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Made in 1540-2 by the printer and mathematician Dietrich Tzwyvel. The procession was calculated by Tzwyvel and the Franciscan priest Johann von Aachen. Ironwork by the locksmith Nikolaus Windemaker, painting by Ludger tom Ring d. Ä.
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Die erste astronomische Uhr im Dom aus dem Jahre 1408 wurde 1534 beim Bildersturm während der Zeit der Täuferherrschaft zerschlagen. Die zweite, bis heute erhaltene Uhr aus der Zeit von 1540 bis 1542 wurde durch den Buchdrucker und Mathematiker Dietrich Tzwyvel errichtet. Der Gang der Uhr wurde von Tzwyvel und dem Franziskaner und Domprediger Johann von Aachen berechnet. Geschmiedet hat das Werk der Schlosser Nikolaus Windemaker, bemalt wurde es von Ludger tom Ring d. Ä.[50]
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Paulus-Dom_(M%C3%BCnster)#Astronomische_Uhr
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This is just a set of fotos pasted together to make a slideshow. Fotos from 4 October, 2010.
New York City
This is dedicated to Clayton Wells and Jeff Engelhard, my lemma headed math geek buddies. Great versatile photographers who like me have a fondness for "Real Numbers" and find the properties of "Primes" ridiculously fascinating.
Clayton and Jeff have supported my street photography from the very beginning when none of us including myself knew what the heck I was doing! They will never know how much that meant to me. Well, I guess now they'll know. :) Thanks guys!
Using the UWA here was probably a little overzealous with the D90's high ISO capabilities, but I thought, 'what the heck', and went for it. It took a couple of tries, but after I timed this scene (the teacher completely freezes for a moment as the scene resets while he raises his arm), I nailed it as best as I could.
Pythagoras promoted the idea of a rational universe where number was the foundation for all existence
Creator/Photographer: Studio of Fr. Schmelhaus of Zurich
Medium: Medium unknown
Dimensions: 14.4 cm x 9 cm
Date: prior to1955
Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-W002-06
Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Srinivasa Ramanujan (born December 22, 1887, Erode, India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam) was an Indian mathematician whose contributions to the theory of numbers include pioneering discoveries of the properties of the partition function.
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Born: December 22, 1887, Erode, India
Died: April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam (aged 32)
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When he was 15 years old, he obtained a copy of George Shoobridge Carr’s Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2 vol. (1880–86). This collection of thousands of theorems, many presented with only the briefest of proofs and with no material newer than 1860, aroused his genius. Having verified the results in Carr’s book, Ramanujan went beyond it, developing his own theorems and ideas. In 1903 he secured a scholarship to the University of Madras but lost it the following year because he neglected all other studies in pursuit of mathematics.
Ramanujan continued his work, without employment and living in the poorest circumstances. After marrying in 1909 he began a search for permanent employment that culminated in an interview with a government official, Ramachandra Rao. Impressed by Ramanujan’s mathematical prowess, Rao supported his research for a time, but Ramanujan, unwilling to exist on charity, obtained a clerical post with the Madras Port Trust.
In 1911 Ramanujan published the first of his papers in the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society. His genius slowly gained recognition, and in 1913 he began a correspondence with the British mathematician Godfrey H. Hardy that led to a special scholarship from the University of Madras and a grant from Trinity College, Cambridge. Overcoming his religious objections, Ramanujan traveled to England in 1914, where Hardy tutored him and collaborated with him in some research.
Ramanujan’s knowledge of mathematics (most of which he had worked out for himself) was startling. Although he was almost completely unaware of modern developments in mathematics, his mastery of continued fractions was unequaled by any living mathematician. He worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series, the functional equations of the zeta function, and his own theory of divergent series, in which he found a value for the sum of such series using a technique he invented that came to be called Ramanujan summation. On the other hand, he knew nothing of doubly periodic functions, the classical theory of quadratic forms, or Cauchy’s theorem, and he had only the most nebulous idea of what constitutes a mathematical proof. Though brilliant, many of his theorems on the theory of prime numbers were wrong.
In England Ramanujan made further advances, especially in the partition of numbers (the number of ways that a positive integer can be expressed as the sum of positive integers; e.g., 4 can be expressed as 4, 3 + 1, 2 + 2, 2 + 1 + 1, and 1 + 1 + 1 + 1).
