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David F. Anderson (born 5 June 1978 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA) is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [ 1 ] Education
Herbert Kenneth Kunen (August 2, 1943 – August 14, 2020 [1]) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison [2] who worked in set theory and its applications to various areas of mathematics, such as set-theoretic topology and measure theory.
Thomas W. Hawkins Jr. (born 10 January 1938 in Flushing, New York) is an American historian of mathematics. Hawkins defended his Ph.D. thesis on "The Origins and Early Development of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 under Robert Creighton Buck. Since 1972 he has been based at Boston University.
Sterling Hall historical marker. Sterling Hall is a centrally located building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The bomb, set off at 3:42 am on August 24, 1970, was intended to destroy the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) housed on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the building.
Thomas Albert Romberg (December 22, 1932 – September 3, 2023) was an American educator in mathematics who was Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction [1] (mathematics education) at the School of Education, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and former director of the National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science, [2] Wisconsin Center for ...
Isaacs is a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [1] He retired in 2011. [3] In 2009, a conference was held at the Universitat de Valencia in Spain to honor his contributions. [17] Isaacs is also a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [18] Isaacs was a Pólya lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America ...
Howard Jerome Keisler (born 3 December 1936) is an American mathematician, currently professor emeritus at University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research has included model theory and non-standard analysis. His Ph.D. advisor was Alfred Tarski at Berkeley; his dissertation is Ultraproducts and Elementary Classes (1961).
Walter Rudin (May 2, 1921 – May 20, 2010 [2]) was an Austrian-American mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [3]In addition to his contributions to complex and harmonic analysis, Rudin was known for his mathematical analysis textbooks: Principles of Mathematical Analysis, [4] Real and Complex Analysis, [5] and Functional Analysis. [6]