He used his time in Bourg to research mathematics, producing Considérations sur la théorie mathématique de jeu ( 1802 ; “ Considerations on the Mathematical Theory of Games ”), a treatise on mathematical probability that he sent to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1803.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

* Martin Gardner, author of Mathematical Games, a long running column in Scientific American

* Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column

The game made its first public appearance in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American, in Martin Gardner's " Mathematical Games " column.

In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his " Mathematical Games " column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors.

" Mathematical Games — on the Fanciful History and the Creative Challenges of the Puzzle Game of Tangrams ", Scientific American Aug. 1974, p. 98 – 103.

In March of the following year, Martin Gardner wrote about the Ulam spiral in his Mathematical Games column ; the Ulam spiral featured on the front cover of the issue of Scientific American in which the column appeared.

Flexagons were introduced to the general public by the recreational mathematician Martin Gardner, writing in 1956 in his inaugural " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine.

* Martin Gardner has written an excellent introduction to hexaflexagons in one of his Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American.

** Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First " Scientific American " Book of Puzzles and Games ( University of Chicago Press, 1988 ; ISBN 0-226-28254-6 )

** Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games ( Cambridge University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 0-521-73525-4 )

The title is an example of wordplay: it is an anagram of Mathematical Games, the title of Martin Gardner's column that Hofstadter's column succeeded in Scientific American.

The rules for the game, and a sample track game was published in Car and Driver magazine, in July 1973 ( page 65 ), and again by Martin Gardner in 1983 in his " Mathematical Games " column in Scientific American.

* Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

The number gained a degree of popular attention when Martin Gardner described it in the " Mathematical Games " section of Scientific American in November 1977, writing that, " In an unpublished proof, Graham has recently established ... a bound so vast that it holds the record for the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.

Many of the puzzles are well known because they were discussed by Martin Gardner in his " Mathematical Games " column in Scientific American.

It was described by Martin Gardner in his Scientific American column Mathematical Games in 1967.

The problem was introduced to a wide mathematical audience by Martin Gardner in his October 1960 Mathematical Games column.

In a 1975 April Fool article in Scientific American magazine, " Mathematical Games " columnist Martin Gardner made the ( hoax ) claim that the number was in fact an integer, and that the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan had predicted it — hence its name.

The problem appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

This was a sequel to the Hilbert-Ackermann book Principles of Mathematical Logic from 1928.

The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.

Wheeler was a research student at the University Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge from 1948 – 51, and a pioneer programmer on the EDSAC project.

In 1923, while writing the appendix for the Italian edition of the book The Mathematical Theory of Relativity by A. Kopff, Enrico Fermi pointed out, for the first time, that hidden inside the famous Einstein equation (), there was an enormous amount of nuclear potential energy to be exploited.

A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by mid-1954.

In a demonstration to the American Mathematical Society conference at Dartmouth College on September 11, 1940, Stibitz was able to send the Complex Number Calculator remote commands over telephone lines by a teletype.

In 2006, Harvey Mudd was also named one of the " new Ivy leagues " by Kaplan and Newsweek, while the mathematics department won the first American Mathematical Society Award for Exemplary Program.

The landmark event that established the discipline of information theory, and brought it to immediate worldwide attention, was the publication of Claude E. Shannon's classic paper " A Mathematical Theory of Communication " in the Bell System Technical Journal in July and October 1948.

The concept was introduced by Claude E. Shannon in his 1948 paper " A Mathematical Theory of Communication ".

In 1928, Hilbert and Wilhelm Ackermann published Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik ( Principles of Mathematical Logic ), an introduction to first-order logic in which the problem of completeness was posed: Are the axioms of a formal system sufficient to derive every statement that is true in all models of the system?

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna who had died a year earlier.

He was an honorary member of several learned societies, among them the London Mathematical Society and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

When the International Mathematical Union in 1981 decided to create a prize, similar to the Fields Medal, in theoretical computer science and the funding for the price was secured from Finland, the Union decided to give Nevanlinna's name to the prize.

Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays reports that the 6-spot normal game was proved to be a win for the first player by Denis Mollison, with a hand-made analysis of 47 pages.

Gould said that the most positive review of the first edition of The Mismeasure of Man was by the British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, which reported that " Gould has performed a valuable service in exposing the logical basis of one of the most important debates in the social sciences, and this book should be required reading for students and practitioners alike.

Mathematical aerodynamics was founded by Ludwig Prandtl before WW I ( by understanding boundary layers and progressing calculation in the down stream direction ), and the work continued at Göttingen until interfered with in the 1930s and prohibited in the late 1940s.

In 1871 he was appointed Professor of Mathematical Physics at Yale, the first such professorship in the United States.

Dzerzhinsky received his school diploma that was stating following, " Dzerzhinsky Feliks who is 18 years of age, of catholic faith, along with a satisfactory attention and satisfactory diligence showed following successes in sciences, namely: Divine law-" good "; Logic, Latin, Algebra, Geometry, Mathematical geography, Physics, History ( of Russia ), French-" satisfactory "; Russian and Greek-" unsatisfactory ".

Boole's first published paper was Researches in the theory of analytical transformations, with a special application to the reduction of the general equation of the second order, printed in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal in February 1840 ( Volume 2, no.

The Faculty of Science was formed in 1893 from Chairs removed from the Faculties of Arts and Medicine, and subsequently divided in 2000 to form the three Faculties of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Computing Science, Mathematics and Statistics ( now Information and Mathematical Sciences ) and Physical Sciences.

Tentamen philosophicum, a list of questions for his comprehensive examination, was preserved and is available in the Mathematical Library in Ljubljana.

Jurij Vega was a member of the Academy of Practical Sciences in Mainz, the Physical and Mathematical Society of Erfurt, the Bohemian Scientific Society in Prague, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.