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Popular mathematics is mathematical presentation aimed at a general audience. Sometimes this is in the form of books which require no mathematical background and in other cases it is in the form of expository articles written by professional mathematicians to reach out to others working in different areas.
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive – Extensive list of detailed biographies; The Oberwolfach Photo Collection – Photographs of mathematicians from all over the world; Photos of mathematicians – Collection of photos of mathematicians (and computer scientists) made by Andrej Bauer. Famous Mathematicians
It was first published in 1908, and went through many editions. It was intended to help reform mathematics teaching in the UK, and more specifically in the University of Cambridge, and in schools preparing pupils to study mathematics at Cambridge. As such, it was aimed directly at "scholarship level" students – the top 10% to 20% by ability.
Today’s mathematicians would probably agree that the Riemann Hypothesis is the most significant open problem in all of math. It’s one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems , with $1 million ...
The following IMO participants have either received a Fields Medal, an Abel Prize, a Wolf Prize or a Clay Research Award, awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize, an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society's awards (a Blumenthal Award in ...
Group (mathematics) Halting problem. insolubility of the halting problem; Harmonic series (mathematics) divergence of the (standard) harmonic series; Highly composite number; Area of hyperbolic sector, basis of hyperbolic angle; Infinite series. convergence of the geometric series with first term 1 and ratio 1/2; Integer partition; Irrational ...
This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory.. David Aldous (born 1952); Siva Athreya (born 1971); Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem
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