51-506: Gerhard Karl Erich Gentzen (24 November 1909 – 4 August 1945) was a German mathematician and logician . He made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics , proof theory , especially on natural deduction and sequent calculus . He died of starvation in a Czech prison camp in Prague in 1945. Gentzen was a student of Paul Bernays at the University of Göttingen . Bernays
102-409: A collection of variables , each assuming a set of values. These can be a set of a single quantity, referred to as a scalar when represented by real numbers, or have multiple quantities as do vectors and tensors , two kinds of geometric objects. The mathematical usage of a quantity can then be varied and so is situationally dependent. Quantities can be used as being infinitesimal , arguments of
153-412: A comparison in terms of ratio is made, the resultant ratio often [namely with the exception of the 'numerical genus' itself] leaves the genus of quantities compared, and passes into the numerical genus, whatever the genus of quantities compared may have been. That is, the ratio of magnitudes of any quantity, whether volume, mass, heat and so on, is a number. Following this, Newton then defined number, and
204-515: A direct proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem followed. Gödel used a coding procedure to construct an unprovable formula of arithmetic. Gentzen's proof was published in 1943 and marked the beginning of ordinal proof theory . Mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems . Mathematicians are concerned with numbers , data , quantity , structure , space , models , and change . One of
255-477: A financial economist might study the structural reasons why a company may have a certain share price , a financial mathematician may take the share price as a given, and attempt to use stochastic calculus to obtain the corresponding value of derivatives of the stock ( see: Valuation of options ; Financial modeling ). According to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles occupations in mathematics include
306-403: A function , variables in an expression (independent or dependent), or probabilistic as in random and stochastic quantities. In mathematics, magnitudes and multitudes are also not only two distinct kinds of quantity but furthermore relatable to each other. Number theory covers the topics of the discrete quantities as numbers: number systems with their kinds and relations. Geometry studies
357-407: A fundamental ontological and scientific category. In Aristotle's ontology , quantity or quantum was classified into two different types, which he characterized as follows: Quantum means that which is divisible into two or more constituent parts, of which each is by nature a one and a this . A quantum is a plurality if it is numerable, a magnitude if it is measurable. Plurality means that which
408-436: A great number, many, several (for count names); a bit of, a little, less, a great deal (amount) of, much (for mass names); all, plenty of, a lot of, enough, more, most, some, any, both, each, either, neither, every, no". For the complex case of unidentified amounts, the parts and examples of a mass are indicated with respect to the following: a measure of a mass (two kilos of rice and twenty bottles of milk or ten pieces of paper);
459-400: A manner which will help ensure that the plans are maintained on a sound financial basis. As another example, mathematical finance will derive and extend the mathematical or numerical models without necessarily establishing a link to financial theory, taking observed market prices as input. Mathematical consistency is required, not compatibility with economic theory. Thus, for example, while
510-574: A noun of multitude standing either for a single entity or for the individuals making the whole. An amount in general is expressed by a special class of words called identifiers, indefinite and definite and quantifiers, definite and indefinite. The amount may be expressed by: singular form and plural from, ordinal numbers before a count noun singular (first, second, third...), the demonstratives; definite and indefinite numbers and measurements (hundred/hundreds, million/millions), or cardinal numbers before count nouns. The set of language quantifiers covers "a few,
561-512: A numerical value multiple of a unit of measurement . Mass , time , distance , heat , and angle are among the familiar examples of quantitative properties. Quantity is among the basic classes of things along with quality , substance , change, and relation. Some quantities are such by their inner nature (as number), while others function as states (properties, dimensions, attributes) of things such as heavy and light, long and short, broad and narrow, small and great, or much and little. Under
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#1732782752814612-540: A piece or part of a mass (part, element, atom, item, article, drop); or a shape of a container (a basket, box, case, cup, bottle, vessel, jar). Some further examples of quantities are: Dimensionless quantities , or quantities of dimension one, are quantities implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement . Typically expressed as ratios that align with another system, these quantities do not necessitate explicitly defined units . For instance, alcohol by volume (ABV) represents
663-788: A political dispute, the Christian community in Alexandria punished her, presuming she was involved, by stripping her naked and scraping off her skin with clamshells (some say roofing tiles). Science and mathematics in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages followed various models and modes of funding varied based primarily on scholars. It was extensive patronage and strong intellectual policies implemented by specific rulers that allowed scientific knowledge to develop in many areas. Funding for translation of scientific texts in other languages
