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Plato (428/427 BC – 348/347 BC) is important in the history of mathematics for inspiring and guiding others. [52] His Platonic Academy, in Athens, became the mathematical center of the world in the 4th century BC, and it was from this school that the leading mathematicians of the day, such as Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 390 - c. 340 BC), came. [53]
Leone Minna Burton (née Gold; 14 September 1936 – 1 December 2007) was a professor of education in mathematics and science, working in London teacher education colleges in the 1970s, the Open University in the 1980s and, from 1992, the University of Birmingham. At the South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University), she helped ...
Burton Wendroff (born March 10, 1930) is an American applied mathematician known for his contributions to the development of numerical methods for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations.
Burton Wadsworth Jones (1 October 1902 – 8 December 1983) was an American mathematician, known for his work on quadratic forms. B. W. Jones was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota . He received his BA in 1923 from Grinell College , his MA in 1924 from Harvard University , and his PhD in mathematics in 1928 from the University of Chicago under L ...
James Burton Ax (10 January 1937 – 11 June 2006) [1] was an American mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions in algebra and number theory using model theory. He shared, with Simon B. Kochen , the seventh Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory , which was awarded for a series of three joint papers [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] on Diophantine ...
Burton Spencer Dreben (September 27, 1927 – July 11, 1999) was an American philosopher specializing in mathematical logic. [1] A Harvard graduate who taught at his alma mater for most of his career (where he retired as Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus), he published little but was a teacher and a critic of the work of his colleagues (Floyd & Shieh 2001).
Stephen Cole Kleene (/ ˈ k l eɪ n i / KLAY-nee; [a] January 5, 1909 – January 25, 1994) was an American mathematician.One of the students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Rózsa Péter, Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory, which subsequently helped to provide the foundations of theoretical computer ...
Burton Howard Camp (September 30, 1880 – March 1, 1980) [1] was an American mathematician and mathematical statistician. For most of his career he was a professor of Mathematics at Wesleyan University .