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For the 2013–2014 year, Maynard was a CRM-ISM postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal. [7]In November 2013, Maynard gave a different proof of Yitang Zhang's theorem [8] that there are bounded gaps between primes, and resolved a longstanding conjecture by showing that for any there are infinitely many intervals of bounded length containing prime numbers. [9]
An intensive investigation and analysis of means for improving the mathematics programs in the colleges and universities of the United States with predominantly negro student bodies [180] 1966 (M) Eugene William Madison University of Illinois: Computable algebraic structures and non-standard arithmetic [181] 1967 (M) Matthew William Crawford
Peter David Lax (born Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Edward Bruce Burger (born December 10, 1964) [1] [2] is an American mathematician and President Emeritus of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. [3] [4] Previously, he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, and the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching at Baylor University.
Work on the SSMCIS program began in 1965 [3] and took place mainly at Teachers College. [9] Fehr was the director of the project from 1965 to 1973. [1] The principal consultants in the initial stages and subsequent yearly planning sessions were Marshall H. Stone of the University of Chicago, Albert W. Tucker of Princeton University, Edgar Lorch of Columbia University, and Meyer Jordan of ...
Matthew Laurence Jones (born 1972) is a professor of the history of science and technology. He is an academic on history as well as data science and cybersecurity . From 2000 to 2023, Jones was employed as a professor by Columbia University ; he joined Princeton as Smith Family Professor of History in 2023.
This list of Jewish mathematicians includes mathematicians and statisticians who are or were verifiably Jewish or of Jewish descent. In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power in Germany, one-third of all mathematics professors in the country were Jewish, while Jews constituted less than one percent of the population. [1]
Rosen, Michael (1997), "Remarks on the history of Fermat's last theorem 1844 to 1984", in Cornell, Gary; Silverman, Joseph H.; Stevens, Glenn (eds.), Modular forms and Fermat's last theorem: Papers from the Instructional Conference on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry held at Boston University, Boston, MA, August 9–18, 1995, New York: Springer, pp. 505– 525, MR 1638493