His papers were published in English and European journals, and in 1918 he was elected to the Royal Society of London. In 1917 Ramanujan had contracted tuberculosis, but his condition improved sufficiently for him to return to India in 1919. He died the following year, generally unknown to the world at large but recognized by mathematicians as a phenomenal genius, without peer since Leonhard Euler (1707–83) and Carl Jacobi (1804–51).
Ramanujan left behind three notebooks and a sheaf of pages (also called the “lost notebook”) containing many unpublished results that mathematicians continued to verify long after his death.
A sign marking where Mathematician George Boole lived and is said to have founded a School. At 3 Pottergate, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Although he was recognised as a genius in his own lifetime, it was not until almost a century later that the far-reaching implications of Boole’s work would become apparent. An American electronics engineer named Claude Shannon realised Boole’s logic could be applied in producing electrical circuits: a discovery that started the digital revolution. Today even the most advanced computers and smart devices still depend on Boolean logic.
Boole, the son of John Boole Sr, a shoemaker and Mary Ann Joyce, was born on November 2nd 1815, at 34 Silver Street, Lincoln - his home no longer exists but was near the former The Constitution Club.
He was christened at St Swithins Church and attended the church in his early life; the minister there encouraged him in his mathematics, lending him a book on differential calculus. A plaque stands in Boole's memory on the site where the church stood when he attended, further along St Swithins Square than the current church building.
He had a primary school education, and received lessons from his father, but had little further formal and academic teaching. William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin, which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge. He was self-taught in modern languages.
Boole opened his own school in 1834 very close to St Swithins Church, on Free School Lane when he was just aged 19. Also nearby was Lincoln Mechanics Institute of which Boole's father was a founding member and where Boole lectured - in the old Grammar School, the Greyfriars.
Boole later founded a school on Pottergate near Lincoln Cathedral which is also where his home is said to have been. It was at this school that Boole conducted his last teaching in Lincoln and where he won the Gold Medal from the Royal Society, in 1844. A plaque is found at 3 Pottergate in Boole's memory.
Boole was keen to further his skills in higher mathematics and, with limited opportunities in Lincoln, took up a professorship at Queen's College Cork, Ireland, moving there in 1849. It was in Cork that he met his wife and started a family, eventually having five daughters. Boole ended his days here on December 8th 1864, dying prematurely aged only 49.
Friends of Boole still in Lincoln raised funds to create a memorial for the mathematician in Lincoln Cathedral: The Teaching Window. The stained glass window, found in the fourth window of the north wall of the cathedral, depicts the calling of Samuel, his favourite Bible passage, at the request of his widow.
Information mostly gained from www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/boole/
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Clayton Turner, Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, speaks during a ceremony officially naming the NASA Headquarters building in honor of Mary W. Jackson, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA, began her career with the agency in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The mathematician and aerospace engineer went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. In 2019, she posthumously received the Congressional Gold Medal. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Tour de Suisse par l'Extérieur
Maison d'Ampère
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (/ˈæmpɪər/;[1] French: [ɑ̃pɛʁ]; 20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836)[2] was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him.
Biography[edit]
Andre-Marie Ampère was born on 20 January 1775 to Jean-Jacques Ampère, a prosperous businessman, and Jeanne Antoinette Desutières-Sarcey Ampère during the height of the French Enlightenment. He spent his childhood and adolescence at the family property at Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon.[3] Jean-Jacques Ampère, a successful merchant, was an admirer of the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose theories of education (as outlined in his treatise Émile) were the basis of Ampère’s education. Rousseau believed that young boys should avoid formal schooling and pursue instead an “education direct from nature.” Ampère’s father actualized this ideal by allowing his son to educate himself within the walls of his well-stocked library. French Enlightenment masterpieces such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon’s Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (begun in 1749) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie (volumes added between 1751 and 1772) thus became Ampère’s schoolmasters. The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, which enabled him to master the works of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.
