary is that others didn't think about it. Why didn't others think? ... C.) on different occasions that the supernova phenomenon may result from the inability of a star of mass greater than.
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Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jitomirskaya/28 Jun 2024: She probably thought that I didn't have enough talent to be successful - especially as a woman. ... I kind of unlearned to write, but learned to read. I learned to see things in poems that others didn't.
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Serge Lang (1927 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lang/19 May 2024: The assistant who answers says, 'He can't talk now, he is writing a book. ... over. R. mathbb{R}. R or. C. mathbb{C}. C), beyond the proof of simplicity in Chapter XIII.
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Stanisław Mazur (1905 - 1981) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mazur/8 Apr 2024: But if you intend to devote your life to scientific pursuits, why don't you first supply yourself with white paper and black ink.
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Yves Meyer (1939 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Meyer_Yves/28 Jun 2024: T Tao, The work of Yves Meyer, The Abel Prize, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2017). ... J C Lagarias, Meyer's concept of quasicrystal and quasiregular sets, Communications in Mathematical Physics 179 (1996), 365-376.