American mathematician

Our affiliates have discovered that a math professor in Tennessee may be donating large sums of his own earnings to fund scholarships for community college students to complete their education. Dr. Jonathan…

James Curry named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which recognizes those who have made "outstanding contributions" to the field James Curry, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Colorado at…

During the month dedicated to celebrating women and encouraging the younger generation to dream beyond societal stereotypes, Nigeria has lost one of its prime examples of what women can achieve with unwavering determination.…

American mathematician Dennis Sullivan received the 2022 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, for his contributions to the fields of topology and dynamical systems.According to a declaration of the Norwegian…

One of Abel Prize winner Dennis Parnell Sullivan's major breakthroughs is to develop a new way of understanding rational homotopy theory, a subfield of algebraic topology. One of Abel Prize winner Dennis Parnell Sullivan's major…

American mathematician Dennis Sullivan has won one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, for his contributions to topology - the study of the qualitative properties of shapes - and related fields. “Sullivan repeatedly changed the…

article TACOMA, Wash. - Monday was an exciting start to the school week for more than 500 elementary students in the Bethel School District. It was the first day of school at the brand new Katherine G. Johnson Elementary School in…

TEXARKANA, Ark. - The University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana recently announced the Dorothy McFadden Hoover "Hidden Figure" Memorial Scholarship. The endowed scholarship was created with $20,000 in donations from Ozaree Twillie, Ellen…

New Jersey By: John Chadwick Senior Writer/Media Specialist "Plato liked to say that any object that we as humans can experience on this earth is a shadow of an ideal…

Almost all of us have used a Global Positioning System (GPS) or use it regularly.Whether it is to move from one place to another, to determine one's position, to create a map or a variety of other uses, GPS has played a role in our lives in…

Mimi Dai, associate professor of mathematics at UIC. Credit: Alexey Cheskidov Mimi Dai, associate professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded the American Mathematical Society Centennial…

Stephen Angbulu, Abuja Published February 15, 2022 The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired), on Tuesday sent his condolences to the family of renowned mathematician and scientist, Professor Aderemi Kuku, on the…

Ken Ono has impressive academic credentials – head of the math department at the University of Virginia, undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, doctorate from UCLA, three books, and…

SEOUL, 15 Feb. (Yonhap) -- "Oldboy's" Choi Min-sik will return to the big screen as a genius mathematician who left North Korea in upcoming drama "In Our Prime." Directed by Park Dong-hoon, the film revolves around Hak-sung, played…

George LusztigAbdun-Nur professor of mathematics at MIT, was awarded the prestigious 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his work on geometric representation theory and algebraic groups. The Israel-based Wolf…

A second peak of covid vague awaits us. So said mathematician Lachezar Tomov on Nova TV. According to him, the percentage of vaccinated in our country is still extremely low. “If these levels continue, the entire population of Bulgaria…

Alex Kontorovich reaches audiences in the worlds of math and music The work of a research mathematician can look very different from that of a jazz musician. But a Rutgers University professor who has held both roles with…

Mathematician Hale Freeman Trotter died Jan. 17 at his home in Princeton. He was 91 years old. Born May 30, 1931 in Kingston, Ontario, Hale became fascinated with mathematics, earning degrees in his chosen field at Queen's (BA…

Constantin Carathéodory (Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή) was a Greek mathematician who made important contributions to the calculus of variations, the theory of measure of sets of points, and the theory of functions of a real variable. He was…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptE54xPyc8 Mayank Chhaya- As often happens in science, mathematicians Nikhil Srivastava, Adam Marcus, and Daniel Spielman accidentally ended up solving a particularly!-->…

Steven Strogatzmath professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, has temporarily moved to the city to serve as a math ambassador, of sorts, to the National Museum of Mathematicsknown as MoMath.A man of numbers, he looks at the city in his…

The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) in the Bay Area of ​​SF where we live, announcement Tuesday that he planned to "switch all students and staff" to KN95 respirators. If worn correctly, these respirators filter out 95% of…

An Australian man charged with the unsolved murder of an American mathematician who died after diving from a cliff in the Sydney area more than three decades ago was convicted of the murder of the American this week.…

Jeremy Paxman is back in 2021 with a batch of University Challenge Christmas episodes. Alumni from various universities across the UK have their say as the competition gets underway well this winter. Since 1962, University Challenge has…

On July 16, 1945, researchers working on the Manhattan Project were fortunate enough to see the results of their top-secret war efforts for the United States government when they were invited to witness the first-ever bomb test.…

