James Joseph Sylvester FRS HonFRSE (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician.He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.He played a leadership role in American mathematics in the later half of the 19th century as a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and as …

Spencer Abraham, US senator 1995–2001 and secretary of energy 2001–05 (born in East Lansing); Henry B. Brown, US Supreme Court justice from 1891–1906 and author for court opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (born in South Lee, Massachusetts; settled and practiced law in Detroit); Jesse Brown, US secretary of Veterans Affairs under President Bill Clinton (born in …

2nd President 1797–1801 (great-great-grandfather, Henry Adams, born 1583, Barton St David, Somerset, England, immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts) Thomas Jefferson (Welsh and Scotch-English) 3rd President 1801–1809 (maternal English ancestry from William Randolph )

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli (sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo; c. 1447 – 19 June 1517) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and he was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book …

In the mathematical field of topology, knot theory is the study of mathematical knots.While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are joined so it cannot be undone, the simplest knot being a ring (or "unknot").In mathematical language, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3-dimensional …

In mathematics, the inverse function of a function f (also called the inverse of f) is a function that undoes the operation of f.The inverse of f exists if and only if f is bijective, and if it exists, is denoted by .. For a function :, its inverse : admits an explicit description: it sends each element to the unique element such that f(x) = y.. As an example, consider the real-valued function ...

John Napier of Merchiston (/ ˈ n eɪ p i ər /; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer.He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston.His Latinized name was Ioannes Neper.. John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.He also invented the so-called "Napier's …

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This list of Texas A&M University people includes notable alumni, faculty, and affiliates of Texas A&M University.The term Texas Aggie, which comes from Texas A&M's history as an agricultural school, refers to students and alumni of Texas A&M. The class year of each alumnus indicates the projected undergraduate degree award year designation, although the actual year …

Formal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.