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  2. Mary Cartwright - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. John Edensor Littlewood - Wikipedia

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    John Edensor Littlewood FRS (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.

  4. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Mary Cartwright [193] [194] Edward Lorenz [195] Poincaré's work on the three-body problem was the first discovered example of a chaotic dynamical system. Cartwright made the first mathematical analysis of dynamical systems with chaos. Lorenz introduced strange attractor notation. Cybernetics: Norbert Wiener [196]

  5. List of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Walter Hayman - Wikipedia

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    In 1992 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden [12] In 1995 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal by the London Mathematical Society. [13] In 2008, an issue of the Journal Computational Methods and Function Theory was dedicated to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. [14]

  7. List of female fellows of the Royal Society - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Timeline of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    1949: American mathematician Gertrude Mary Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. [36] Also, Maria Laura Lopes obtained her PhD in Mathematics, being the first woman to obtain the title in Brazil. 1951: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first female president of the Mathematical Association. [37] [33]

  9. G. N. Watson - Wikipedia

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    George Neville Watson FRS FRSE (31 January 1886 – 2 February 1965) was an English mathematician, who applied complex analysis to the theory of special functions.His collaboration on the 1915 second edition of E. T. Whittaker's A Course of Modern Analysis (1902) produced the classic "Whittaker and Watson" text.