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At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas
Films where one or more of the members of the main cast is a mathematician: 21 Grams (2003) – An accident changes many lives, including that of a critically ill mathematics professor . Antonia's Line (1995) – A genealogical "line" of five generations of women includes a child prodigy, Thérèse, who grows up to be a mathematician.
Kastel was also known for doing movie posters such as Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975), The Great Train Robbery (1978), and his well-regarded movie poster for The Empire Strikes Back (1980). In addition, he illustrated several best-selling books, including several by Jackie Collins , and Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), and ...
1929: Dudley Weldon Woodard is the first African-American mathematician known to publish in a mathematics journal, [7] with the article "On two-dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan curve-theorem" in Fundamenta Mathematicae. [8]
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.
That year, with the help of the mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler, whom she had known as a fellow student of Weierstrass, Kovalevskaya was able to secure a position as a privat-docent at Stockholm University in Sweden. [10] Kovalevskaya met Mittag-Leffler's sister, the actress, novelist, and playwright Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler. Until ...
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On 8 August 1900 David Hilbert gave a historic talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. Hilbert posed twenty-three then unsolved problems in mathematics which he believed were of the most immediate importance. Hilbert succeeded in setting the agenda for 20thC mathematics and the programme commenced with Hilbert's first ...