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Minor Mathematicians
This page collects mentions of minor (mainly contemporary) mathematicians whose biographical details are unavailable.
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.
- -- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London
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George Bachman
Author of:
- 1998: Functional Analysis (with Lawrence Narici)
Robert Baillie
With M.A. Penk, achieved the full factorisation of Mersenne number $M_{257}$.
- Baillie-PSW Primality Test (with Carl Bernard Pomerance, John Lewis Selfridge and Samuel Standfield Wagstaff Jr.)
Author of:
- October 1980: Lucas Pseudoprimes (Math. Comp. Vol. 35, no. 152: pp. 1391 – 1417) (with Samuel S. Wagstaff Jr.) www.jstor.org/stable/2006406
- Jul. 1981: The Problem of Sierpiński Concerning $k \cdot 2^n + 1$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 37, no. 155: pp. 229 – 231) (with G. Cormack and H.C. Williams) www.jstor.org/stable/2007516
Haran Chandra Banerji
Francesc Banyuls
Author of:
- 2017: Curious Curves (with Josep Sales)
Mark Barr
Coined the use of $\Phi$ and $\phi$ for the golden mean $1 \cdotp 618 \ldots$ and its reciprocal $0 \cdotp 618 \ldots$ respectively.
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Brian Barwell
Author of:
- 1984: Solutions to Problems and Conjectures: $\text Q 1271$ (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 17, no. 1: p. 70) (with Friend H. Kierstead, Jr)
Maria Isabel Binimelis Bassa
Author of:
Leonard D. Baumert
Author of:
- 1965: Backtrack Programming (Vol. 12, no. 4: pp. 516 – 524) (with Solomon W. Golomb)
J.H. Baumwell
Creator of:
Carter Bays
Author of:
- Jan. 1978: On the Fluctuations of Littlewood for Primes of the Form $4n \pm 1$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 32, no. 141: pp. 281 – 286) (with Richard H. Hudson) www.jstor.org/stable/2006277
- Apr. 1978: Details of the First Region of Integers $x$ with $\pi_{3,2} (x) < \pi_{3,1} (x)$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 32, no. 142: pp. 571 – 576) (with Richard H. Hudson) www.jstor.org/stable/2006165
Michael Alan Bean
Author of:
Bernard Beauzamy
Author of:
- 1990: Products of Polynomials in Many Variables (Journal of Number Theory Vol. 36, no. 2: pp. 219 – 245) (with Enrico Bombieri, Per Enflo and Hugh L. Montgomery)
- October 1994: Quantitative Estimates for Polynomials in One or Several Variables (Math. Mag. Vol. 67, no. 4: pp. 243 – 257) (with Per Enflo and Paul Wang) www.jstor.org/stable/2690843
Walter E. Beck
Author of:
- Jan. 1982: A Lower Bound for Odd Triperfects (Math. Comp. Vol. 38, no. 157: pp. 249 – 251) (with Rudolph M. Najar) www.jstor.org/stable/2007481
Richard Beigel
Author of:
- 1994: The Language of Machines: an Introduction to Computability and Formal Languages (with Robert W Floyd)
Albert H. Beiler
Author of:
Ignasi Belda
Author of:
- 2017: Minds, Machines and Mathematics
- 2017: Mathematical Bits
Manuel Benito
Author of:
- Dec. 2002: An Easy Proof of Hurwitz's Theorem (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 109, no. 10: pp. 916 – 918) (with J. Javier Escribano) www.jstor.org/stable/3072459
Kristóf Bérczi
Author of:
- May 2009: Packing Arborescences (Egerváry Research Group Ser. Technical Report no. TR-2009-04) (with András Frank)
Ruth Bernstein
Author of:
Stephen Bernstein
Author of:
D.S. Berry
Author of:
- 1977: Engineering Mathematics, Volume I (with others)
Thomas Bevan
Author of:
- 1939: The Theory of Machines
William A. Beyer
Author of:
- 1970: Statistical Study of Digits of Some Square Roots of Integers in Various Bases (Math. Comp. Vol. 24: pp. 455 – 473) (with N. Metropolis and J.R. Neergaard) www.jstor.org/stable/2004493
Marjorie Bicknell
American amateur mathematician and author whose early publications were in the field of recreational mathematics.
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Claude Elias Billigheimer
Translator (into English) of:
- 1971: Problems and Theorems in Analysis II by George Pólya and Gábor Szegő
David Russell Bland
Author of:
- 1960: Vibrating Strings
- 1961: Solutions of Laplace's Equation
Melvin Bloom
- Bloom-Schoenberg Number (with Isaac Jacob Schoenberg), also known as Kakeya's Constant, for Soichi Kakeya
W.J. Blundon
Author of:
- Jan. 1967: Statistics on Certain Large Primes (Math. Comp. Vol. 21, no. 97: pp. 103 – 107) (with M.F. Jones and M. Lal) www.jstor.org/stable/2003476
Artin B. Boghossian
Author of:
- 1989: Some Recent Geometric Inequalities (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 96: pp. 576 – 589) (with Faruk F. Abi-Khuzam) www.jstor.org/stable/2325176
Jan Bohman
Author of:
- 1979: Partitions in squares (BIT Vol. 19, no. 3: pp. 297 – 301) (with C.E. Fröberg and H. Riesel)
Theodore S. Bolis
Author of:
- 1978: E2629: Average distance between two points in a box (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 85: pp. 277 – 278) (with David P. Robbins) www.jstor.org/stable/2321177
Enrique F. Borja
Author of:
- 2017: Any More Bids?
