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Mathematician

1 Which of the following titles did Mathematician have?

2 Similarly, a mathematician does not restrict his study of numbers to the integers; rather he considers more abstract structures such as rings, and in particular number rings in the context of ________.

3 Mathematicians are concerned with particular problems related to ________, space, transformations, numbers and more general ideas which encompass these concepts.

4 Likewise, analysis, geometry and topology, although considered pure mathematics, do find applications in theoretical physics - ________, for instance.

5 Instead, the most prestigious award in mathematics is the ________, sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics".

6 These fields comprise both pure mathematics and ________, as well as establish links between the two.

7 Reprint edition, ________, 1992; ISBN 0-521-42706-1

8 Memoir, with foreword by ________.

9 Thus one can understand equations by a pure understanding of abstract topology or geometry - this idea is of importance in ________.

10 Some scientists who research other fields are also considered mathematicians if their research provides insights into mathematics—one notable example is ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I?
  • in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
  • refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym?
  • as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
  • an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity?
  • American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
  • although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture?
  • the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square, a cryptographic technique?
  • the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym?
  • the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage?
  • the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician?
  • the Barnsley fern (pictured) was first described by and named after a mathematician, and despite its name, it is not a real fern?
  • the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
  • the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
  • the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
  • Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves?
  • quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi?
  • Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
  • Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathĂ©matique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathĂ©matique et physique?
  • mathematician Paul ErdĹ‘s called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
  • German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
  • English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
  • Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?
  • Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
  • mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
  • mathematician Herbert Busemann was awarded 2,000 Russian rubles for winning the Lobachevsky Medal in 1985, the first American to do so?
  • Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence?
  • Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician?
  • Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
  • Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
  • mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
  • New York City-born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
  • "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?
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