From: rwinther@my-dejanews.com
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: <<HELP ME PLEASE>>>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:31:12 GMT

In article <367E8D6D.2B23F845@niia.net>,
  pfreel@niia.net wrote:
> To whom ever it may concern:
>
> I have been searching for many weeks for the following information.  I
> have only found a few answers.  It is a project for my Enriched Algebra
> II class and is due next week.  I need to find these dates.  I can't
> seem to find dates anywhere all I find are the events but no dates.  So
> if you could please help me out I would greatly appreciate it!  Thanks!
>

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For achievements by the various mathematicians, you should try
the The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive,
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
(since much of the material in this excellent site comes from
the Dictionary of Scientific Bibliography or the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, you could consult those works instead if you do
not have Internet access)

For uses of mathematical notation, try
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathsym.html

It may be difficult if not impossible to ascribe a particular year
to the discoveries from antiquity; and other items you've listed
developed over time, rather than being events with a well-defined
date. Even something like the invention of ENIAC:

  From http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42/n18/eniac.html :

   "The first set of calculations was executed on ENIAC in
    November of 1945, and subsequent calculations continued
    up through the time of ENIAC's formal dedication in
    February 1946."

  and from http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/96summary/ :

   "Construction began in June 1944, with final assembly in
    the fall of 1945, and the formal dedication in February
    1946."

and of course it was designed over a period of time prior to
construction. Which of these should be considered the date of
its invention?



Good luck.

Ron Winther

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A good clearinghouse for biographies of physicists includes, naturally, some
mathematicians:  
	http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm

Some short biographies of mathematicians are included with those of 
astronmers:
	http://www.plicht.de/chris/names.htm

Some mathematical biographies of recently-deceased mathematicians:
 http://hemeroteca.icfes.gov.co/socolmat/revistas/lecturas/94150204.html
   Jean Dieudonné, 1906 - 1992
   Antoni Zygmund, 1900 - 1992
   Stephen Kleene, 1909 - 1994
   Herbert Busemann, 1905 - 1994
   Daniel Gorenstein, 1923 - 1992
   Max Zorn, 1906 - 1993
   Ralph Boas, 1912 - 1992
   James Givens, 1910 - 1993
   Alton Householder, 1904 - 1993
   Boris Moishezon, 1937 - 1993
   John Kemeny, 1926 - 1992
   Steven Bank, 1939 - 1994