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{{short description|South African and Canadian mathematician}} ...' ('''Kieka''') '''Mynhardt''' (née Steyn; born 1953){{r|born}} is a South African born Canadian mathematician known for her work on [[dominating set]]s in [[ ...

...tee of Liberation]] and was an outspoken critic against the [[apartheid in South Africa]]. ...y]], St John's College, in England, [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in South Africa, and [[McMaster University]] in Canada.<ref name="mathgenealogy"/> ...

....edu/mad/PEEPS/goins_edrayh.html Edray Herber Goins] Mathematicians of the African Diaspora at the State University of New York at Buffalo</ref><ref name=brow ...1>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-mathematicians.html |title=For a Black Mathematician, What It's Like to Be the 'Only One' ...

...abstractness, purity, simplicity, depth or orderliness of [[mathematics]]. Mathematicians may express this pleasure by describing mathematics (or, at least, some asp Mathematicians commonly describe an especially pleasing method of [[Mathematical proof|pro ...

{{main|List of Russian mathematicians}} ...mathematics, physics and computing sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=Russian Mathematicians in the 20th Century|publisher=Princeton University |url=http://www.worldsci ...

* ca. [[Middle Paleolithic|70,000 BC]]&nbsp;– South Africa, ochre rocks adorned with scratched [[Geometry|geometric]] patterns ...us.html#berlin.|title=Egyptian Mathematical Papyri - Mathematicians of the African Diaspora|publisher=|accessdate=March 15, 2015}}</ref> ...

...culation was used in calendrical mathematics by [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907) mathematicians such as [[Li Chunfeng]] (602–670) and [[Yi Xing]] (683–727) in order to det ...hen Kuo wrote that the needle always pointed slightly east rather than due south, an angle he measured which is now known as [[magnetic declination]], and w ...

...g continued to travel widely, including trips to Chile, [[Easter Island]], South Africa, Spain (to receive the [[Fonseca Prize]] in 2008),{{sfn|Ferguson|201 ...pics|2018 Paralympic Winter Games]] in [[Pyeongchang County|Pyeongchang]], South Korea.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/paralympics/n ...

...yrus.<ref name=Moore94>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Deborah Lela|title=The African roots of mathematics|year=1994|publisher=Professional Educational Services| ...ropolis of the [[Old Kingdom of Egypt|Old Kingdom]] period, located in the south-western suburbs of [[Cairo]]. On some of the reliefs of the Pyramid of Sahu ...