Work in electromagnetism[edit]
In September 1820, Ampère’s friend and eventual eulogist François Arago showed the members of the French Academy of Sciences the surprising discovery of Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted that a magnetic needle is deflected by an adjacent electric current. Ampère began developing a mathematical and physical theory to understand the relationship between electricity and magnetism. Furthering Ørsted’s experimental work, Ampère showed that two parallel wires carrying electric currents attract or repel each other, depending on whether the currents flow in the same or opposite directions, respectively - this laid the foundation of electrodynamics. He also applied mathematics in generalizing physical laws from these experimental results. The most important of these was the principle that came to be called Ampère’s law, which states that the mutual action of two lengths of current-carrying wire is proportional to their lengths and to the intensities of their currents. Ampère also applied this same principle to magnetism, showing the harmony between his law and French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb’s law of magnetic action. Ampère’s devotion to, and skill with, experimental techniques anchored his science within the emerging fields of experimental physics.
Ampère also provided a physical understanding of the electromagnetic relationship, theorizing the existence of an “electrodynamic molecule” (the forerunner of the idea of the electron) that served as the component element of both electricity and magnetism. Using this physical explanation of electromagnetic motion, Ampère developed a physical account of electromagnetic phenomena that was both empirically demonstrable and mathematically predictive. In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l’experience (Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.
In 1827 Ampère was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.[5] In recognition of his contribution to the creation of modern electrical science, an international convention signed in 1881 established the ampere as a standard unit of electrical measurement, along with the coulomb, volt, ohm, and watt, which are named, respectively, after Ampère’s contemporaries Charles-Augustin de Coulomb of France, Alessandro Volta of Italy, Georg Ohm of Germany, and James Watt of Scotland. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
So that is taken during a math class ;) Me and Irinka :)
Isn't it obvious how much she "loves" maths and how much I am "not" crazy about it? xaxaxa :D
so here you can see how would your notebook look like if you are a mathematician and you are absent-minded!!! :D xaxa
Artistic chaos :p
Well... gotta say I have an exam in math tomorrow ;) hehe wish me luck! ;) Though I am good at it ;) I still need little drops of luck! ;)
The play by David Auburn, follows Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable mathematician father, Robert. Catherine must not only deal with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and the attentions of Hal, a former math student of her father’s. She struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit.
The 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning play is directed by Dr. Maria Enriquez, lecturer in theater, and will feature Penn State Harrisburg students Lexi Fazzolari (Catherine), Stephanie Cosgrove (Claire), Joseph Schwarz (Hal), Josh Gerstenlauer (Robert).
One of the most popular and unusual sculptures in Krakow old town, is that of two gesticulating men seated on the wooden bench. These are the Polish mathematicians Stefan Banach and Otto M. Nikodym, who in 1916 were joined by mathematician Hugo Steinhaus, in a discussion of complex mathematical problems.
Sandia researcher Pavel Bochev, a computational mathematician, has received an Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for his pioneering theoretical and practical advances in numerical methods for partial differential equations.
Learn more at bit.ly/2OWmFzV.
Photo by Randy Montoya.
Beverly Leech and Joe Howard in Mathnet: The Case of the Willing Parrot
For an update on the Mathnet stars, check out t.co/4PKYGFCE
Mathnet logo originally by Flickr user TJJohn12
As enthusiastic about mathematics as I am, the famous Mandelbrot set is of high interest to me. The Mandelbrot set is the very first computer generated fractal discovered by the Polish-born French-American Mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot, and is also know for contributing to and founding the branch of mathematics called Fractal Geometry. Simply put, the Mandelbrot set is a visual representation of an iterated function on the complex plane, and represents every possible Julia set. The formula used to graph the Mandelbrot set is Z_(n+1) = Z_(n)^2 + C, in which Z is a complex number and C is a complex number as well as a constant. When it is generated, every point make its own path of iterations where the starting point is the point who's behavior is being tested and therefore is the constant for that particular chain of iterations. After each iteration, the absolute value of the number calculated for that iteration is compared to the number 2. The rule is if its absolute value is less than or equal to 2, it spirals toward a fixed point, is a part of the set, and is colored black (in this case red). If the absolute value of the number calculated for that iteration is greater than 2, it approaches infinity, escapes the set, and is colored any other color (in this case black). Over the years, mathematicians have said that the Mandelbrot set is the most complex thing humans have ever discovered, since it is basically infinite complexity, or complexity within complexity. For this screen recording, I used the program Geogebra 5, which is an interactive and educational program used for geometry, algebra, calculus, physics, and statistics. In case anyone was wondering, this only shows that the Mandelbrot set looks like at 19 iterations.
