Portraits of mathematicians from Abel to Zygmund

Posted by: Alexandre Borovik | November 18, 2008

… are on MAA site, available for download for educational or instructional purposes.

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Frankly, I cannot remember any mathematical achievements by Alcuin of York (735 – 804), Bede the Venerable (c. 673-735) or Boethius, Anicus (480 – 524), just to begin with A and B 😉
By: Sergei Yakovenko on November 18, 2008
at 7:58 am

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How come they have Gelfond but not Gelfand?!
By: Andrei Zelevinsky on November 18, 2008
at 11:36 am

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By: Portretten van Abel tot Zygmund at QED on November 19, 2008
at 10:26 pm

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Bede the Venerable, judging by Wikipedia, knew how to compute date of Easter, which, at his time in Europe, was quite an achievement.

Re Gelfand – this is strange, indeed.
By: Alexandre Borovik on November 20, 2008
at 5:30 pm

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