21. Edit GoedelsTheorem Pseudoaxiomatic definitions * ''Pseudo-philosophers'' The set of self-appointedphilosophers who abuse famous theorems to prove hobby horses are real. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?edit=GoedelsTheorem

22. Noether's Accomplishments approach to the problem. This resulted in her famous theorems knownto physicists as Noether’s Theorems. These were published in http://www.sci.wsu.edu/math/faculty/barbut/acc.htm

Emmy Noether's doctoral thesis was completed in 1907 under the supervision of Paul Gordan, who gave a constructive proof on the existence of invariant forms in n variables. David Hilbert had already proved the existence of such forms in a non-constructive manner. Noether extended Gordan’s results, listing 331 covariant forms in her dissertation. One does not need to know much about the theory of covariant forms to be impressed by the magnitude of her work. Noether later adopted Hilbert’s more abstract and general approach to the problem. This resulted in her famous theorems known to physicists as Noether’s Theorems. These were published in a 1918 paper entitled, Invariente Variations Probleme. Noether’s theorems in physics establish a relationship between certain groups of symmetry and field equations in the context of the theory of general relativity. When Albert Einstein published his famous 1910 paper on general relativity, he could not establish the principles of conservation of energy and momentum within that theory. Noether’s theorems provide the mathematical framework to do this. She does so, by establishing a correspondence between two major areas of mathematics: algebra (group theory) and analysis (field equations) Among mathematicians, Noether is also known as the "mother of modern algebra". Her landmark paper in 1921 on the theory of ideals generalized the idea of expressing a natural number uniquely as a product of powers of primes to commutative rings satisfying the ascending chain conditions on ideals. Today, such rings are called Noetherian Rings and their properties are of far reaching importance in the study of commutative algebra, algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry

23. Liverpool Pure Maths: Dynamics Group to ergodic theory. A number of famous theorems in mathematics arein fact ergodic theorems. We mention a few. Dirichlet's theorem http://www.liv.ac.uk/maths/PURE/MIN_SET/CONTENT/RESEARCH_GROUPS/dynam.html

Pure Mathematics Dynamics Group Department Home Page Find someone? Pure home page Dynamical Systems Members of the Research Group Pieter Collins Toby Hall Simon Kristensen Kit Nair ... Mary Rees Mary Rees works in Complex Dynamics. She has particular interest in the variation of dynamics in parameter spaces, and is engaged on a (long term) detailed study of the parameter space of quadratic rational maps. Toby Hall works in Topological Dynamics, with particular interest in surface homeomorphisms. Recently he has been working with Andre de Carvalho on pruning theory - which describes the controlled destruction of the dynamics of surface homeomorphisms - and its relation to horseshoe creation and the Henon family. A: subsequence ergodic theorems, their proofs and applications; B: distribution modulo one and its relation to ergodic theorems; C: the failure of ergodic theorems and its relation to diophantine approximation and hyperbolic dynamics; D: Glasner sets, toplogical dynamics and exponential sums; E: the existance of invariant measures for maps of the interval;

24. Ceva's And Menelaus's Theorems Now is not an problem to prove many famous theorems stating that certain cevianshave common point, for example that medians (altitude, internal bisectors) are http://www.math.uci.edu/~mathcirc/math194/lectures/advanced3/node2.html

Next: Homework problems Up: Advanced Geometry III Previous: The nine-point circle Ceva's and Menelaus's Theorems The line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to any given point on the opposite side is called a cevian . Thus, if X Y and Z are points on the respective sides BC CA and AB of triangle ABC , the segments AX BY and CZ are cevians. This term comes from the name of the Italian mathematician Giovanni Ceva, who published in 1678 the following very useful theorem: Ceva's Theorem If three cevians AX BY and CZ , one through each vertex of a triangle ABC , are concurrent, then Conversely, if this equation holds for points X Y and Z on the three sides, then these three point are concurrent. (We say that three lines or segments are concurrent if they all pass through one point) Figure 2: Ceva's theorem Proof. Given the concurrence we can use that the areas of the triangles with equal altitudes are proportional to the bases of the triangles. Referring to Figure , we have Similarly, Now, if we multiply these, we find Conversely, suppose that the first two cevians meet at

