Prof. Emeritus William Walker Tait, an acclaimed philosopher and mathematician at the University of Chicago, died March 15 in Naperville, Ill. He was 95. Known by colleagues as one of the most ...
Prof. Emeritus Howard Stein, a renowned philosopher and historian of physics at the University of Chicago, died March 8 at his home in Hyde Park. He was 95. A trained philosopher and mathematician, ...
What Aczel did for mathematician Fermat (Fermat's Last Theorem) he now does for Descartes in this splendid study about the French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650) most famous for his paradigm ...
The Undergraduate Catalog provides more details about each minor and the requirements, including a full list of courses offered by the department. The Applied Mathematics minor encourages students ...
NEW YORK — Émilie du Châtelet led an extraordinary life. An 18th-century physicist, mathematician and philosopher, she took famed writers — including Voltaire — as lovers. As she worked on her final ...
French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and theologian Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). In 1654, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal explained the logic of believing in God, ...
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet – or more simply Émilie du Châtelet – was born on December 17, 1706 in Paris, France into a family of lesser nobility. From a young age, ...
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