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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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Victor Vasken Pambuccian
Author of:
- 2015: Schatunowsky's theorem, Bonse's inequality, and Chebyshev's theorem in weak fragments of Peano arithmetic (Math. Log. Quart Vol. 61, no. 3: pp. 230 – 235)
Thomas R. Parkin
- 1966: With Leon J. Lander, refuted Euler's Sum of Powers Conjecture by finding a counterexample.
Author of:
- 1964: Abundant Numbers (with Leon J. Lander)
Thomas G. Parker
Creator of:
Author of:
- Jan. 1974: 12,758 (Math. Comp. Vol. 28, no. 125: pp. 313 – 314) (with Robert E. Dressler) www.jstor.org/stable/2005841
- 1974: Divisibility properties in semigroup rings (Michigan Math. J. Vol. 21, no. 1: pp. 65 – 86) (with Robert Gilmer)
Philip Parker
Author of:
- 1958: Advanced Level Physics (with M. Nelkon)
- 1964: Advanced Level Physics, 2nd ed. (with M. Nelkon)
- 1970: Advanced Level Physics, 3rd ed. (with M. Nelkon)
C.D. Patterson
Author of:
- Apr. 1985: Some Periodic Continued Fractions With Long Periods (Math. Comp. Vol. 44, no. 170: pp. 523 – 532) (with H.C. Williams) www.jstor.org/stable/2007971
S. Peavy
Contributor to:
- 1964: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun)
Gert K. Pedersen
Author of:
- 1995: Analysis Now, 2nd ed.
Walter Alberto de Siqueira Pedra
Author of:
- 2023: C*-Algebras and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Statistical Mechanics (with Jean-Bernard Bru)
M.A. Penk
With Robert Baillie, achieved the full factorisation of Mersenne number $M_{257}$.
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 J.P. Buhler and R.E. Crandall) www.jstor.org/stable/2007298
David E. Penney
Author of:
- 1974: 714 and 715 (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 7, no. 2: pp. 87 – 89) (with C. Nelson and C. Pomerance)
- 1986: Calculus and Analytic Geometry (with C. Henry Edwards)
W. Penney
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, R. Fagen and T. Lehrer)
Andy Pepperdine
Author of:
- 1989: Pythagorean Quadrilaterals (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 21: pp. 8 – 12)
J. Perrot
- $\ds\lim_{n \mathop \to \infty} \dfrac {\map \Phi n} {n^2} = \dfrac 3 {\pi^2}$
where:
- $\map \Phi n = \ds \sum_{k \mathop = 1}^n \map \phi k$
- $\map \phi k$ is the Euler $\phi$ function of $k$.
Author of:
- 1881: Sur la sommation des nombres $\phi$ (Bull. des Sc. Math. et Astr. Ser. 2 Vol. 5, no. 1: pp. 37 – 40)
David L. Phillips
Author of:
- 1962: A Technique for the Numerical Solution of Certain Integral Equations of the First Kind (J. ACM Vol. 9: pp. 84 – 97)
George Phillips
Author of:
William Robert Phillips
Author of:
- 1975: Electromagnetism (with I.S. Grant)
- 1990: Electromagnetism, 2nd ed. (with I.S. Grant)
Jorge Picado
Author of:
- 2012: Frames and Locales: (with Aleš Pultr)
S. Pilpel
Author of:
- 1985: Some More Double Palindromic Integers (J. Recr. Math. Vol. 18: pp. 174 – 176)
Richard G.E. Pinch
Author of:
- Jul. 1993: The Carmichael Numbers up to $10^{15}$ (Math. Comp. Vol. 61, no. 203: pp. 381 – 391) www.jstor.org/stable/2152963
Carmen Galé Pola
Author of:
Ivan Polonsky
Contributor to:
- 1964: Handbook of Mathematical Functions (edited by Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun)
Thomas Povey
Author of:
R.E. Powers
American amateur mathematician who discovered the $10$th and $11$th Mersenne primes $2^{89} - 1$ (in $1911$) and $2^{107} - 1$ (in $1914$.)
In $1916$, he determined that $2^{241} - 1$ is composite.
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R. Glenn Powers
Author of:
- Feb. 1987: Solutions to Problem 1234 (Math. Mag. Vol. 60, no. 1: pp. 46 – 47) (with Roger B. Nelsen) www.jstor.org/stable/2690137
Paul A. Pritchard
Author of:
- Oct. 1983: Eighteen Primes in Arithmetic Progression (Math. Comp. Vol. 41: p. 697) www.jstor.org/stable/2007705
- Jul. 1995: Twenty-Two Primes in Arithmetic Progression (Math. Comp. Vol. 64, no. 211: pp. 1337 – 1339) (with Andrew Moran and Anthony Thyssen) www.jstor.org/stable/2153500
James Pryde
Editor of:
- 1878: Chambers's Seven-Figure Mathematical Tables
- 1922: Chambers's Seven-Figure Logarithms
- 1930: Chambers's Seven-Figure Mathematical Tables, Latest ed. (with Walter F. Robinson)
Eloi Puertas
Author of:
- 2017: The Power of Data (with Oriol Pujol Vila, Santi Seguí and Jordi Vitrià)
Carles Puig
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- 2017: Getting the Measure of the World (with Iolanda Guevara)
I. Gusti Putu Purnaba
Author of:
- 2000: 7373170279850 (Math. Comp. Vol. 69: pp. 421 – 439) (with Jean-Marc Deshouillers, François Hennecart and Bernard Landreau)