25. New Books Author Index Subject Index Series Index programming. The book concludes with easy, elementary proofs of thefamous theorems of Brouwer, of Kakutani, and of Schauder. These http://ec-securehost.com/SIAM/CL37.html

new books author index subject index series index Purchase options are located at the bottom of the page. The catalog and shopping cart are hosted for SIAM by EasyCart. Your transaction is secure. If you have any questions about your order, contact harris@siam.org Methods of Mathematical Economics: Linear and Nonlinear Programming, Fixed-Point Theorems Joel N. Franklin Classics in Applied Mathematics 37 Many advances have taken place in the field of combinatorial algorithms since Methods of Mathematical Economics first appeared two decades ago. Despite these advances and the development of new computing methods, several basic theories and methods remain important today for understanding mathematical programming and fixed-point theorems. In this easy-to-read classic, readers learn Wolfe's method, which remains useful for quadratic programming, and the Kuhn-Tucker theory, which underlies quadratic programming and most other nonlinear programming methods. In addition, the author presents multiobjective linear programming, which is being applied in environmental engineering and the social sciences. The book presents many useful applications to other branches of mathematics and to economics, and it contains many exercises and examples. The advanced mathematical results are proved clearly and completely. By providing the necessary proofs and presenting the material in a conversational style, Franklin made

26. ThinkQuest Library Of Entries a Greek scholar who lived way back in the 6th century BC (back when Bob Dole waslearning geometry), came up with one of the most famous theorems ever, the http://library.thinkquest.org/20991/geo/stri.html

Welcome to the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge of Entries The web site you have requested, Math for Morons like Us , is one of over 4000 student created entries in our Library. Before using our Library, please be sure that you have read and agreed to our To learn more about ThinkQuest. You can browse other ThinkQuest Library Entries To proceed to Math for Morons like Us click here Back to the Previous Page The Site you have Requested ... Math for Morons like Us click here to view this site A ThinkQuest Internet Challenge 1998 Entry Click image for the Site Languages : Site Desciption Have you ever been stuck on math? If it was a question on algebra, geometry, or calculus, you might want to check out this site. It's all here from pre-algebra to calculus. You'll find tutorials, sample problems, and quizzes. There's even a question submittal section, if you're still stuck. A formula database gives quick access and explanations to all those tricky formulas. Languages: English. Students J. Robert Davis High School Library UT, United States

27. Foundations.Cognition: Re: Descartes And The Mind There are some famous theorems like Fermat's Last Theorem whose truth we didnot know until very recently (and it's still not sure that the Fermat proof http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Foundations.Cognition/0008.html

Re: Descartes and the Mind From: Harnad, Stevan ( harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Date: Thu Oct 19 1995 - 23:57:58 BST Next message: Parker, Chris: "Re: Descartes and the Mind" Previous message: Baden, Denise: "Re: Descartes and the Mind" Maybe in reply to: Harnad, Stevan: "Descartes and the Mind" Next in thread: Parker, Chris: "Re: Descartes and the Mind" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] > From: "Baden, Denise" < DB193@psy.soton.ac.uk Not quite. It's not all just definition. Remember that a lot of mathematics has to do with axioms and theorems that "follow" from them. Now the axioms we don't prove. We simply suppose they are true: "If these axioms were true, what would FOLLOW from them?" Then we start proving theorems. And the proofs (if you take them apart) turn out to be of the form: If you try to suppose that the axioms are true and the theorem is false then that leads to a contradiction. That's not just definition any more. (When I define something, I know what I've said, but when I define a set of axioms, I don't know which

28. Untitled famous theorems, previously thought to close the book, state that these are thefull set of division (or normed) algebras with $1$ over the real numbers. http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Events/2002/abstracts/smith.html

DIMACS Seminar Title: Quaternions, octonions, and now, 16-ons and $2^n$-ons; New kinds of numbers. Speaker: Warren D. Smith , DIMACS, Rutgers University, and Temple University Mathematics Department Date: Friday September 13, 2002, 1:10 pm Location: DIMACS Seminar Room, CoRE Building, Room 431A, Rutgers University. Abstract: The ``Cayley-Dickson process,'' starting from the real numbers, successively yields the complex numbers (dimension 2), quaternions (4), and octonions (8). Each contains all the previous ones as subalgebras. Famous Theorems, previously thought to close the book, state that these are the full set of division (or normed) algebras with $1$ over the real numbers. Their properties keep degrading: the reals are ordered and self-conjugate, but the complex numbers lose these properties; at the quaternions we lose commutativity; and at the octonions we lose associativity. If one keeps Cayley-Dickson doubling to get the 16D ``sedenions,'' zero-divisors appear. We introduce a different doubling process which also produces the complexes, quaternions, and octonions, but keeps going to yield $2^n$-dimensional normed algebraic structures