- 2017: Observations, Measures and Models (with Clara Grima)
Leo F. Boron
Translator (into English) of:
- 1957: Elements of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis, Volume 1 by A.N. Kolmogorov and S.V. Fomin
- 1961: Elements of the Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis, Volume 2 by A.N. Kolmogorov and S.V. Fomin
- 1990: Functional Analysis by Frigyes Riesz and Béla Sz.-Nagy
Geoffrey Bosson
Author of:
- 1947: The Tutorial Arithmetic, 4th ed. (with W.P. Workman and R.H. Chope)
- 1954: The Tutorial Arithmetic, 5th ed. (with W.P. Workman)
- 1963: The Tutorial Arithmetic, 6th ed. (with W.P. Workman)
Boubaker Boubaker
Donald Edward Bourne
Author of:
- 1967: Vector Analysis (with P.C. Kendall)
F.E. Bowman
Contributor to:
- 1948: Mathematics In Theory and Practice (edited by W.W. Sawyer)
R.W. Boxer
Adapted for SI units:
R.A. Bradley
- Ansari-Bradley Test (with A.R. Ansari)
Alberto Bressan
Author of:
- 2012: Lecture Notes on Functional Analysis: With Applications to Linear Partial Differential Equations
Richard Bridges
Author of:
- 1994: Minimal Steiner Trees for Three Dimensional Networks (The Mathematical Gazette Vol. 78: pp. 157 – 162) www.jstor.org/stable/3618571
Alan L. Brown
Author of:
- 1954: Multiperfect Numbers (Scripta Math Vol. 20: pp. 103 – 106)
B.H. Brown
Author of:
- Jun. - Jul. 1939: A New Pair of Amicable Numbers (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 46, no. 6: p. 345) www.jstor.org/stable/2302890
Donald J. Brown
Author of:
- 1990: Existence and Optimality of Competitive Equilibria (with Charalambos D. Aliprantis and Owen Burkinshaw)
John Lewis Brown
Author of:
Robert G. Brown
Author of:
- 1961: The fundamental theorem of exponential smoothing (Operations Res. Vol. 9: pp. 673 – 285) (with Richard F. Meyer) www.jstor.org/stable/166814
- 1962: Smoothing, Forecasting and Predicting of Discrete Time Series
Charles Albert Browne, Jr.
Author of:
- July 1906: Magic Squares and Pythagorean Numbers (The Monist Vol. 16, no. 3: pp. 422 – 433) www.jstor.org/stable/27899667
Jean-Bernard Bru
Author of:
- 2023: C*-Algebras and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistical Mechanics (with Walter Alberto de Siqueira Pedra)
Simcha Brudno
Author of:
- Jul. 1973: More About Four Biquadrates Equal One Biquadrate (Math. Comp. Vol. 27, no. 123: pp. 491 – 494) (with Kermit Rose) www.jstor.org/stable/2005655
Ralph Heiner Buchholz
Author of:
- 1992: Perfect Pyramids (Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. Vol. 45: pp. 353 – 368)
J.P. Buhler
Author of:
- Apr. 1982: Primes of the Form $n! \pm 1$ and $2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdots p \pm 1$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 38, no. 158: pp. 639 – 643) (with R.E. Crandall and M.A. Penk) www.jstor.org/stable/2007298
Theo Bühler
Author of:
- 2018: Functional Analysis (with Dietmar A. Salamon)
Harry Burkill
Author of:
- 1970: A Second Course in Mathematical Analysis (with J.C. Burkill)
Owen Sidney Burkinshaw
Author of:
- 1985: Positive Operators (with Charalambos D. Aliprantis)
- 1990: Existence and Optimality of Competitive Equilibria (with Charalambos D. Aliprantis and Donald J. Brown)
- 1998: Principles of Real Analysis, 3rd ed. (with Charalambos D. Aliprantis)
- 2003: Locally Solid Riesz Spaces with Applications to Economics (2nd ed.) (with Charalambos D. Aliprantis)
John Allen Burns
Author of:
Stanley Neal Burris
Author of:
- 1981: A Course in Universal Algebra (with H.P. Sankappanavar)
David M. Burton
Author of:
Rolf Busam
Author of:
- 1993: Funktionentheorie 1 (4th edition 2006) (with Eberhard Freitag)
- 2005: Complex Analysis (2nd edition 2009) (with Eberhard Freitag) (Translation of Funktionentheorie 1)
Paul-Jean Busschop
W.H. Bussey
Author of:
- 1917: The Origin of Mathematical Induction (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 24: pp. 199 – 207) www.jstor.org/stable/2974308
Mary Buxton
Author of:
- 1975: On Odd Perfect Numbers (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 22: p. A-543) (with B. Stubblefield)
- 1976: An Extension of Lower Bounds for Odd Perfect Numbers (Not. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 22: p. A-55) (with S. Elmore)
Jessie Byrnes
Author of:
- Nov. 2015: The Sheldon Conjecture (Math Horizons Vol. 23: pp. 12 – 15) (with Chris Spicer and Alyssa Turnquist) www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/mathhorizons.23.2.12