ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Australia
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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."
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Australia
Charles Ernest Weatherburn
1884 – 1974
Australian mathematician best known for his work in vector analysis.
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Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran
1917 – 1988
Pat Moran was an Australian statistician who established some significant results in probability.
The Moran medal was named in his honour.
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References
- ↑ Eric Temple Bell, Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London.
