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41. Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Banach/

    23 Apr 2024: Banach] was pleasant in dealings with his colleagues, but outside of mathematics he was not interested in anything. ... Andrzej Turowicz, also a professor of mathematics at the an Kazimierz University in Lwów, also described Banach's style of working

42. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

    11 Jul 2023: You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. ... You can see a Lunar and Planetary Institute picture of the feature by clicking on the (L) next to a name.

43. Donald Knuth (1938 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Knuth/

    19 Apr 2024: After completion of his doctorate in 1963 Knuth became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1966. ... Nowadays mathematicians communicate by e-mail and whenever they

44. Honours/Prizes Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/

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45. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Gibbs_Lectures/

    10 Mar 2024: is to make people aware of the importance and the impact of mathematics on the world in which we live.The lectures are given annually, but there have been a few ... 7. December 1929. Des Moines, IA. Irving Fisher. The applications of mathematics to the

46. Edsger Dijkstra (1930 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dijkstra/

    19 Apr 2024: it has made, for instance, the topic academically respectable. In 1962 Dijkstra was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. ... P L Frana, Oral history interview with Edsger W Dijkstra, Charles Babbage Institute,

47. Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 - 1671) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riccioli/

    19 Apr 2024: been appointed as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna in 1650 following the death of Bonaventura Cavalieri. ... C M Graney, The Telescope Against Copernicus: Star Observations by Riccioli Supporting a Geocentric Universe, Journal for

48. Graham Higman (1917 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Higman/

    12 Apr 2024: Following a suggestion by Whitehead, Higman was a co-founder the 'Invariant Society' (an Oxford undergraduate mathematical society to "promote interest in all branches of Mathematics") in 1936. ... When I was an undergraduate I was interested in several

49. Wigderson Awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Wigderson_awards/

    16 Apr 2024: Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan and Avi Wigderson, Annals of Mathematics 155 (2002), 157-187. ... Indeed, it is now considered one of the most important unsolved questions in all of mathematics.

50. Stanisław Mazur (1905 - 1981) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mazur/

    8 Apr 2024: Mazur was a close collaborator with Banach at Lwów and became a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, a group of about a dozen mathematicians working in functional analysis, real ... During the 1930s Mazur was an active member of the Polish