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Carl Runge 1 Carl Runge
Carl Runge 1 Carl Runge Carl David Tolmé Runge (30. august 1856 Bremen – 3. jaanuar 1927 Göttingen) oli saksa matemaatik. Ta pani aluse tänapäeva praktilisele matemaatikale kui õpetusele matemaatilistest meetoditest loodusteaduslike ja tehniliste ülesannete arvutuslikul lahendamisel. Ta sündis jõuka kaupmees Julius Runge ja inglanna Fanny Tolmé pojana. Oma esimesed aastad veetis ta Havannas, kus tema isa haldas Taani konsulaati. Kodune keel oli eeskätt inglise keel. Carl Runge ja tema vennad omandasid Briti kombed ja vaated, eriti spordi, aususe, õigluse ja enesekindluse kohta. Hiljem kolis perekond Bremenisse, kus Carli isa 1864 suri. Aastal 1875 lõpetas ta Bremenis gümnaasiumi. Seejärel saatis ta oma ema pool aastat kultuurireisil Itaalias. Siis läks ta Münchenisse, kus ta algul õppis kirjandusteadust ja filosoofias kuid otsustas pärast kuuenädalast õppimist 1876 matemaatika ja füüsika kasuks. Ta õppis koos Max Planckiga, kellega ta sõbrunes. Müncheni ülikoolis oli ta populaarne uisutaja. Aastal 1877 jätkas ta (koos Planckiga) oma õpinguid Berliinis, mis oli Saksamaa matemaatika keskus ja kus teda mõjutasid eriti Leopold Carl Runge Kronecker ja Karl Weierstraß. Viimase loengute kuulamine kallutas ta keskenduma füüsika asemel puhtale matemaatikale. Aastal 1880 promoveerus ta Weierstraßi ning Ernst Eduard Kummeri juures tööga "Über die Krümmung, Torsion und geodätische Krümmung der auf einer Fläche gezogenen Curven". Tol ajal tuli doktorieksamil püstitada kolm teesi ja neid kaitsta. Üks Runge teesidest oli: "Matemaatilise distsipliini väärtust tuleb hinnata tema rakendatavuse järgi empiirilistele teadustele." Ta habiliteerus 1883. Runge tegeles algul puhta matemaatikaga. Kronecker oli teda innustanud tegelema arvuteooriaga ja Weierstraß funktsiooniteooriaga. Funktsiooniteoorias uuris ta holomorfsete funktsioonide aproksimeeritavust ratsionaalsete funktsioonidega, rajades Runge teooria. Berliini ajal sai ta oma tulevaselt äialt (kelle perekonnas ta oli sagedane külaline) teada Balmeri seeriast. -
Hilbert Constance Reid
Hilbert Constance Reid Hilbert c COPERNICUS AN IMPRINT OF SPRINGER-VERLAG © 1996 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc in 1996 All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Library ofCongress Cataloging·in-Publication Data Reid, Constance. Hilbert/Constance Reid. p. Ctn. Originally published: Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1970. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-387-94674-0 ISBN 978-1-4612-0739-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-0739-9 I. Hilbert, David, 1862-1943. 2. Mathematicians-Germany Biography. 1. Title. QA29.HsR4 1996 SIO'.92-dc20 [B] 96-33753 Manufactured in the United States of America. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 543 2 1 ISBN 978-0-387-94674-0 SPIN 10524543 Questions upon Rereading Hilbert By 1965 I had written several popular books, such as From liro to Infinity and A Long Way from Euclid, in which I had attempted to explain certain easily grasped, although often quite sophisticated, mathematical ideas for readers very much like myself-interested in mathematics but essentially untrained. At this point, with almost no mathematical training and never having done any bio graphical writing, I became determined to write the life of David Hilbert, whom many considered the profoundest mathematician of the early part of the 20th century. Now, thirty years later, rereading Hilbert, certain questions come to my mind. -
The Scientific Content of the Letters Is Remarkably Rich, Touching on The
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Reviews / Historia Mathematica 33 (2006) 491–508 497 The scientific content of the letters is remarkably rich, touching on the difference between Borel and Lebesgue measures, Baire’s classes of functions, the Borel–Lebesgue lemma, the Weierstrass approximation theorem, set theory and the axiom of choice, extensions of the Cauchy–Goursat theorem for complex functions, de Geöcze’s work on surface area, the Stieltjes integral, invariance of dimension, the Dirichlet problem, and Borel’s integration theory. The correspondence also discusses at length the genesis of Lebesgue’s volumes Leçons sur l’intégration et la recherche des fonctions primitives (1904) and Leçons sur les séries trigonométriques (1906), published in Borel’s Collection de monographies sur la théorie des fonctions. Choquet’s preface is a gem describing Lebesgue’s personality, research