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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS FRSE (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) [1] was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory . [ 2 ] Along with J. E. Littlewood , Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect .
1960 and 1966: British mathematician Lucy Joan Slater published two books about the hypergeometric functions from the Cambridge University Press. [39] [40] 1961: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first woman to be President of the London Mathematical Society. [41]
The Society’s grants include research grants for mathematicians, early career researchers and computer scientists working at the interface of mathematics and computer science; education grants for teachers and other educators; travel grants to attend conferences; and grants for those with caring responsibilities.
This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers.Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame."
Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos; María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant; Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society. It is awarded every three years, usually to a mathematician living and working in the United Kingdom.
Mary Cartwright: Mathematics: Awarded the Sylvester Medal in 1964 [17] [18] Dorothy Hodgkin: Biochemistry: Awarded the Royal Medal in 1956, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, and the Copley Medal in 1976; delivered the Tercentenary Lecture in 1960 and the Bakerian Lecture in 1972 [19] [20] Muriel Robertson: Protozoology, bacteriology [21 ...
Mary Lucy Cartwright (DSc) Frederick Donald Coggan (DD) Professor Sir John G Edwards (DLitt) Professor Peter Racine Fricker (DMus) William Harrison (LLD) George Kirk (MA) Professor Walter Von Wartburg (DLitt) 1957. Lord Janner (LLD) Sir Ivor Jennings (LLD) Margaret Mead (DSc) Professor Gunnar Myrdal (LLD) Lord Ramsey of Canterbury (DD) Mary ...