People whose names are embedded in Math Subject Classifcation (1991 version). This file is in several parts. 1. Short introduction 2. The list of names 3. Insightful or amusing comments about what can be found in the list. 3A. Use of name in unusual fashion 3B. Names figuring prominently in the MSC 3C. Famous names not in the MSC 3D. Shared last names on the list 3E. Similar but distinct last names on the list 3F. General comments on the use of people's names within the MSC 3G. Living people on the list 4. Biographical data to clarify the persons to whom the names refer. 4A. Distinguishing MSC people from non-MSC people with the same name 4B. Information available from St Andrews 4C. Other biographical resources consulted (or not!) 4D. Specific biographical pointers on non-St.Andrews names. 4E. Appeal for help. 5. Chronological listing of all people mentioned. [Written in 1998, this list has been reviewed periodically, last on 2005-02-04] [A section 6 at the end contains a hodge-podge of data I have collected since the first writing, usually from people who have written to help.] ============================================================================== 1. Short introduction This file, http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/98/MSC.names discusses the set of people whose names are used in the Mathematics Subject Classification scheme (1991 version), which is widely used to classify newly-appearing mathematical literature. This project was begun on a lark, the preliminary results then reported to the USENET newsgroup sci.math: >From: rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin) >Subject: You know you've made it in mathematics when... >Date: 15 Feb 1998 04:14:32 GMT > >Musings on a quiet Saturday afternoon: > >One sign of a mathematician's success is to have his or her name >identified with an object of study, or indeed a whole area of study. >I looked to see who is mentioned by name in the Mathematics Subject >Classification scheme. (I had the 1980 scheme at home.) There were many >more names than I would have expected, and more than I could identify! The project took on a life of its own as I attempted to identify the parties involved (and bring the list up to date by using the 1991 MSC). The current source for the list of names is the MSC text itself, obtained from http://www.zblmath.fiz-karlsruhe.de/class/msc.html I simply inserted a linefeed before each capital letter, sorted, and hand-edited. Editing was limited to these steps: Names translated back to personal format (from e.g. "Nonabelian", "Pappian", "Diophantine", or "Cartesian", or even "algorithm" or "America" !) A few Russian Cyrillic names "corrected" from MSC (e.g. Kreuin -> Krein) Also changed Blashke to Blaschke. Deleted some capitalized words which _as far as I can determine_ are not personal names (e.g. Bibasic) Removed duplicate references to single individuals (watching out for duplicate appearances of a name which refer to distinct individuals). Naturally I had to tweak the list a bit (e.g. Mac Lane has to be one person, as does van Kampen, de Vries, etc.; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer has to be two, and de Rham must be under "d"). The result is the set of names shown below in section 2. For your sorting pleasure, it is just a one-name=one-word=one-line ASCII text file. This means that last names shared by distinct individuals are simply repeated! _As far as I can determine_, this applies to just 5 last names, so that there are 357 people represented in the MSC. [I have recently included, for some names, the MSC codes containing them.] In section 3 I have sorted some of the observations about this list made by myself and others in newsgroup postings and in email. This material is fairly subjective. In section 4 I try to give some identifying information regarding the people mentioned and the (expected) reason they are included in the MSC. In many cases, this is simply a reference to the History of Mathematics Biography Archive at St Andrews University: http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/ For persons not included there I have assembled some information drawn from sources easily available; as I receive corrections and updates (HINT HINT) I will adjust this file. For many of the family names in the MSC list I have mentioned some other individuals with the same last name, just to clarify who is who. (Here too it is clear the comments could become much longer.) If you want to find out how individuals' names are used in the MSC, try this word-lookup server for the MSC: http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-msc_keyword.html or this hypertext form of the MSC: http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-classification.html Please note that the newest version of the MSC has been announced (1998) for use starting in 2000; this biography project has not been updated to reflect this version. For some general pointers giving further information regarding the history of mathematics, as well as biographies of these and other mathematicians, visit section 01 (History and Biography) of http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/welcome.html Should adjustments make this file too lengthy, it may have to be split up or moved around in my file system, but the preceding URL will always have links to this file or its parts. Please observe that I have no formal training as a historian. As a mathematician I'm inclined to commit the usual transgressions (e.g. relying on secondary sources -- especially Math Reviews, whose entry numbers accompany the papers cited below. These are included so that interested readers can use MR's "find same author" feature.) Many people suggested leads and corrections while I formed this list. I'd like to thank in particular B.H.Neumann, Jeffrey Joel, Vitali Milman. Alexandre Kirillov, Jon Alperin, D.N. Verma, Lester Helms, and Eric Behr. I hope to receive more information to complete this file, in particular for the roughly 6 names for which I don't even have accurate dates. Dave Rusin rusin@math.niu.edu Last updated: 1999/05/28 [Additional thanks to those who sent in corrections and more information later, especially J.R. Partington.] ============================================================================== 2. The list of 357 names in alphabetical order Abel Adams Airy Aleksandrov al'Khwarizmi Ampere Anosov 58F15 Appell 33C65 Arakelov 14G40 Archimedes Aronszajn Artin Auslander Azumaya Backlund Baire Baker Banach Barbilian Bayes Bell Bergman Bernoulli Bernstein Bers Bessel Bethe Birch Blaschke Bloch Bockstein 55U20 Boltzmann Boole Borel Bott Brauer Brewer Brillouin 34E20 78A45 81Q20 81U05 Brown Buchsbaum Burgers 35Q53 Burnside Busemann Calderon Cantor Caratheodory Cartan Cauchy Cech Cesaro Charles Chebyshev Chern Choquet Chow Clifford Cohen five Coxeter Cremona Daniell Darboux Dedekind Dehn deMorgan Denjoy deRham deVries 35Q53 Desargues Descartes Diophantus Dirac Dirichlet Ditkin Drinfeld Dyer Eckmann Eilenberg Einstein Engel Enriques Epstein Erdos Euclid Euler Fano Farey Fatou Fermat Feynman Fibonacci Finsler Fitting Fokker 82C31 Fourier Franz Frattini Frechet Fredholm Fresnel Frobenius Fuchs Fuks 57R32 58H10 Gale Galerkin Galois Galton Gateaux [Gâteaux] 49J50, 58C20 Gauss Gegenbauer Gelfand Gelfond Gersten 19D25 Godel Goldbach Goldie Gordon Gorenstein Grassmann Green Grobner Gromov Grothendieck Haar Hadamard Hahn Hamilton Hammerstein 47H30 Hankel Hardy Hartogs Hausdorff Hecke Helly Helmholtz Helson Hensel Hermite Heyting Higman Hilbert Hill Hilton Hjelmslev Hochschild Hodge Holder Hopf Hopf Horn 33C65 Hurwitz Ising Iwasawa Jackson Jacobi Jacobson Jacobsthal James 62J07 Jordan Kac Kahler Kaluza Kan 18A40 Karoubi 19D25 Kasparov 19K35 Kirillov 16P90 Klein Kleisli Kloosterman Kolmogorov Korteweg Kothe 46A45 46E30 Kovalevskaya Kramers 34E20 78A45 81Q20 81U05 Krasner Krein Kronecker Krull Kunneth Kutta 65L06 Lagrange Laguerre Lame Langevin Langlands Laplace Lashof Laurent Lauricella 33C65 Lebesgue Lefschetz Legendre Lerch Lidstone Lie Lindelof Liouville Lipschitz Littlewood Ljusternik Lorentz 22E43 46E30 53B30 53C50 [hm - 46E30 same person as others?] Lucas Lukasiewicz Lyapunov Macaulay Machlup Mackey MacLane Maclaurin Maeda 51D05 Malcev Malliavin Markov Martin Martin 31C35 Maslov 81Q20 Massey Mathieu Maxwell Mikusinski Mills Milman Milnor Minkowski Mobius Monge Montel Moody Moore Moore Morita Morse Nash Navier Nemytskii 47H30 Neumann Neumann Neumann Nevanlinna Newton Nikodym Nikolskii Noether Norlund Onsager Ore Orlicz 46E30 Pade Paley Pappus Pareto Peirce 17C27 Perron Petersson Pfaff Picard Planck Poincare Poisson Popov 34D25 93D10 Post Postnikov Potts Prufer Pythagoras Radon Ramsey Raphson Rayleigh Rees Regge 83C27 Reidemeister Reinhardt Reiten 16G70 Riemann Riesz Ritz Roch Rossby Runge 32E30 65L06 Saint-Venant Saks Salpeter Samuel Sasaki 53C25 Schatten 47B10 Schnirelman Schoenflies Schottky Schrodinger Schubert Schunck 20D10 Schur Schwartz Schwarz Selberg Serre Shannon Shimura Sidon Siegel Sitnikov Smale Smith Sobolev Spanier Spencer Steenrod Stefan Stein Stein Steinberg Steiner Stieltjes Stirling Stokes Stone Sturm Suslin Swinnerton-Dyer Sylow Sylvester Tate Tauber Taylor Teichmuller Thue Toeplitz Torelli Turan Turing Ulm Uryson vanKampen 20F06 Vekua Verma 22E47 Veronese Vespucci :-) Villamayor 19D25 Virasoro 17B68 81R10 Volterra vonNeumann Wall Walsh Waring Watson Weierstrass Weil Weinstein Wentzel 34E20 78A45 81Q20 81U05 Weyl Whitehead Wiener Wigner Witt Yang Zorn Zygmund ============================================================================== 3. Insightful or amusing comments about what can be found in the list. 3A. Use of name in unusual fashion 3B. Names figuring prominently in the MSC 3C. Famous names not in the MSC 3D. Shared last names on the list 3E. Similar but distinct last names on the list 3F. General comments on the use of people's names within the MSC 3G. Living people on the list 3A. Use of name in unusual fashion: Abel is bestowed the unique honor of having his name used without capitalization. (Other authors, particularly those writing in French, extend this treatment to other mathematicians' names.) Abel is treated in another unique way: his name is combined as the root in the word "metabelian". Regarding possibly similar examples, Lee Rudolph writes: > See also 46C05 ("pre-Hilbert"), > 47A53 ("(Semi-) Fredholm"), and 60K15 and 90C40 ("semi-Markov"). > Not quite the same, what with all the hyphens, I admit. Likewise quasi-Frobenius (16L60), quasi-Banach (46A16) co-Saks (46A70) Archimedes is referred to only in the negative! (Non-Archimedean XXX). A few others are known in both positive and negative form (Newton, Euclid, Abel, Desargues, Markov). There are few whose names are thoroughly-enough embedded in the language that they are subject to inflection, e.g. Abelian, Boolean, Pappian, Diophantine, Cartesian, Euclidean, and the extreme cases of algorithm and America. (I've even included Prince Charles III of Monaco, who named the Monte Carlo region of Monaco -- apparently after himself.) A few mathematicians are known through abbreviations. For example KdV [=Korteveg-deVries] is used in the MSC (35Q53) but it is also spelled out there; similarly NLS-like (nonlinear Schrodinger). On the other hand, the WKB method (34E20, 78A45, 81Q20, and indirectly 81U05) refers to Wentzel, Kramers, and Brillouin 1926 [source: EDM]. There are some abbreviations which may represent people, for all I know: what's a BCK- or BCI-algebra (06F35), for example? Do PV-numbers refer, perhaps, to Pisot? BN pairs? CR-manifolds? [See attachments -- djr 2005] Indeed, we can go further: in 57M40 and 57N we find a reference to "E^3", which is Euclidean space (the "S" in "S^3" stands for "sphere"). This raises many possibilities for other names (e.g., didn't Banach himself refer to "B-spaces" before they became known as Banach spaces?) What's the "L" in "L^p-spaces" or "H" in "H^p" (46B20) or "K" in "K-theory", "K_0", etc.? The "C" in C^* algebras? The "F" in hypergeometric functions (and E, G, H there, too)? LB, LF, DF, B-completeness (46A)? The separation axioms T_0 etc. (54D)? "q" in "q-calculus" (05A)? Maybe even the $lambda$ in $lambda$-calculus? $zeta$ and L-function? T-ideals? J-morphism? S-matrix? And does H-with-an-inverted-circumflex-accent appear in any presentations of cohomology? -- that would be Cech's accent! I don't believe any uses of a name refer to more than one person simultaneously, although it is possible that "Riesz" refers to both brothers at once. (I assume "Maeda geometries" refers to Fumitomo but he had at least one joint work with his son.) Among those whose names are included in a non-obvious way are al'Khwarizmi ("algorithm"), Amerigo Vespucci ("Americas"), and Charles III Prince of Monaco ("Monte Carlo"). "Fibonacci" is of course really just the nickname of Leonard of Pisa (Leonardo Pisano) I'm assuming words like Creep, Radical, Peculiar, etc. are not references to anyone in particular :-). [Note that Moody is a person, though!] I am assured Ridge is not a person. There are some 2673 distinct words in the MSC. This includes 350 distinct last names, a moderate number of duplicates (e.g. singular/plural) and a moderate number of non-technical words; I estimate well over a thousand fairly technical terms. Some of the people in the list are not primarily mathematicians. Whether or not one considers the statisticians and computer scientists to be mathematicians, there are plenty of physicists who are surely in a separate category. I have also encountered a chemist (Onsager), a meteorologist (Rossby), and a geologist (Farey), as well as a rabbit-farmer (Fibonacci), map-maker (Vespucci), prince (Charles III Grimaldi), and of course the ancients whose line of work is difficult to classify. A number of the people whose names are on the list may well be/have been professional