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This is the true story of a little girl, Caryn Navy, who, after she became blind at age 10, began to find mathematics fascinating. An independent girl, she learned to travel the subways of New York by herself, trained with a seeing-eye dog, went to college in another state, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics and computer science. Caryn married an electrical engineer and together they started their own successful computer company. ... Read more

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Shirley was raised by her mother in rural, segregatedGeorgia just before the national civil rights movement. As anAfrican-American child in a small southern town, she encountered bothprejudice and peer pressure that tried to discourage her determinationto succeed. Never giving up, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics--thefirst African- American to earn a doctorate from the University ofGeorgia and went on to become Dean of Student Affairs at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Read more

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This volume contains nine papers presented as 45-minute orone-hour addresses at the International Congress ofMathematicians in Berkeley in 1986. In the original proceedingsvolume of ICM-86, published by the AMS in 1988, these papersappeared in the Russian. They have since been translated andcollected in the present volume, to insure their broaddissemination. Among the topics represented here are stochasticprocesses, logic, number theory, functions of a complexvariable, functional analysis, Fourier analysis, numericalanalysis, and theoretical computer science. ... Read more

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This book is about mathematics in Sweden between 1630 and 1950--from S. Klingenstierna to M. Riesz, T. Carleman, and A. Beurling. It tells the story of how continental mathematics came to Sweden, how it was received, and how it inspired new results. The book contains a biography of Gosta Mittag-Leffler, the father of Swedish mathematics, who introduced the Weierstrassian theory of analytic functions and dominated a golden age from 1880 to 1910. Important results are analyzed and re-proved in modern notation, with explanations of their relations to mathematics at the time. The book treats Backlund transformations, Mittag-Leffler's theorem, the Phragmen-Lindelof theorem and Carleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantum mechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Other important features include sketches of personalities and university life. Features: Presents the first thorough treatment of mathematics in Sweden. Discusses the work of the great mathematicians and the development of mathematics throughout Europe. Brings the mathematics of an era to life in an informative and highly readable way. ... Read more

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A biography of the eighteenth-century African-American who taught himself mathematics and astronomy and helped survey what would become Washington, D.C. ... Read more

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This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth Conference for African-American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences held at the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University (Houston). The included talks and poster presentations offer a broad perspective to the critical issues involving minority participation in mathematics. The issues explored are relevant not only to African American researchers, but also to the mathematical community in general.

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This volume contains research and expository papers by African-American mathematicians on issues related to their involvement in the mathematical sciences. Little is known, taught, or written about African-American mathematicians. Information is lacking on their past and present contributions and on the qualitative and quantitative nature of their existence in and distribution throughout mathematics. This lack of information leads to a number of questions that have to date remained unanswered. This volume provides details and pointers to help answer some of these questions.

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The International Congress of Mathematicians was an historical event that was held at the Morningside Center of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing). It was the first occasion where Chinese mathematicians from all over the world gathered to present their research.

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A biography of the eighteenth-century black tobacco farmer who taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and clockmaking; became famous for his almanacs; and assisted in the original survey of Washington, D.C. ... Read more

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Inside Benjamin Banneker: Scientist and Mathematician lies many secrets of the life of one of the 18th centuries most accomplished black Americans. To find out more about this man, read the book by Kevin Conley. The book is all about the life of Benjamin Banneker, an 18th century free black American who wrote almanacs and was an original surveyor of Washington D.C. I would recommend this book to any Americans who wanted to learn more about the people involved with the history of their country.
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Chapters: Otto E. Neugebauer, Lesley Sibner, David M. Young, Jr., Chia-Chiao Lin, Jerrold E. Marsden, Hing Tong, John Guckenheimer, Thomas N.e. Greville, Harley Flanders, John Morgan, Gunduz Caginalp, Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Zimmer, Luis Caffarelli, Fred Diamond, Melvin Hochster, Henry Pogorzelski, Max Mason, Lane P. Hughston, Abraham Haskel Taub, Karen Uhlenbeck, Dennis Sullivan, Andrew Majda, Gilbert Strang, Murray Rosenblatt, William Thomas Fletcher, Shlomo Sternberg, Curtis T. Mcmullen, Hyman Bass, Angus Ellis Taylor, Jonathan Lazare Alperin, Irving S. Reed, Yum-Tong Siu, Joseph Keller, Anil Nerode, Tom M. Apostol, Joseph H. Silverman, Bruce C. Berndt, Yousef Saad, William Dunham, William Goldman, Frank Nelson Cole, Timothy Kanold, Václav Hlavatý, Marshall Hall, Peter Shalen, Martin Davis, Branko Grünbaum, Lenore Blum, Robion Kirby, Richard M. Goodwin, Dennis Deturck, David Eisenbud, Robert Daniel Carmichael, James Pierpont, Gerald L. Thompson, Mary Ellen Rudin, John Adrian Bondy, George Andrews, Herbert Keller, Leo Harrington, Louis Charles Karpinski, Franz Alt, Richard Askey, William Karush, Nachman Aronszajn, Charles F. Van Loan, David Harbater, Elliot Koffman, Grant Olney, Alfred Brousseau, Don Zagier, Andrew Gleason, Daniel Gorenstein, Clarence Abiathar Waldo, Irving Segal, Edward Burr Van Vleck, John Selfridge, Richard Schroeppel, Robert Macpherson, Linda Keen, George Lusztig, Harvey Friedman, Richard Shore, Victor S. Miller, Vance Faber, Francis Robbins Upton, John B. Conway, Gabriel D. Carroll, Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Gerhard Ringel, Mary P. Dolciani, Bhama Srinivasan, Gerald Folland, Alfred Gray, Kenneth Kunen, Marion Cohen, Mikhail Khovanov, Stephen Altschul, Robert Calderbank, Solomon Feferman, James Ax, Maurice Karnaugh, Michio Suzuki, Gary Theodore Chartrand, Nick Katz, Peter J. Freyd, Phillip Griffiths, Marston Morse, David B. Hertz, Reuben Hersh, Daniel Kleitman, Yousef Alavi, Jeff Dinitz, Theodore Slaman,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=737813 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chern was born in Jiaxing in Zhejiang province. He moved to Tianjin in 1922 to be with his father, and starting in 1926 he studied there at Nankai University, graduating in mathematics in 1930. He was a graduate student under Dan Sun at Tsinghua University from 1931 to 1934, working on projective differential geometry.In 1932 Wilhelm Blaschke from the University of Hamburg visited Tsinghua and was impressed with Chern. In 1934 Chern went on a scholarship to Hamburg, working on the Cartan-Kähler theory, and finishing his doctoral degree in 1936. In 1936?1937 he studied with Élie Cartan in Paris, returning to Beijing, China to a professorial position in Tsinghua (which had relocated to Kunming after the Japanese attacks). ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 675 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 7401 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This review article explores the relationship between the artisans and mathematicians of medieval Islam by examining the earliest historical sources in which such a relationship is depicted, and by focusing especially on the technical language that was used to describe the actual functions of one type of artisan, namely, the architect or master builder. It also argues for the need to draw necessary distinctions between the various types of artisans in order to delineate the exact dimensions of their relationship with theoretical mathematicians. As an example, it demonstrates how a group of early texts could be used to prove the close relationship that had developed between artisans, who were instrument makers, and theoretical mathematicians.

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Title: ARTISANS AND MATHEMATICIANS IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM.
Author: George Saliba
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 119Issue: 4Page: 637

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1183 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more