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  • Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 – 2017)

  • Graham T. Q. Hoare
  • Journal:
    The Mathematical Gazette / Volume 101 / Issue 552 / November 2017
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 October 2017, pp. 545-546
    Print publication:
    November 2017
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  • R. L. Goodstein and mathematical logic

  • Graham Hoare
  • Journal:
    The Mathematical Gazette / Volume 97 / Issue 540 / November 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 January 2015, pp. 409-412
    Print publication:
    November 2013

  • Born in London, Reuben Louis Goodstein (1912-1985) completed his secondary education at St Paul's School and in 1931 proceeded to Magdalene College, Cambridge, with a Major Open Scholarship to read mathematics. He graduated in 1933 having taken firsts in Parts I and II of the Mathematical Tripos. From 1933 to 1935 his research on transfinite numbers was supervised by Professor J. E. Littlewood. He took a MSc and left Cambridge in 1935 to take up an appointment as lecturer in pure and applied mathematics at Reading University, a position he held until late 1947. While undertaking a strenuous teaching load at Reading his research interests were developing and for this work he received a PhD from the University of London in 1946, which was supervised by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

  • Bernhard Riemann’s legacy of 1859

  • Graham Hoare
  • Journal:
    The Mathematical Gazette / Volume 93 / Issue 528 / November 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 468-475
    Print publication:
    November 2009

  • The German version of Riemann’s Collected Works is confined to a single volume of 690 pages. Even so, this volume has had an abiding and profound impact on modern mathematics and physics, as we shall see. In fifteen years of activity, from 1851, when he gained his doctorate at the University of Göttingen, to his death in 1866, two months short of his fortieth birthday, Riemann contributed to almost all areas of mathematics. He perceived mathematics from the analytic point of view and used analysis to illuminate subjects as diverse as number theory and geometry. Although regarded principally as a mathematician Riemann had an abiding interest in physics and researched significantly in the methods of mathematical physics, particularly in the area of partial differential equations.

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