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111 relations: Aesthetics, Almgren–Pitts min-max theory, American Mathematical Society, Archives of American Mathematics, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Bernard Koopman, Birkhoff, Birkhoff (crater), Birkhoff interpolation, Birkhoff's axioms, Birkhoff's theorem, Birkhoff's theorem (electromagnetism), Birkhoff's theorem (relativity), Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem, Chaos theory, Charles B. Morrey Jr., Charles C. Pugh, Chromatic polynomial, Clarence Raymond Adams, Complex differential equation, Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, David Widder, Differential geometry, Dynamical billiards, Dynamical system, E. H. Moore, Eberhard Hopf, Equidistribution theorem, Ergodic theory, Euler's three-body problem, Foundations of geometry, Frances Cope, Garrett Birkhoff, George D. Birkhoff House, George David Birkhoff Prize, Graph coloring, Griffith Baley Price, Haskell Curry, Hassler Whitney, Helmholtz theorem (classical mechanics), Henri Poincaré, Hilbert's twenty-first problem, Hyperbolic orthogonality, Indecomposable continuum, Index of physics articles (G), Institut Henri Poincaré, Isador M. Sheffer, Isomonodromic deformation, József Kürschák, Jürgen Moser, ..., John N. Mather, Joseph L. Walsh, Joseph Slepian, Joseph Wedderburn, Lazar Lyusternik, Leroy P. Steele Prize, Lev Schnirelmann, Lipót Fejér, List of aestheticians, List of American mathematicians, List of contributors to general relativity, List of craters on the Moon: A–B, List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers, List of mathematicians (B), List of mathematicians born in the 19th century, List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts, List of people by Erdős number, List of people from Michigan, List of scientific laws named after people, List of University of Chicago alumni, List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people, March 21, Marie Charpentier, Marshall Harvey Stone, Marston Morse, Mathematical physics, Mathematics and art, Max Bense, Maxime Bôcher, Meanings of minor planet names: 15001–16000, Newcomb Cleveland Prize, Norbert Wiener, Oliver Dimon Kellogg, Oseledets theorem, Oskar Bolza, Overisel Township, Michigan, Paul Althaus Smith, Perkins Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics, Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem, Point–line–plane postulate, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure, Raymond Woodard Brink, Recurrent point, Robert Daniel Carmichael, Ron Larson, Rudolf Ernest Langer, Selmer M. Johnson, Similarity (geometry), Stanislaw Ulam, Structural stability, Symbolic dynamics, Tibor Radó, Timeline of black hole physics, Topological dynamics, Vyacheslav Stepanov, Wandering set, William Fogg Osgood, Yusuke Hagihara, 1884, 2015 in public domain. Expand index (61 more) »
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Almgren–Pitts min-max theory
In mathematics, the Almgren–Pitts min-max theory (named after Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. and his student Jon T. Pitts) is an analogue of Morse theory for hypersurfaces.
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American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
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Archives of American Mathematics
The Archives of American Mathematics, located at the University of Texas at Austin, aims to collect, preserve, and provide access to the papers principally of American mathematicians and the records of American mathematical organizations.
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Bôcher Memorial Prize
The Bôcher Memorial Prize was founded by the American Mathematical Society in 1923 in memory of Maxime Bôcher with an initial endowment of $1,450 (contributed by members of that society).
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Bernard Koopman
Bernard Osgood Koopman (1900 – August 18, 1981) was a French-born American mathematician, known for his work in ergodic theory, the foundations of probability, statistical theory and operations research.
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Birkhoff
Birkhoff is a surname.
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Birkhoff (crater)
Birkhoff is a giant lunar walled plain that is located on the far side of the Moon, in the northern hemisphere.
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Birkhoff interpolation
In mathematics, Birkhoff interpolation is an extension of polynomial interpolation.
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Birkhoff's axioms
In 1932, G. D. Birkhoff created a set of four postulates of Euclidean geometry in the plane, sometimes referred to as Birkhoff's axioms.
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Birkhoff's theorem
Birkhoff's theorem may refer to several theorems named for the American mathematician George David Birkhoff.
