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Angelo Genocchi Facts

Angelo Genocchi (5 March 1817 – 7 March 1889) was an Italian mathematician who specialized in number theory. He worked with Giuseppe Peano. The Genocchi numbers are named after him.

Taro Morishima Facts

Taro Morishima (森嶋 太郎, Morishima Tarō, 1903 – 1989) was a Japanese mathematician specializing in algebra who attended University of Tokyo in Japan. Morishima published at least thirteen papers, including his work on Fermat’s Last Theorem.

Derrick Crothers Facts

Derrick Crothers (born 24 June 1942) is a Northern Irish mathematician, physicist and former politician.

Michael Fekete Facts

Michael (Mihály) Fekete (Hebrew: מיכאל פקטה‎‎; July 19, 1886 – May 13, 1957) was an Israeli-Hungarian mathematician.

Abraham Fraenkel Facts

Abraham Halevi (Adolf) Fraenkel (Hebrew: אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל‎; February 17, 1891, Munich, Germany – October 15, 1965, Jerusalem, Israel), known as Abraham Fraenkel, was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early

Christian Kramp Facts

Christian Kramp (8 July 1760 – 13 May 1826) was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials.

Guy Terjanian Facts

Guy Terjanian is a French mathematician who has worked on algebraic number theory. He achieved his Ph.D under Claude Chevalley in 1966, and at that time published a counterexample to the original form of a conjecture of Emil Artin, which suitably mod

Alexander Abrosimov Facts

Alexánder Víktorovich Abrósimov (Nov 16, 1948 – June 20, 2011) was a Russian mathematician and teacher.

Adi Shamir Facts

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר‎; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uri

Marko Petkovšek Facts

Marko Petkovšek is a Slovenian mathematician, born: 1955, working mainly in symbolic computation. He is a professor of discrete and computational mathematics at the University of Ljubljana. He completed his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University under

Peter Lax Facts

Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperboli

Iain Clayton Facts