mathematicians but their contributions to the literature are meager; "pauca sed matura" is it? Among those with very slim publication records (and, usually, little biographical data): Arakelov, Farey, Gateaux, James, R. Martin, Schunck, deVries 3B. Names figuring prominently in the MSC: Lie and Fourier are the two people mentioned by name in the top-level (2-digit) classifications: Lie Groups - 22, and Fourier Analysis - 42. At the next level (3-digit headings) we have also Boole, Diophantus, Artin, Jordan, Abel, Riemann, Banach, Hilbert, von Neumann, Caratheordory, Hamilton, Jacobi, Markov, Lagrange, the K-theorists Grothendieck, Whitehead, Steinberg, and the geometers Hjelmslev, Barbilian. (Some familiarity with the MSC suggests I treat the last 5 differently.) The most heavily-used names include Galois and Riemann (no surprise there) as well as Hermite (much more than I would have guessed). Of course, there are a lot of references to Herr Dr. Eigen, too... Those whose names appear more than 10 times are these eleven: Lie [54] Fourier [35] Banach [27] Riemann [24] Hilbert [22] Abel [23] Markov [20] Galois [13] Hermite [13] Boole [11] Euclid [11] If I have counted correctly, there is 1 name which appears 9 times; 1 eights, 8 sevens, 3 sixes, 12 fives, 14 fours, 27 threes, 57 twos, and 222 names which occur once each. (Well, 35Q30 lists Stokes twice; that's only one citation really, right? Likewise 62C10 for Bayes, 35Q53 Gordon, 11F20 Dedekind, 54E52 Baire, 14D05 Picard, 14C30 Hodge, 04A15 Suslin, 16G70 Auslander AND Reiten, 16U20 Ore, 46A70 Saks, 32E10 Stein, 20D20 Sylow). For this count, Burnside isn't "really" mentioned in 20Cxx, nor Maclaurin in 40A25, nor any of WKB in 81U05. I'm not counting the appearances of names in a 2- or 3-digit classification. Even better than being attached to "XXX spaces" or "of XXX type" is to play the title role in "XXX theory". Those so honored in the MSC are Arakelov deRham Cartan Galois Hodge Iwasawa Kasparov Littlewood-Paley Morse Nevanlinna Ramsey Riemann Shannon Smith Sturm-Liouville Teichmuller Turan Weyl 3C. Famous names not in the MSC: Define "famous"! Still, a few reasonable names are indeed missing: Of the 42 Fields medalists so far honored, only these 8 are on this list: Baker, Grothendieck, Drinfeld, Milnor, Schwartz, Selberg, Serre, Smale I suppose it's only a matter of time until we have "Atiyah theory", say. For comparison, there are at least 12 Nobel prize-winners on the list: Physics: Lorentz, Rayleigh, Planck, Einstein, Schroedinger, Dirac, Yang, Wigner, Feynman, Bethe Chemistry: Onsager Economics: Nash There are several other Nobel prize-winners who are not on the list but could arguably be noted for the mathematical contributions. For example, one might expect Physics: Heisenberg, Pauli, Bohr, Landau Economics: Arrow Literature: Echegary (There are also some clashes of names: The Segre of physics is not the mathematician Benianamo; the Landau above is not the number theorist Edmund; Niels Bohr won the Nobel in physics and his brother Harald was a mathematician) For biographies of Nobel-winners, see e.g. http://www.nobel.se/laureates/physics-1957-1-bio.html for Yang. A number of names which were in the 1980 MSC have been removed from the 1991 MSC; fame is so fleeting! Kummer was dropped in 1985 and Burkill, Gabriel, Peano, Poinsot, Silva, Tricomi, Tsien in 1991. (I have not looked systematically for names which have appeared in previous versions of the MSC.) I was sorry not to see "student" listed among the Statistics topics :-( I haven't looked very carefully to see if the list reflects any particular bias, systematically under-representing any groups. As far as I can see the only women on the list are Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hanna Neumann, Emma Noether, and Idun Reiten, but many of the 357 are individuals with whom I am not familiar. Leibniz, Pascal, Vieta, and Takagi have their own biographies in the EDM, an elite set of 34 such people; also Cayley, Plateau, and Racah have their names used in the comparatively small set of 450 subject headings in the EDM's classification system. None of these, however, is in the MSC. Other absences from the list considered "surprising" by some correspondents: Leibniz, Brouwer, Kaplansky, Mersenne, Courant, Tarski, Ricci, Plato (e.g. Platonic solids. With Archimedean solids, Archimedes could make it to the list in the positive!) In the list of living mathematicians, below, it would have been a treat to list Leopold Vietoris ("Mayer-Vietoris sequence") who was born 1891/06/04 and passed away 2002/04/09, a little before his 111th birthday; at the time of his death he was the oldest person in his country (Austria). 3D. Shared last names on the list Some family names represent more than one person. As far as I can tell, this occurs only for five names: Stein, Neumann, Moore, Martin, and Hopf. (Possibly the Whiteheads refer both to JHC and George? I don't know. See section 4A for possible other cases of mis-identity.) There surely are two Steins (and many **steins!): * 32E10 Stein spaces, Stein manifolds * 62J07 Ridge regression; James-Stein estimators The "statistics" Stein is a reference to the author of: MR 24 #A3025 James, W.; Stein, Charles Estimation with quadratic loss. 1961 Proc. 4th Berkeley Sympos. Math. Statist. and Prob., Vol. I pp. 361--379 Univ. California Press, Berkeley, Calif. (Reviewer: J. Kiefer) 62.30 while the complex analysis Stein is presumably Karl Stein. How many Neumann's are there? We have von Neumann (mentioned in 16E50, 46L, 47B10, 47C15), and these others: * 20E06 Free products, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations * 32F20 \overline\partial- and \overline\partial_b-Neumann problems; also * 35N15 \overline\partial-Neumann problem and generalizations; formal complexes There are several group theorist Neumanns, but HNN extensions refer to Higman, Graham; Neumann, B. H.; Neumann, Hanna Embedding theorems for groups. J. London Math. Soc. 24, (1949). 247--254. 20.0X MR11,322d (These Neumanns were married to each other, and Peter Neumann, another group-theorist, is their son.) I would like to add that Bernhard Neumann was late in life an avid mathematical biographer and frequently assisted me with this project by checking names against his records. His help was invaluable and will be sorely missed. I have been assured that the analysis Neumann is Carl Gottfried Neumann (1832-1925), although other analyst Neumanns have included Franz Ernst (d.~1895) The Moore of * 55T20 Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences, See also {57T35} * 57T35 Applications of Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences, See also {55R20, 55T20} is John C. Moore. However, the Moore of * 54E30 Moore spaces is R.L.(Robert Lee) Moore, 1882-1974. (This is not contemporary functional- analyst Robert L Moore). Eliakim Hastings Moore was the prominent one in the early US mathematics community -- and one of the teachers of R.L.Moore! I believe the "Moore method" of teaching math refers to R.L.Moore. There are 159 Moores in the Math Reviews database. There are also two Martins 03E50 Continuum hypothesis and Martin's axiom, See also 04A30,54A25 31C35 Martin boundary theory, See also 60J50 The former is, I believe, UCLA logician Donald Anthony Martin. The latter is Martin, Robert S. Fascinatingly, I found a recent paper which enjoys _both_ these classifcations! 97c:31016 31C35 03E50 03E75 31D05 46N99 46S20 60J50 Bliedtner, Jürgen(D-FRNK); Loeb, Peter A.(1-IL) Generalized radial limits associated with representing measures. (English) Interaction between functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and probability (Columbia, MO, 1994), 85--96, Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl. Math., 175, Dekker, New York, 1996. Heinz Hopf is the algebraist/topologist ("Hopf Invariant", etc.); he has a biography in the MacTutor archive. * 16S40 Smash products of general Hopf actions * 16W30 Coalgebras, bialgebras, Hopf algebras * 55Q25 Hopf invariants * 57T05 Hopf algebras I believe the analyst is Eberhard Hopf in these mentions: * 45E10 Integral equations of the convolution type (Abel, Picard, Toeplitz and Wiener-Hopf type) * 47A68 Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) * 47B35 Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators [See also 45P05, 47G10 for other integral operators; see also 32H10, 32M15] There were two Riesz brothers, M. and F. (with a joint paper!); I'm not sure to which brother(s?) these MSC names refer: * 06F20 Ordered abelian groups, Riesz groups, ordered linear spaces, See also {46A40} * 42A55 Lacunary series of trigonometric and other functions; Riesz products * 47B06 Riesz operators; eigenvalue distributions; approximation numbers, $s$-numbers, Kolmogorov numbers, entropy numbers, etc. of operators I'm _guessing_ that other occurrences of identical names represent the same person, active in several areas, but in some cases I'm not so sure. (There _seem to be_ no references to Noether's father, for example.) To be positive it would be necessary to go through the list of all names mentioned more than once in the MSC. I have this list, should someone be inclined to check for me. 3E. Similar but distinct last names on the list: Some near misses: Fuks/Fuchs, Schwarz/Schwartz, vonNeumann/Neumann, Weil/Weyl, Gelfand/Gelfond, Dyer/Swinnerton-Dyer, Ruggiero_Torelli/Tullio_Regge, etc. There is probably no need to mention much about this except that much effort was spent distinguishing Gelfand from Gelfond! Several people have patiently explained to me that Gelfand and Gelfond are distinct. The MSC lists * 11J85 Algebraic independence; Gelfond's method * 16P90 Growth rate, Gelfand-Kirillov dimension * 57R32 Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology, * 58H10 Cohomology of classifying spaces for pseudogroup structures (Spencer, Gelfand-Fuks, etc.) I did a search in MathReviews for (Gelfand or Gelfond) and found 700 hits. Among the names I found: 461 hits: Gel\cprime fand, Israel Moiseevich.: works in area 58, many others 83 hits: Gel\cprime fond, Alexander O.: mostly number theory (1947-1986) 66 hits: Gelfand, Sergei I.: work in 14, 18, 94, also 05, 22, ... 38 hits: Gelfand, Alan.E.: Statistics 24 hits: Gelfond, Michae: Computer science, logic 3 hits: Gel\cprime fond, O.A.: work in 52, 32, 13 (The A.O. must be Alexandr Osipovich Gelfond, 1906-1968) Gelfand, S and Gelfand, I.M. are coauthors; I am told the former is son of the latter. It would appear that "Gelfond's method" refers to A.O.Gelfond, "Gelfand-Fuks" and "Gelfand-Kirillov" refer to I.M.Gelfand. Of course, _none_ of these spellings is "right" when they refer to someone whose mother tongue is written in Cyrillic. 3F. General comments on the use of people's names within the MSC. The fields of algebra and topology seem more inclined to use people's names to identify a field; analysis and applications less so. Indeed, in the applications to physics (areas 70-86) almost all the names mentioned are from fairly far back in mathematical history. There are quite a few more names in the reorganized number theory (section 11) than in its older presentation (section 10). Generally, newer areas tend to name-drop more frequently. 3G. Living people on the list Here are the names of 78 people on the list who, to the best of my knowledge, are all still with us; as far as I can determine, they are the only ones. (Let me apologize in advance for any omissions!) Note that the MSC version I worked with is nearly a decade old; still living in 1990 when the list was promulgated were 20 [in approximate order of death]: Sobolev, DeRham, Orlicz, Witt, Zygmund, Gorenstein, Zorn, Busemann, Bers, Auslander, Wigner, Chow, Morita, Franz, Erdos, Weil, Eilenberg, Calderon, and Ising and Villamayor, (who both died while this file was being created!) [NB: since the most recent major review of this file, several of these men have passed away; these entries are starred below: Iwasawa (1998 -- http://www.ams.org/notices/199910/mem-iwasawa.pdf ) R. Mills (1999 -- http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-56/iss-10/p14.html ) Jacobson (1999 -- see Notices AMS Oct. 2000) Erich Kahler (2000 -- see Mitt. Math Ges. Hamburg 19, 2000). Shannon (2001 -- http://www.bell-labs.com/news/2001/february/26/1.html ) Spencer (2002 -- http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2002/01/14/ ) B. Neumann (2002 -- obituary in NZMS Newsletter No.87 ) L. Schwartz (2002 -- see the MacTutor article) Coxeter (2003 -- see the MacTutor article) Postnikov (2004 --http://www.lehigh.edu/~dmd1/yr719.txt ) Chern (2004 -- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1396545,00.html ) Bethe (2005) Mac Lane (2005) In addition I have been informed by a relative that Bockstein had passed away in 1990. Thus only 65 of the people on the list are still alive. I would appreciate hearing of any additional changes.] Names sorted by year of birth (some are guesses) 05 Nikolskii, Sergei Mickhailovich (b. 1905) 06* Bethe, Hans (Cornell Nobel-prizewinning physicist) (b. 1906) P7b, N20 06* Kahler, Erich (b. 1906) [I believe he still lives in Hamburg] 07* Coxeter, H.S.M. (b. 1907) Geometer and group theorist 09* Mac Lane, Saunders, Chicago algebraist (b. 1909) 09* Neumann, B.: Canberra group theorist (b. 1909) 10* Jacobson, Nathan, Yale ring theorist (b. 1910) 10 Ditkin, Vitalii A. (b. 1910) [I believe he is still living in Moscow] 11* Chern, Shiing-Shen: differential geometer, Berkeley (b. 1911) 12 Sasaki, Shigeo (b. 1912) geometer 12* Spencer, Donald Clayton (b. 1912) WWS AMWS) 13* Bockstein, Meyer (Cyrillic: roughly Meer Feliksovich Bokshtein) 13 Gelfand, Israel M. (b. 1913) SMS Moscow global analyst (now at Rutgers) 13 Stein, Karl (b. 1913) JDMV93(1991)1-5 15 Choquet, Gustave (b. 1915) analyst, Paris VI 15 Hochschild, Gerhard P (b. 1915)(FER), now at Berkeley 15* Schwartz, Laurent (b.1915)(FER) 16 Mackey, George (b. 1916): representation theory, Harvard AMWS, WWS 16* Shannon, Claude: Bell Labs information theorist (1916) 17 Eckmann, Beno (b. 1918) homological algebra, Zurich 17 Higman, Graham (b. 1917) group theory, Oxford WWS 17* Iwasawa, Kenkichi (b. 1917) AMWS Princeton algebraic number theorist 17 Selberg, Atle (b.1917) WWS, AMWS; number theorist, Fields medal, IAS 18 Rees, David (b. 1918) ring theorist (in UK) 20 Azumaya, Goro (b. 1920) AMWS 20 Goldie, Alfred W (b. 1920) Leeds ring theorist 20 Massey, William (b. 1920) Yale algebraic topologist WWS 20 Stein, Charles M. (b. 1920) Stanford statistician 21 Gale, David (b. 1921): Berkeley geometer-cum-optimizer-cum-popularizer WWS 21 Samuel, Pierre (b. 1921) Orsay: algebraic geometry WWS 22 Lashof, Richard Kenneth (b. 1922); Chicago algebraic topologist WWS 22* Mills, Robert Leroy (b. 1922) WWS Physicist at Ohio State 22 Steinberg, Robert, UCLA group theorist (b. 1922) 22 Yang, Chen Ning ("Frank") (b. 1922) Nobel prize-winning physicist N20 23 Bott, Raoul (now at Harvard) (b. 1923) N20 23 Hilton, Peter (b. 1923) Homological algbebra, SUNY Binghamton, AMWS, WWS 23 Moore, John Coleman (b.1923) Rochester, algebraic topology AMWS, WWS 24 Salpeter, Edwin Ernst (b. 1924) WWS, AMWS, Cornell physicist 25 Malliavin, Paul (b. 1924) Paris VI, probability etc. 25 Potts, Renfrey B. (b. 1925) mathematical physicist, Adelaide 25 Tate, John (b.1925) number theorist (Harvard/ Austin TX) 26 Serre, Jean-Pierre (b.1926) Mathematician(!), Fields medalist N20 26 Sitnikov, Kirill Aleksandrovich (b. 1926) 27 Helson, Henry (b. 1927): harmonic analysis, Berkeley AMWS 27 Machlup, Stefan (b.1927) Swarthmore physicist AMSci 27* Postnikov, Mikhail M (b. 1927) Moscow WWS 27 Swinnerton-Dyer, Peter (b. 1927) alg. geometer at Cambridge/Newton Inst. 28 Grothendieck, Alexander, retired Fields medalist (b. 1928) 28 Nash, John N. Princeton-area Nobel prizewinner, optimization (b. 1928) 28 Popov, Vasile-Mihai (b. 1928/07/07) stability in DE/control: now in Florida 29 Buchsbaum, David (b. 1929) AMWS ring theorist at Brandeis 29 Dyer, Eldon, (b. 1929) algebraic topologist at CUNY -- AMWS, WWS 30 Kleisli, Heinrich (b. 1930) category theorist, Fribourg Switz 30 Maslov, Victor P (b. 1930) Moscow quantum-theorist 30 Shimura, Goro (b. 1930) Princeton number theorist 30 Smale, Stephen (b.1930) Fields Medal, Berkeley N20 30? Kan, Daniel M. (b. ~1930?) (MIT) topologist 31 Birch, Bryan J: Oxford number theorist/alg. geometer (b. 1931) WWBS 31 Milnor, John (b. 1931) SUNY Stony Brook; topology AMWS 31 Regge, Tullio: mathematical physicist, Torino, Italy (b. 1931) WWS 32? Verma, Daya-Nand (b. ~1932?) Tata Institute, ring theory 36 Anosov, Dmitirii. (b. 1936) dynamics 36 Kirillov, Alexandre (b.1936) ring theory etc 36 Langlands, Robert (b. 1936) Princeton Inst for Adv Study; Lie groups AMWS 36 Wall, Charles Terence Clegg (b. 1936) Liverpool topologist WWBS 38 Karoubi, Max (b. 1938) Paris VII, K-theory 39 Baker, Alan: Cambridge number theorist and Fields medalist (b. 1939) N20 39 Fuks, D.B. (b. 1939) algebraist/geometer now at U.C.Davis 40 Gersten, Steve (b 1940) AMWS group theory/K-theory, now at Utah 40 Martin, Donald A. (b. 1940) UCLA logician 40 Virasoro, Miguel Angel (b. 1940) quantum theorist, Trieste 41 Moody, Robert V. (b.1941) Alberta, ring theory/group theory 42 Reiten, Idun (b. 1942) Norwegian ring theorist 43 Kac, Victor (b. 1942) (MIT) ring theory etc. 43 Gromov, Mikhael (b. 1943)(FER) Now at IHES 47 Arakelov, Suren Ju. Algebraic geometer 48 Kasparov, Gennadi G K-theorist at Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy 54 Drinfeld, Vladimir Fields medalist 1990, Ukraine (now at Chicago) ============================================================================== 4. Biographical data to clarify the persons to whom the names refer. 4A. Distinguishing MSC people from non-MSC people with the same name 4B. Information available from St Andrews 4C. Other biographical resources consulted (or not!) 4D. Specific biographical pointers for the non-St.Andrews names 4E. Appeal for help. 4A. Distinguishing MSC people from non-MSC people with the same name [ Note that this information reflects my greater familiarity with algebra and geometry than with analysis and applications -- djr.] In the "Not that one!" category I might mention: Adams is topologist John Frank Adams, not astronomer John Couch Adams Baker is Fields medalist number theorist Alan Baker, not algebraic geometer Henry F Baker The Bernoulli of Bernoulli numbers is Nicolaus(I) (1687-1759) I think. I'm _assuming_ Bernstein (sect. 41A) is not the Felix Bernstein of the set theory Schroeder-Bernstein theorem; S.N. Bernstein seems a closer fit. Bloch is Andre Bloch, not Spencer Bloch (U of Chicago). Boole is father George, not daughter Alicia Brillouin is Leon Nicholas, the son of the Brillouin with a bio at St Andrews (and in Poggendorf, etc.) Robert Brown (Brownian motion) is not Ken Brown (Cornell) nor the Brown-Peterson cohomology creator. Busemann should be Herbert B, the differential geometer, not Adolf, in fluid dynamics/optimal control Cantor is Georg (the set theorist) not Moritz (the historian) Cartan is Elie (pere) not Henri (fils). Wei-Liang Chow is the algebraic geometer, but there is a well-known Hung-Ching Chow (1902-1957, summability) Cohen is the one with Macaulay in ring theory, not the Field's medalist logician Paul nor the computational number theorist Henri. I believe the reference is to I.S.Cohen, a student of Zariski. Cremona is the one from the last century, not the one now at Nottingham deVries is not the Jan deVries (1858-1940) in Poggendorf [MR2,115]; he might be part of the large scientific family of Hugo deV. Our deVries moved on to school-teaching after the KdV paper. I believe Ditkin is the operational-calculus V.A.Ditkin -- surely not the numerical analysis V.V.Ditkin (are there any others?) The Fokker is the one of Fokker-Planck stochastic methods in statistical mechanics: Fokker, Adriaan Daniel (1887-1972), not Dutch aircraft pioneer Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1890-) Gordon is of course not the same as Gordan (of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients fame). Hamilton is the more famous Sir William Rowan, not William Hamilton. Hardy is of course number theorist GH Hardy, not Claude There are two contemporary Higmans in group theory, but HNN extensions are the work of Graham Higman, not D.G.Higman Horn is, I assume, the J. Horn of Hypergeometrische Funktionen zweier Veränderlichen im Schnittpunkt dreier Singularitäten. (German) Math. Ann. 117, (1940). 579--586, MR2,47c and not e.g. numerical analyst Roger Horn. Jackson in approximation theory must be Dunham Jackson; of course there are several Jacksons... This James helped with a result in statistics (see 3D above), and is not topologist I.M.James. Kan (category theory) is the Daniel M. at MIT, not one of several from Asian countries. Mark Kac and Victor Kac are both well-known; the former in probability and other fields; the latter in algebra Kasparov is not the chess player Gary K. ! I asked Kirillov to clarify the many A. Kirillov's in the MSC; Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kirillov is him; Alexander A. Kirillov Jr is his son (MIT); Anatol N. Kirillov is in St. Petersburg (quantum groups and combinatorics). WPIS lists an A I Kirillov at Steklov (in 1973). Laurent is Pierre A ("Laurent series of a function"), not the later Hermann Laurent Littlewood is complex analyst/number theorist John (Hardy's friend), not Dudley (the invariant theorist) Ljusternik, L (topology) seems to be the same as Ljusternik, Lazar A (numerical analysis etc.!) There are several Maedas, including several publishing in geometry areas; Fumitomo seems like the best match, however. V. P. Maslov (Quantum-theory) is not the automated-reasoning S. Yu. Maslov nor any of several other Maslov's (P.P, ...) The Mathieu of group theory and special functions is Emile; there is an astronomer/engineer Claude M. from much earlier. (also a composer Julien-Amable M.) There are two Mikusinskis in operator theory; I believe the reference is to the late Jan M rather than Piotr M now at Central Florida Milman is the father of Vitali D. Milman (Tel Aviv) and Pierre Milman (Toronto) who work in similar areas. There are several other Moritas, but this one is both the "Morita equivalence" ring theorist and the "Morita metrization" topologist! Noether is Emma (tochter) not Max (vater). Peirce is Benjamin (ring theory) not son Charles (logic/combinatorics). And it's not "Pierce". Picard is the 19th century Emile, not the 17th century Jean. There are 126 Popov's in the Math Reviews database; I can't even comment on which are the most well-known, but V.M.Popov is the Romanian with publications on stability in DE and control thy. There is a D.A.S. Rees in Fluid mechanics who may be better known than ring theorist David Rees The Schwarz in 30C80 (Schwarz's lemma) is Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843-1921) (see MacTutor archive) (Name citations vary.) The functional analyst Schwartz ("Schwartz spaces") is assumed to be Fields medalist Laurent, but there are other Schwartzes in the same general area (Jean-Marie, Jacob, A.L., ...) Smith is the fixed-point-sets-of-periodic-homeomorphisms Paul A., not the Smith-Normal-Form linear algebraist Henry Smith, nor any of several other topologist Smiths (Larry, Jeff, Stephen D) Stefan is Josef (thermodynamics) not Peter (dynamical systems) There is a contemporary Suslin well known in K-theory; this Suslin is the set-theorist from times past. Neither Stein is the same as Elias Stein (Princeton analyst). The Stone of 06E is evidently Marshall H. Stone (Chicago), of Stone-Weierstrass theorem and Stone-Cech compactification fame. (There's another topologist A.H. Stone: "metrizable implies paracompact") Sturm is Jacques Charles-Francois (worked with Liouville), not geometer Rudolf nor Johannes Sturm, 1507-1589; Jacques is author of Sturm sequences for solvability of polynomials. Taylor is of course the 18th century Brook Taylor ("Taylor series"), not Geoffrey (20th century fluids dynamicist) E.R. vanKampen is a topologist; N.G. vanKampen a mathematical physicist There are (at least) two Vekuas working near area 30G; I don't know which is referred to. Ilya Nestorovich Vekua (1907-1977) and Nikolai Petrovich Vekua (b. ~1913); it _looks like_ the former is a closer match to the context. Verma modules are named after Daya-Nand Verma, but there is an analytic number theorist D.P. Verma and several other Vermas Wall must surely be the topologist C.T.C. Wall (Liverpool); but there are others. Watson (Galton's coauthor) is Henry, not George (complex variables) Whitehead is not philospher Alfred North, but rather a topologist. I _believe_ all the references are to JHC (Henry) Whitehead, rather than George W. Whitehead, but I am not certain Wiener is Norbert, not geometer Christan Witt is not the 17th century Jan de Witt Of course Yang (Yang-Mills) is not the 13th century Yang [Obviously this list cannot contain all the mathematicians who share a name with one of the 357. I can add comments regarding people about whom there is a reasonable chance of confusion.] 4B. Information available from St Andrews About 220 names currently have an entry in the St Andrews history archive. Each URL is of the form http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Abel.html NOTE: I usually _assume_ that the persons whose biographies are listed below are the ones intended by the authors of the MSC! Please let me know if I've erred. In some cases (e.g. Weinstein) this is frankly a guess on my part. In at least one case (Brillouin) the St Andrews person is definitely the wrong one. Sometimes there is more than one so-named person at St Andrews; they can be distinguished using the comments in 4A. Abel Adams Airy Aleksandrov al'Khwarizmi Ampere Appell Archimedes Artin Baire Banach Bayes Bell Bergman Bernoulli Bers Bessel Blaschke Bloch Boole Borel Brauer Burnside Cantor Caratheodory Cartan Cauchy Cech Cesaro Chebyshev Chern Clifford Coxeter Cremona Darboux Dedekind Dehn deMorgan Denjoy deRham Desargues Descartes Diophantus Dirac Dirichlet Einstein Engel Enriques Epstein Erdos Euclid Euler Fano Fatou Fermat Feynman Fibonacci Finsler Fourier Frechet Fredholm Fresnel Frobenius Fuchs Galerkin Galois Galton Gauss Gegenbauer Gelfond Godel Goldbach Gorenstein Grassmann Green Grothendieck Haar Hadamard Hahn Hamilton Hankel Hardy Hausdorff Hecke Helly Hensel Hermite Hilbert Hill Hodge Holder Hopf Hurwitz Jacobi Jacobson Jordan Kaluza Klein Korteweg Kovalevskaya Kronecker Krull Kutta Lagrange Laguerre Lame Laplace Laurent Lebesgue Lefschetz Legendre Lerch Lie Lindelof Liouville Lipschitz Littlewood Lorentz Lucas Lukasiewicz Lyapunov Macaulay MacLane Maclaurin Malcev Markov Mathieu Maxwell Minkowski Mobius Monge Montel Morse Nash Navier NeumannB NeumannCG NeumannH Nevanlinna Newton Noether Pade Paley Pappus Peirce Perron Pfaff Picard Planck Poincare Poisson Post Prufer Pythagoras Radon Ramsey Raphson Rayleigh Reidemeister Riemann Riesz[M or F!] Runge Saint-Venant Saks Schnirelman Schoenflies Schottky Schrodinger Schubert Schur Schwarz Shannon Siegel Stefan Steiner Stieltjes Stirling Stokes Stone Sturm Sylow Sylvester Tauber Taylor Teichmuller Thue Toeplitz Turan Turing Uryson Veronese Volterra vonNeumann Waring Watson Weierstrass Weil Weinstein Weyl Whitehead Wiener Wigner Zorn Zygmund Added since alphabetization: Baker, Bernstein, Boltzman, Calderon, Drinfeld, Gelfand, Helmholtz, Heyting, Kolmogorov, Milnor, Moore(RL), Schwartz, Selberg, Serre, Smale, Sobolev, Spanier, Wall 4C. Other biographical resources consulted (or not!) Sources: Information without further references usually taken from: Math Reviews; AMS Combined membership list; St Andrews archive; MSC 1991 text. I have also consulted the following