714-727: A quantitative science; chemistry, biology and others are increasingly so. Their progress is chiefly achieved due to rendering the abstract qualities of material entities into physical quantities, by postulating that all material bodies marked by quantitative properties or physical dimensions are subject to some measurements and observations. Setting the units of measurement, physics covers such fundamental quantities as space (length, breadth, and depth) and time, mass and force, temperature, energy, and quanta . A distinction has also been made between intensive quantity and extensive quantity as two types of quantitative property, state or relation. The magnitude of an intensive quantity does not depend on
765-668: A second publication in the ideological Deutsche Mathematik that was founded by Ludwig Bieberbach who promoted "Aryan" mathematics. Gentzen proved the consistency of the Peano axioms in a paper published in 1936. In his Habilitationsschrift , finished in 1939, he determined the proof-theoretical strength of Peano arithmetic. This was done by a direct proof of the unprovability of the principle of transfinite induction, used in his 1936 proof of consistency, within Peano arithmetic. The principle can, however, be expressed in arithmetic, so that
816-420: Is mathematics that studies entirely abstract concepts . From the eighteenth century onwards, this was a recognized category of mathematical activity, sometimes characterized as speculative mathematics , and at variance with the trend towards meeting the needs of navigation , astronomy , physics , economics , engineering , and other applications. Another insightful view put forth is that pure mathematics
867-451: Is a mathematical science with specialized knowledge. The term "applied mathematics" also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on problems, often concrete but sometimes abstract. As professionals focused on problem solving, applied mathematicians look into the formulation, study, and use of mathematical models in science , engineering , business , and other areas of mathematical practice. Pure mathematics
918-399: Is a syntactic category , along with person and gender . The quantity is expressed by identifiers, definite and indefinite, and quantifiers , definite and indefinite, as well as by three types of nouns : 1. count unit nouns or countables; 2. mass nouns , uncountables, referring to the indefinite, unidentified amounts; 3. nouns of multitude ( collective nouns ). The word ‘number’ belongs to
969-399: Is divisible potentially into non-continuous parts, magnitude that which is divisible into continuous parts; of magnitude, that which is continuous in one dimension is length; in two breadth, in three depth. Of these, limited plurality is number, limited length is a line, breadth a surface, depth a solid. In his Elements , Euclid developed the theory of ratios of magnitudes without studying
1020-422: Is marked by likeness, similarity and difference, diversity. Another fundamental feature is additivity. Additivity may involve concatenation, such as adding two lengths A and B to obtain a third A + B. Additivity is not, however, restricted to extensive quantities but may also entail relations between magnitudes that can be established through experiments that permit tests of hypothesized observable manifestations of
1071-400: Is not necessarily applied mathematics : it is possible to study abstract entities with respect to their intrinsic nature, and not be concerned with how they manifest in the real world. Even though the pure and applied viewpoints are distinct philosophical positions, in practice there is much overlap in the activity of pure and applied mathematicians. To develop accurate models for describing
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#17327827528141122-521: Is the subject of empirical investigation and cannot be assumed to exist a priori for any given property. The linear continuum represents the prototype of continuous quantitative structure as characterized by Hölder (1901) (translated in Michell & Ernst, 1996). A fundamental feature of any type of quantity is that the relationships of equality or inequality can in principle be stated in comparisons between particular magnitudes, unlike quality, which
1173-771: The Chosen People ." In 1935 and 1936, Hermann Weyl , head of the Göttingen mathematics department in 1933 until his resignation under Nazi pressure, made strong efforts to bring him to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Between November 1935 and 1939 he was an assistant of David Hilbert in Göttingen. Gentzen joined the Nazi Party in 1937. In April 1939 Gentzen swore the oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler as part of his academic appointment. From 1943 he
1224-653: The Pythagorean school , whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number". It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathematics for its own sake begins. The first woman mathematician recorded by history was Hypatia of Alexandria ( c. AD 350 – 415). She succeeded her father as librarian at the Great Library and wrote many works on applied mathematics. Because of
1275-676: The Schock Prize , and the Nevanlinna Prize . The American Mathematical Society , Association for Women in Mathematics , and other mathematical societies offer several prizes aimed at increasing the representation of women and minorities in the future of mathematics. Several well known mathematicians have written autobiographies in part to explain to a general audience what it is about mathematics that has made them want to devote their lives to its study. These provide some of
1326-478: The graduate level . In some universities, a qualifying exam serves to test both the breadth and depth of a student's understanding of mathematics; the students who pass are permitted to work on a doctoral dissertation . Mathematicians involved with solving problems with applications in real life are called applied mathematicians . Applied mathematicians are mathematical scientists who, with their specialized knowledge and professional methodology, approach many of
1377-493: The American mathematical psychologist R. Duncan Luce and statistician John Tukey (1964). Magnitude (how much) and multitude (how many), the two principal types of quantities, are further divided as mathematical and physical. In formal terms, quantities—their ratios, proportions, order and formal relationships of equality and inequality—are studied by mathematics. The essential part of mathematical quantities consists of having
