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31Arthur Burks — Arthur Walter Burks (October 13 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later,… …
32Philadelphia Poison Ring — The Philadelphia Poison Ring was a murder for hire gang led by the Petrillo cousins in 1938. The leaders were ultimately convicted of 70 poison murders and were executed by electric chair in 1941. Paul s cousin, Morris Bolber, was among the 14… …
33Swiss cheese (mathematics) — In mathematics, a Swiss cheese is a compact subset of the complex plane obtained by removing from a closed disc some countable union of open discs. More generally, a Swiss cheese may be all or part of Euclidean space R n ndash; or of an even more …
34Rédei's theorem — In Group Theory, Rédei s theorem states that If a finite abelian group is expressed as the product of subsets each of which has a prime number of elements and contains the identity element, then at least one of the factors is a subgroup. This… …
35D. J. Finney — David John Finney CBE (born 1917) is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Agricultural Research Council s Unit of Statistics from 1954 to 1984 and a former President of the Royal Statistical… …
36JLO cocycle — In noncommutative geometry, the JLO cocycle is a cocycle (and thus defines a cohomology class) in entire cyclic cohomology. It is a non commutative version of the classic Chern character of the conventional differential geometry. In… …
37Ted Harris (mathematician) — Ted Harris (11 January 1919 ndash; 3 November 2006) was an American mathematician known for his research on stochastic processes, including such areas as general state space Markov chains (oftennow called Harris chains), the theory of… …
38Arthur Gostick Shorrock — War against OpiumArthur was horrified by the impact of the opium trade. In 1890 he was a founding member of the Permanent Committee for the Promotion of Anti Opium Societies . Fellow committee members included the prominent missionaries John… …
39Predicate functor logic — In mathematical logic, predicate functor logic (PFL) is one of several ways to express first order logic (formerly known as predicate logic) by purely algebraic means, i.e., without quantified variables. PFL employs a small number of algebraic… …
40Joseph Ritt — Joseph Fels Ritt (August 23, 1893 ndash;January 5, 1951) was an American mathematician at Columbia University in the early 20th century.After beginning his undergraduate studies at City College, Ritt received his B.A. from George Washington… …
