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  2. Stigler's law of eponymy - Wikipedia

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    The effect applies specifically to women through the Matilda effect. Boyer's law was named by Hubert Kennedy in 1972. It says, "Mathematical formulas and theorems are usually not named after their original discoverers" and was named after Carl Boyer, whose book A History of Mathematics contains many examples of this law. Kennedy observed that ...

  3. List of scientific equations named after people - Wikipedia

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    Dehn–Sommerville equations. Geometry. Max Dehn and Duncan Sommerville. Diophantine equation. Mathematics. Diophantus of Alexandria. Dirac equation. Dirac equation in APS. Quantum mechanics.

  4. Emmy Noether - Wikipedia

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    Werner Weber. Ernst Witt. Amalie Emmy Noether[ a ] (US: / ˈnʌtər /, UK: / ˈnɜːtə /; German: [ˈnøːtɐ]; 23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. [ 4 ]

  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Leibnitz[ a ] (1 July 1646 [ O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is disputed with Sir Isaac Newton to have invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.

  6. George Boole - Wikipedia

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    George Boole Jnr (/ buːl /; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as ...

  7. History of algebra - Wikipedia

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    The word "algebra" is derived from the Arabic word الجبر al-jabr, and this comes from the treatise written in the year 830 by the medieval Persian mathematician, Al-Khwārizmī, whose Arabic title, Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala, can be translated as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

  8. Maryam Mirzakhani - Wikipedia

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    Siavash Shahshahani, Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian [2] Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced [mæɾˈjæm miːɾzɑːxɑːˈniː]; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian [5][4] mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. [6][7] Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic ...

  9. Ruth Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Lawrence. Ruth Elke Lawrence-Neimark (Hebrew: רות אלקה לורנס-נאימרק, born 2 August 1971) is a British–Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology. In the public eye, she is best known ...