Mathematician Nikhil Srivastava: Nikhil Srivastav, a genius Indo-American mathematician, was jointly selected for the Inaugural Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory by the AMS (American Mathematical Society). Nikhil Srivastava teaches at…

The resulting report, released in 1990, concluded what many people already knew: that the educational pipeline was broken and that improving black education required a complete overhaul of education from kindergarten to preschool. 12th…

INDICA NEWS OFFICE- On December 13, mathematician Neena Gupta made history when she was announced as the recipient of the Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians for 2021. Neena is only the fourth Indian!-->…

New Delhi: Neena Gupta, professor and mathematician at the Indian Institute of Statistics in Calcutta, received the 2021 DST-ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians in Developing Countries for her outstanding work!-->…

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The very original work of Trio solves the famous "paving problem" in operator theory Indo-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, will share a prestigious mathematics prize with…

Along with Professor Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, the other two laureates are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman Prominent Indo-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava was jointly shortlisted…

Washington, December 4 Prominent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, has been co-selected for the first Ciprian Foias…

Prominent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, has been jointly shortlisted for the first Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory by the American Mathematical Society (AMS).…

INDICA NEWS OFFICE- The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has unanimously nominated eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava for the first Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory. According!-->…

Washington, December 4 Prominent Indo-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, was jointly shortlisted for the first Ciprian Foias…

MATHEMATICIAN Lotfi Zadeh has made many contributions to mathematics, science and education. With many of Zadeh's theories and findings used in many higher education institutions, his legacy lives on. 2Lotfi Zadeh is an Iranian-American…

22 November 2021 Ravenel and his co-authors solved Kervaire's invariant problem, a central problem in algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics that uses algebraic tools and techniques to determine which properties of an…

Michael Hill, professor of mathematics at UCLA College, received the 2022 American Mathematical Society Oswald Veblen Prize for Geometry for his article "On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one", with his co-authors…

You can see the golden ratio spiral pattern in the shell of the Coopers Rocky Mountain snail. These shells are everywhere in the valley and not just near the water. See how the spiral starts!-->…

Mathematician by day, musician by night. Jesse Hicks, assistant professor of mathematics has a love for music. Photo courtesy of UMAC. By:…

Samit Dasgupta, a math professor at Duke…

When Mr. Andrew Moshier was asked to become Dean of the School of Communication at Chapman University, his first reaction was surprise. He'd been a department chair for 10 years, but he wasn't aiming for the college version of the corner…

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A 14-year-old Native American mathematician from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Akilan Sankaran, won the coveted…

October 26, 2021 In the late 2000s, long before solvers were a thing, a group of math-focused individuals changed the face of poker. Players love Matt Hawrilenko, Bill Chen, and Jerrod Ankenman…

Apollonius crater on Mars. The genius of the Greek mathematician in the field of geometry was so appreciated by NASA that this feature of the Moon was named in his honor. Credit: NASA / Public domain Apollonius of Perge (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος…

Hannah Guan is a 15-year-old college student who has helped thousands of children better understand math. Nuria Diallo Padro is a graduate assistant who helped hundreds of low-income families when the February freeze hit.Both San Antonio…

Enlarge / Philippe Tlokinski plays Stanislaw Ulam in new film Adventures of a mathematician.Films by Samuel Goldwyn On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated!-->!-->…

A Romanian mathematician calculated how to win the lottery several times Stefan Mandel is a Romanian mathematician who developed a famous method in the 1950s that would increase his chances of winning the lottery. Did…

Last week the new sci-fi series Foundation created with two episodes on AppleTV +. Foundation is adapted from the novels of Isaac Asimov and stars Lee Pace (Brother Day), Terrence Mann (Brother Dusk), Jared Harris (Hari Seldon), Lou…

How to embody a declining empire? Show us a emperor which is in terminal decline. Oh, not permanently, of course: the cloning process pioneered by the predecessor of the current emperors, Cleon I, ensures that there will always be…

Few fictional characters have populated the archives as much as Nicolas Bourbaki, a pseudonym under which a secret group of French mathematicians wrote a general treatise on the discipline, Mathematics Elements, over the past 90 years. The…

When the leaves fall this fall, the bare trees will reveal their fractal nature: the pattern of twigs on a branch resembles the larger pattern of branches on the tree. “The shape is made of little pieces that look like the whole shape,”…

The notion of dimension seems at first glance intuitive. Looking out the window we could see a crow sitting on top of a cramped flag pole in zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire forced into a, a ground pigeon free to roam in two…