29. Incompleteness Theorem In response to this challenge Gödel developed his famous theoremsknown as the first and second incompleteness theorems. These http://www.mtnmath.com/book/node56.html

New version of this book Next: Physics Up: Set theory Previous: Recursive functions Incompleteness theorem Recursive functions are good because we can, at least in theory, compute them for any parameter in a finite number of steps. As a practical matter being recursive may be less significant. It is easy to come up with algorithms that are computable only in a theoretical sense. The number of steps to compute them in practice makes such computations impossible. Just as recursive functions are good things decidable formal systems are good things. In such a system one can decide the truth value of any statement in a finite number of mechanical steps. Hilbert first proposed that a decidable system for all mathematics be developed. and that the system be proven to be consistent by what Hilbert described as `finitary' methods.[ ]. He went on to show that it is impossible for such systems to decide their own consistency unless they are inconsistent. Note an inconsistent system can decide every proposition because every statement and its negation is deducible. When I talk about a proposition being decidable I always mean decidable in a consistent system. S he is working with a statement that says ``I am unprovable in S''(128)[ ]. Of course if this statement is provable in

30. Subject Library For Mathematics Mathematicians Everything you wanted to know about mathematicians. Biographies,information, famous theorems and women mathematicians. http://kidsmath.about.com/mlibrary.htm

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31. The View of selfreferencing statements in Mathematics, like the Liar's Paradox, Russell'sParadox and the very statements Gödel used to prove his famous theorems. http://members.fortunecity.com/kokhuitan/problem21th.html

th Century Mathematics: What's ahead of us? As we enter the 21 th century, I can't help but ask: has Mathematics reach its peak yet? Are there new things to learn? Would there be new discoveries? The answer is of course that new discoveries will keep pouring in and Mathematics still has a long way to go. There are still sciences out there waiting for someone to give them a full mathematical treatment; there are great many unsolved problems in Mathematics; the implications of Gödel 's Theorems are yet to be fully appreciated and utilised. As the fundamentals of Mathematics are scrutinized and challenged, new discoveries will follow. Below is a list of some mathematical problems I think is worth exploring. They are by no means exhaustive, but should keep us busy for the whole of this century. First of all, let's lake a look at works to be done on the Foundation of Mathematics in Problems 1 - 3. 1. Determination of Unprovable Statements The most important mathematical discovery in the 20 th century are Gödel's Theorems. We learn from Gödel that within any reasonably rich formal system there are unprovable statements and if we try to incorporate these statements or their negations as axioms, new unprovable statements will arise. So is all lost? Is our present treatment of Mathematics to tumble down and get totally nullified? The answer is an obvious NO. What Gödel told us essentially is that we must know the limitations of Mathematics. But this does not negate our formulation of mathematical theories. A mathematical theory is acceptable as long as it fits our experience, observations and knowledge. Of course, the theory must remain rigorous and fully structural. The problem I'm proposing here is to

32. Mysterious Puzzle Books Written as a series of braintingling puzzles with their solutions - the booksunravels Gödel's famous theorems on incompleteness and undecidability, with http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~homeier/interests/puzzles.html

Mysterious Puzzle Books Here are some delightful books of puzzles, either on logic or some variety of mathematics. These are unusually and beautifully well-crafted, showing a delicate sense of fun along with absolutely fine thinking. You don't really need any background for these, just grab ahold and enjoy the adventure! By Raymond Smullyan What is the Name of This Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles Paperback, 241 pages List price: $10.00 Publisher: Touchstone Books, Oct. 1986 ISBN: 0671628321 Not currently in print, but may be available from used bookstores. From the back cover: If puzzles and paradoxes intrigue you, then flex your brain with this entertaining menagerie of over 200 mind-bending logical puzzles, riddles, and diversions that challenge your reasoning powers and common sense. Beginning with fun-filled monkey tricks and classic brain teasers with devilish new twists, Professor Smullyan spins a logical labyrinth of even more complex and challenging problems as he delves into some of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory, including Gödel's revolutionary theorem of undecidability. Throughout, detailed solutions are provided for each problem. A highly entertaining, but important contribution to modern logical thought, What is the Name of This Book?

