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Caldwell - Chris Caldwell, University of Tennessee at Martin
Unique (period) primes and the factorization of cyclotomic polynomials minus one, On the Primality of n!+1 and Mathematics of Computation, Unique Period Primes, Primes in Pi, The Near-Repdigit Primes.
(http://www.utm.edu/~caldwell/)
Benschop - Nico Benschop homepg: Powersums, Fermat, Waring, Goldbach; history
Curiosity and Search "An open mind is a joy forever", Inertia "Climbing Mount Prejudice", Generalize "If a problem is too hard, generalize it"
(http://www.IAE.nl/users/benschop/)
aaa - Chronological List of Mathematicians
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Clark University
(aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html)
aaa - CML Search
Combined Membership List for the AMS, MAA, SIAM, and the AMATYC. Includes almost all US mathematicians.
(http://www.ams.org/cml/)
aaa - Pictures of Mathematicians
These pages are under construction.
(http://www.mathstat.usouthal.edu/~lynn/mathematics/mathematicians.html)
aaa - Pronunciation Guide to Mathematicians
These are mathematicians frequently encountered by undergraduate students. For a more complete listing, see A History of Mathematics: An Introduction , by Victor Katz (Harper Collins)
(http://www.ma.iup.edu/~gstoudt/pronounce.html)
aaa - The History of Mathematics
Welcome to the History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
(http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/)
Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
transformations of elliptic integrals, algebraic solution of equations, which equations were soluble by radicals, theory of elliptic functions
(http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Abel.html)
al-Khwarizmi - Abu Ja'far al-Khwarizmi (780-850)
Arab mathematician, lived when spread of ideas was very slow, wrote Hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala, concepts of the Middle East. The "al-jabr" gave us the word algebra." introduced the decimal system, rules for solving linear and quadratic equations, the word
(http://windows.ivv.nasa.gov/people/middle_ages/al-khwarizmi.html)
Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-190 B.C.)
known as 'The Great Geometer', great influence on the development of mathematics, famous book Conics introduced terms such as parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.
(http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Apollonius.html)
Argand - Jean Robert Argand (1768-1822)
accountant, amateur mathematician, famed for his geometrical interpretation of the complex numbers where i is interpreted as a rotation through 90, gave concept of the modulus of a complex number.
(http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Argand.html)
Arndt - Jörg's USEFUL and UGLY pages
FFT related stuff, HFLOAT package & pi stuff, book on Pi=3.1415, math/numerics/code links, GRFX and mandelbrot wallpaper.
(http://www.jjj.de/joerg.html)
Banach - The Life of Stefan Banach (1892-1945)
Review of Roman Kaluza's 1996 book The Life of Stefan Banach
(http://math.sfsu.edu/axler/Banach.html)
Bar-Natan - Dror Bar-Natan's World-Wide-Web Home Page
Includes a comprehensive bibliography of Vassiliev invariants.
(http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~drorbn/)
Barnsley - Michael F. Barnsley, Co-founder of Iterated Systems
As a mathematics professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Barnsley's studies of fractal images led to the discovery of Fractal Transform technology.
(http://www.il97.com/page13.html)
Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
(http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html)
Bernoulli, Jakob (1654-1705)
Swiss mathematician (aka Jacque I or James I) brother of Johann Bernoulli. they are considered the most important founder of Calculus with the exception of Newton, the two had bitter arguments about the quality of each other's work.
(http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/BernoulliJakob.html)
Bernoulli, Johann (1667-1748)
Pioneers in the field of calculus, appied the new tool to real problems, life was one of the most controversial of any mathematician, member of the world's most successful mathematical family, also known as Johannes, Jean or John.
(http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/bernoull.html)
Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846)
Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.
(http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_bessel.html)
Birkhoff - George David Birkhoff (1884-1944)
First dynamicist in the New World, picked up where Poincare left off, created a rigorous theory of ergodic behavior, and foresaw dynamical models for chaos.
(http://www.exploratorium.edu/complexity/lexicon/birkhoff.html)
Borcherds - Richard E. Borcherds, Royal Society Research Professor
Preprints and papers. Problem sheets for the Lie algebras course. Problem sheets for a modular forms course. Tables of positive definite lattices, dimension at most 25, det=1 or 2.
(http://www.pmms.cam.ac.uk/Staff/R.E.Borcherds.html)
Borwein - HOME PAGE FOR PETER BORWEIN
Home Page for Peter Borwein : includes all recent publications
(http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/~pborwein/)
Briggs, Henry (1561-1630)
His work in mathematics was devoted to making computation more easy, known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.
(es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/briggs.html)
Brown, Kevin - MathPages
Number Theory, Combinatorics, Geometry, Algebra, Calculus and Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, Set Theory and Foundations, History of Mathematics, Physics, Music
(http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/)
Cantor - Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918)
put forth the modern theory on infinite sets that revolutionized almost every mathematics field. his new ideas created many dissenters and made him most assailed
(http://www.shu.edu/academic/arts_sci/Undergraduate/math_cs/sites/math/reals/history/cantor.html)
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