Arthur Harold Stone (30 September 1916 – 6 August 2000) was a British
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born in London, who worked at the universities of
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, mostly in
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. His wife was
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Dorothy Maharam
Dorothy Maharam Stone (July 1, 1917 – September 27, 2014)
was an American mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra.
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Stone studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first paper dealt with squaring the square, he proved the Erdős–Stone theorem with Paul Erdős and is credited with the discovery of the first two flexagons, a Flexagon#Trihexaflexagon, trihexaflexagon and a Flexagon, hexahexaflexagon while he was a student at Princeton University in 1939. His Ph.D. thesis, ''Connectedness and Coherence'', was written in 1941 under the direction of Solomon Lefschetz. He served as a referee for ''The American Mathematical Monthly'' journal in the 1980s.
The Stone metrization theorem has been named after him, and he was a member of a group of mathematicians who published pseudonymously as Blanche Descartes. He is not to be confused with American mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone.
See also
*Ham sandwich theorem
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1916 births
2000 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
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