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MATH 4400, History of MathematicsLecture 14: The turn of the 19th to 20th century

Professor: Peter Gibson

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http://people.math.yorku.ca/pcgibson/math4400

February 14, 2017

Dramatis Personae

Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

Professor at the Sorbonne

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David Hilbert (1862-1943)

Professor at Gottingen


Hermann Minkowskii

(1864-1909)

Professor at ETH Zurich


Jacques Hadamard

(1865-1963)

Professor at College de France


Charles Jean de la Valle-Poussin

(1866-1962)

Professor at

Catholic University of Leuven


Tullio Levi-Civita (1873-1941)

Professor at University of Rome


Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Professor at

Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton


Hermann Weyl (1885-1955)

Professor at

Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton


Minkowski

1872 (aged 8) moved to Konigsberg from Russian kingdom

1883 prize of the French Academy of Sciences

friendship with David Hilbert, Adoph Hurwitz

1885 doctorate under Ferdinand von Lindemann

appointments at Bonn, Konigsberg, Zurich, Gottingen

geometry of numbers

Minkowski space time


Hadamard

List of things named after Jacques HadamardFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These are things named after Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963), a French mathematician. (For references,see the respective articles.)

Cartan–Hadamard theoremCauchy–Hadamard theoremHadamard product:

entry-wise matrix multiplicationan infinite product expansion for the Riemann zeta function

Hadamard codeHadamard's dynamical systemHadamard's inequalityHadamard's method of descentHadamard finite part integralHadamard's lemmaHadamard manifoldHadamard matrixHadamard's maximal determinant problemHadamard spaceHadamard three-circle theoremHadamard Transform and Hadamard gateHadamard–Rybczynski equationOstrowski–Hadamard gap theorem

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Poincare

Born in 1854 in Nancy, to a prominent family

Top prizes in the concours general

Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, then the Ecole des Minesand worked as a mining engineer

1879 doctorate in mathematics from University of Paris under CharlesHermite

1881 Professor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris)

worked in many different areas, including on the three body problem

pioneering work in geometry and topology

carried out early work on relativity

was active in philosophy, and wrote several widely-read popular works


Hilbert

1885 doctorate under Ferdinand von Lindemann

1886-1895 lecturer at Konigsberg

1895 professor at Gottingen

1900 Paris address

1910 Bolyai prize

pre-eminent mathematician of his day


One sometimes reads of rivalry and dispute between Hilbert and Poincare,the leading mathematicians of 1900.This tends to be overstated.Hilbert contributed to many fields, including mathematical physics—hisideas on the foundations of mathematics are sometimes emphasized at theexpense of his many other fundamental contributions.Poincare’s rejection of Cantor’s ideas have not been born out by history.


The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey(established 1930)


“spaghetti and Levi-civita”


According to Einstein, the theory of relativity relies on the work of:

Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866)

Hermann Minkowski

Tullio Levi-civita

Hermann Weyl


To a certain extent, Hermann Weyl brought Hilbert’s legacy and traditionto the US.


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