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Birkhoff's theorem (electromagnetism)
In physics, in the context of electromagnetism, Birkhoff's theorem concerns spherically symmetric static solutions of Maxwell's field equations of electromagnetism.
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Birkhoff's theorem (relativity)
In general relativity, Birkhoff's theorem states that any spherically symmetric solution of the vacuum field equations must be static and asymptotically flat.
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Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem
In functional analysis, the Birkhoff–Kellogg invariant-direction theorem, named after G. D. Birkhoff and O. D. Kellogg, is a generalization of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem.
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Chaos theory
Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.
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Charles B. Morrey Jr.
Charles Bradfield Morrey Jr. (23 July 1907 – 29 April 1984) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the calculus of variations and the theory of partial differential equations.
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Charles C. Pugh
Charles Chapman Pugh (born 1940) is an American mathematician who researches dynamical systems.
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Chromatic polynomial
The chromatic polynomial is a graph polynomial studied in algebraic graph theory, a branch of mathematics.
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Clarence Raymond Adams
Clarence Raymond Adams (April 10, 1898 – October 15, 1965) was an American mathematician who worked on partial difference equations.
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Complex differential equation
A complex differential equation is a differential equation whose solutions are functions of a complex variable.
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Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (31 July 1907 – 29 June 1966) was an Indian mathematician, statistician, philologist, historian and polymath who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambi map function.
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David Widder
David Vernon Widder (25 March 1898 – 8 July 1990) was an American mathematician.
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Differential geometry
Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multilinear algebra to study problems in geometry.
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Dynamical billiards
A billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
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Dynamical system
In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space.
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E. H. Moore
Eliakim Hastings Moore (January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician.
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Eberhard Hopf
Eberhard Frederich Ferdinand Hopf (April 17, 1902, Salzburg, Austria-Hungary – July 24, 1983, Bloomington, Indiana) was a mathematician and astronomer, one of the founding fathers of ergodic theory and a pioneer of bifurcation theory who also made significant contributions to the subjects of partial differential equations and integral equations, fluid dynamics, and differential geometry.
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Equidistribution theorem
In mathematics, the equidistribution theorem is the statement that the sequence is uniformly distributed on the circle \mathbb/\mathbb, when a is an irrational number.
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Ergodic theory
Ergodic theory (Greek: έργον ergon "work", όδος hodos "way") is a branch of mathematics that studies dynamical systems with an invariant measure and related problems.
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Euler's three-body problem
In physics and astronomy, Euler's three-body problem is to solve for the motion of a particle that is acted upon by the gravitational field of two other point masses that are fixed in space.
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Foundations of geometry
Foundations of geometry is the study of geometries as axiomatic systems.
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Frances Cope
Frances Cope, also known as Frances Thorndike (August 19, 1902 - May 14, 1983), was an American mathematician who published on irregular differential equations.
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Garrett Birkhoff
Garrett Birkhoff (January 19, 1911 – November 22, 1996) was an American mathematician.
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George D. Birkhoff House
The George D. Birkhoff House is a historic house located at 22 Craigie Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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George David Birkhoff Prize
The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded – jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – in honour of George David Birkhoff (1884–1944).
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Graph coloring
In graph theory, graph coloring is a special case of graph labeling; it is an assignment of labels traditionally called "colors" to elements of a graph subject to certain constraints.
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Griffith Baley Price
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Haskell Curry
Haskell Brooks Curry (September 12, 1900 – September 1, 1982) was an American mathematician and logician.
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Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney (March 23, 1907 – May 10, 1989) was an American mathematician.
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Helmholtz theorem (classical mechanics)
The Helmholtz theorem of classical mechanics reads as follows: Let be the Hamiltonian of a one-dimensional system, where is the kinetic energy and is a "U-shaped" potential energy profile which depends on a parameter V. Let \left\langle \cdot \right\rangle _ denote the time average.
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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science.
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Hilbert's twenty-first problem
The twenty-first problem of the 23 Hilbert problems, from the celebrated list put forth in 1900 by David Hilbert, concerns the existence of a certain class of linear differential equations with specified singular points and monodromic group.
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Hyperbolic orthogonality
In plane geometry, two lines are hyperbolic orthogonal when they are reflections of each other over the asymptote of a given hyperbola.
