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.

Ketan Delal
listed as a former postgraduate/post-doc at McGill.

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.

Amiel Feinstein
He was a PhD student at MIT. His role in the proof of Shannon's Theorem is described here, (section 4.1) and there is an indistinct picture of him on p. 18 here (4.18 MB).

Samuel P. Ferguson
a link to his work on Kepler's Conjecture is provided by Thomas Hales.

Dmitri G. Fon-Der-Flaass
he has an account at mathoverflow.net (where his age at the time of his tragically early death in 2010 is given as 47). There is a short tribute to him on Peter Cameron's blog.

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.

Robert Lachlan
Born 1861. Graduated from Tinity College Cambridge, 3rd Wrangler, 1883, 1st Division in Part III., 1884. Then Smith's prizewinner (one A.N. Whitehead was a runner-up!) (Nature 33, 93-93, 26 November 1885), at which time he was a mathematics instructor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, then returning to Cambridge as a coach in 1899 ("Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940", June Barrow-Green, Jeremy Gray, Historia Mathematica, vol. 33, (3), 315-356). Published his work on systems of circles in 1886 (Proc. Royal Soc.). Contributed to a book on mathematics of map making by Gerald Maxwell which was (unfavourably) reviewed in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Aug., 1916), pp. 168-170.

Victor Lebesgue
his dates are given at numbertheory.org. (Not be to confused, obviously, with his more famous namesake Henri Lebesgue.)

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.

Henryk Minc
Emeritus at University of California Santa Barbara who offer, however, no information upon him. He is an Honorary President of the Robert Burns World Federation and was a member of the Tayport Band, Dundee. A biographical article by Marvin Marcus appeared in Linear and Multilinear Algebra in 2003.

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
was at UC Santa Barbara. An obituary notice.

Hazel Perfect
Was at Sheffield University until, probably, the mid '90s.

Micha Perles
appears on the list of emeritus professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Michael J. Piff
was at Sheffield University.

William Schneeberger
he was John H Conway's student at Princeton but has seemingly moved on.

Eli Shamir
appears on the list of emeritus professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Vera Sós
Had a webpage at the Rényi Institute until recently but, although she is ubiquitous on the web, coordinates and biographical details seem elusive

Benjamin Weiss
listed among the Professors Emeriti 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.

Guang Ping Xiang
Was a PhD student of Johhny E. Brown, graduating in 1996 from Purdue.