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Born around 1510, Robert Recorde was the second and last son of Thomas and Rose Recorde [3] of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in Wales. [4]Recorde entered the University of Oxford about 1525, and was elected a Fellow of All Souls College there in 1531.
Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 – July 1, 1965) was a Galveston-born American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell in 1925).
Girls who fell in love with Math (2017) – Career profiles of mathematicians Sun-Yung Alice Chang and Fan Chung. [2] [3] Hidden Figures (2016) – African-American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are featured in this film about the early years of the NASA Project Mercury and racial and sexual segregation.
In public life, Quadling was known for lamenting the state of mathematics education, advocating the need for university courses which were more practical and scientific, in contrast to, say, the exacting Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge. [9] It was at school level, however, that he had greatest influence, through the SMP. [10]
Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (November 27, 1923 – May 1, 2011) [1] was an American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician.A child prodigy, he attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13, becoming its youngest ever student.
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (German: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈbɛʁnhaʁt ˈʁiːman] ⓘ; [1] [2] 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made profound contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
On September 26, 1925, he received his Ph.D. He was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics, and most likely the first black man in the world to do so. He did not publish a paper until 1934. [citation needed] While Cox was active at Cornell, the Ku Klux Klan was active in the area. [1]
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская; born Korvin-Krukovskaya; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.