For more information, I have a few links to explain further.
Mandelbrot set - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
The Amazing Mandelbrot Set tutorial - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YaYmyfy9Z4
Mandelbrot Set -- from Wolfram MathWorld
mathworld.wolfram.com/MandelbrotSet.html
Fractals The Hidden Dimension HD 108p Nova - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkI0y43EqHI
This particular fractal is called a Julia set, named after the French mathematician Gaston Julia. Like I mentioned with the Mandelbrot set (www.flickr.com/photos/44952145@N07/46290813045/in/datepos...), every point on the complex plane represents a Julia set fractal. The Julia set is different because for every Julia set, its corresponding C value is the constant used in every point's chain of iterations.
From a recent trip to Kyoto. An offensively red building surrounded an earthy, raked-gravel garden. Like much of Japan, the former Imperial Palace was an exercise in emphasis through use of contrast.
Going away to Vietnam for two weeks, so I am bucking my usual 1-photo-per-(4)-days style. Thanks for looking - please comment if you have time, and most of all Happy Christmas.
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A sign marking where Mathematician George Boole lived and is said to have founded a School. At 3 Pottergate, in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Although he was recognised as a genius in his own lifetime, it was not until almost a century later that the far-reaching implications of Boole’s work would become apparent. An American electronics engineer named Claude Shannon realised Boole’s logic could be applied in producing electrical circuits: a discovery that started the digital revolution. Today even the most advanced computers and smart devices still depend on Boolean logic.
Boole, the son of John Boole Sr, a shoemaker and Mary Ann Joyce, was born on November 2nd 1815, at 34 Silver Street, Lincoln - his home no longer exists but was near the former The Constitution Club.
He was christened at St Swithins Church and attended the church in his early life; the minister there encouraged him in his mathematics, lending him a book on differential calculus. A plaque stands in Boole's memory on the site where the church stood when he attended, further along St Swithins Square than the current church building.
He had a primary school education, and received lessons from his father, but had little further formal and academic teaching. William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin, which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge. He was self-taught in modern languages.
Boole opened his own school in 1834 very close to St Swithins Church, on Free School Lane when he was just aged 19. Also nearby was Lincoln Mechanics Institute of which Boole's father was a founding member and where Boole lectured - in the old Grammar School, the Greyfriars.
Boole later founded a school on Pottergate near Lincoln Cathedral which is also where his home is said to have been. It was at this school that Boole conducted his last teaching in Lincoln and where he won the Gold Medal from the Royal Society, in 1844. A plaque is found at 3 Pottergate in Boole's memory.
Boole was keen to further his skills in higher mathematics and, with limited opportunities in Lincoln, took up a professorship at Queen's College Cork, Ireland, moving there in 1849. It was in Cork that he met his wife and started a family, eventually having five daughters. Boole ended his days here on December 8th 1864, dying prematurely aged only 49.
Friends of Boole still in Lincoln raised funds to create a memorial for the mathematician in Lincoln Cathedral: The Teaching Window. The stained glass window, found in the fourth window of the north wall of the cathedral, depicts the calling of Samuel, his favourite Bible passage, at the request of his widow.
Information mostly gained from www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/history-heritage/boole/
The Postcard
A carte postale that was published by E. L. of Paris. The card was posted in the Avenue d'Orléans, Paris 14e on Monday the 7th. January 1907 to:
Miss Molly Green,
Netherleigh,
Lansdown,
Cheltenham,
England.
The very brief message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"de Mlle. Gaivis."
L'Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile - the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues.
The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the Great War.
The Arc is the central cohesive element of the Axe Historique (Historic Axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense).
The Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail.
It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages.
Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres (164 ft), width of 45 m (148 ft) and depth of 22 m (72 ft), while its large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide.
The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide.
Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 marking the end of the Great War, Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.
Paris's Arc de Triomphe was the tallest triumphal arch until the completion of the Monumento a la Revolución in Mexico City in 1938, which is 67 metres (220 ft) high. The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, completed in 1982, is modelled on the Arc de Triomphe, and is slightly taller at 60 m (197 ft).
