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Minor Mathematicians
This page collects mentions of minor (mainly contemporary) mathematicians whose biographical details are unavailable.
For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.
- The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
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Raymond Walker
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Lance A. Waller
Author of:
- 1997: Hierarchical spatio-temporal mapping of disease rates (JASA Vol. 92, no. 438: pp. 607 – 617) (with Bradley P. Carlin, Hong Xia and Alan E. Gelfand) www.jstor.org/stable/2965708
Peter Walters
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Paul Wang
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- October 1994: Quantitative Estimates for Polynomials in One or Several Variables (Math. Mag. Vol. 67, no. 4: pp. 243 – 257) (with Bernard Beauzamy and Per Enflo) www.jstor.org/stable/2690843
Rex Watson
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- July 1994: Runs of Composite Integers and the Chinese Remainder Theorem (The Mathematical Gazette Vol. 78, no. 482: pp. 167 – 172) www.jstor.org/stable/3618573
Keith Wayland
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- Jan. 1983: Construction of Smith Numbers (Math. Mag. Vol. 56, no. 1: pp. 36 – 37) (with Sham Oltikar) www.jstor.org/stable/2690265
Wolfgang J. Weber
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- 1976: Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists (with K. Weltner) (translated into English 1986 by J. Grosjean and P. Schuster)
Klaus Weltner
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- 1976: Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists (with W.J. Weber) (translated into English 1986 by J. Grosjean and P. Schuster)
Martin Weese
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- 1996: Discovering Modern Set Theory. I: The Basics (with Winfried Just)
- 1997: Discovering Modern Set Theory. II: Set-Theoretic Tools for Every Mathematician (with Winfried Just)
Sol Weintraub
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- 1977: Seventeen Primes in Arithmetic Progression (Math. Comp. Vol. 31, no. 140: p. 1030) www.jstor.org/stable/2006135
- 1981: A Large Prime Gap (Math. Comp. Vol. 36: p. 279) www.jstor.org/stable/2007746
- 1993: A Prime Gap of $864$ (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 25: pp. 42 – 43)
Neil A. Weiss
Author of:
- 2005: A Course in Probability
William Wernick
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- 1968: Problems & Solutions in Euclidean Geometry (with M.N. Aref)
R. Wesley
Contributor to:
- 1948: Mathematics In Theory and Practice (edited by W.W. Sawyer)
Editor of (and contributor to):
- 1954: Mathematics For All
Alfred E. Western
Author of:
- 1909: Note on Fermat's numbers (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 18: pp. 1 – 6) (with J.C. Morehead)
M.T. Whalen
- 1990: Odd abundant numbers: some interesting observations (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 22: pp. 257 – 261) (with C.L. Miller)
Michael J. Whinihan
- 1963: Fibonacci Nim (The Fibonacci Quarterly Vol. 1, no. 4: pp. 9 – 13)
W.P. Whitlock, Jr.
Mathematician who made some empirical observations about Pythagorean triangles in the mid-$20$th century.
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James Wiegold
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- Nov. 1994: The Palindrome Problem in Base 2 (The Mathematical Gazette Vol. 78, no. 483: pp. 312 – 314) (with Glyn Johns) www.jstor.org/stable/3620206
Albert Wilansky
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- 1982: Smith Numbers (Two-Year College Mathematics Journal Vol. 13: p. 21) www.jstor.org/stable/3026531
Kenneth M. Wilke
John Wilkinson
Translator (into English) of:
Maud Willey
- 1935: Problems for Solution: 3739-3743 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 42: pp. 396 – 397) (with Paul Erdős, H.D. Ruderman and Norman Anning) www.jstor.org/stable/2301373
Kenneth S. Williams
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- Nov. 1964: On Norrie's Identity (Math. Mag. Vol. 37, no. 5: p. 322) www.jstor.org/stable/2689242
Stephen Willard
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- 1970: General Topology
Alfred Wohlhauser
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- 1986: Advanced Mathematics for Practicing Engineers (with Kurt Arbenz)
Herbert J. Woodall
G.A.P. Wyllie
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Jeremy Wyndham
Author of:
- 1998: Why do Buses Come in Threes? (with Rob Eastaway)
- 2002: How Long is a Piece of String? (with Rob Eastaway)