biographical indices in a non-systematic way. Persons with entries in these books are indicated by these codes (listed in decreasing order of utility for this list): Thus one may, for example, determine the birthday for each person. P1, P2, ..., P7b: Poggendorf, Vol.1, Vol.2, ... WWS: Who's who in Science (I had the 1968 edition) WWW: Who was who (British) AMWS: American Men and Women in Science [there is a cumulative index to editions 1-14, publ. 1983. Later editions also used.] EDM: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics 2/e [MIT Press] AMSci: American Men in Science (9th edition) WWBS: Who's who in British Science (1980-1) ICC: Canberra Circular (BH Neumann's database) JDMV: Jahresberichte Deutscher Math. Verein. (good index, v 82 # 4 p 181+ by Tietz; also 1986, and 1950) SMS: Soviet Men of Science 1963 N20: Notable Twentieth Century Scientists WPIS: Who's Publishing In Science, 1973 DNB: [British] Dictionary of National Biography (Next is due 2004!) MSU: Matematika a SSSR (biobibliographic listings by author) 1958-1967 FER: Web site at University of Ferrara (http://felix.unife.it/Root/d-Mathematics/d-The-mathematician/t-Mathematicians-A-Z) TUF: Web site at Tech.Univ.Freiberg: (http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/lebensdaten.html) MGP: Mathematical Geneology Project: (http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu/) Many Russian and Soviet mathematicians, in particular, are feted on their major birthdays with laudatory articles in Uspekhi Mat. Nauk (translated as Russian Mathematical Surveys). See in particular the index through 1960 in vol 42 #1 of RMS (index of obituaries pp93-95, of anniversary articles pp 96+). Of MSU, Joel writes, "In general, another good source for Soviet mathematicians is the 4-volume set "Matematika v SSSR" (Mathematics in the USSR), which has 3-line biographical sketches and lists of publications. I know that MR has a copy." Also valuable is the US National Academy of Sciences. Biographical data on all present and deceased members is available at their website http://www4.nas.edu/nas/naspub.nsf/$$Section11?OpenView&Start=1&Count=500 [for ~100 living members of section 11, Mathematics. For all deceased members:] http://www4.nas.edu/nas/nasdece.nsf/all?OpenView&Count=300 which in particular gives full dates of birth and death. Upon a member's death there is often a published scientific biography in a series named Biographical Memoires. Members of the NAS are marked "NAS" if I noticed their membership... 4D. Specific biographical pointers on the non-St.Andrews names. Here are a few biographical details on those not mentioned at St Andrews, to help sort out who's who. The data are drawn from a number of sources (see above) and since they provide significant corroborating data, there seems little chance that I've conflated two person's identities in any of the entries below. HOWEVER, I again can only _assume_ that the persons whose biographies are sketched below are the ones intended by the authors of the MSC! I'd appreciate 1. corrections, should it be the case that the person described below is clearly not the one intended in the MSC 2. additional sources of biographical information (just a couple sources per person is probably sufficient). One might think of this as a beginner's guide to mathematical biography of the mid 20-th century, since that period (and the even more recent period) is typically poorly represented in all the other collections of biographies of mathematicians. There are about 150 names here. For each I have tried to give name, dates, pointers to biographies/bibliographies; failing that to significant or last-know papers. Anosov, Dmitirii. (b. 1936) EDM (126A,J: Dynam. syst; 136G) Arnol\cprime d, V. I.; Bolibrukh, A. A.; Gamkrelidze, R. V.; Maslov, V. P.; Mishchenko, E. F.; Novikov, S. P.; Osipov, Yu. S.; Sina\u\i, Ya. G.; Stepin, A. M.; Faddeev, L. L. Dmitri\u\i Viktorovich Anosov (on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday). (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 52 (1997), no. 2(314), 193--200. Arakelov, Suren Ju. (b 1947) Algebraic geometer [I have no biographic data; the last paper by him in MathReviews is this:] 57 #12505 Arakelov, S. Ju. An intersection theory for divisors on an arithmetic surface. (Russian) Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 38 (1974), 1179--1192 [Translation: Math. USSR, Izv. 8(1974), 1167-1180 (1976)] Zbl351.14003: Theory of intersections on the arithmetic surface. (English) Proc. int. Congr. Math., Vancouver 1974, Vol. 1, 405-408 (1975). [Correspondence with a friend and colleague of Arakelov suggests he departed research mathematics following an illness about 1975, but still lives in Moscow] Aronszajn, Nachman (1907-1980) 85m:01086b Bibliography of the papers of N. Aronszajn. (Polish) Wiadom. Mat. 25 (1983), no. 1, 96--100. 85m:01086a Szeptycki, Pawe\l Nachman Aronszajn (1907--1980). (Polish) Wiadom. Mat. 25 (1983), no. 1, 89--96. Auslander, Maurice (1926-1994) 97a:01045 Buchsbaum, David; Ringel, C. M.; Reiten, Idun Maurice Auslander 1926--1994. Representation theory of algebras (Cocoyoc, 1994), 1--15, CMS Conf. Proc., 18, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996 [] Peskine, Christian; Reiten, Idun Maurice Auslander (1926--1994). With a note by Hugo Rossi. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1995), no. 4, 450--453 Azumaya, Goro (b. 1920) AMWS Biography of Goro Azumaya. Azumaya algebras, actions, and modules (Bloomington, IN, 1990), xv, Contemp. Math., 124, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1992. Backlund, Albert Victor [Bäcklund] (1845-1922) P3 Jber. Deut. Math. Verein 38 (1929) 113-152 Baker, Alan: Cambridge number theorist and Fields medalist (b. 1939) N20 54 #2394 Turán, Paul On the work of Alan Baker. Actes du Congrès International des Mathématiciens (Nice, 1970), Tome 1, pp. 3--5. Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1971 Bio now at St Andrews Barbilian, Dan (1895-1961) 89m:01064 Radu, Nicolae A contribution of Dan Barbilian to Galois theory. (Romanian) Proceedings of the Conference on Algebra (Romanian) (Timi\c soara, 1986), 74--76, Univ. Timi\c soara, Timi\c soara, 1987. 87a:01034 Dan Barbilian (1895--1961). Libertas Math. 5 (1985), 175--177. Bernstein, Sergei Natanovich (1880-1968) P7b [See also the MacTutor archive article] 92j:01057 Bogolyubov, A. N. Serge\u\i Natanovich Bernshte\u\i n. (Russian) Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tekhn. 1991, no. 3, 56--65 85c:01036 Lozinski\u\i, S. M. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of S. N. Bernstein. (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 38 (1983), no. 3(231), 191--203 40 #1248 Aleksandrov, P. S.; Ahiezer, N. I.; Gnedenko, B. V.; Kolmogorov, A. N. Serge\u\i Natanovi\v c Bern\v ste\u\i n: Obituary. (Russian) Uspehi Mat. Nauk 24 1969 no. 3 (147) 211--218. (1 plate). Bethe, Hans (Cornell Nobel-prizewinning physicist) (b. 1906, d. 2005) P7b, N20 Bio at: http://www.nobel.se/laureates/physics-1967-1-bio.html The MSC reference is presumably to the paper Salpeter, E. E.; Bethe, H. A. A relativistic equation for bound-state problems. Physical Rev. (2) 84, (1951). 1232--1242. MR14,707a The AIP funded a biography by Samuel Schweber Still giving lectures in 1999: http://bethe.cornell.edu/ Passed away 2005-03-06 Birch, Bryan J: Oxford number theorist/alg. geometer (b. 1931) WWBS birch@maths.ox.ac.uk Bockstein, Meyer (his Froncophone name for a couple of papers. The Cyrillic is variously transliterated as Bokstein or Bokshtein, etc.: Meer Feliksovich B. (b. 1913/10/04) Topology/homological algebra. MSU. EDM:64B,117F Papers 1955-75, e.g. 21 #2680b Bockstein, Meyer Sur la formule des coefficients universels pour les groupes d'homologie. (French) C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 247 1958 396--398. (Reviewer: S. Marde\v si\'c) 18.00 (55.00) Novikov tells me Bockstein died "a few years ago". Mathematicians were able to tell me little but a relative confirmed that "Meer Feliksovich Bockstein was born in Moscow on Oct.4, 1913 and passed away in Moscow on May 2, 1990". Boltzmann, Ludwig: (1844-1906) physicist P3 NAS photo: http://webster.aip.org/history/esva/boltz.htm 1j:01057 Stiller, Wolfgang Ludwig Boltzmann. (German) Altmeister der klassischen Physik. Wegbereiter der Quantenphysik und Evolutionstheorie. [Patriarch of classical physics. Pioneer of quantum physics and evolution theory] Verlag Harri Deutsch, Thun, 1989. 212 pp. ISBN: 3-8171-1115-0 [Bio now at St Andrews] Bott, Raoul (now at Harvard) (b. 1923) N20 NAS 91h:01090 01A70 1990 Steele Prizes awarded in Columbus. (English) Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1990), no. 7, 801--807. 95i:01027 01A75 Raoul Bott: collected papers. (several volumes) Contemporary Mathematicians. (series) Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1994. 584 pp. ISBN 0-8176-3613-7 Brewer, Burns W. (1912-1975)ICC AMWS Last paper: 32 #5610 Brewer, B. W. On primes of the form $u\sp{2}+5v\sp{2}$. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 1966 502--509. Brillouin, Leon Nicholas (1889-1969) P6 P7 EDM NAS Brown, Robert (1773-1858) P3 92d:01026 Maiocchi, Roberto The case of Brownian motion. British J. Hist. Sci. 23 (1990), no. 78, part 3, 257--283. Buchsbaum, David (b. 1929) AMWS ring theorist at Brandeis Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1895-1981) P7b JDMV72,pp170-171 AMWS "International Who's Who" through 1978/9 edition; in 1982/3 ed, "obit 1981") 87f:01046 Ferrari, Carlo In commemoration of Prof. Johannes Martinus Burgers. (Italian) Atti Accad. Sci. Torino Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Natur. 116 (1982), no. 3-6, 339--347 (1984) Busemann, Herbert (1905-1994) USC geometer See JDMV72, 170-171 94h:53099 Busemann, H.; Phadke, B. B. Novel results in the geometry of geodesics. Adv. Math. 101 (1993), no. 2, 180--219. Obit, Notices AMS v 41 (1994) p472 Calderon, Alberto: (1920-1998) Chicago and Argentina, analyst N20 NAS 92m:01083 01A70 Alberto P. Calderon receives National Medal of Science. (English) Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (1992), no. 4, 283--285. 90j:01135 01A70 1989 Steele Prizes awarded at Summer Meeting in Boulder. (English) Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1989), no. 7, 831--836. 86e:01065 01A70 Alberto Calderon. (French) C. R. Acad. Sci. Sér. Gén. Vie Sci. 1 (1984), no. 6, 514--515. Obituary notice: Notices AMS 45 (1998) #6 [Bio now at St Andrews] Carles III Grimaldi, prince of Monaco (d. 1889). Named "Monte Carlo" in 1866, father of Prince Albert I, active in oceanography and paleontology. See http://www.monaco.mc/monaco/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/in/heinbruins/images/Monaco.html http://www.worldroots.com/brigitte/famous/charles3ancestors.htm Choquet, Gustave (b. 1915) analyst, Paris VI 89i:01129 Citation for Gustave Choquet. Bull. London Math. Soc. 20 (1988), no. 5, 543 Chow, Wei-Liang (1911-1995) 1 410 978 Wilson, W. Stephen; Chern, S. S.; Abhyankar, Shreeram S.; Lang, Serge; Igusa, Jun-ichi Wei-Liang Chow [1911--1995]. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996), no. 10, 1117--1124 98b:00037 Birational algebraic geometry. Proceedings of the Japan-U.S. Mathematics Institute (JAMI) Conference in memory of Wei-Liang Chow (1911--1995) held at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 11--14, 1996. Edited by Yujiro Kawamata and Vyacheslav V. Shokurov. Contemporary Mathematics, 207. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997. 152 pp. ISBN: 0-8218-0769-2 Cohen, Irvin Sol (1917-1955) AMSci. (obit., 1995 ed.) Last paper: 18,788e Cohen, I. S.; Zariski, Oscar A fundamental inequality in the theory of extensions of valuations. Illinois J. Math. 1 (1957), 1--8 Daniell, Percy John (1889-1946) P7b 9,170c Stewart, C. A. Obituary: P. J. Daniell. (English) J. London Math. Soc. 22, (1947). 75--80. deVries, Gustav (b. ~1870) EDM:387B F van der Blij, Some details of the history of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (3) 26 (1) (1978), 54-64. MR80k:01041 Kox, A. J. Korteweg, de Vries, and Dutch science at the turn of the century. KdV '95 (Amsterdam, 1995). Acta Appl. Math. 39 (1995), no. 1-3, 91--92. Biographical information: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~janwieg/korteweg/ Ditkin, Vitalii Arsenevich (b. 1910)ICC [I believe he's still living in Moscow] 44 #2556 Dorodnicyn, A. A.; Lavrent\cprime ev, M. A.; Ljusternik, L. A.; Prudnikov, A. P. Vitali\u\i Arsen\cprime evi\v c Ditkin (on his sixtieth birthday). (Russian) Uspehi Mat. Nauk 25 1970 no. 5 (155) 253--258. (1 plate) 91j:01052a Prudnikov, A. P. Vitali\u\i Arsen\cprime evich Ditkin. (Russian) Analytic and numerical methods for solving problems in mathematical physics (Russian), 5--13, Akad. Nauk SSSR, Vychisl. Tsentr, Moscow, 1989. 01A70 Drinfeld, Vladimir (b. 1954) Fields medalist 1990, Ukraine (Now at Chicago) 91i:01056 Gleason, Andrew M., et al. ICM-90. (English) Report on the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Kyoto, August 21--29, 1990. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1990), no. 9, 1209--1216. Bio now at St Andrews Dyer, Eldon, (b. 1929) algebraic topologist at CUNY -- AMWS, WWS Eckmann, Beno (b. 1917), homological algebra, Zurich A page for his 80th birthday fest: http://bianya.crm.es/eckmann80/curric.htm "Descendants": http://www.math.ethz.ch/~eckmann/Stammbaum.ps 88g:01069 Eckmann, Beno Selecta. Edited and with a foreword by Max-Albert Knus, Guido Mislin and Urs Stammbach. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York, 1987. xii+835 pp. ISBN: 3-540-17518-0 56 #15326 Hilton, Peter Some contributions of Beno Eckmann to the development of topology and related fields. Enseignement Math. (2) 23 (1977), no. 3-4, 191--207 Eilenberg, Samuel (1913-1998) NAS 88h:01065 1987 Steele prizes awarded at the summer meeting in Salt Lake City. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 34 (1987), no. 6, 875--878. 53 #12817 Algebra, topology, and category theory. (English) A collection of papers in honor of Samuel Eilenberg. Edited by Alex Heller and Myles Tierney. Academic Press, New York-London, 1976. xi+225 pp. Farey, John (Sr.) (1766-1826) 96h:01019 Bruckheimer, Maxim; Arcavi, Abraham Farey series and Pick's area theorem. Math. Intelligencer 17 (1995), no. 4, 64--67. Farey, John: "General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire", 3 vols, 1811, repr. 1989 with intro by Hugh S. Torrens (and T.D. Ford), ISBN 0 904334 02 3. See also [British] Dictionary of National Biography (New, due out 2004!) Fitting, Hans (1906-1938) JDMV82 Jahresber. Dtsch. Math.-Ver. 49 (1939) 93-96 Fokker, Adriaan Daniel (1887-1972) WWS, P7b. EDM:402I(Stat Mech), 115A(Diffusion). Later papers in music/acoustics! 93d:01043 Kox, A. J. General relativity in the Netherlands, 1915--1920. Studies in the history of general relativity (Luminy, 1988), 39--56, 463, Einstein Stud., 3, Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, 1992. http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/bios/Fokker.html Franz, Wolfgang (1905-1996) CMP 1 671 526 [MR pending] (99:08) 01A70 Burde, G.; Schwarz, W. Wolfgang Franz zum Gedächtnis. (German) [Wolfgang Franz in memoriam] Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 100 (1998), no. 4, 284--292. http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/imu/98/personal.html Frattini, Giovanni (1852-1925) P6 92a:01065 Emaldi, Maurizio(I-PADV-PM) Giovanni Frattini 1852--1925. (English) Irish Math. Soc. Bull. No. 23 (1989), 57--61. Fuks, Dmitry Borisovitch.: (b. 1939/09/30) algebraist/geometer now at U.C.Davis [papers date from 1959 through present][EDM: 154G, Foliations; 105AA,r] MSU. See also http://math.ucdavis.edu/profiles/fuchs.html Gale, David (b. 1921): Berkeley geometer-cum-optimizer-cum-popularizer WWS http://math.berkeley.edu/faculty.html#emeritus Gateaux, Rene, (1889-1914) All publications (~5) posthumous, submitted by Levy. In his autobiography, Levy states, "R. Gâteaux, un normalien mort pour la France dès le début de la guerre, et qui lui avait laissé des papers non publiés. Il me proposa de travailler à la publication de ces papiers, ce que naturellement j'acceptai." The papers are reviewed in vol 44-48 of the Jarhbuch der Fort. der Matem. See also Bull Soc Math France v 47 (1919) pp 47-48 for biographical notes He shares a home town with DeMoivre: http://www.vitry-le-francois.net/decouvrir/vitryHier/personnagesCelebres.html Gelfand, Israel M. (b. 1913) SMS Moscow global analyst, now at Rutgers NAS 31 #20 Vi\v sik, M. I.; Kolmogorov, A. N.; Fomin, S. V.; \v Silov, G. E. Israil\cprime Moiseevi\v c Gel\cprime fand. (On his fiftieth birthday) (Russian) Uspehi Mat. Nauk 19 1964 no. 3 (117) 187--205 (1 plate). 1 143 809 Gindikin, S. Israel Gel\cprime fand. Geometry and physics, ix--xii, Pitagora, Bologna, 1991. [Bio now at St Andrews] Gersten, Steve (b 1940) AMWS group theory/K-theory, now at Utah Goldie, Alfred W (b.1920/12/10: ICC): Leeds ring theorist [papers range from 1950 through the present] [see http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/pure/algebra/ ] 80th birthday conference: http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ig/goldie/Goldieno.htm Gordon, Walter (1893-1939) P6 WWS 82f:01060 Carazza, B.; Guidetti, G. P. The origin of the Klein-Gordon equation. (Italian) Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 22 (1980), no. 4, 373--383. 85k:81004 Kragh, Helge Equation with the many fathers. The Klein-Gordon equation in 1926. Amer. J. Phys. 52 (1984), no. 11, 1024--1033. 96h:35004 Heyerhoff, Markus Sine-Gordon equation. Comments on: "A gallery of constant-negative-curvature surfaces" [Math. Intelligencer 16 (1994), no. 4, 31--37; MR 95f:53017] by R. McLachlan. Math. Intelligencer 17 (1995), no. 3, 4, 66. Grobner, Wolfgang (1899-1980) 83f:01043 Liedl, R.; Reitberger, H. Wolfgang Gröbner zum Gedenken (11.2.1899--20.8.1980). (German) [In memory of Wolfgang Grobner (11.2.1899--20.8.1980)] Yearbook: Surveys of mathematics 1981, pp. 255--256, Bibliographisches Inst., Mannheim, 1981 Gromov, Mikhael (b. 1943)(FER) Now at IHES NAS 97m:01099 01A70: 1997 Steele Prizes. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1997), no. 3, 342--345. CMP 1 063 962 (90:15) 01A70 Mikhael Gromov. (French) C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. Gén. Vie Sci. 6 (1989), no. 6, 492. Hammerstein Adolf (1888-1941) P6 JDMV54. See also 95h:34002 Mawhin, Jean(B-UCL-IM) Boundary value problems for nonlinear ordinary differential equations: from successive approximations to topology. (English) Development of mathematics 1900--1950 (Luxembourg, 1992), 443--477, Birkhäuser, Basel, 1994. [These references are to a person working in integral equations. The MSC reference to Hammerstein is in nonlinear operators, but the papers in 47H30 with "Hammerstein" in them refer to integral equations too.] [The EDM lists a similar person under "H.Hammerstein"] Hartogs, Friedrich (1874-1933) P6 JDMV 73 p. 201 Last Zbl paper: 001.21302 Hartogs, F.; Rosenthal, A. Ueber Folgen analytischer Funktionen. (Ergaenzung zur Arbeit im 100. Band.) Math. Ann. 104, 606-610 (1931). Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821-1894) P1, P3 [Books on his work exist] NAS 50 #9489 Albring, W. Helmholtzens Einfluß auf die Entwicklung von Mathematik und Mechanik. Eine Würdigung zum 150. Geburtstag. (German) Vorträge der Konferenz für Mechanik (Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1971). Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 52 (1972), T250--T255. [Bio now at St Andrews] Helson, Henry (b. 1927): harmonic analysis, Berkeley AMWS http://math.berkeley.edu/faculty.html#emeritus Heyting, Arend (1898-1980), P7b, WWS, TUF 91i:01094 Kushner, B. A. Arend Heyting: a short sketch of his life and work. (Russian) Methodological analysis of the foundations of mathematics (Russian), 121--135, "Nauka", Moscow, 1988 [Bio now at St Andrews] Higman, Graham (b. 1917) group theory, Oxford WWS http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/arg/people/faculty.html Hilton, Peter (b. 1923) Homological algbebra, SUNY Binghamton, AMWS, WWS Hjelmslev, Johannes Trolle (1873-1950) P7b 88d:01035 Fog, David Johannes Hjelmslev. (Danish) With an introduction by Torkil Heiede. Normat 33 (1985), no. 4, 149--164, 195 Hochschild, Gerhard P (b. 1915)(FER), now at Berkeley NAS http://math.berkeley.edu/faculty.html#emeritus Hopf, Eberhard (1902-1983) analyst, Indiana U JDMV92, 47-57 "In memoriam Eberhard Hopf: 1902--1983" Indiana Univ. Math. J. 32 (1983), no. 6, i--ii. Icha, Andrzej(PL-PASGD2-OC) Eberhard Hopf (1902--1983). Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (4) 12 (1994), no. 1-2, 67--84. Denker, M. "Eberhard Hopf: 04-17-1902 to 07-24-1983" DMV 92#2 (1990) 47--57 Anselone, P. M. "In honor of Professor Eberhard Hopf on the occasion of his seventieth birthday" Applicable Anal. 3 (1973), 1--5. Horn, Jakob (1867-1939) P6 Jahresb.Deut.Math.Ver. 1980 p 186 gives date of death as 1939 but we find: Zbl#061.17305 Horn, J. , Integration linearer Differentialgleichungen durch Laplacesche Integrale. I, II. (German) Math. Z. 49, 339-350, 684-701 (1944) Ising, Ernst (1900-1998) AMWS Kobe, S. Ernst Ising---physicist and teacher. J. Statist. Phys. 88 (1997), no. 3-4, 991--99 Obituary: http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/ising.html Iwasawa, Kenkichi (b. 1917) AMWS Princeton algebraic number theorist 92b:01073a,b 91k:11001 List of publications of Kenkichi Iwasawa. Coates, John: Comments. Algebraic number theory, Papers in honor of K. Iwasawa on the occasion of his 70th birthday on September 11, 1987. Edited by J. Coates, R. Greenberg, B. Mazur and I. Satake. Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, 17. Academic Press, Inc., Boston, MA; Kinokuniya Company Ltd., Tokyo, 1989 492 pp. $99.00. ISBN 0-12-177370-1 CMP 1 256 476 (94:06) 01A70 Two hours with Kenkichi Iwasawa. (Japanese) S\=ugaku 45 (1993), no. 4, 366--372. Jackson, Dunham (1888-1946) NAS see e.g. his text 98a:01022 Jackson, Dunham The theory of approximation. American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, 11. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1994. viii+178 pp. Reprint of the 1930 original: ISBN 0-8218-1011-1 [] Bull AMS 54 (1948) 847-60 Jacobsthal, Ernst Erich (1882-1965) P6 33 #17 Selberg, Sigmund Ernst Jacobsthal. (Dutch) Norske Vid. Selsk. Forh. (Trondheim) 38 1965 70--73 James, Willard (b. 1927/06/13) the only mathematical work in MR is this paper MR 24 #A3025 James, W.; Stein, Charles Estimation with quadratic loss. 1961 Proc. 4th Berkeley Sympos. Math. Statist. and Prob., Vol. I pp. 361--379 Univ. California Press, Berkeley, Calif. (Reviewer: J. Kiefer) 62.30 See EDM section 280D, r398, 399G MGP: Willard Donald James, PhD 1957 at U Illinois under Waldemar Trjitzinsky In an amazing twist of fortune, I eventually found that James had earned his undergraduate degree at the same (non-famous) institution where I teach! Kac, Victor (b. 1943) MIT, noncommutative ring theory etc. December 1995 Notices Amer Math Soc: Kac and Moody win Wigner prize (and related articles): http://e-math.ams.org/notices/199512/people-kac.html Kahler, Erich (1906-2000) [Last living near Hamburg, I believe] [The Erich Kahler who writes about Civilization lived 1885-1970 -- not him] 57 #15815 Special issue dedicated to the seventieth birthday of Erich Kahler. (English) Abh. Math. Sem. Univ. Hamburg 47 (1978). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1978. pp. 1--259. Kan, Daniel M. (MIT) topologist EDM (sec. 70E, Complexes) [papers range from 1955 to the present] Karoubi, Max; Paris VII, K-theory [WPIS: Strasbourg (1973)] "Who's Who in Science in Europe, 1995" His home page: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~karoubi/ Kasparov, Gennadi G: K-theorist at Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy [papers range from 1969 to the present] kasparov@iml.univ-mrs.fr [as of a 1997 AMS paper] Kirillov, Alexandr Aleksandrovich (b. 1936), ring theory, Penn. EDM 437T (Group theory: Unitary Representations). He has a web page of photos: http://www.math.upenn.edu/~kirillov/ Kleisli, Heinrich (b.1930/10/19: ICC) category theory, Fribourg Switz [papers range from 1962 to the present] Kloosterman, Hendrik Douwe (1900-1968) P7b 38 #5567 van der Blij, F.; de Bruijn, N. G. In memoriam: H. D. Kloosterman (1900--1968). (Dutch) Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (3) 16 1968 139--147. Kolmogorov, Andrej Nikolajevich (1903-1987) P7b, N20, SMS NAS 93b:01040 Shiryaev, A. N. Everything about Kolmogorov was unusual$\ldots$. Translated from the Russian by Andrew L. Rukhin. Statist. Sci. 6 (1991), no. 3, 313--318 93b:01039 Kendall, David G. Kolmogorov as I remember him. Statist. Sci. 6 (1991), no. 3, 303--312 [Bio now at St Andrews] Kothe, Gottfried (1905-1989) 93k:01080b Tillmann, Heinz Günther Gottfried Köthe, 1905--1989. (German) Dedicated to the memory of Professor Gottfried Köthe. Note Mat. 10 (1990), suppl. 1, 9--21 (1992). 01A70 93k:01080a Weidmann, J. Gottfried Köthe, 1905--1989. Dedicated to the memory of Professor Gottfried Köthe. Note Mat. 10 (1990), suppl. 1, 1--7 (1992) Kramers, Hendrik Anthony (1894-1952) P5 P6 P7 EDM Krasner, Marc (1912-1985) 87k:01051 Dieudonné, Jean Marc Krasner. (French) Proceedings of the seminar on the history of mathematics, 7, 29--30, Inst. Henri Poincaré, Paris, 1986 87f:01075 Peri\'c, V. Marc Krasner 1912--1985. Rad. Mat. 1 (1985), no. 2, 317--318 Krein, Mark Grigorevich (1907-1989) WWS NAS 90m:01066 Gohberg, Israel Mark Grigorievich Kre\u\i n, 1907--1989. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1990), no. 3, 284--285. 01A70 3,90a Krein, M.; Milman, D. On extreme points of regular convex sets. Studia Math. 9, (1940). 133--138 Kunneth, Hermann (1892-1975) P6 JDMV78, 61-66 54 #7177 Haupt, Otto Hermann Künneth zum Gedenken. (German) Jber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 78 (1976/77), no. 2, 61--66 Langevin, Paul (1872-1946) P7b Gnedina, T. E. {\cyr Pol\cprime Lanzheven. 1872--1946}. (Russian) [Paul Langevin. 1872--1946] {\cyr Nauchno-Biograficheskaya Literatura}. [Scientific-Biographic Literature] ``Nauka'', Moscow, 1991. 288 pp. ISBN: 5-02-000174-0 Langlands, Robert (b. 1936) Princeton Inst Adv Study; Lie groups... NAS AMWS 89b:01070 Robert P. Langlands receives first NAS Award in Mathematics. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1988), no. 4, 509--510. Lashof, Richard Kenneth (b. 1922); Chicago algebraic topologist WWS Lauricella, Giuseppe (1867-1913) P4, P5, see also vol44,p31 of Jahrbuch F.d.M. Sulle funzioni ipergeometriche a piu variabli Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 7 1893 p.111 Lidstone, George James (1870-1952) WWW,vol.5 Only AU=LIDSTONE papers in MR: 4,20c Lidstone, G. J. Notes on the Poisson frequency distribution. J. Inst. Actuar. 71, (1942). 284--291. (Reviewer: W. Feller) 62.0X 2,367i Lidstone, G. J. Notes on interpolation. Part 2. III(i) continued. The origin of the throw-back device. IV. Aitken's new method of inverse interpolation. V. The connexion of the throw-back with Stirling's and Bessel's formulae. J. Inst. Actuar. 71, (1941). 68--95. (Reviewer: W. E. Milne) 65.0X [There are 9 papers in Zbl. dating to 1933 and presumably many older still.] Ljusternik, Lazar Aronovich (1900-1981) P7b, SMS 83i:01052 Aleksandrov, P. S. In memoriam Lazar\cprime Aronovich Lyusternik. (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 37 (1982), no. 1(223), 125--126 (1 plate) 10,624a Lyusternik, L.; \v Snirel\cprime man, L. Topological methods in variational problems and their application to the differential geometry of surfaces. (Russian) Uspehi Matem. Nauk (N.S.) 2, (1947). no. 1(17), 166--217. (Reviewer: H. Busemann) 53.0X Machlup, Stefan (b.1927) Swarthmore physicist AMSci Has a web page: http://theory2.phys.cwru.edu/faculty/machlup.html 15,273i Machlup, S.; Onsager, L. Fluctuations and irreversible process. II. Systems with kinetic energy. Physical Rev. (2) 91, (1953). 