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James Carroll Facts

James Macklin “Mac” Hyman (born 1950) is an applied mathematician formerly at Los Alamos National Laboratory and currently at Tulane University in the United States. He received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University and his PhD in 1976 from

Lee Segel Facts

Lee Aaron Segel (1932–2005) was an applied mathematician primarily at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is particularly known for his work in the spontaneous appearance of order in convection, slime mold

Alexei Borodin Facts

Alexei Mikhailovich Borodin (Russian: Алексе́й Михайлович Бороди́н; born June 25, 1975) is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dorothy Vaughan Facts

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan (1910–2008) was an African American mathematician who worked at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor agency to NASA. Prior to arriving at NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in

Étienne Ghys Facts

Étienne Ghys (born 29 December 1954) is a French mathematician. His research focuses mainly on geometry and dynamical systems, though his mathematical interests are broad. He also expresses much interest in the historical development of mathematical

Avi Wigderson Facts

Avi Wigderson (Hebrew: אבי ויגדרזון‎; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research interests include complexity t

Hans Spemann Facts

Hans Spemann (27 June 1869 – 9 September 1941) was a German embryologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935 for his discovery of the effect now known as embryonic induction, an influence, exercised by various parts of t

Victor Andreevich Toponogov Facts

Victor Andreevich Toponogov (Russian: Ви́ктор Андре́евич Топоно́гов; March 6, 1930

Wu Wenjun Facts

Wu Wenjun (simplified Chinese: 吴文俊; traditional Chinese: 吳文俊; pinyin: Wú Wénjùn; Wade–Giles:

Raoul Bott Facts

Raoul Bott, ForMemRS (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005) was a Hungarian-American mathematician known f

Matt Parker Facts

Matthew “Matt” Parker (born December 22, 1980) is an Australian stand-up comedian, author, YouTube personality

Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin Facts

Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (Russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Со́нин, February 22, 1849 –