style, mistakes, creativity, and priority quarrel with Borel. This invaluable addition to Bru and Dugac’s original publication mitigates the regrets of not finding, in the present book, all 232 letters included in the original edition, and all the annotations (some of which have been shortened). The book contains few illustrations, some of which are surprising: the front and second page of a catalog of the editor Gauthier–Villars (pp. 53–54), and the front and second page of Marie Curie’s Ph.D. thesis (pp. 113–114)! Other images, including photographic portraits of Lebesgue and Borel, facsimiles of Lebesgue’s letters, and various important academic buildings in Paris, are more appropriate. -
Mathematics and Research Policy: • Starts at Unicph 1963 2004: Institut for Grundvidenskab (Including Chemistry); a View Back on Activities, I Was • Cand.Scient
5/2/2013 Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics at KVL Mogens Flensted-Jensen a few dates Updates: Tomas Vils Pedersen lektor 2000- Henrik L. Pedersen lektor 2002-2012 Professor 2012 - Retirement Lecture May 3 2013 • Born 1942 Department Names • Student 1961 1975: Institut for Matematik og Statistik; 1991: Institut for Matematik og Fysik; Mathematics and Research policy: • Starts at UniCph 1963 2004: Institut for Grundvidenskab (including chemistry); A view back on activities, I was • Cand.scient. 1968 2009: Institut for Grundvidenskab og Miljø • Ass.prof.(lektor) 1973 2012: happy to take part in. • Professor KVL 1979 • Professor UniCph 2007 (at IGM by “infusion”) • Professor UniCph 2012 (at IMF by “confusion”) Mogens Flensted-Jensen • Emeritus 2012 2012: Institut for Matematiske Fag Department of Mathematical Sciences Homepage: http://www.math.ku.dk/~mfj/ May 3 2013 May 3 2013 May 3 2013 Dias 1 Dias 2 Dias 3 Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences Mogens Flensted-Jensen - Department of Mathematical Sciences st June 1 1979 I left KU for Landbohøjskolen June 1st 1979 – Sept. 30th 2012 Mathematics and Research policy Great celebration! My lecture will focus on three themes: Mathematics: Analysis on Symmetric spaces, spherical functions and the discrete spectrum. Research council work: From the national -
Transactions American Mathematical Society
TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY EDITED BY A. A. ALBERT OSCAR ZARISKI ANTONI ZYGMUND WITH THE COOPERATION OF RICHARD BRAUER NELSON DUNFORD WILLIAM FELLER G. A. HEDLUND NATHAN JACOBSON IRVING KAPLANSKY S. C. KLEENE M. S. KNEBELMAN SAUNDERS MacLANE C. B. MORREY W. T. REID O. F. G. SCHILLING N. E. STEENROD J. J. STOKER D. J. STRUIK HASSLER WHITNEY R. L. WILDER VOLUME 62 JULY TO DECEMBER 1947 PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY MENASHA, WIS., AND NEW YORK 1947 Reprinted with the permission of The American Mathematical Society Johnson Reprint Corporation Johnson Reprint Company Limited 111 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10003 Berkeley Square House, London, W. 1 First reprinting, 1964, Johnson Reprint Corporation PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 62, JULY TO DECEMBER, 1947 Arens, R. F., and Kelley, J. L. Characterizations of the space of con- tinuous functions over a compact Hausdorff space. 499 Baer, R. Direct decompositions. 62 Bellman, R. On the boundedness of solutions of nonlinear differential and difference equations. 357 Bergman, S. Two-dimensional subsonic flows of a compressible fluid and their singularities. 452 Blumenthal, L. M. Congruence and superposability in elliptic space.. 431 Chang, S. C. Errata for Contributions to projective theory of singular points of space curves. 548 Day, M. M. Polygons circumscribed about closed convex curves. 315 Day, M. M. Some characterizations of inner-product spaces. 320 Dushnik, B. Maximal sums of ordinals. 240 Eilenberg, S. Errata for Homology of spaces with operators. 1. 548 Erdös, P., and Fried, H. On the connection between gaps in power series and the roots of their partial sums. -
On the Foundation of Mathematica Scandinavica