33. Mathematics Professionals know how complex and important is this work. It's enough to rememberEuclid. There are not so many famous theorems, belonging to him. http://kharkov.vbelous.net/english/mathemat.htm

34. History A Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem One of the most famous theorems inmathematics, the Pythagorean theorem has many proofs. Presented http://westview.tdsb.on.ca/Mathematics/history.html

History Gives students a glimpse into the genesis of a topic and observe its seeds. A Source of Ideas for Mathematics Teachers Links http://members.aol.com/~jeff570/mathsym.html This page shows the names of individuals who first used various common mathematical symbols, and the dates the symbols first appeared. http://members.aol.com/~jeff570/mathword.html This page shows the earliest uses of various words used in mathematics, particularly those that would be encountered at the high school level. It is largely a compilation of citations from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED2) and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition (MWCD10). (The MWCD10 only provides dates, and not the actual source of the citation.) The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged has also been consulted. Math History History of Mathematics - Univ. of St. Andrews From St. Andrews, Scotland General history, chronologies, and biographies of mathematicians Begin with the searchable MACTUTOR HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS ARCHIVE Brief history of almost all mathematicians, plus pictures of most.

35. Oriented And Odd Cuts In Graphs (in Portuguese) Among the results presented in the first part are the famous theorems by Lucchesiand Younger and Edmonds and Giles on packing of directed cuts and theorems by http://paul.rutgers.edu/~jaimecoh/thesis_abstract.html

"Oriented and Odd Cuts in Graphs" (in portuguese) Institute of Computing , State University of Campinas, Brazil. Abstract: The goal of this dissertation is to unify results in Graph Theory related to problems of packing directed and odd cuts in graphs and their coverings. The first part of the dissertation is devoted to show minimax relations between the maximum size of disjoint family of cuts and the minimum coverings of these cuts. In the second part of this work we study relations between the size of the minimum cuts and the size of maximum families of disjoint coverings of the cuts. One of our goals is to show that results for oriented cuts and for odd cuts are related in two ways: first in the statements of the theorems (and conjectures) and the proof techniques that can be applied. Download the thesis (.ps).

36. Catalog Of Mathematics Courses famous theorems and problems; calculating devices; famous mathematiciansand the historical development of the mathematical community. http://math.uindy.edu/math_catalog.htm

The University of Indianapolis Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Welcome! Mathematics Courses Links: Instructional and Course Overview Grades and Scheduling Codes (A, D, Y, SI, O, etc.) Mathematics Course Catalog MATH-090 Elementary Algebra (3) A A review of basic mathematics, essentially at the level of ninth grade algebra. Decimals, fractions, proportions, percents, introductory algebra, and geometry. This course may not count toward any degree program. A preparatory course, it does not carry college-level credit (earned hours) nor a traditional grade. Graded MP (math proficiency met) or MN (math proficiency not met). May not be taken on an audit basis. MATH-100 Health Mathematics (2) D Problem solving, percents, metric conversions, algebraic calculations, medicinal preparations, dilutions, dosage-weight relationships, IV drip rates.

37. What Is Riemannian Geometry? From the laws of Euclidean Geometry, we get the famous theorems like Pythagorus'Theorem and all the formulas you learn in trigonometry, like the law of cosines http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/~sormani/research/riemgeom.html

What is Riemannian Geometry? A description for the nonmathematician. Euclidean Geometry is the study of flat space. Between every pair of points there is a unique line segment which is the shortest curve between those two points. These line segments can be extended to lines. Lines are infinitely long in both directions and for every pair of points on the line, the segment of the line between them is the shortest curve that can be drawn between them. Furthermore, if you have a line and a point which isn't on the line, there is a second line running through the point, which is parallel to the first line (never hits it). All of these ideas can be described by drawing on a flat piece of paper. From the laws of Euclidean Geometry, we get the famous theorems like Pythagorus' Theorem and all the formulas you learn in trigonometry, like the law of cosines. In geometry you also learned how to find the circumference and area of a circle. In Vector Calculus you are also taught how to measure surface area using double integrals. Sometimes when you compute double integrals you use a change of variables and a Jacobian. These techniques are used regularly by Riemannian Geometers. Like most mathematicians, Riemannian Geometers look for theorems even when there are no practical applications. The theorems that can be used to study gravitational lensing are much older than Einstein's Equation and the Hubble telescope. We expect that practical applications of our theorems will be discovered some day in the future. Without having mathematical theorems sitting around for them to apply, physicists would have trouble discovering new theories and describing them. Einstein, for example, studied Riemannian Geometry before he developed his theories. His equation involves a special curvature called Ricci curvature, which was defined first by mathematicians and was very useful for his work. Ricci curvature is a kind of average curvature used in dimensions 3 and up. In Linear Algebra you are taught how to take the trace of a matrix. Ricci curvature is a trace of a matrix made out of sectional curvatures.

38. Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems Of Mathematics Dunham investigates and explains, in easyto-understand language andsimple algebra, some of the most famous theorems of mathematics. http://www.wkonline.com/a/Journey_Through_Genius_The_Great_Theorems_of_Mathemati

Book > Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics by Authors: William Dunham Released: August, 1991 ISBN: 014014739X Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: You save: Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics > Customer Review #1: Quite a Journey I dont know too many math authors who have consistently written "five-star" books. I had the pleasure of having Dr. Dunham at Muhlenberg (not Muhlendorf!) College for a class on Landmarks of Modern Mathematics. With Dunhams sharp lectures, I hardly needed the book, but with his brilliant book, I hardly needed the lectures. The key, however, is that I wanted both, and couldnt get enough of either. Graduation and reaching the back cover does that... Others have already described whats in the book, but what I must stress is that everything - every single thing - in the book is written in a clear and captivating fashion. You feel like youre sitting right there with the mathematcian under review, solving the problems for the first time with their hints. You wonder if Dunham has a time machine hidden somewhere. What this book adds to the experience is that you get a hint not just about the mathemacians genius, but also about the personalities of the mathematicians. For example, Cardano is probably one of the humorously psychotic mathematcians that lived.

39. Math 445 And 487 Winter 2001 Theorems will include the famous theorems of Ceva and Menelaus and arevisiting of theorems about midpoints and medians. Applications http://www.math.washington.edu/~king/coursedir/m445w01/info/info.html

Math 445 and 487 Autumn 2000 Back to Math 445 Home page. This is a brief collection of information about Math 445 and Math 487. It will be expanded as the quarter progresses. Contents Purpose of 444-445 Content of 445 Structure of 445 Math 487 ... Prerequisites Purpose of 444-445 While everyone is welcome in the course, the primary purpose of the sequence Math 444-5 is to prepare students for teaching geometry in middle and high school. Thus on the one hand, the courses aim to instill a broad understanding and appreciation for geometry and on the other hand they aim to help students to acquire the mastery of geometry they will need as mathematics professionals. In addition, it is important that students experience a variety of ways of learning geometry so that they can make informed choices for methods of instruction when they become teachers. Thus the course provides experiences in working in groups, problem solving, mathematical writing, making and experimenting with physical models and manipulatives. Plus, the required Math 487 Computer Lab provides an extensive experience using technology, mostly The Geometer's Sketchpad in 444 and also other software such as Cinderella in 445.

40. Department Of Theory Of Functions its base obtained a series of theorems on the dimension of the branch set for discreteopen mappings that have strengthened the famous theorems by Chernavskii http://www.iamm.ac.donetsk.ua/english/t_fun.html

DEPARTMENT OF THE FUNCTION THEORY The Department of the Function Theory at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics was founded in 1965. The founder of the Department was prominent specialist in the sphere of the Theory of functions professor Georgiy Dmitrievich Suvorov. He leaded the Department till his death in 1984. In the period from 1984 to 1997 the Department was headed by the Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences professor Vladimir Ivanovich Beliy. From the 1998 it is headed by the Doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Vladimir Ilich Ryazanov Such outstanding mathematicians as V.Ya.Gutlianskii , V.V. Goriaynov, V.M. Miklukov used to work here. Directions of researches. The traditional research area of the Department is the geometric theory of functions. Works of G.D. Suvorov and his followers, V.M. Miklyukov, I.S. Ovchinnikov, O.V. Ivanov, Yu.V. Pomel'nikov and others, were devoted to investigations of mappings which are direct generalizations of mappings with bounded distortion or, in other words, quasi-regular mappings - which are the academician Yu.G. Reshetnyak and, by the Finnish mathematical school, O. Martio, S. Rickman and J. Vaisala. On the base of various estimations of relative distances, broad families of compact boundary extensions which are invariant under conformal mappings have been obtained in the Department; every such extension made possible the study of new boundary properties of mappings. The main scientific activity of V.I.Belyi and his followers, V.V. Andrievskii, V.V. Maimeskul and others, were related to the constructive theory of functions of a complex variable. This includes investigations of metric properties of conformal mappings of a simply constrained domain onto a canonical one, integral representations of analytic functions in quasi-disks, direct theorems in polynomial approximation of functions defined in Jordan domains with quasi-conformal boundary.

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