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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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John Jackson
American $19$th century mathematician who described himself as a "Private Teacher of the Mathematics".
Known now only for his $1821$ book Rational Amusement for Winter Evenings; Or, a Collection of Above 200 Curious and Interesting Puzzles and Paradoxes relating to Arithmetic, Geometry, Geography &c. With Their Solution, And Four Plates. Designed chiefly for Young Persons.
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Kelly Jackson
Author of:
- Feb. 1993: Extensions of a Sums-of-Squares Problem (Math. Mag. Vol. 66, no. 1: pp. 41 – 43) (with Francis Masat and Robert Mitchell) www.jstor.org/stable/2690474
T.H. Jackson
- 1994: A New Large Amicable Pair (Computers & Mathematics with Applications Vol. 27, no. 6: pp. 1 – 3) (with S.Y. Yan)
Jörg Jahnel
- April 2009: New Sums of Three Cubes (Math. Comp. Vol. 78, no. 266: pp. 1227 – 1230) (with Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans)
Leigh Janes
Discoverer of the factorion $40 \, 585$ in $1964$.
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D.J. Jeffrey
Author of:
- 1996: On the Lambert $W$ Function (Adv. Comput. Math. Vol. 5: pp. 329 – 359) (with R.M. Corless, G.H. Gonnet, D.E.G Hare and D.E. Knuth)
Glyn Johns
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- Nov. 1994: The Palindrome Problem in Base 2 (The Mathematical Gazette Vol. 78, no. 483: pp. 312 – 314) (with James Wiegold) www.jstor.org/stable/3620206
Allan William Johnson
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- 1975: Allan W. Johnson: Problems: $953$: Absolute Primes ( Vol. 48: pp. 239 – 240) www.jstor.org/stable/2690361
- 1977: Allan W. Johnson: Solutions: $953$: Absolute Primes ( Vol. 50: pp. 100 – 103) www.jstor.org/stable/2689738
C.L. Johnson
Contributor to:
- 1948: Mathematics In Theory and Practice (edited by W.W. Sawyer)
Wells Johnson
Author of:
- 1987: The Diophantine Equation $X^2 + 7 = 2^n$ (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 94: pp. 59 – 62) www.jstor.org/stable/2323504
C.B. Jones
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- 1984: An Early Program Proof by Alan Turing (Ann. Hist. Comput. Vol. 6: pp. 139 – 143) (with F.L. Morris)
M.F. Jones
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- Jan. 1967: Statistics on Certain Large Primes (Math. Comp. Vol. 21, no. 97: pp. 103 – 107) (with M. Lal and W.J. Blundon) www.jstor.org/stable/2003476
W. David Joyner
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Winfried Just
Author of:
- 1996: Discovering Modern Set Theory. I: The Basics (with Martin Weese)
- 1997: Discovering Modern Set Theory. II: Set-Theoretic Tools for Every Mathematician (with Martin Weese)
Dov Juzuk
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- 1939: Curiosa 56: An Interesting Observation (Scripta Mathematica Vol. 6: p. 218)