MATH. SCAND. 93 (2003), 5–19 ON THE FOUNDATION OF MATHEMATICA SCANDINAVICA BODIL BRANNER 1. Introduction In 1953 two new Scandinavian journals appeared, Mathematica Scandinavica and Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift, since 1979 also named Normat. Negoti- ations among Scandinavian mathematicians started with a wish to create an international research journal accepting papers in the principal languages Eng- lish, French and German, and expanded quickly into negotiations on another more elementary journal accepting papers in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and occasionally in English or German. The mathematical societies in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were behind both journals and for the elementary journal also societies of schoolteachers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The main character behind the creation of the two journals was the Danish mathematician Svend Bundgaard. The negotiations were essentially carried out during 1951 and 1952. Although the title of this paper signals that this is the story behind the creation of Math. Scand., it is also – although to a lesser extent – the story behind the creation of Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift. The stories are so interwoven in time and in persons involved that it would be wrong to tell one without the other. Many of the mathematicians who are mentioned in the following are famous for their mathematical achievements, this text will however only focus on their role in the creation of the journals and the different societies involved. The sources used in this paper are found in the archives of Math. Scand., mainly letters, minutes of meetings, and drafts of documents. Some supple- mentary letters from the archives of the Danish Mathematical Society have proved useful as well. -
Strength in Numbers: the Rising of Academic Statistics Departments In
Agresti · Meng Agresti Eds. Alan Agresti · Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics DepartmentsStatistics in the U.S. Rising of Academic The in Numbers: Strength Statistics Departments in the U.S. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. Alan Agresti • Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. 123 Editors Alan Agresti Xiao-Li Meng Department of Statistics Department of Statistics University of Florida Harvard University Gainesville, FL Cambridge, MA USA USA ISBN 978-1-4614-3648-5 ISBN 978-1-4614-3649-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012942702 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. -
Constance Reid
Constance Reid John Ewing, former director of the American Mathematical Society, says this of Constance Reid: “ She has a special talent for understanding mathematicians and their culture. She understands us. She is the Boswell for mathematics – a biographer who has made the mathematical life understandable to the general public and to mathematicians themselves. Her work has enriched our profession.” The “autobiography” of her sister Julia Robinson has been a source of inspiration for many young women contemplating careers in mathematics, and her biography of David Hilbert stands as one of the best mathematical biographies ever written. It is no exaggeration to say that publication of Hilbert made her a star among mathematical biographers. Her five lively and penetrating biographies of mathematicians have been highly praised and constitute a great contribution to the world of mathematics. She has set a high standard for future biographers. We are proud that she was a member of our section. Although the formal mathematical education of Constance Reid concluded with high school algebra and geometry, she was able to understand mathematical ideas well enough to write three best - selling popularizations of mathematics: From Zero to Infinity (1955), Introduction to Higher Mathematics (1959), and A Long Way From Euclid (1963). Several mathematicians have commented on the influence of From Zero to Infinity on their development. Her writing ability was early demonstrated in her book Slacks and Calluses(1944), an account of her working for a summer on a bomber factory assembly line in World War II. At the time she was a high school English teacher in San Diego and only twenty - six. -
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Mathematical Conversations
Mathematical Conversations ,&.