Theorem of the Day
Mathematicians deserving a better web presence
The following mathematicians are elusive on the web as people however ubiquitous
and important their mathematical work. If you know of a link that I could use in
my Index of Mathematicians I would be greatful
to hear of it. Better still, contribute an article to Wikipedia ,
so that everyone may benefit.
Jillian Beardwood I found a brief
glimpse of her Oxford years. There are various references on the web to
a Jillian Beardwood involved in transport policy-making, which would constitute
a curious coincidence were they not referring to the Beardwood of BHH
fame.
Garland Briggs He was a student of James Alexander according to the latter's genealogy .
Internet searches for his details are hampered by his name being shared with
a character in Twin Peaks .
John Wesley Brown Is listed as emeritus at University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Melody Chan listed
as a graduate student (I believe of Paul Seymour) at Princeton.
Ketan Delal listed
as a former postgraduate/post-doc at McGill.
Philippe Delsarte link to
his Festschrift in October 2007.
Georgy Egorychev he has a research chair
at Krasnoyarsk State University, Russia.
Dmitry Falikman he is recorded as having a post at
Technion Minerva Optimization Center .
Samuel P. Ferguson a link to his work
on Kepler's Conjecture is provided by Thomas Hales.
Ervin Gergely Hungarian and active in design theory in the 70s.
Jean-Marie Goethals his career took him to Philips in Eindhoven but he has no web presence there.
Victor Lebesgue his dates are given at numbertheory.org .
(Not be to confused, obviously, with his more famous namesake Henri Lebesgue.)
Elizabeth Lutz she has a Wikipedia
page but it is very incomplete. I do not even know if she is still living!
Davin Maddox still has a web page at UCLA but apparently left
there in 2006.
Marvin Marcus is recorded as having been
department chair
at UC Santa Barbara .
Auguste Miquel there is a French Wikipedia
page but it doesn't even give his dates.
Lee Most recorded, on the only paper by them that I know of, as being of San Francisco
Mel Most recorded, on the only paper by them that I know of (1992), as being of New York (deceased)
Morris Newman is emeritus professor
at UC Santa Barbara.
Micha Perles appears on the list
of emeritus professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
William Schneeberger he was John H Conway's student at Princeton but has seemingly moved on.
Johan Jacob Seidel the only useful link I could find was to an
obituary
in Dutch .
Eli Shamir appears on the list
of emeritus professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Benjamin Weiss on the faculty list
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Steven Winker Got his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. I'm told
he left automated reasoning research during the 80s.
Zhu Lie a distinguished combinatorialist and 2004 recipient of the Euler Medal .
Belongs to School of Mathematical Sciences, Suzhou University but only shows up on the web
via his publication list