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Indecomposable continuum
In point-set topology, an indecomposable continuum is a continuum that is indecomposable, i.e. that cannot be expressed as the union of any two of its proper subcontinua.
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Index of physics articles (G)
The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
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Institut Henri Poincaré
The Henri Poincaré Institute (or IHP for Institut Henri Poincaré) is a mathematics research institute part of Sorbonne University, in association with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
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Isador M. Sheffer
Isador Mitchell Sheffer (October 15, 1901–April 20, 1992) was an American mathematician best known for the Sheffer sequence of polynomials.
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Isomonodromic deformation
In mathematics, the equations governing the isomonodromic deformation of meromorphic linear systems of ordinary differential equations are, in a fairly precise sense, the most fundamental exact nonlinear differential equations.
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József Kürschák
József Kürschák (14 March 1864 – 26 March 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations.
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Jürgen Moser
Jürgen Kurt Moser (July 4, 1928 – December 17, 1999) was an award-winning, German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
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John N. Mather
John Norman Mather (June 9, 1942 – January 28, 2017) was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics.
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Joseph L. Walsh
Joseph Leonard "Joe" Walsh (September 21, 1895 – December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis.
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Joseph Slepian
Joseph Slepian (February 11, 1891 – December 19, 1969) was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to the developments of electrical apparatus and theory.
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Joseph Wedderburn
Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn FRSE FRS (2 February 1882, Forfar, Angus, Scotland – 9 October 1948, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Scottish mathematician, who taught at Princeton University for most of his career.
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Lazar Lyusternik
Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (also Lusternik, Lusternick, Ljusternik; Ла́зарь Аро́нович Люсте́рник; 31 December 1899, Zduńska Wola, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (present-day Republic of Poland) – 23 July 1981, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union) was a Soviet mathematician.
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Leroy P. Steele Prize
The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics.
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Lev Schnirelmann
Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man; Лев Ге́нрихович Шнирельма́н; January 2, 1905 – September 24, 1938) was a Soviet mathematician who worked on number theory, topology and differential geometry.
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Lipót Fejér
Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér,; 9 February 1880 – 15 October 1959) was a Hungarian born Jewish mathematician.
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List of aestheticians
This is a list of aestheticians (or aestheticists), philosophers of art, and aesthetes.
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List of American mathematicians
This is a list of American mathematicians.
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List of contributors to general relativity
This is a partial list of persons who have made major contributions to the development of standard mainstream general relativity.
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List of craters on the Moon: A–B
The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature maintained by the International Astronomical Union includes the diameter of the crater and the person the crater is named for.
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List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers
This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers.
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List of mathematicians (B)
No description.
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List of mathematicians born in the 19th century
Mathematicians born in the 19th century listed by nationality.
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 188 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders.
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List of people by Erdős number
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) was the most prolifically published mathematician of all time.
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List of people from Michigan
This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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List of scientific laws named after people
This is a list of scientific laws named after people (eponymous laws).
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List of University of Chicago alumni
This list of University of Chicago alumni consists of notable people who graduated or attended the University of Chicago.
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List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people
This is a list of notable people who attended, or taught at, the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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March 21
In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries.
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Marie Charpentier
Marie Charpentier (1903–1994) was the first woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, and the second woman, after Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin, to obtain a faculty position in mathematics at a university in France.
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Marshall Harvey Stone
Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903 – January 9, 1989) was an American mathematician who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology and the study of Boolean algebras.
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Marston Morse
Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory.
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Mathematical physics
Mathematical physics refers to the development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics.
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Mathematics and art
Mathematics and art are related in a variety of ways.
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Max Bense
Max Bense (February 7, 1910 in Strasbourg – April 29, 1990 in Stuttgart) was a German philosopher, writer, and publicist, known for his work in philosophy of science, logic, aesthetics, and semiotics.
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Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra.
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Meanings of minor planet names: 15001–16000
|- | 15001 Fuzhou || || Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, P.R. China.
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Newcomb Cleveland Prize
The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is annually awarded to author(s) of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science.
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Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener (November 26, 1894 – March 18, 1964) was an American mathematician and philosopher.
