He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986.Career in mathematics Hales, formerly at the University of Michigan, and now University of Pittsburgh Mellon Professor of mathematics, advocates ...
Imagine filling a large container with small equal-sized spheres. The density of the arrangement is equal to the collective volume of the spheres divided by the volume of the container. To maximize th ...
Statement The theorem states that any elliptic curve over Q can be obtained via a rational map with integer coefficients from the classical modular curveX_0(N)\ for some integer N; this is a curve wit ...
He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1984 and 1985. He entered the ?cole Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Gérard La ...
In a very broad context, the program built on existing ideas: the philosophy of cusp forms formulated a few years earlier by Harish-Chandra and Gelfand (1963), the work and approach of Harish-Chandra ...
Kato's conjecture is a mathematical problem named after mathematician Tosio Kato, of the University of California, Berkeley. Kato initially posed the problem in 1953.Kato asked whether the square root ...
Preda V. Mih?ilescu (born May 23, 1955) is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of Catalan's conjecture.Born in Bucharest, he is the brother of Vintil? Mih?ilescu. After leaving Roman ...
The history of the problem dates back at least to Gersonides, who proved a special case of the conjecture in 1343 where x and y were restricted to be 2 or 3.In 1976, Robert Tijdeman applied Baker's me ...
Grigori Perelman was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) on 13 June 1966, to Jewish parents Yakov (who now lives in Israel) and Lyubov. Grigori's mother Lyubov gave up gradu ...
Robin Thomas is a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Re ...
Seymour was born in Plymouth, Devon, England. He was a day student at Plymouth College, and then studied at Exeter College, Oxford, gaining a BA degree in 1971, and D.Phil in 1975.Career From 1974–19 ...
In 1969, Robertson joined the faculty of The Ohio State University, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1972 and Professor in 1984. He was a consultant with Bell Communications Research fr ...
Chudnovsky is a professor in the departments of mathematics and of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion, an ...
A perfect graph is a graph in which, for every induced subgraph, the size of the maximum clique equals the minimum number of colors in a coloring of the graph; perfect graphs include many well-known g ...
Early life, education, life, and death Paul Erd?s was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary, on March 26, 1913. He was the only surviving child of Anna and Lajos Erd?s (formerly Engl?nder); h ...