1512--1515. 15,273h Onsager, L.; Machlup, S. Fluctuations and irreversible processes. Physical Rev. (2) 91, (1953). 1505--1512. Mackey, George (b. 1916): representation theory, Harvard AMWS, WWS NAS Maeda, Fumitomo (1897-1965) EDM; see also the review MR44#123 in Math Rev. Probably(?) a reference to the paper Lattice theoretic characterization of abstract geometries. J. Sci. Hiroshima Univ. Ser. A. 15, (1951). 87--96. MR15,736b Malliavin, Paul (b. 1925): Paris VI, probability etc. [papers range from 1949 to the present] his directory page: http://sesame.mathp6.jussieu.fr/~malliavp/ and a bio is at http://icmp2000.ma.ic.ac.uk/MathHistory/Malliavin.htm Martin, Donald Anthony UCLA logician b. 1940 [papers range from 1963 to the present] He has a B.A. from MIT (1962) but no PhD! A nondescript web page available through http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/phil/faculty/Martin.html Martin, Robert Samuel (1907-1940) MGP; U of Illinois archives. Last paper: 2,292h Martin, Robert S. Minimal positive harmonic functions. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 49, (1941). 137--172. (Reviewer: J. W. Green) [PhD 1932 at CalTech under Aristotle Michal, then at U Illinois] Maslov, Victor Pavlovich (b. 1930/15/06) -- Moscow quantum-theorist EDM [EDM references in articles 274C: microlocal analysis, 345C, Pseudodiff Op] http://www.ras.ru/cgi-bin/wldnew/volapuk/?Maslov Massey, William (b. 1920) Yale algebraic topologist WWS Mikusinski, Jan (1913-1987). 92e:01060 Kami\'nski, Andrzej Life and work of Professor Jan Mikusinski. (English) Generalized functions and convergence (Katowice, 1988), 3--19, World Sci. Publishing, Teaneck, NJ, 1990. Mills, Robert Leroy (b. 1922) WWS Physicist at Ohio State 16,432j Yang, C. N.; Mills, R. L. Conservation of isotopic spin and isotopic gauge invariance. Physical Rev. (2) 96, (1954). 191--195 Milman, David. (1912-1982) (Also see Krein, above) 87f:01050 Gohberg, I.; Liv\v sic, M. S.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. David Milman (1912--1982). (English) Integral Equations Operator Theory 9 (1986), no. 1, i, 1--10. Milnor, John (b. 1931) SUNY Stony Brook; topology AMWS NAS 95c:01043 Milnor, John Collected papers. Vol. 1. Geometry. Publish or Perish, Inc., Houston, TX, 1994. x+295 pp. ISBN 0-914098-30-6 [Bio now at St Andrews] Moody, Robert V. (b. 1941) Alberta, ring theory/group theory December 1995 Notices Amer Math Soc: Kac and Moody win Wigner prize (and related articles) http://e-math.ams.org/notices/199512/people-kac.html Moore, John Coleman (b.1923) Rochester, algebraic topology AMWS, WWS Moore, Robert Lee (1882-1974) NAS 83k:01047 Wilder, R. L. The mathematical work of R. L. Moore: its background, nature and influence. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 26 57 #5640a Wilder, R. L. Robert Lee Moore, 1882--1974. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), no. 3, 417--427 [Bio now at St. Andrews] Morita, Kiiti (1915-1995) Arhangel\cprime skii, A. V.; Goodearl, K. R.; Huisgen-Zimmermann, B. Kiiti Morita (1915--1995). Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1997), no. 6, 680--684 Nemytskii, Viktor Vladimirovich (1900-1967) WWS 36 #4947 Aleksandrov, P. S.; Va\u\i nberg, M. M.; Vinograd, R. È.; Demidovi\v c, B. P. Viktor Vladimirovi\v c Nemycki\u\i. (Russian) Uspehi Mat. Nauk 23 1968 no. 2 (140) 179--192 (1 plate) Nikodym, Otto Martin (1887-1974) P7b 91i:01119 Szyma\'nski, Wac\l aw Who was Otto Nikod\'ym? Math. Intelligencer 12 (1990), no. 2, 27--31 86b:01031b Bibliography of the works of Otton M. Nikod\'ym. (Polish) Wiadom. Mat. 25 (1983), no. 1, 83--87. 01A70 86b:01031a Derkowska, Alicja Otton Marcin Nikod\'ym (1889--1974). (Polish) Wiadom. Mat. 25 (1983), no. 1, 75--83 Nikolskii, Sergei Mickhailovich (b. 1905) 97a:01043 Besov, O. V.; Bochkarev, S. V.; Vladimirov, V. S.; et al. Serge\u\i Mikha\u\i lovich Nikol\cprime ski\u\i (on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday). (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 50 (1995), no. 6(306), 223--228 He reached at least the age of 95: http://nik-100.mi.ras.ru/publ95_e.html Norlund, Niels Erik (1885- 1981)ICC P77b, WWS 89i:01057 Bang, Thøger Niels Erik Nørlund in memoriam. Acta Math. 161 (1988), no. 1-2, 11--22 85b:01048 Cartan, Henri Niels Erik Nørlund. (French) C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Vie Académique 297 (1983), suppl. 9, 17. 01A70 84a:01042 Carleson, Lennart; G\.arding, Lars Obituary on Niels Erik Nørlund. Acta Math. 148 (1982), 1 Onsager, Lars (1903-1976) Nobel Prize in chemistry P7b NAS 98b:01042 The collected works of Lars Onsager. With commentary. Edited by P. C. Hemmer, H. Holden and S. Kjelstrup Ratkje. World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics, 17. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge, NJ, 1996. x+1075 pp ISBN 981-02-2563-6 Ore, Oystein (1899-1968) P7b 43 #19 Aubert, K. E. OØystein Ore and his mathematical work. (Norwegian) Nordisk Mat. Tidskr. 18 1970 121--126 40 #4073 Oystein Ore (1899--1968). J. Combinatorial Theory 8 1970 i--iii Orlicz, Wladyslaw (1903-1990) 91i:01136 W\l adys\l aw Orlicz: 24 May 1903--9 August 1990. Studia Math. 97 (1990), no. 2, ii--iv 80a:01035 Matuszewska, Wanda W\l adys\l aw Orlicz: a review of his scientific work. Special issue dedicated to W\l adys\l aw Orlicz on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Comment. Math. Special Issue 1 (1978), 1--17 (1 plate) Pareto, Vilfredo (1848-1923) P4 WWS 92d:01082 Pareto, Vilfredo Statistique et économie mathématique. (French) [Statistics and mathematical economics] Second edition. With a preface by René Roy. \OE uvres Complètes de Vilfredo Pareto [Complete Works of Vilfredo Pareto], VIII. Travaux de Droit, d'Économie, de Sciences Politiques, de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie [Works in Law, Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology], 48. Librairie Droz, Geneva, 1989. 407 pp. Petersson, Hans (1902-1984) Wohlfahrt, K. Hans Petersson zum Gedächtnis. (German) [Hans Petersson in memoriam] Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 96 (1994), no. 3, 117--129 Popov, Vasile-Mihai (b. 1928/07/07): stability in DE/control: retired from Florida [papers range from 1958 to the present][EDM sect 291E: Nonlinear ODE probs] Postnikov, Mikhail M (b. 1927/10/27) Moscow WWS 90m:01053 Boltyanski\u\i, V. G.; Gamkrelidze, R. V.; Mal\cprime tsev, A. A.; et al. Mikhail Mikha\u\i lovich Postnikov (on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday). (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 44 (1989), no. 6(270), 163--164 http://www.ras.ru/cgi-bin/wldnew/volapuk/?Postnikov Potts, Renfrey Burnard (b. 1925/10/04: ICC) mathematical physicist, Adelaide Tuck, E. O. Retirement of Professor R. B. Potts, A. O. Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. 18 (1991), no. 4, 111--112 Rees, David (b. 1918/05/28): ring theorist (in UK) [A conference in honour of his 80th birthday is to be held at the University of Exeter in 1998 August]. Regge, Tullio (b. 1931) mathematical physicist, Torino, Italy WWS See DE, V (EDITOR) "Constrained dynamics and quantum gravity 1996 : proceedings of the Second Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity, QC96, on the occasion of Tullio Regge's 65th birthday, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, 17-21 September 1996 " . -- : North-Holland, 1997. Reinhardt, Karl (1895-1941) P6 5,58m Maier, W. Obituary: Karl Reinhardt. (English) Jber. Deutsch. Math. Verein. 52, (1942). 75--83. Reiten, Idun: Norwegian ring theorist (WPIS: Brandeis in 1973) (MGP:Illinois71) She has a nondescript home page: http://www.matstat.unit.no/auto/idunr.html (PhD has biographical data: b. 1942/1/1) [papers range from 1970 to the present] Ritz, Walter (1878-1909) P5 83d:01063 Sirmanov, Ts. Historical calendar of physics for 1978. (Bulgarian) Fiz.-Mat. Spis. B\bud lgar. Akad. Nauk. 21(54) (1978), no. 2,147--149. Roch, Gustav (1839-1866) P3 papers include Z.Mth.Ps. 11 (1866) 53- (evaluation of theta fcns), Z.Mth.Ps 10(1865) 317- Rossby, Carl-Gustaf A. (1898-1957) meteorologist WWS NAS 12,367a Ertel, Hans; Rossby, Carl-Gustaf A new conservation theorem of hydrodynamics. Geofis. Pura Appl. 14, (1949). 189--193. (Reviewer: C. Truesdell) 76.1X Salpeter, Edwin Ernst (b. 1924) WWS, AMWS, Cornell physicist 14,707a Salpeter, E. E.; Bethe, H. A. A relativistic equation for bound-state problems. Physical Rev. (2) 84, (1951). 1232--1242. Samuel, Pierre (b. 1921) Orsay: algebraic geometry WWS 97b:01031 Samuel, Pierre Collected papers of Pierre Samuel. Vol. I, II. (French) With a preface in English by Paulo Ribenboim. With an introduction by Lucien Szpiro. Edited by A. J. Coleman and Ribenboim. Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 99. Queen's University, Kingston, ON, 1995. Vol. I: xxx+558 pp.; Vol. II: pp. i--vi and 559--1089. ISBN: 0-88911-693-8 Sasaki, Shigeo (b. 1912) EDM [last paper in 1980] 87g:01064 Sasaki, Shigeo Selected papers. With a foreword by Shiing Shen Chern. Edited by Shun-ichi Tachibana. Kinokuniya Company Ltd., Tokyo, 1985. viii+363 pp Schatten, Robert (1911-1977) AMWS EDM. 50 #5431 Schatten, Robert Remark on the approximation problem. Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 98 (1974), 235--238. Schunck, Hermann, student of Gaschutz ca. 1966 35 #254 Schunck, Hermann ${\scr H}$-Untergruppen in endlichen auflösbaren Gruppen. (German) Math. Z. 97 1967 326--330. Schwartz, Laurent (b.1915)(FER) 83e:01073 Schwartz, Laurent Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de Laurent Schwartz. (French) [Notice about the scientific works of Laurent Schwartz] Mathematical analysis and applications, Part A, pp. 1--25, Adv. in Math. Suppl. Stud., 7a, Academic Press, New York-London, 1981 [Bio now at St Andrews] Selberg, Atle (b.1917) WWS, AMWS; number theorist, Fields medal, Princeton IAS [Bio now at St Andrews] Serre, Jean-Pierre (b.1926) Mathematician(!), Fields medalist N20 NAS 96g:01044 1995 Steele Prizes. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1995), no. 11, 1288--1292. 87k:01050 Chong, C. T.; Leong, Y. K. An interview with Jean-Pierre Serre. Math. Intelligencer 8 (1986), no. 4, 8--13 [Bio now at St Andrews] Shimura, Goro (b. 1930) Princeton number theorist 97k:01066 1996 Steele Prizes. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996), no. 11, 1340--1347 Sidon, Simon (1892-1941) P7b Last publication also has some biog. comments: 8,150i Sidon, S. Über orthogonale Entwicklungen. (German) Acta Univ. Szeged. Sect. Sci. Math. 10, (1943). 206--253. Sitnikov, Kirill Aleksandrovich (b. 1926) 88f:01042 Kolmogorov, A. N.; Mal\cprime tsev, A. A.; Novikov, S. P. Kirill Aleksandrovich Sitnikov (on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday). (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 41 (1986), no. 6(252), 209--210 Smale, Stephen (b.1930) Fields Medal, Berkeley N20 NAS 97k:01057 Shmoys, David B.; Batterson, Steve Karp and Smale receive National Medals of Science. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996), no. 12, 1524--1528 [Bio now at St Andrews] Smith, Paul Althaus (1900-1980) ICC AMSci NAS 86i:57002 The Smith conjecture. (English) Papers presented at the symposium held at Columbia University, New York, 1979 Edited by John W. Morgan and Hyman Bass. Pure and Applied Mathematics, 112. Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, Fla., 1984. xv+243 pp. ISBN 0-12-506980-4 Sobolev, Sergei Lvovich (1908-1989) Novosibirsk? WWS SMS 92a:01070 Leray, Jean La vie et l'\oe uvre de Serge Sobolev. (French) [The life and works of Sergei Sobolev] C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. Gén. Vie Sci. 7 (1990), no. 6, 467--471 90j:01134 Serge\u\i L\cprime vovich Sobolev. (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 44 (1989), no. 4(268), 5; translation in Russian Math. Surveys 44 (1989), no. 4, 1 See obit in Notices AMS v 36 (1989) p 853 [Bio now at St Andrews] Spanier, Edwin Henry (1921-1996) Berkeley topologist AMWS Memorial, Notices Amer Math Soc 45 (1998) p. 704 [Bio now at St Andrews] Spencer, Donald Clayton (b. 1912) WWS AMWS NAS 88a:01073 Spencer, Donald C. Selecta. (3 Vol.) World Scientific Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1985. ISBN 9971-978-02-4 Steenrod, Norman Earl, (1910-1971) NAS 42 #5255 Whitehead, George W. The work of Norman E. Steenrod in algebraic topology: An appreciation. 1970 The Steenrod Algebra and its Applications (Proc. Conf. to Celebrate N. E. Steenrod's Sixtieth Birthday, Battelle Memorial Inst., Columbus, Ohio , 1970) pp. 1--10 Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 168 Springer, Berlin Stein, Charles Max (b. 1920/03/02: ICC) -- emeritus Stanford statistician NAS [papers range from 1945 to 1993] http://www-stat.stanford.edu/people/emeriti.html#stein Stein, Karl (b. 1913) JDMV93(1991)1-5 53 #7684 Cartan, Henri Sur les travaux de Karl Stein. Schr. Math. Inst. Univ. Münster (2) Sonderheft 7 (1973), i+35 pp Steinberg, Robert (b. 1922) UCLA group theorist NAS Steinberg, Robert Robert Steinberg. Edited and with a foreword by J.-P. Serre. Collected Works, 7. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997. xx+599 pp. ISBN: 0-8218-0576-2 86m:01068 1985 Steele Prizes awarded at summer meeting in Laramie. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 32 (1985), no. 5, 575--579 Suslin, Mikhail Yakovlevich (1894-1919) TUF 91k:00009 {\cyr Pervaya Vserossi\u\i skaya Shkola po Osnovaniyam Matematiki i Teorii Funktsi\u\i}. (Russian) [First All-Russian School on the Foundations of Mathematics and the Theory of Functions] {\cyr Matematicheskie chteniya pamyati M. Ya. Suslina}. [Mathematical readings in memory of M. Ya. Suslin] Abstracts from the school held in Saratov, October 16--21, 1989. Edited by L. L. Gromova and V. A. Molchanov. Saratov. Gos. Ped. Inst., Saratov, 1989. 