Famous Imperial Mathematician Praised at Wolf Prize Ceremony | Imperial News
Imperial's Professor Sir Simon Donaldson has been awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, one of the most prestigious academic honours.!-->…
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June 2021
Hyderabad mathematician claims to solve Riemann hypothesis, millennial problem
Hyderabad: The Riemann hypothesis, a million dollar problem, would be solved by a 74-year-old Hyderabad-based physicist and mathematician, Dr Kumar Eswaran, who works as a professor at the Sreenidhi Institute of Science!-->…
Jailed mathematician marries co-accused in Moscow detention center
MOSCOW - A postgraduate math student jailed at Moscow State University and his former co-accused, who have been convicted of charges which rights groups have described as politically motivated, have married in a detention center.The…
Memoirs of Katherine Johnson: Her Amazing Life as a NASA Mathematician
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Katherine Johnson was honored by US President Barack Obama in 2015Kris Connor / WireImage / Getty Images
My remarkable…
Ancient Greek mathematician, philosopher created the Pythagorean comma
Pythagoras. Credit: public domain
The Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras, who lived 2,500 years ago, also applied his genius to music throughout his distinguished career, creating the Pythagorean comma as part of music theory,…
“Follow your passion” · Global Voices
Photo courtesy of Dr Alicia Dickenstein, used with permission.
Women in science and their contributions have always existed even when history has hidden them. Physics, chemist, biologists, medicine and mathematics - among other disciplines…
Catherine Johnson | NASA Space Race Mathematician
Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician whose calculations helped the United States put an astronaut into orbit for the first time. It also played a crucial role in the calculations for the first moon landing.American astronaut John…
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s name replaces Confederate solid – BOTWC
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The name of Katherine Johnson, iconic NASA mathematician, replaced that of a Confederate soldier at a college in Virginia, ABC News reports. The City of…
DiBenedetto, mathematician who advanced knowledge of differential equations, has died | New
Emmanuele DiBenedetto (photo submitted)
Emmanuele DiBenedetto, a retired math professor who made important contributions to understanding partial differential equations, died on May…