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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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Marián Fabian
Author of:
- 2001: Functional Analysis and Infinite-Dimensional Geometry (with Petr Habala, Petr Hájek, Vicente Montesinos Santalucía, Jan Pelant and Václav Zizler)
R. Fagen
Author of:
- 1957: The distribution of the number of locally maximal elements in a random sample (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 28: pp. 786 – 790) (with T. Austin, T. Lehrer and W. Penney)
- 1958: Random walks with restraining barrier as applied to the biased binary counter (Journal of the SIAM Vol. 6: pp. 1 – 14) (with T. Lehrer)
Alberto Fanelli
Author of:
- 2015: The Riemann Hypothesis about the Non-Trivial Zeroes of the Zeta Function (Journal of Algebra, Number Theory: Advances and Applications Vol. 14: pp. 47 – 56) (with Michele Fanelli)
Michele Fanelli
Italian mathematician who pointed out that $\sqrt [9] {10 e^8} = 3 \cdotp 14159 \, 828 \ldots$
Author of:
- 2015: The Riemann Hypothesis about the Non-Trivial Zeroes of the Zeta Function (Journal of Algebra, Number Theory: Advances and Applications Vol. 14: pp. 47 – 56) (with Alberto Fanelli)
P.H. Fang
Author of:
- 1963: Ferroelectric Switching and the Sievert Integral (with Irene A. Stegun)
Thomas Ewan Faulkner
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- 1949: Projective Geometry
T.R. Faulkner
Author of:
- 1977: Engineering Mathematics, Volume I (with others)
E. Fauquembergue
Proved (simultaneously with R.E. Powers) that $2^{107} - 1$ is prime.
As some of Fauquembergue's claims of the primality of other Mersenne numbers proved to be incorrect, this result is usually attributed to Powers rather than to Fauquembergue.
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D.F. Ferguson
Calculated approximations to the value of $\pi$ (pi), using a mechanical desk calculator, to:
- $620$ digits in $1945$ (or $1946$; sources are inconsistent), finding an error in the work of William Shanks in the $528$th digit
- $710$ digits in January $1947$
- $808$ digits in September $1947$
- $1120$ digits in September $1949$, with John Wrench, using an electro-mechanical calculator.
John Albert Feroe
One of the members of the team behind Hjalmar Ekdal, who between them constructed the work Counterexamples in Topology, published in $1970$ as by Lynn Arthur Steen and J. Arthur Seebach, Jr..
Author of:
- 1991: Single-Variable Calculus with Discrete Mathematics
Karl Fink
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Andrew O. Finley
Author of:
- 2008: Gaussian predictive process models for large spatial data sets (J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. B Vol. 70, no. 4: pp. 825 – 848) (with Alan E. Gelfand, Sudipto Banerjee and Huiyan Sang) www.jstor.org/stable/20203857
Charles R. Fleenor
Author of:
- 1996-7: Heronian Triangles with Consecutive Integer Sides (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 28, no. 2: pp. 113 – 115)
K.A. Fowler
Author of:
- 1955: On groups of even order (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 62: pp. 565 – 583) (with Richard Brauer) (in which Brauer-Fowler Theorem is presented) www.jstor.org/stable/1970080
Robert Fraley
Author of:
- 1966: Graphical Solution of Difficult Crossing Puzzles (Math. Mag. Vol. 39: pp. 151 – 157) (with Kenneth L. Cooke and Peter Detrick)
G.H. Freeman
Javier Fresán
Author of:
- 2017: The Dream of Reason
- 2017: Until Algebra do us Part
Lawrence Friedman
Author of:
- 1959: Operations Research: Methods and Problems (with Maurice Sasieni and Arthur Yaspan)
Mitchell J. Friedman
Author of an article in Volume 8 of Scripta Mathematica on the subject of making One Half as Pandigital Fraction, as reported by David Wells in his $1986$ work Curious and Interesting Numbers.
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Roger E. Frye
Author of:
- 1988: Finding $95800^4 + 217519^4 + 414560^4 = 422481^4$ on the Connection Machine