121 pp. Igoshin, V. I. Pages from a biography of Mikhail [] Yakovlevich Suslin. (Russian) Uspekhi Mat. Nauk 51 (1996), no. 3(309), 3--16 Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir (Henry) Peter (Francis) (b. 1927/08/02: ICC) Arithmetic algebraic geometer at Cambridge/Newton Inst. [papers range from 1952 to the present] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/Staff/P.Swinnerton-Dyer.html http://fourier.dur.ac.uk:8000/~dma0wmo/photos/swd.html Tate, John (b.1925) number theorist (Harvard/ Austin TX) NAS MR96g:01044 1995 Steele Prizes. Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (1995), no. 11, 1288--1292. Torelli, Ruggiero (1884-1915) P5 97g:01033 Torelli, Ruggiero Collected papers of Ruggiero Torelli. (Italian) Edited and with a preface by Ciro Ciliberto, Paulo Ribenboim and Edoardo Sernesi. Queen's Papers in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 101. Queen's University, Kingston, ON, 1995. xii+224 pp. ISBN: 0-88911-707-1 (Reviewer: Alessio Corti) Ulm, Helmut (1908-1975) JDMV82(1980) 90c:01035 Göbel, R. Helmut Ulm: his work and its impact on recent mathematics. Abelian group theory (Perth, 1987), 1--10, Contemp. Math., 87, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1989 van Kampen, Egbertus Rudolf (1908-1942) 82h:01040 Two decades of mathematics in the Netherlands. 1920--1940 A retrospection on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Wiskundig Genootschap. Part I, II. Edited by E. M. J. Bertin, H. J. M. Bos and A. W. Grootendorst. Mathematical Centre, Amsterdam, 1978. 379 pp. [b. 1908/05/28 Antwerp, 1931-1942 at Johns Hopkins, d. 1942/11/02; article by Singh Varma, information via Grootendorst & TU Delft] 80g:01017 Freudenthal, H. Topologie in den Niederlanden: das erste Halbjahrhundert. (German) Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (3) 26 (1978), no. 1, 22--40. Vekua, Ilya N. (1907-1977) 58 #10158 Bers, Lipman Obituary: I. N. Vekua (1907--1977). Math. Intelligencer 1 (1978/79), no. 2, 83 Verma, Daya-Nand: retired from Tata institute (math.tifr.res.in) MSC references is to the 1966 Yale PhD thesis (unpublished) and derivative publications. He describes himself as the "least-published well-known mathematician"! [MGP: PhD 1966 Yale, Jacobson; thesis indicates DOB around 1932] Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) P2: cartographer after whom America is named! Villamayor, Orlando Eugenio: K-theorist at Buenos Aires (1923-1998) [papers range from 1953 to 1994] A bio: http://www.fundacionkonex.com.ar/ocvillamayor.html Died Feb 1998. http://www.math.univ-montp2.fr/vaquerias/acto.html Virasoro, Miguel Angel; quantum theorist, Trieste http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/inforesource/pressrelease/prn11.html Wall, Charles Terence Clegg (b. 1936) Liverpool topologist WWBS [Bio now at St Andrews] Walsh, Joseph Leonard (1895-1973)ICC P7b WWS NAS 50 #12595 Marden, Morris Joseph L. Walsh in memoriam. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (1975), 45--65 48 #10755 Bibliography of Joseph Leonard Walsh. Collection of articles dedicated to J. L. Walsh on his 75th birthday, I. J. Approximation Theory 5 (1972), xvii--xxviii Wentzel, Gregor (1898-1978) P5 P6 AMWS EDM, Physicist last at Univ Chicago NAS See also International Who's Who, and http://www4.nas.edu (Nat Acad Sci USA) Picture: http://www.aip.org/history/fall98/yukawa.htm Witt, Ernst (1911-1991) 94i:01024 Kersten, I. Ernst Witt 1911--1991. (German) Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein. 95 (1993), no. 4, 166--180 Yang, Chen Ning ("Frank") (b. 1922) Nobel prize-winning physicist N20 16,432j Yang, C. N.; Mills, R. L. Conservation of isotopic spin and isotopic gauge invariance. Physical Rev. (2) 96, (1954). 191--195 97a:81003 Li, Bing An; Deng, Yue-Fan Chen Ning Yang. Chen Ning Yang, 183--197, Internat. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995 94h:01032 Zhang, D. Z. C. N. Yang and contemporary mathematics. Math. Intelligencer 15 (1993), no. 4, 13--21 4E. Appeal for help. I would like to bring this list to a reasonable state of conclusion but am reaching the limit of my competence and resources. As you read this, please consider mailing to rusin@math.niu.edu any help you can offer towards these goals: 1. Provide some minimal data for the following people. What I really want are full name, years of birth and death, and pointers to any published or stable electronic biographies. These three are living and not especially mysterious, but I have not written to them. Schunck, Hermann (1941~?-....) [I am not sure where he is] Kan, Daniel M. (1930~?-....) Verma, Daya-Nand (1932~?-....) 2. When I attach biographical data to a name in the MSC, have I guessed the right person? (I am perhaps more likely to have made this error with biographies available at St Andrews). In particular, when a name appears more than once, do the multiple references refer to the same person? 3. In many cases, particularly with the youngest people, I have only a name and dates, together with a source of telegraphic information. Pointers to longer biographies would be most welcome. Note that these often appear in the publications of national mathematical societies when the person receives an award or national scientific office; such notices are often beyond my ken. 4. Responses to my comments would be most welcome. In particular, any information that the people I have listed as living have in fact passed away would be accepted -- but not welcomed! ============================================================================== 5. Chronological listing of 357 names (-580--520) Pythagoras of Samos [Early dates are of course uncertain] (-365--300) Euclid of Alexandria (-287--212) Archimedes of Syracuse ( 200- 284) Diophantus of Alexandria ( 290- 350) Pappus of Alexandria ( 790- 850) al'Khwarizmi, Abu (1170-1250) Fibonacci, Leonardo (1451-1512) Vespucci, Amerigo (1591-1661) Desargues, Girard (1596-1650) Descartes, René (1601-1665) Fermat, Pierre de (1643-1727) Newton, Sir Isaac (1648-1715) Raphson, Joseph (1685-1731) Taylor, Brook (1687-1759) Bernoulli, N (I) (1690-1764) Goldbach, Christian (1692-1770) Stirling, James (1698-1746) Maclaurin, Colin (1702-1761) Bayes, Thomas (1707-1783) Euler, Leonhard (1734-1798) Waring, Edward (1736-1813) Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1746-1818) Monge, Gaspard (1749-1827) Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1752-1833) Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1765-1825) Pfaff, Johann (1766-1826) Farey, John (1768-1830) Fourier, Joseph (1773-1858) Brown, Robert (1775-1836) Ampère, André (1777-1855) Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1781-1840) Poisson, Siméon (1784-1846) Bessel, Friedrich (1785-1836) Navier, Claude (1788-1827) Fresnel, Augustin (1789-1857) Cauchy, Augustin (1790-1868) Möbius, August (1793-1841) Green, George (1795-1870) Lamé, Gabriel (1796-1863) Steiner, Jakob (1797-1886) Saint-Venant, Adhémar de (1801-1892) Airy, George (1802-1829) Abel, Niels Henrik (1803-1855) Sturm, Charles (1804-1851) Jacobi, Carl (1805-1859) Dirichlet, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805-1865) Hamilton, William Rowan (1806-1871) De Morgan, Augustus (1809-1877) Grassmann, Hermann (1809-1880) Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1882) Liouville, Joseph (1811-1832) Galois, Evariste (1813-1854) Laurent, Pierre (1814-1897) Sylvester, James Joseph (1815-1864) Boole, George (1815-1897) Weierstrass, Karl (1818-1866) Charles III (Grimaldi) (1819-1903) Stokes, George Gabriel (1821-1894) Chebyshev, Pafnuty (1821-1894) Helmholtz, Hermann von (1822-1901) Hermite, Charles (1822-1911) Galton, Francis (1823-1891) Kronecker, Leopold (1826-1866) Riemann, G F Bernhard (1827-1903) Watson, Henry (1830-1903) Cremona, Antonio (1831-1879) Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1916) Dedekind, Julius Wihelm Richard (1832-1903) Lipschitz, Rudolf (1832-1918) Sylow, Peter (1832-1925) Neumann, Carl (1833-1902) Fuchs, Lazarus (1834-1886) Laguerre, Edmond (1835-1890) Mathieu, Emile Léonard (1835-1893) Stefan, Josef (1838-1914) Hill, George (1838-1922) Jordan, Marie Ennemond Camille (1839-1866) Roch, Gustav (1839-1873) Hankel, Hermann (1842-1891) Lucas, F Edouard (1842-1899) Lie, Marius Sophus (1842-1917) Darboux, Jean (1842-1919) Rayleigh, Lord John (1843-1921) Schwarz, (Karl) Hermann (1844-1906) Boltzmann, Ludwig (1845-1879) Clifford, William (1845-1918) Cantor, Georg (1845-1922) Backlund, Albert Victor (1848-1911) Schubert, Hermann (1848-1923) Pareto, Vilfredo ** End of first quartile ** (1848-1941) Korteweg, Diederik (1849-1903) Gegenbauer, Leopold (1849-1917) Frobenius, Ferdinand (1849-1925) Klein, Felix (1850-1891) Kovalevskaya, Sofia (1851-1935) Schottky, Friedrich (1852-1925) Frattini, Giovanni (1852-1927) Burnside, William (1853-1928) Lorentz, Hendrik (1853-1928) Schönflies, Arthur (1854-1912) Poincaré, J Henri (1854-1917) Veronese, Giuseppe (1855-1930) Appell, Paul (1856-1894) Stieltjes, Thomas Jan (1856-1922) Markov, Andrei (1856-1927) Runge, Carle (1856-1941) Picard, Emile (1857-1918) Lyapunov, Aleksandr (1858-1947) Planck, Max (1859-1906) Cesàro, Ernesto (1859-1919) Hurwitz, Adolf (1859-1937) Hölder, Otto (1860-1922) Lerch, Mathias (1860-1940) Volterra, Vito (1861-1941) Engel, Friedrich (1861-1941) Hensel, Kurt (1862-1937) Macaulay, Francis (1862-1943) Hilbert, David (1863-1922) Thue, Axel (1863-1953) Padé, Henri (1864-1909) Minkowski, Hermann (1865-1963) Hadamard, Jacques (1866-1927) Fredholm, Erik (1866-1934) DeVries, Gustav (1866-1942) Tauber, Alfred (1867-1913) Lauricella, Giuseppe (1867-1939) Horn, Jakob (1867-1944) Kutta, Martin (1869-1942) Hausdorff, Felix (1869-1951) Cartan, Elie (1870-1946) Lindelöf, Ernst (1870-1952) Lidstone, George James (1871-1939) Epstein, Paul (1871-1945) Galerkin Boris (1871-1946) Enriques, Federigo (1871-1952) Fano, Gino (1871-1956) Borel, Félix (1872-1946) Langevin, Paul (1873-1950) Carathéodory, Constantin (1873-1950) Hjelmslev, Johannes Trolle (1874-1932) Baire, René-Louis (1874-1933) Hartogs, Friedrich (1875-1941) Lebesgue, Henri (1875-1941) Schur, Issai (1876-1975) Montel, Paul (1877-1947) Hardy, Godfrey H (1878-1909) Ritz, Walter (1878-1929) Fatou, Pierre (1878-1952) Dehn, Max (1878-1956) Lukasiewicz, Jan (1878-1973) Fréchet, Maurice (1879-1934) Hahn, Hans (1879-1955) Einstein, Albert (1880-1956) Riesz,Frigyes [or is it Riesz, Marcel (1886-1969)?] (1880-1968) Bernstein, Sergei Natanovich (1880-1975) Perron, Oskar (1881-1940) Toeplitz, Otto (1882-1935) Noether, Emmy (1882-1965) Jacobsthal, Ernst Erich (1882-1974) Moore, Robert Lee (1883-1960) Bell, Eric Temple (1884-1915) Torelli, Ruggiero (1884-1943) Helly, Eduard (1884-1972) Lefschetz, Solomon (1884-1974) Denjoy, Arnaud (1885-1933) Haar, Alfréd (1885-1945) Kaluza, Theodor (1885-1955) Weyl, Hermann (1885-1962) Blaschke, Wilhelm (1885-1977) Littlewood, John E (1885-1981) Norlund, Niels Erik (1887-1947) Hecke, Erich (1887-1956) Radon, Johann (1887-1961) Schrödinger, Erwin (1887-1972) Fokker, Adriaan Daniel (1887-1974) Nikodym, Otto Martin (1888-1941) Hammerstein, Adolf (1888-1946) Jackson, Dunham (1889-1914) Gateaux, René ** midpoint ** (1889-1946) Daniell, Percy John (1889-1969) Brillouin, Leon Nicholas (1892-1941) Sidon, Simon (1892-1945) Banach, Stefan (1892-1975) Kunneth, Hermann (1892-1977) Morse, Harald Marston (1893-1939) Gordon, Walter (1893-1948) Bloch, André (1893-1960) Cech, Eduard (1893-1971) Reidemeister, Kurt (1894-1919) Suslin, Mikhail Yakovlevich (1894-1952) Kramers, Hendrik Anthony (1894-1964) Wiener, Norbert (1894-1970) Finsler, Paul (1894-1971) Hopf, Heinz (1895-1941) Reinhardt, Karl (1895-1961) Barbilian, Dan (1895-1973) Walsh, Joseph Leonard (1895-1977) Bergman, Stefan (1895-1980) Nevanlinna, Rolf (1895-1981) Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1896-1934) Prüfer, Ernst (1896-1981) Siegel, Carl (1896-1982) Aleksandrov, Pave (1897-1942) Saks, Stanislaw (1897-1954) Post, Emil (1897-1965) Maeda, Fumitomo (1897-1979) Weinstein, Alexander (1898-1924) Urysohn, Pavel (1898-1957) Rossby, Carl-Gustaf (1898-1962) Artin, Emil (1898-1978) Wentzel, Gregor (1898-1980) Heyting, Arend (1899-1968) Ore, Oystein (1899-1971) Krull, Wolfgang (1899-1980) Grobner, Wolfgang (1900-1967) Nemytskii, Viktor Vladimirovich (1900-1968) Kloosterman, Hendrik Douwe (1900-1980) Smith, Paul Althaus (1900-1981) Ljusternik, Lazar Aronovich (1900-1992) Zygmund, Antoni (1900-1998) Ising, Ernst (1901-1977) Brauer, Richard (1902-1983) Hopf, Eberhard (1902-1984) Dirac, Paul (1902-1984) Petersson, Hans (1902-1995) Wigner, Eugene (1903-1930) Ramsey, Frank (1903-1957) von Neumann, John (1903-1975) Hodge, William (1903-1976) Onsager, Lars (1903-1987) Kolmogorov, Andrej Nikolajevich (1903-1989) Stone, Marshall (1903-1990) Orlicz, Wladyslaw (1903-1990) de Rham, Georges (1904-1960) Whitehead, Henry (1905-1994) Busemann, Herbert (1905-....) Nikolskii, Sergei Mickhailovich (1905-1938) Schnirelman, Lev (1905-1989) Kothe, Gottfried (1905-1996) Franz, Wolfgang (1906-....) Bethe, Hans (1906-2000) Kahler, Erich (1906-1938) Fitting, Hans (1906-1968) Gelfond, Aleksandr (1906-1978) Gödel, Kurt (1906-1993) Zorn, Max (1906-1998) Weil, André (1907-2003) Coxeter, Donald (1907-1933) Paley, Raymond (1907-1940) Martin, Robert Samuel (1907-1977) Vekua, Ilya N. (1907-1980) Aronszajn, Nachman (1907-1989) Krein, Mark Grigorevich (1908-1989) Sobolev, Sergei L. (1908-1942) Vankampen, Egbertus Rudolf (1908-1975) Ulm, Helmut (1909-2005) MacLane, Saunders (1909-2002) Neumann, Bernhard (1909-1967) Malcev, Anatoly (1910-....) Ditkin, Vitalii A. (1910-1999) Jacobson, Nathan (1910-1971) Steenrod, Norman Earl (1910-1976) Turán, Paul (1911-2004) Chern, Shiing-shen (1911-1977) Schatten, Robert (1911-1991) Witt, Ernst (1911-1995) Chow, Wei-Liang (1912-....) Sasaki, Shigeo ** end of third quartile ** (1912-2002) Spencer, Donald Clayton (1912-1954) Turing, Alan (1912-1975) Brewer, Burns W. (1912-1982) Milman, David (1912-1985) Krasner, Marc (1913-1990) Bockstein, Meyer (1913-....) Gelfand, Israel M. (1913-....) Stein, Karl (1913-1943) Teichmüller, Paul (1913-1987) Mikusinski, Jan (1913-1996) Erdös, Paul (1913-1998) Eilenberg, Samuel (1914-1971) Neumann, Hanna (1914-1993) Bers, Lipman (1915-....) Choquet, Gustave (1915-....) Hochschild, Gerhard P (1915-2002) Schwartz, Laurent (1915-1995) Morita, Kiiti (1916-....) Mackey, George (1916-2001) Shannon, Claude (1917-....) Eckmann, Beno (1917-....) Higman, Graham (1917-1998) Iwasawa, Kenkichi (1917-....) Selberg, Atle (1917-1955) Cohen, Irvin Sol (1918-....) Rees, David (1918-1988) Feynman, Richard (1920-....) Azumaya, Goro (1920-....) Goldie, Alfred W (1920-....) Massey, William (1920-....) Stein, Charles M. (1920-1998) Calderon, Alberto (1921-....) Gale, David (1921-....) Samuel, Pierre (1921-1996) Spanier, Edwin Henry (1922-....) Lashof, Richard Kenneth (1922-1999) Mills, Robert Leroy (1922-....) Steinberg, Robert (1922-....) Yang, Chen Ning ("Frank") (1923-....) Bott, Raoul (1923-....) Hilton, Peter (1923-....) Moore, John Coleman (1923-1992) Gorenstein, David (1923-1998) Villamayor, Orlando Eugenio (1924-....) Salpeter, Edwin Ernst (1925-....) Malliavin, Paul (1925-....) Potts, Renfrey B. (1925-....) Tate, John (1926-....) Serre, Jean-Pierre (1926-....) Sitnikov, Kirill Aleksandrovich (1926-1994) Auslander, Maurice (1927-....) Helson, Henry (1927-....) James, Willard Donald (1927-....) Machlup, Stefan (1927-2004) Postnikov, Mikhail M (1927-....) Swinnerton-Dyer, Peter (1928-....) Grothendieck, Alexander (1928-....) Nash, John Forbes (1928-....) Popov, Vasile-Mihai (1929-....) Buchsbaum, David (1929-....) Dyer, Eldon (1930-....) Kleisli, Heinrich (1930-....) Maslov, Victor P (1930-....) Shimura, Goro (1930-....) Smale, Stephen (1930-1989) Adams, Frank (1930~?