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{{short description|Hungarian-American mathematician}} ...'' (born 23 May 1942, in [[Budapest]]) is a [[Hungarian American|Hungarian-American]] [[mathematician]], working in [[probability theory]] and [[discrete mathe ...

{{short description|Soviet American mathematician}} ...{langx|ru|Пан Виктор Яковлевич}}) is a [[USSR|Soviet]] and [[United States|American]] [[mathematician]] and [[computer scientist]], known for his research on [ ...

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...tional]] to its number of digits ([[logarithm]]). At the start of the 19th century, [[Adrien-Marie Legendre]] and [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] suggested that as < ...st2=S.|last3=Knapowski|first3=S.|title=Non-Euclidean Geometry.|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=69|issue=9|year=1962|pages=937|issn=0002-9890|d ...

...[[Andrzej Trautman]] started a series of lectures aimed at physicists and mathematicians at [[King's College London]] regarding these connections.<ref name=":1" /> ...ther mathematicians, sparking a close collaboration between physicists and mathematicians.<ref name=":0" /> ...

...1183514923 Self-dual configurations and regular graphs], [[Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society]] 56: 413–55, especially 447, via [[Project Euclid]]</ ...ast2=Liddle|first2=Peter|title=Peace and War: The British in Russia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries : Exhibition Catalogue|url=https://books.google.co ...

{{short description|Danish-American mathematician}} ...by [[Gheorghe Țițeica|Țițeica]]'s hat) at the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]], [[Zürich]] 1932]] ...

...l development of mathematical methods from the beginning of the nineteenth century. ...on Dyck]] (1908) "E m W", ''Proceedings of the [[International Congress of Mathematicians]]'', v 1, pp 123&ndash;134</ref> ...

...years after Blissard's death, the church of Hampstead Norris, an eleventh-century Norman structure dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, underwent a substantial ...cian)|John Riordan]], but its foundations were regarded as suspect by many mathematicians. Starting in the 1970s, [[Gian-Carlo Rota]] and coauthors undertook a syste ...

...[[recreational mathematics]] literature in the late 19th century. Several mathematicians have formulated different generalizations of the puzzle to numbers other th ...d|wensmi}} A version with 17 horses circulated as [[folklore]] in mid-20th-century America.{{r|browne}} ...

...tudy in [[Europe]] dates to the work of [[Leonardo Fibonacci]] in the 13th century AD, which introduced [[Arab world|Arabian]] and [[India|Indian]] ideas to t ...es comes from problem 79 of the [[Rhind papyrus]], which dates to the 16th century BC. The problem concerns a certain [[geometric series]], and has similarit ...

...he double bubble theorem was formulated and thought to be true in the 19th century, and became a "serious focus of research" by 1989,{{r|lawlor}} but was not ...ven rigorously until the 19th century, by [[Hermann Schwarz]]. In the 19th century, [[Joseph Plateau]] studied the double bubble, and the truth of the double ...

...dely used in Europe from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The common [[London dial|horizontal sundial]] is a geometric [[Graphical p ...own to the Moorish astronomer [[Abdul Hassan Ali]] in the early thirteenth century<ref>{{cite web ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, [[Russia]] produced many notable [[List of Russian scie At the start of the 18th century the [[Reforms of Peter I of Russia|reforms of Peter the Great]] (founder of ...

{{Use American English|date = March 2019}} ...le system|integrable systems]], etc.), and [[number theory]]. Some of the mathematicians who have worked on orthogonal polynomials include [[Gábor Szegő]], [[Sergei ...

...thor-link1=Michael Atiyah |year=1990 |conference=International Congress of Mathematicians |pages=31–35 |location=Japan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.arch ...the topics treated by [[Aristotle]] is about how the study carried out by mathematicians differs from that carried out by physicists.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lear|fir ...

The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...

...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...