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Standing on the balcony of the university's Senate House, the examiner reads out the class results for mathematics, [3] and printed copies of the results are then thrown to the audience below. The examiner no longer announces the students' exact rankings, but they still identify the Senior Wrangler, nowadays tipping their academic hat when ...
Godfrey Harold Hardy FRS [1] (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) [2] was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. [3] [4] In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.
William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University , [ 1 ] after having taught there for over 35 years. [ 2 ]
William Schumacher Massey (August 23, 1920 [1] – June 17, 2017) was an American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology. The Massey product is named for him. He worked also on the formulation of spectral sequences by means of exact couples , and wrote several textbooks, including A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology ( ISBN 0 ...
Tenth grade (also 10th Grade or Grade 10) is the tenth year of formal or compulsory education. It is typically the second year of high school . In many parts of the world, students in tenth grade are usually 15 or 16 years of age.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities).
In 1996 he received the Steele Prize for mathematical exposition for his text Intersection Theory. [1] Fulton is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences since 1997; a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1998, and was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2000. [3]
William Wade Dunham (born 1947) is an American writer who was originally trained in topology but became interested in the history of mathematics and specializes in Leonhard Euler. He has received several awards for writing and teaching on this subject.