Mathematics and the Real World (72 page)

Meck, Warren,
24

Mendeleev, Dmitri,
159

Menelaus,
277

Merkel, Ralph,
303

Merton, Robert,
243

Micali, Silvio,
300

Michelson, Albert,
150

Miller, Gary,
299

Milnor, John,
348

Minkowski, Hermann,
152

Morgenstern, Oskar,
254
,
255

Morley, Edward,
150

Napier, John,
279

Nash, John,
246
,
252

Ne'eman, Yuval,
167
,
349

Nernst, Walther,
157

Newton, Isaac,
83
,
93
,
107
,
110
,
277
,
318
,
368

Nixon, Richard,
109

Oersted, Hans,
131

Olech, Czesław,
353

Oughtred, William,
282

Pacioli, Luca,
189

Pait, Felipe,
354

Parmenides,
62

Pascal, Blaise,
189
,
191
,
283

Peano, Giuseppe,
336
,
339

Pekeris, Chaim,
287

Penrose, Roger,
362

Perelman, Grigori,
359

Pfungst, Oscar,
21

Piaget, Jean,
26

Piazzi, Giuseppe,
280

Picard, Émile,
318

Planck, Max,
157
,
161

Plato,
55
,
74
,
75
,
78
,
97
,
169
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173
,
360

Plutarch,
49

Poincaré, Henri,
151
,
331
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345
,
346
,
353
,
377
,
378

Premack, David,
23

Price, Richard,
206

Ptolemy (a.k.a. Claudius Ptolemaeus),
78
,
87
,
91
,
119
,
277

Pythagoras,
50
,
74

Rabin, Michael,
299
,
385

Rackoff, Charles,
300

Recorde, Robert,
112

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard,
147

Rivest, Ron,
303

Rosati, Alexandra,
184

Rossi, Hugo,
109

Roth, Alvin,
235

Routh, Edward,
133
,
366

Russell, Bertrand,
330
,
332
,
334

Rutherford, Ernest,
160

Saccheri, Geraolamo,
143

Samios, Nicholas,
169

Sargent, Thomas,
229

Saxena, Nitin,
299

Schlick, Moritz,
338

Schmittberger, Rolf,
271

Scholes, Myron,
243

Schrödinger, Erwin,
162

Schwarze, Bernd,
271

Seiner, Hanuš,
175

Shamir, Adi,
303

Shapley, Lloyd,
232

Sharkovsky, Oleksandr,
377

Shechtman, Dan,
362

Sheehan, Richard,
231

Sims, Christopher,
230

Sipper, Moshe,
309

Smale, Steve,
350
,
359

Smith, Adam,
227

Smith, David,
184

Snell, Willebrord van Roijen,
120

Starkey, Prentice,
28

Steinhardt, Paul,
362

Stern, Ron,
354

Stumpf, Carl,
21

Tartaglia, Niccolò,
96
,
188
,
191

Thales of Miletus,
29
,
68
,
129
,
275

Theaetetus,
74

Tukey, John,
280

Turing, Alan Mathison,
289
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306

Tversky, Amos,
224
,
258
,
267

Vallone, Robert,
224

Veblen, Oswald,
286

Velikovsky, Immanuel,
178

Volta, Alessandro,
131

von Neumann, John,
244
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251
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254
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255
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285
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287
,
373

von Osten, Wilhelm,
21

von Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried,
368

Wallace, Alfred,
17

Wallis, John,
110

Washborn, David,
184

Watt, James,
365

Weierstrass, Karl,
318
,
321
,
327

Weyl, Hermann,
286

Whitehead, Alfred North,
334

Wiles, Andrew,
37
,
192
,
339

Woodruff, Guy,
23

Wren, Christopher,
116

Wynn, Karen,
28
,
30

Xiping, Zhu,
359

Yau, Shing-Tung,
359

Yorke, James,
377

Zalgaller, Victor,
361

Zeilberger, Doron,
313

Zeno,
62
,
277

Zermelo, Ernst,
244
,
335

Zuse, Konrad,
285

abacus,
282

algorithm,
290

annus mirabilis,
157

anti-Earth,
72

antimatter,
167

applied Platonism,
173
,
177

a posteriori probability,
200
,
208

a priori probability,
200
,
208

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem,
230

artificial intelligence,
306

Assyrian kingdom,
41
,
185
,
275

astragals,
185

astrology,
103
,
177
,
375

atom,
73
,
83
,
119
,
159
,
166

average,
196

axioms,
58
,
142
,
238
,
315
,
319
,
329

axiom of choice,
340

Euclid's,
146

parallel lines,
142
,
319
,
399

Peano,
336
,
379

Babylonian kingdom,
41
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67
,
275

Bayes's formula,
206
,
216
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221

Bayes's scheme,
208
,
403

Bayes's theorem,
212

Bernoulli trials,
199

Bible Code,
34

Black-Scholes formula,
243

brachistochrone,
367

Brownian motion,
73
,
157

business cycle,
231

butterfly effect,
378

C =
(continuum hypothesis),
329
,
340