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Ray Solomonoff (July 25, 1926 – December 7, 2009) [1] [2] was an American mathematician who invented algorithmic probability, [3] his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), [4] and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. [5]
This is a timeline of pure and applied mathematics history.It is divided here into three stages, corresponding to stages in the development of mathematical notation: a "rhetorical" stage in which calculations are described purely by words, a "syncopated" stage in which quantities and common algebraic operations are beginning to be represented by symbolic abbreviations, and finally a "symbolic ...
Harry Grindell Matthews Matthews in 1924 Born (1880-03-17) 17 March 1880 Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England Died 11 September 1941 (1941-09-11) (aged 61) Tor Clawdd, Rhydypandy (Swansea), Wales Education Merchant Venturer's School Occupation Inventor Spouse Ganna Walska (m. 1938–1941; his death) Harry Grindell Matthews (17 March 1880 – 11 September 1941) was an English inventor who ...
It is the fact that many mathematical theories (even the "purest") have applications outside their initial object. These applications may be completely outside their initial area of mathematics, and may concern physical phenomena that were completely unknown when the mathematical theory was introduced. [ 126 ]
At roughly the same time, the Han Chinese and the Romans both invented the wheeled odometer device for measuring distances traveled, the Roman model first described by the Roman civil engineer and architect Vitruvius (c. 80 BC – c. 15 BC). [102] The device was used at least until the reign of emperor Commodus (r.
A ray with a terminus at A, with two points B and C on the right. Given a line and any point A on it, we may consider A as decomposing this line into two parts. Each such part is called a ray and the point A is called its initial point. It is also known as half-line, a one-dimensional half-space. The point A is considered to be a member of the ray.
1934 - Martin Julian Buerger developed the equi-inclination Weissenberg X-ray camera. Buerger invented the precession camera in 1942. [102] 1934 - C. Arnold Beevers and Henry Lipson invented the Beevers–Lipson strip as a calculation aid for Fourier methods for the determination of the crystal structure of CuSO 4.5H 2 O. [103] [104]
Photograph of Paley's grave in The Old Banff Cemetery. The main gate is visible on the left. Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley (7 January 1907 – 7 April 1933) was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis before dying young in a skiing accident.