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The Book of My Life – Girolamo Cardano [15] A Mathematician's Apology - G.H. Hardy [16] A Mathematician's Miscellany (republished as Littlewood's miscellany) - J. E. Littlewood [17] I Am a Mathematician - Norbert Wiener [18] I Want to be a Mathematician - Paul R. Halmos; Adventures of a Mathematician - Stanislaw Ulam [19] Enigmas of Chance ...
This use of mathematics in the real world was cited in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society. [7] In 2012, Chamberlain was involved with the UK STEM Project "Being a Professional Mathematician", where his interview was selected for an iTunes podcast. [8] [9] In 2014 he was named by the Science Council as one of the UK's top scientists. [10]
The late mathematician and Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani was among those speculated to be behind the Cleo account. Some speculated that Cleo was a famous mathematician, like Terence Tao (though Tao himself denied this in an email correspondence), Grigori Perelman , [ 4 ] Stephen Hawking , [ 1 ] or Maryam Mirzakhani . [ 2 ]
Scott Flansburg (born December 28, 1963) is an American dubbed "The Human Calculator" and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for speed of mental calculation.He is the annual host and ambassador for The National Counting Bee, a math educator, and media personality.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. American child prodigy (1898–1944) William James Sidis Sidis at his Harvard graduation (1914) Born (1898-04-01) April 1, 1898 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Died July 17, 1944 (1944-07-17) (aged 46) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Other names John W. Shattuck Frank Folupa Parker Greene Jacob ...
Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.Johnson became a household name thanks to the ...
James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation's biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86.
Mathematicism is 'the effort to employ the formal structure and rigorous method of mathematics as a model for the conduct of philosophy', [1] or the epistemological view that reality is fundamentally mathematical. [2]