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Gödel was one of four mathematicians examined in David Malone's 2008 BBC documentary Dangerous Knowledge. [ 57 ] The Kurt Gödel Society , founded in 1987, is an international organization for the promotion of research in logic, philosophy, and the history of mathematics .
This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).
William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1] [2] Paul Cohen (1934–2007) Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history; Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
Grothendieck is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. [11] In an obituary David Mumford and John Tate wrote: Although mathematics became more and more abstract and general throughout the 20th century, it was Alexander Grothendieck who was the greatest master of this trend.
Pages in category "Albums produced by Mathematics" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of ...
After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1941 [1] as Saunders Mac Lane's first student, he remained at Harvard as a Benjamin Peirce Instructor, and in 1944 moved with Mac Lane to Columbia University for one year to collaborate on work surrounding World War II [10] working on "miscellaneous studies in mathematics applied to warfare analysis ...
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; Gerard Ben-Arous (born 1957) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Itai Benjamini