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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 ...
By the 1980s, Hawking's marriage had been strained for many years. Jane felt overwhelmed by the intrusion into their family life of the required nurses and assistants. [234] The impact of his celebrity status was challenging for colleagues and family members, while the prospect of living up to a worldwide fairytale image was daunting for the ...
Writer Alex Bellos described The Mathematics of Life as "a testament to the versatility of maths and how it is shaping our understanding of the world." [4] Kirkus Reviews called the book "an ingenious overview of biology with emphasis on mathematical ideas—stimulating but requiring careful reading despite the lack of equations."
[13] [14] Investigating optics – specifically light refraction – Hooke inferred a wave theory of light. [15] His is the first-recorded hypothesis of the cause of the expansion of matter by heat, [ 16 ] of air's composition by small particles in constant motion that thus generate its pressure, [ 17 ] and of heat as energy.
Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer.
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 ...
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher.He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, [2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.
James Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician [1] who was responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.