Mathematician:Edward Kasner
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Mathematician
American mathematician best known now for coining the terms googol and googolplex.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: April 2, 1878, New York City
- Died: January 7, 1955 New York City
Theorems and Definitions
Publications
- 1900: The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group: Geometry Upon a Quadric Surface (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 1, no. 4: pp. 430 – 498) www.jstor.org/stable/1986367
- 1914: The Ratio of the Arc to the Chord of an Analytic Curve Need Not Be Unity (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 20, no. 10: pp. 524 – 531)
- 1921: Geometrical theorems on Einstein's cosmological equations (Amer. J. Math. Vol. 43, no. 4: pp. 217 – 221)
- 1940: Mathematics and the Imagination (with James R. Newman) (in which the terms googol and googolplex were first coined)