George Pólya papers 1884-1985

Brentano, Franz Clemens, 1838-1917

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Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist generally regarded as the founder of act psychology, or intentionalism. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1864 and appointed a professor at the University of Würzburg in 1872. In 1873 he resigned from both his post at the university and the priesthood. He then began writing one of his most influential works, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte (1874; Psychology from an empirical sta...

Lehmer, D. H. (Derrick Henry), 1905-

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Hadamard, Jacques, 1865-1963

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Siegel, Carl Ludwig, 1896-

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Stäckel, Paul, 1862-1919

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Bieberbach, Ludwig, 1886-1982

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De Finetti, Bruno

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Bruno de Finetti was born on June 13, 1906, in Innsbruck, Austria, and died in Rome on July 20, 1985. He began his academic career at the Polytechnic of Milan in 1923 as a student of engineering but later enrolled in the mathematics program at Milan University. While still an undergraduate student, he published his first paper in the area of biomathematics entitled "Mathematical Considerations Regarding Mendelian Heredity." After completing his degree in applied mathematics in 1927, he joined th...

Hensel, Kurt, 1861-1941

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Kurt Hensel (29 December 1861 – 1 June 1941), German mathematician, brother of philosopher Paul Hensel. His paternal grandparents were painter Wilhelm Hensel and composer Fanny Mendelssohn. He was a professor at the University of Marburg until 1930. ...

Fejér, Lipót.

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Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-....

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Professor of computer science at Stanford University. From the description of Mathematical writing (CS 209) : lectures, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354419 From the description of 3:16 BIBLE TEXTS ILLUMINATED production records, 1978-1996 (inclusive), 1985-1996 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398500 Professor of computer science at Stanford University, Donald Ervin Knuth was born in 1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received a B.S. from Case Inst...

Littlewood, John E. (John Edensor), 1885-1977

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Epithet: fellow of Trinity College Cambridge British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0001eb Mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84080441 ...

von Pidoll, Max.

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Norlund, Niels Erik, 1885-

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Edrei, Albert

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Pringsheim, Alfred, 1850-1941

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Frege, Gottlob, 1848-1925

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Hecke, Erich, 1887-1947

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Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustaf, 1846-1927

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Professor of mathematics at the University of Stockholm, member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155004854 ...

Jentzsch, Robert, 1890-

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Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

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Physicist. From the description of Reminiscences of Eugene Paul Wigner : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419196 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1984 Apr. 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283818 From the description of Oral history interview with Eugene Paul Wigner, 1987 May 12. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: ...

Hille, Einar, 1894-1979

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Beke, Manó, 1862-1946

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Riesz, Frigyes, 1880-1956

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Stern, Alfred

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Toeplitz, Otto, 1881-1940

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Borel, Émile, 1871-1956

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Haar, Alfréd, 1885-1933

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Schlesinger, Ludwig, 1864-

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Sierpiński, Wacław, 1882-1969

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Ostrowski, A. M. (Alexander M.), 1893-

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Higgins, Thomas James, 1911-1998

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Kiefer, Albert, 1884-

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Hadwiger, Hugo.

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Hardy, G.H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947

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Mathematician and Fellow of Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154305994 ...

Carathéodory, Constantin, 1873-1950

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Schur, Issai, 1875-1941

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Stanford University. Dept. of Mathematics

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Prather, Carl.

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Landau, Edmund, 1877-1938

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Wirtinger, Wilhelm, 1865-1945

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Hilbert, David, 1862-1943

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German mathematician and professor, who discovered or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas of mathematics, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. He also formulated the theory of "Hilbert spaces," one of the foundations of functional analysis. He is also one of the founders of proof theory. For many years, he held a position at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Göttingen. From the description of Vorlesungen über die Funkti...

Kollros, Louis, 1878-

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Schoenberg, I. J.

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Keszthelyi, Tibor, Dr.

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Szegö, Gábor, 1895-1985

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Alexanderson, Gerald L.

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Pfluger, Albert, 1907-

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Fekete, Mihaly, 1886-1957.

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Young, Grace Chisolm.

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Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

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Physicist (mathematical physics, atomic physics, theoretical physics, wave mechanics, quantum mechanics). On the mineralogy faculty at Georg-August Universität zu Göttingen (1893-1897); on the mathematics faculty at Technische Universität Clausthal (1897-1900); on the mechanics faculty at the Technische Hochschule zu Aachen (1900-1906); and on the physics faculty at Universität München from 1906. From the description of Papers, ("New" Sommerfeld Nachlass), ca. 1890-ca. 1950. (Un...

Nevanlinna, Rolf, 1895-1980

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Harary, Frank

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Kamke, E. (Erich), 1890-1961

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Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

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Bohr, Harald August, 1887-1951

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Pólya, George, 1887-

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Hungarian mathematician George Pólya was educated at the University of Budapest and the University of Paris, and taught at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1914 to 1940. His students included future Stanford physics professors Felix Bloch and Hans Staub. In 1942 he joined Stanford's Department of Mathematics, whose chairman, Gábor Szegö, had been a fellow student in Hungary. He continued ...

Tietze, Heinrich, 1880-1964

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Montel, Paul, 1876-

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Szász, Otto, 1884-1952

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Otto Szász was a mathematician. From the guide to the Otto Szász notebook, 1907-1908, 1907-1908, (American Philosophical Society) Otto Szász was a mathematician. From the description of Notebook, 1907-1908. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 173466237 ...

Bernays, Paul, 1888-1977

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Runge, Carl, 1856-1927

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Mathematician and physicist. Studied University of Munich, University of Berlin (Ph.D. 1880, Habil. 1883). Techn. Hochschule Hannover, professor 1886; University of Göttingen, professor 1904-1924. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77663331 ...

Hurwitz, Adolf, 1859-1919

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Professor of mathematics at Polytechnic, Zurich. From the description of Wiss. Manuskripte. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81276730 Mathematician. Priv. Doz. at Göttingen, 1882-1883; Professor in Königsberg. From the description of Correspondence. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80630227 ...

Hirsch, Arthur 1866-1948

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