Should you come upon Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini (Dutton, 426 pp., ★★★½ out of four), consider yourself quite fortunate indeed. As with Chiaverini’s Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker, ...
WHO: James M. Vaughn Jr., heir to a fortune generated by the oil gushers of East Texas; English mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles; and seventeenth-century French amateur mathematician Pierre de Fermat.
Michael is an English mathematician who specialized in geometry. He was most famous for his work with his coworker Isadore Singer on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, for which he received the Abel ...
A collection of scientific papers from English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science, Alan Turing, has sold for £465,400 (US$625,000) at auction after narrowly avoiding being ...
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...
While on his death bed, the brilliant Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan cryptically wrote down functions he said came to him in dreams, with a hunch about how they behaved. Now 100 years later, ...
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