&!,p$.l,lQ,poe$qf ellar:f snv,exigs.,&pgirn His total research outllut in the fornr of research papers, scholastic articles ancl books exceecls 230 in nunrber; his collaborative rese.rrch is procligious. His nrost famous book Convex Ana/r'-si-c, pr-rblishecl in 1970, is the first book to systematicallv cleielolr that area in its own right and as a franrerlork fcir fornrr-r lating ancl solving optimization ltroblen'rs ir.r -oconon'rics ancl engineer-ing. lt is one of the most highlv citecl books in all of nrather.natics. (Werner Fenchel 1 905- I 988 r rvas generouslv acknor'r,l eclgecl as an "honorary co-author" for Iris pioneering influence on the subject.) ln aclclition, Rockafellar has written five other books, two of them r'r,,ith research partners. His books have been influential in the development of variational analysis, optimal control, matlrematica I programm i ng and stochastic opti m ization. I n Ra ph T. Rockafe ar fact, he ranks highly in the Institute of Scientific lnformation (lSl) Iist of citation indices. lnterview of Ralph Tyrrell Rocl<afellar by Y.K. Leong Rockafellar is the first recipient (together with Michael Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar made pioneering and significant J.D. Powell) of the Dantzig Prize awarded by the Society contributions to convex analysis, variational analysis, risk for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the ,+ theory and optimization, both deterministic and stochastic. Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) in 1982. He l received the John von Neumann Citation from SIAM and r, t! Rockafellar had his undergracluate education ancl PhD from MPS in 1992. -
Women's History Magazine Broadly As Possible
Women’s History Magazine Issue 48, AUTUMN 2004 Issn 1476-6760 Themed Issue: Science, Technology and Education Maria Rentetzi on The Case of the Radium Dial Painters Claire Jones on Grace Chisholm Young in Turn-of-Nineteenth-Century Germany Joyce Goodman on Technical Education, Female Emigration and Nation Building Hull 2004 Conference Report Launch of new WHN Book Prize Clare Evans Prize — Report on 2004 Award and Hypatia Announcement of of Alexandria 2005 Competition c. 370 - 415 Conference 2005 — Mathematician philosopher, Call for Papers teacher and inventor of mechanical devices. th 14 Conference of the Women’s History Network Women, Art and Culture: Historical Perspectives September 2nd- 4th 2005, Southampton Southampton Institute, Sir James Matthews Conference Centre, Southampton, Hants. Papers are welcomed on the following themes: Women and the visual arts; painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. Women and the Arts and Crafts Movement/Home Decorating. Women and the performing arts. Women and the literary arts. Women as art objects/images of women. Women as mediators of culture. Women as collectors and benefactors. Plenary Speakers: Frances Borzello on 'Women Artists: Self Portraits' Marina Vaizey on '20th Century Women Collectors' Speakers, papers and a provisional programme will be posted at www.womenshistorynetwork.org as soon as they become available. Papers will be considered for special issues of: Women’s History Magazine & Women’s History Review. Abstracts of 200-300 words should be sent by 30/03/05 to: Dr Anne Anderson, FMAS, Southampton Institute, Southampton, S014 ORF. [email protected] Administrator: Dr. Joyce A. Walker (Women’s History Network) , Department of History, University of Aberdeen, Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX E-mail: [email protected] The arrival of this Autumn's Women's History Magazine broadly as possible. -
Constance Reid (1918–2010)
Remembering Constance Reid (1918–2010) Gerald L. Alexanderson Constance Reid will be remembered in mathemat- She was fond of telling at mathematics meet- ics for many years to come. She was not a math- ings of her experience when she approached her ematician, though she had close ties to important publisher with the proposal to write a biography mathematicians, but what she did for mathemat- of the most eminent early-twentieth-century math- ics may have more influence than the research of ematician, David Hilbert. His response was that the many professionals in the field. She would have a only thing that would sell worse than the biography place in history if she had done nothing more than of a mathematician would be a book about South write her biography of David Hilbert. America! But she persisted and found a publisher, Prior to Constance’s ap- Springer. It appeared in 1970 and was an instant pearing on the mathemati- classic, a book for the ages. Beautifully written cal scene, there was rather and carefully researched—she discovered Hilbert’s little to read in mathematics, papers in Göttingen uncatalogued in boxes at the at least in English, beyond Mathematical Institute, thus quite possibly saving textbooks and monographs. them from loss—her book was a sensation and re- Students wishing to learn sulted in many invitations to speak at regional and of the culture of mathemat- national meetings. Her earlier publisher probably ics or amateurs who loved came to regret his quick dismissal of Constance’s mathematics could go to proposal. Times have changed.