-....) Kan, Daniel M. (1931-....) Birch, Bryan J (1931-....) Milnor, John (1931-....) Regge, Tullio (1932~?-....) Verma, Daya-Nand (1936-....) Anosov, Dmitirii Viktorovich (1936-....) Kirillov, Alexandre Alexandrovich (1936-....) Langlands, Robert (1936-....) Wall, Charles Terence Clegg (1938-....) Karoubi, Max (1939-....) Baker, Alan (1939-....) Fuks, Dmitri Borisovitch (1940-....) Gersten, Steve (1940-....) Martin, Donald A. (1940-....) Virasoro, Miguel Angel (1941-....) Moody, Robert (1941~?-....) Schunck, Hermann (1942-....) Reiten, Idun (1943-....) Gromov, Mikhael (1943-....) Kac, Victor (1947-....) Arakelov, Suren Ju. (1948-....) Kasparov, Gennadi G (1954-....) Drinfeld, Vladimir ============================================================================== For James (and 'ridge') see the 1999 sci.stat.math thread http://www.mathforum.org/epigone/sci.stat.math/phimplilchol ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ J.R.Partington wrote in 2002: > "L" in "L^p-spaces" or "H" in "H^p" (46B20) or "K" in "K-theory", "K_0", L is Lebesgue, H is G.H. Hardy (they are also called Hardy spaces). The "C" in C^* algebras? The third letter of the alphabet. There are also things called A* algebras and B* algebras. [...] > There were two Riesz brothers, M. and F. (with a joint paper!); I'm not sure > to which brother(s?) these MSC names refer: > * 06F20 Ordered abelian groups, Riesz groups, ordered linear spaces, > See also {46A40} Don't know. > * 42A55 Lacunary series of trigonometric and other functions; Riesz > products This is F. Riesz (the more important one). > * 47B06 Riesz operators; eigenvalue distributions; approximation > numbers, $s$-numbers, Kolmogorov numbers, entropy numbers, etc. of > operators This is F. Riesz too. [...] > Schunck, Hermann (1941~?-....) Google finds lots of references to him. He apparently works for the German federal ministry of education and research. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Garry Tee wrote in 2004: 4A. The Bernoulli numbers were developed not by Nicolaus 2nd (1687-1759), but by his uncle Jakob 1st (1654-1708, published 1713). Translated into English by Jekuthiel Ginsburg, in D. E. Smith (editor), "A Source Book In Mathematics", 1929, 85-90. (Dover reprint in 2 volumes, 1959.) Lazar' Aronovich Lyusternik (1899-12-31 to 1981) did indeed work in topology as well as in numerical analysis, plus geometry, history of mathematics etc. etc. ("Matematika v SSSR", tome 4, book 2, p.592). J. C-F Sturm (Liouville's friend & colleague) did indeed discover Sturm sequences. T. H. Huxley had expressed unenthusiastic views about mathematics as a science. His friend J. J. Sylvester retorted that "Most, if not all, of the great ideas of modern mathematics have had their origin in observation. Take, for instance . . . Sturm's theorem about the roots of equations, which, as he informed me with his own lips, stared him in the face in the midst of some mechanical investigations connected (if my memory serves me right) with the motion of compound pendulums". [J. J. Sylvester, A plea for the mathematician, NATURE v.1 (1869), pp.237-238. Reprinted in his Collected Papers, v.2, pp. 655-656.] 5. No precise dates are known for Pythagoras or Euclid. Neither Diophantus nor Pappus can reliably be fixed closer than +1st to +5th centuries. The birthdate of al'Khwarizmi can only be estimated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Suren Arakelov is perhaps one of the more elusive figures in the list. I have had several correspondences with people who have reported parts of his biography, not all of it designed for public consumption. Here are a couple of general messages: Message-Id: <199906061040.MAA10183@hesione> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 12:40:49 +0200 From: "Yuri I. Manin" Subject: Re: Message for Manin 1) Here is a short CV of Arakelov: Name: ARAKELOV Suren Yurievich Born: October 16, 1947, in Kharkov. Education: Math. Department of Moscow University, 1965-1971. Graduate studies: Steklov Math. Institute, 1971 - 1974, advisor I.R.Shafarevich. Defense of PhD: 1975, Steklov. Job: junior researcher at the Institute of Oil and Gas, Moscow, 1975 - 1979. Publications: the three papers listed in Rusin's message. 2) Since 1979, Arakelov quit mathematics and public life in general because of schizophrenia. It has its ups and downs. Friends, including Tyurin, visit him from time to time. 3) Arakelov had a very sharp mathematical mind and before his incurable condition prevailed, was an active member of our seminars. He attended some of my courses. In "Collected Works of Yu. I. Manin" published by World Scientific, 1996, on page 565 you can find his drawing. It was taken from his handwritten lecture notes of my course dedicated to Mumford's paper "On the equations defining Abelian varieties". Best, Yu. Manin. Message-Id: <200203282039.g2SKdwPJ017455@newserv.otenet.gr> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:43:10 -0800 From: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" Cc: rusin@math.niu.edu, a_arakelov@yahoo.co.uk To: hyacinthos@yahoogroups.com Subject: Suren Arekelov This list is devoted to Triangle Geometry. However, from time to time, will be allowed discussions on themes of general interest. Especially when the geometric traffic is not too much. (like this day). Some time ago I asked for information (in fact I FWD-ed an e-mail of D. Rusin) about a notable mathematician who disappeared from the math. horizon. The mathematician is the algebraic geometer Suren Arakelov. Andrei Arakelov has kindly sent the following: > > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:29:55 +0000 (GMT) > From: Andrei Arakelov > Subject: Suren Arakelov > To: Antreas P. Hatzipolakis > > Hi, Antreas! > > Here is some information, that Suren gave me to be > sent to you: > born 16 October 1947 in Kharkiv (Ukrainia in that time > that was USSR republic). > 1965-1971 Moscow State University, Faculty of > mechanics and mathematics: > http://www.msu.ru/english/info/struct/facult/mechmath.html > Now I have to explain you our education system: after > graduating from university, you can continue your > study. And that is made in 2 steps in order to get > Ph.D (actually I am not sure it is equivalent to > european Ph.D, but we call it Doctor of Science). So, > the first step is getting "candidate", that can take > normally from 3 years, you have to make some research > and attend some courses, and some publications (I > might miss smth). The second part is "Doctor" and as > far as I remember does not require any courses to be > attended, but demand more publications, research and I > do not even know what else. It take few years as well. > So From 1971 he studied his "candidate" at Steklov > Mathematical Institute > (http://www.ras.ru/local.docs/mian/mian.html ) > And in 1975 defended dissertation and got his > "candidate of physics-math science". I am afraid you > have to talk to someone, who is more familiar with all > these terms. > Now he lives in Moscow, he has wife, 1 son and 2 > daughters, 2 grandchildren. He is now not involved in > any mathematics research. > > That is all he gave me. Not very much :( Unfortunately > I failed to arrange my trip to Moscow, so I won't see > him. > > > Regards, Andrei ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [I asked again in the newsgroups about some of these lettered names] From: rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin) Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Reason for the Center of the Circle?? Date: 5 Feb 2005 04:12:59 GMT [...] When we describe a space as "E^3" it's clear (?) that the letter was chosen to honor Euclid. The KdV equations are named after Korteweg and de Vries. The spaces known today as Banach spaces were, I'm told, at first named "B-spaces" by Banach himself, perhaps hoping that someone would take the hint and name the spaces after him. (Evidently L^p spaces refer to Lebesgue and H^p to Hardy; BMO spaces, however, are not named after people at all but rather Bounded Mean Oscillations.) But there are other letters in use in mathematics which might, for all I know, refer to people or concepts, but I have never known for sure. Here's a list of them from when last I looked at this. Does anyone know whether the letters refer to anything or anyone in particular? What is the "C" in C^* algebras? [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Robin Chapman Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:35:53 +0000 Message-ID: > Why is "K-theory" given a "K"? (It had to happen that there came to be > "L-theory"; now there's "M-theory" too but I think that's different.) There's also KK-theory (but fortunately not KKK-theory). > Is the "q" in the "q-calculus" of combinatorics a refence to all the q's > in quantum groups (or quantum whatevers)? It long predates quantum groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) Date: 5 Feb 2005 07:49:26 -0500 >Why is "K-theory" given a "K"? In the late 1960s I was told it was the terminal (_vice_ initial) of "Grothendieck". But I was told a *lot* of things in the late 1960s. > What are BN pairs? The B is surely Borel, and I once knew who N was but have forgotten. A "group with a BN pair" is formally similar to an algebraic group with a pair consisting of a Borel subgroup and a...? Aha! "N" stands for "normal" (so I was wrong, I never knew anyone normal), and (as MR reminds me) the phrase was coined by Tits. See Tits, J. Algebraic and abstract simple groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 80 1964 313--329. > CR-manifolds? Cauchy-Riemann. A CR structure on an odd-dimensional manifold is an abstraction of some of the structure induced on real hypersurface in a complex manifold by the complex structure. I actually knew this (though I'd forgotten what the definition is), but am pleased to be able to cite Greenfield, S. J., Cauchy-Riemann equations in several variables. Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa (3) 22 1968 275--314, the MR review of which strongly sugggests that Greenfield (or maybe Nirenberg, the reviewer) coined the usage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: jdolan@math-cl-n03.math.ucr.edu (James Dolan) Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 20:42:39 +0000 (UTC) |> What are BN pairs? not knowing much about the actual history of the situation, i would probably have guessed that the n stands for "normalizer" rather than "normal"; i think that the subgroup n is the normalizer of the "maximal torus" inside the whole group. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jim Spriggs Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:12:24 +0000 (UTC) > What's a BCK- or BCI-algebra (06F35), for example? These are, I think, the Lindenbaum algebras of two logical calculi invented by C A Meredith in the 1950s. The rules are modus ponens and substitution, and the axioms are for BCK: B: (q -> r) -> ((p -> q) -> (p -> r)) C: (p -> (q -> r)) -> (q -> (p -> r)) K: p -> (q -> p). BCI has, in place of K, I: p -> p. A N Prior, Formal Logic, corrected second edition, Oxford, 1973, writes that Meredith "following certain combinatory logicians" named his axioms after the combinators B, C, K and I. What is the connection with Sch\"onfinkel's combinatory logic which has: Ix = x Kxy = x ? Curry) has Bxyz = x(yz) where Sch\"onfinkel has Zxyz = x(yz) and Cxyz = xzy the connection with axiom C above is clear. So, "I" for "identity" and "C" for "commutativity", but "B" and "K"? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.J.T. Guy) Date: 7 Feb 2005 19:38:40 GMT >So, "I" for "identity" and "C" for "commutativity", but "B" and "K"? Much early work on combinatory logic was in German, and the names were German. In particular, "K" stands for constant in German, since K applied to an argument yields the constant function with that value. Offhand I don't remember what "B" stands for.