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Icelandic Mathematical Society
The Icelandic Mathematical Society ( is, Íslenzka stærðfræðafélagið) is the umbrella organization for mathematicians in Iceland. In 2017, the Society had nearly 300 members. It is based in Reykjavík and hosts several conferences related to mathematics. History Formation The Society was founded in Reykjavík on 31 October 1947 at the home of, and in honour of, Ólafur Daníelsson, whose 70th birthday it was. The society records: The founders of the Society were: * mathematicians Sigurkarl Stefánsson, Leifur Ásgeirsson, Kr. Guðmundur Guðmundsson, Guðmundur Arnlaugsson and Björn Bjarnason; * physicists Thorkell Thorkelsson, Sveinn Þórðarson and Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson; * astronomers Stein˛ór Sigurðsson and Trausti Einarsson; * actuaries Brynjólfur Stefánsson and Árni Björnsson; * engineers Bolli Thoroddsen and Gunnar Böðvarsson. Early years The Society adopted the name "Icelandic Mathematical Society" in 1952 when it was entering collaborations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Society
This article provides a list of mathematical societies by country. International mathematical societies * African Mathematical Union * Circolo Matematico di Palermo * European Mathematical Society * Foundations of Computational Mathematics * International Linear Algebra Society * International Mathematical Union * International Association of Mathematical Physics * International Society for Mathematical Sciences * Mathematical Optimization Society * Quaternion Society * International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Mathematical honor societies *Kappa Mu Epsilon *Mu Alpha Theta *Pi Mu Epsilon National mathematical societies Arranged as follows: Society name in English (Society name in home-language; Abbreviation if used) *American Mathematical Society *Australian Mathematical Society *Austrian Mathematical Society (Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft; ÖMG) *Bangladesh Mathematical Society *Sociedade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematica Scandinavica
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Chemical Society Of Iceland
A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., without breaking chemical bonds. Chemical substances can be simple substances (substances consisting of a single chemical element), chemical compounds, or alloys. Chemical substances are often called 'pure' to set them apart from mixtures. A common example of a chemical substance is pure water; it has the same properties and the same ratio of hydrogen to oxygen whether it is isolated from a river or made in a laboratory. Other chemical substances commonly encountered in pure form are diamond (carbon), gold, table salt (sodium chloride) and refined sugar (sucrose). However, in practice, no substance is entirely pure, and chemical purity is specified according to the intended use of the chemical. Chemical substances exist as solids, liquids, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Physics Association Of Iceland
Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which relates to the order of nature, or, in other words, to the regular succession of events." Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves. "Physics is one of the most fundamental of the sciences. Scientists of all disciplines use the ideas of physics, including chemists who study the structure of molecules, paleontologists who try to reconstruct how dinosaurs walked, and climatologists who study how human activities affect the atmosphere and oceans. Physics is also the foundation of all engineering and technology. No engineer could design a flat-screen TV, an interplanetary spacecraft, or even a better mousetrap without first understanding the basic laws of physics. ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laugarvatn
Laugarvatn () is the name of a lake and a small town in the south of Iceland. The lake is smaller than the neighbouring Apavatn. Tourism Laugarvatn lies within the Golden Circle, a popular tourist route, and acts as a staging post. The town has a population of about 200, and lies predominantly along the west side of the lake. The lake contains geothermal springs under its surface, making it a popular swimming spot with some warm patches along the shoreline year-round. Education Menntaskólinn að Laugarvatni (ML), a boarding gymnasium with approximately 200 students, is located in the town. Iceland University of Education's division of Sport and Physical Education was also located here. See also *List of lakes of Iceland This is a list of lakes of Iceland (partially indicating surface, depth and volume). Iceland has over 20 lakes larger than 10 km² (4 sq mi), and at least 40 others varying between 2.5 and 10 km² (1 to 4 sq mi) in size. This list also in ... Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordic Mathematical Congress
Nordic most commonly refers to: * Nordic countries, written in plural as Nordics, the northwestern European countries, including Scandinavia, Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic * Scandinavia, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe * a native of Northern Europe * Nordic or North Germanic languages Nordic may also refer to: Synonym for Scandinavian or Norse * Nordic Bronze Age, a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history * Nordic folklore * Nordic mythology * Nordic paganism Relating to a racial category * Nordic race, a race group * Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a "master race", a theory which influenced Adolf Hitler. * Nordic League, a far right organisation in the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1939 * Nordic aliens, a group of supposed humanoid extraterrestrial beings whose appearance resembles the Nordic physical type Sports * Bidding system for Contract bridge * Nordic combined, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered around discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. He championed and contributed to Ramsey theory, which studies the conditions in which order necessarily appears. Overall, his work leaned towards solving previously open problems, rather than developing or exploring new areas of mathematics. Erdős published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Weil
André Weil (; ; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was a founding member and the ''de facto'' early leader of the mathematical Bourbaki group. The philosopher Simone Weil was his sister. The writer Sylvie Weil is his daughter. Life André Weil was born in Paris to agnostic Alsatian Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–71. Simone Weil, who would later become a famous philosopher, was Weil's younger sister and only sibling. He studied in Paris, Rome and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1928. While in Germany, Weil befriended Carl Ludwig Siegel. Starting in 1930, he spent two academic years at Aligarh Muslim University in India. Aside from mathematics, Weil held lifelong interests in classical Greek and Latin literature, in Hinduism and Sanskrit literature: he had taught himself Sanskrit in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurður Helgason (mathematician)
Sigurdur Helgason (born 30 September 1927; Icelandic: ''Sigurður'') is an Icelandic mathematician whose research has been devoted to the geometry and analysis on symmetric spaces. In particular, he has used new integral geometric methods to establish fundamental existence theorems for differential equations on symmetric spaces as well as some new results on the representations of their isometry groups. He also introduced a Fourier transform on these spaces and proved the principal theorems for this transform, the inversion formula, the Plancherel theorem and the analog of the Paley–Wiener theorem. He was born in Akureyri, Iceland. In 1954, he earned a PhD from Princeton University under Salomon Bochner. Since 1965, Helgason has been a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was winner of the 1988 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contributions for his books ''Groups and Geometric Analysis'' and ''Differential Geometry, Lie Groups and Symmetri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarni Jónsson
Bjarni Jónsson (February 15, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. He was emeritus distinguished professor of mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of ''Algebra Universalis''. He received his PhD in 1946 at UC Berkeley under supervision of Alfred Tarski. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. retrieved 2013-01-26. Work Jónsson's lemma as well as several mathematical objects are named after him, among them |