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Oliver Dimon Kellogg
Oliver Dimon Kellogg (10 July 1878 – 27 August 1932) was an American mathematician.
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Oseledets theorem
In mathematics, the multiplicative ergodic theorem, or Oseledets theorem provides the theoretical background for computation of Lyapunov exponents of a nonlinear dynamical system.
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Oskar Bolza
Oskar Bolza (12 May 1857 – 5 July 1942) was a German mathematician, and student of Felix Klein.
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Overisel Township, Michigan
Overisel Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Paul Althaus Smith
Paul Althaus Smith (May 18, 1900June 13, 1980) was an American mathematician.
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Perkins Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics
The Perkins Professorship of Astronomy and Mathematics is an endowed professorship established at Harvard College in 1842 by James Perkins, Jr., (1761–1822).
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Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem
In symplectic topology and dynamical systems, Poincaré–Birkhoff theorem (also known as Poincaré–Birkhoff fixed point theorem and Poincaré's last geometric theorem) states that every area-preserving, orientation-preserving homeomorphism of an annulus that rotates the two boundaries in opposite directions has at least two fixed points.
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Point–line–plane postulate
In geometry, the point–line–plane postulate is a collection of assumptions (axioms) that can be used in a set of postulates for Euclidean geometry in two (plane geometry), three (solid geometry) or more dimensions.
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President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), founded in 1848, is the world's largest general scientific society.
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Processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure
The processing fluency theory of aesthetic pleasure is a theory in psychological aesthetics on how people experience beauty.
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Raymond Woodard Brink
Raymond Woodard Brink (4 January 1890 in Newark, New Jersey – 27 December 1973 in La Jolla, California) was an American mathematician.
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Recurrent point
In mathematics, a recurrent point for a function f is a point that is in its own limit set by f. Any neighborhood containing the recurrent point will also contain (a countable number of) iterates of it as well.
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Robert Daniel Carmichael
Robert Daniel Carmichael (March 1, 1879 – May 2, 1967) was an American mathematician.
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Ron Larson
Roland "Ron" Edwin Larson (born October 31, 1941) is a professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Pennsylvania.
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Rudolf Ernest Langer
Rudolf Ernest Langer (8 March 1894 – 11 March 1968) was an American mathematician, known for the Langer correction and as a president of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Selmer M. Johnson
Selmer Martin Johnson (21 May 1916 – 26 June 1996) was an American mathematician, a researcher at the RAND Corporation.
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Similarity (geometry)
Two geometrical objects are called similar if they both have the same shape, or one has the same shape as the mirror image of the other.
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Stanislaw Ulam
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish-American scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics.
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Structural stability
In mathematics, structural stability is a fundamental property of a dynamical system which means that the qualitative behavior of the trajectories is unaffected by small perturbations (to be exact ''C''1-small perturbations).
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Symbolic dynamics
In mathematics, symbolic dynamics is the practice of modeling a topological or smooth dynamical system by a discrete space consisting of infinite sequences of abstract symbols, each of which corresponds to a state of the system, with the dynamics (evolution) given by the shift operator.
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Tibor Radó
Tibor Radó (June 2, 1895 – December 29, 1965) was a Hungarian mathematician who moved to the United States after World War I.
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Timeline of black hole physics
Timeline of black hole physics.
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Topological dynamics
In mathematics, topological dynamics is a branch of the theory of dynamical systems in which qualitative, asymptotic properties of dynamical systems are studied from the viewpoint of general topology.
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Vyacheslav Stepanov
Vyacheslav Vassilievich Stepanov (Вячеслав Васильевич Степанов; 4 September 1889, Smolensk – 22 July 1950, Moscow) was a Russian mathematician, specializing in analysis.
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Wandering set
In those branches of mathematics called dynamical systems and ergodic theory, the concept of a wandering set formalizes a certain idea of movement and mixing in such systems.
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William Fogg Osgood
William Fogg Osgood (March 10, 1864, Boston – July 22, 1943, Belmont, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician, born in Boston.
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Yusuke Hagihara
was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.
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1884
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2015 in public domain
This is a list of authors whose works enter the public domain in part of the world in 2015.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_David_Birkhoff