Reed mourns the loss of Professor Thomas Wieting, who taught mathematics for over 50 years. By Randall S. Barton | September 15, 2021…

By STEVE THOMPSON, The Washington PostWhen Virginians voted last year to create a commission to draw the state's political districts, many hoped to avoid the partisanship that has marred previous redistribution efforts.Gerrymandering -…

An Oxford University mathematician has revealed how mathematical thinking can improve your Fantasy Football rankings.The Fantasy Premier League is played by over eight million people and the coveted top prize for this year's champion…

MOSCOW — A well-known young mathematician from Russian Tatarstan, sentenced to six years in prison for hooliganism which he and his supporters rejected, says he would not be surprised if he was denied early parole for resisting attempts…

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is pictured at her desk at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Born August 26, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until her…

Official trailer for "Adventures of a Mathematician" on Stan Ulam by Alex Billington August 26, 2021Source: Youtube "They don't really think about using the bomb, do they?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an!--Watch-->…

In January, One America News Network featured an "expert mathematician" in an interview. The "expert" claimed to have uncovered evidence that the 2020 election…

Rudy Giuliani after an interview with One America News Network's Chanel Rion outside the West Wing of the White House on July 1, 2020. Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesIn January, One America News Network featured an "expert mathematician" in…

On January 27, the pro-Trump channel OAN aired a segment interviewing an "expert mathematician" named Ed Solomon who claimed to have found evidence in district-level reports that the election was rigged by an algorithm. The basis for…

The significance of the tablet was unknown until Dr. Mansfield's detective work was revealed. Credit: UNSW Sydney…

An Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet.Known as Si.427, the tablet bears a ground plan measuring the boundaries of certain lands.The…

The late James Forman, in his book "The Making of Black Revolutionaries", noted the arrival of Bob Moses in the civil rights movement. “A teacher at a New York City school, Moses quit his job and started working full time for voter…

A surprise winner emerged during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women's road race on July 25, 2021. Anna Kiesenhofer, a 30-year-old Austrian cyclist and mathematician, was considered a novice to her rivals, but she stepped out.…

This rerun was originally broadcast on September 16, 2020.A mathematician turns gender into a mathematical problem. We hear how mathematics can help us rethink entrenched conceptions of gender. GuestEugenie Cheng, mathematician, teacher,…

Imperial's Professor Sir Simon Donaldson has been awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, one of the most prestigious academic honours.!-->…

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!-->…

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…

Through Anna demming Katherine Johnson was honored by US President Barack Obama in 2015Kris Connor / WireImage / Getty Images My remarkable…

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,…

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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…

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…

It's a new era for the school! 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…

Emmanuele DiBenedetto (photo submitted) Emmanuele DiBenedetto, a retired math professor who made important contributions to understanding partial differential equations, died on May…

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Troy and the University have lost a caring, gentle and distinguished legend with the death of Mr. James "Jim" O'Neal, who passed away on Wednesday May 19 at his College Street home surrounded by loved ones. He was 96 years old. He…

The great swirling current that sweeps through tropical waters across the Gulf of Mexico holds tantalizing clues to the future: where fish will congregate, how hurricanes will behave, and where oil spills could spill…

The voicemail was extremely unusual. It was from the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), who asked Melanie Wood to call it back right away. “You get a call every once in a while from your program manager, about certain…

Opinions expressed by Contractor the contributors are theirs. Mathematician Richard Hamming said, “If you don't work on important problems, you're unlikely to do important work. In the world of…

PROVIDENCE, RI - Kavita Ramanan, professor of applied mathematics at Brown, has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's most prestigious honor societies. Ramanan joins 252 new…

No foul play suspected in the death of Shuvro Bis was apparently struggling with mental illness. Follow @ambazaarmag No foul play is suspected in the death of a Native American mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial…

The body of a 31-year-old Indian-born mathematician working with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence was found floating in the Hudson River here, according to a media report which said he was battling mental illness related. Shuvro…

A math book for children may seem simple. But it took an international effort to create "Hello Numbers!" What Can You Do? As for the international contribution, the book asked Edmund Harriss to find his way in 2010 from Great Malvern…

Photo: Central Park, by Anthony Quintano from Hillsborough, NJ, USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. On a new ID the future episode, we are happy to feature a cross-post from our sister site, Mind matters. Here, host Robert…

Avi Wigderson*83Dan Komoda/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ USA Avi Wigderson*83, from the Institute for Advanced Study, and László Lovászis won the Abel Prize this year, considered the Nobel Prize in mathematics.…