La Grande Arche in La Défense near Paris is 110 metres high. Although it is not named an Arc de Triomphe, it has been designed on the same model, and in the perspective of the Arc de Triomphe. It qualifies as the world's tallest arch.
The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier
Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from the Great War, Interred on Armistice Day 1920. It has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins' fire was extinguished in the fourth century. It burns in memory of the dead who were never identified (now in both world wars).
A ceremony is held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier every 11th. November on the anniversary of the Armistice of the 11th. November 1918. It was originally decided in 1919 to bury the unknown soldier's remains in the Panthéon, but a public letter-writing campaign led to the decision to bury him beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
The coffin was put in the chapel on the first floor of the Arc on the 10th. November 1920, and put in its final resting place on the 28th. January 1921.
In 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by President Charles de Gaulle. After the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, Mrs Kennedy remembered the eternal flame at the Arc de Triomphe, and requested that an eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
President Charles de Gaulle went to Washington to attend the state funeral, and witnessed Jacqueline Kennedy lighting the eternal flame that had been inspired by her visit to France.
The Traumatic Death of Raymond Paley
So what else happened on the day that Mademoiselle Gaivis posted the card?
Well, the 7th. January 1907 marked the birth of Raymond Paley.
Raymond Edward Alan Christopher Paley was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical analysis before dying young in a skiing accident.
Paley was born in Bournemouth, England, the son of an artillery officer who died of tuberculosis before Paley was born. He was educated at Eton College as a King's Scholar and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He became a wrangler in 1928, and was one of two winners of the 1930 Smith's Prize examination.
Raymond was elected a Research Fellow of Trinity College in 1930, and continued at Cambridge as a postgraduate student, advised by John Edensor Littlewood. After the 1931 return of G. H. Hardy to Cambridge, he participated in weekly joint seminars with the other students of Hardy and Littlewood.
Raymond travelled to the US in 1932 to work with Norbert Wiener at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with George Pólya at Princeton University, and as part of the same trip also planned to work with Lipót Fejér at a seminar in Chicago organized as part of the Century of Progress Exposition.
The Death and Legacy of Raymond Paley
Raymond was killed at the age of 26 on the 7th. April 1933 while on a skiing trip to the Canadian Rockies, by an avalanche on Deception Pass, Fossil Mountain.
Raymond was laid to rest in The Old Banff Cemetery.
Strictly for the mathematicians out there, Raymond's contributions include the following:
-- Raymond's mathematical research with Littlewood began in 1929, with his work towards a fellowship at Trinity. Littlewood's influence dominated nearly all his earliest work.
Their work became the foundation for the Littlewood–Paley theory, an application of real-variable techniques in complex analysis.
-- The Walsh–Paley numeration, a standard method for indexing the Walsh functions, came from a 1932 suggestion of Paley.
-- Paley collaborated with Antoni Zygmund on Fourier series, continuing the work on this topic that he had already done with Littlewood. His work in this area also led to the Paley–Zygmund inequality in probability theory.
-- In a 1933 paper, he published the Paley construction for Hadamard matrices, and in the same paper, he first formulated the Hadamard conjecture on the sizes of matrices for which Hadamard matrices exist.
The Paley graphs and Paley tournaments in graph theory are closely related, although they do not appear explicitly in this work.
-- In the context of compressed sensing, frames (partial bases of Hilbert spaces) derived from this construction have been called "Paley equiangular tight frames".
-- Raymond's collaboration with Norbert Wiener included the Paley–Wiener theorem in harmonic analysis. Paley was originally selected as the 1934 American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer; after his death, Wiener replaced him as speaker, and spoke on their joint work, which was published as a book.
.... And all of the above by the time Raymond was 26! Imagine what he could have gone on to contribute to mathematics if he had kept away from the slopes.
Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins '13 attended the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Undergraduate Program at Berkeley last summer and now has his sights set on graduate school and the field of mathematics. (photo by Eli Burackian '00)
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"In seeking to chart the courses of the stars, the astronomers of medieval Islam made use of the most comprehensive mathematics the world had known to that time. This 16th-century Persian illumination shows a group of turbaned astronomers working in their observatory with an array of instruments including compasses, a globe of the world, astrolabes, and a mechanical clock."
From Life Science Library "Mathematics" 1972, published by Time, Inc.