1428-586: The Italian and German universities, but as they already enjoyed substantial freedoms and autonomy the changes there had begun with the Age of Enlightenment , the same influences that inspired Humboldt. The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge emphasized the importance of research , arguably more authentically implementing Humboldt's idea of a university than even German universities, which were subject to state authority. Overall, science (including mathematics) became
1479-471: The additive relations of magnitudes. Another feature is continuity, on which Michell (1999, p. 51) says of length, as a type of quantitative attribute, "what continuity means is that if any arbitrary length, a, is selected as a unit, then for every positive real number, r , there is a length b such that b = r a". A further generalization is given by the theory of conjoint measurement , independently developed by French economist Gérard Debreu (1960) and by
1530-458: The best glimpses into what it means to be a mathematician. The following list contains some works that are not autobiographies, but rather essays on mathematics and mathematicians with strong autobiographical elements. Quantity Quantity or amount is a property that can exist as a multitude or magnitude , which illustrate discontinuity and continuity . Quantities can be compared in terms of "more", "less", or "equal", or by assigning
1581-413: The continuous (studied by geometry and later calculus ). The theory fits reasonably well elementary or school mathematics but less well the abstract topological and algebraic structures of modern mathematics. Establishing quantitative structure and relationships between different quantities is the cornerstone of modern science, especially but not restricted to physical sciences. Physics is fundamentally
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1632-500: The earliest known mathematicians was Thales of Miletus ( c. 624 – c. 546 BC ); he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. He is credited with the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry , by deriving four corollaries to Thales's theorem . The number of known mathematicians grew when Pythagoras of Samos ( c. 582 – c. 507 BC ) established
1683-442: The focus of universities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Students could conduct research in seminars or laboratories and began to produce doctoral theses with more scientific content. According to Humboldt, the mission of the University of Berlin was to pursue scientific knowledge. The German university system fostered professional, bureaucratically regulated scientific research performed in well-equipped laboratories, instead of
1734-1060: The following. There is no Nobel Prize in mathematics, though sometimes mathematicians have won the Nobel Prize in a different field, such as economics or physics. Prominent prizes in mathematics include the Abel Prize , the Chern Medal , the Fields Medal , the Gauss Prize , the Nemmers Prize , the Balzan Prize , the Crafoord Prize , the Shaw Prize , the Steele Prize , the Wolf Prize ,
1785-633: The imposing problems presented in related scientific fields. With professional focus on a wide variety of problems, theoretical systems, and localized constructs, applied mathematicians work regularly in the study and formulation of mathematical models . Mathematicians and applied mathematicians are considered to be two of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. The discipline of applied mathematics concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and industry; thus, "applied mathematics"
1836-410: The issues of quantity involve such closely related topics as dimensionality, equality, proportion, the measurements of quantities, the units of measurements, number and numbering systems, the types of numbers and their relations to each other as numerical ratios. In mathematics, the concept of quantity is an ancient one extending back to the time of Aristotle and earlier. Aristotle regarded quantity as
1887-422: The issues of spatial magnitudes: straight lines, curved lines, surfaces and solids, all with their respective measurements and relationships. A traditional Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics , stemming from Aristotle and remaining popular until the eighteenth century, held that mathematics is the "science of quantity". Quantity was considered to be divided into the discrete (studied by arithmetic) and
1938-580: The kind of research done by private and individual scholars in Great Britain and France. In fact, Rüegg asserts that the German system is responsible for the development of the modern research university because it focused on the idea of "freedom of scientific research, teaching and study." Mathematicians usually cover a breadth of topics within mathematics in their undergraduate education , and then proceed to specialize in topics of their own choice at
1989-474: The king of Prussia , Fredrick William III , to build a university in Berlin based on Friedrich Schleiermacher 's liberal ideas; the goal was to demonstrate the process of the discovery of knowledge and to teach students to "take account of fundamental laws of science in all their thinking." Thus, seminars and laboratories started to evolve. British universities of this period adopted some approaches familiar to
2040-512: The name of multitude comes what is discontinuous and discrete and divisible ultimately into indivisibles, such as: army, fleet, flock, government, company, party, people, mess (military), chorus, crowd , and number ; all which are cases of collective nouns . Under the name of magnitude comes what is continuous and unified and divisible only into smaller divisibles, such as: matter, mass, energy, liquid, material —all cases of non-collective nouns. Along with analyzing its nature and classification ,
2091-447: The nature of magnitudes, as Archimedes, but giving the following significant definitions: A magnitude is a part of a magnitude, the less of the greater, when it measures the greater; A ratio is a sort of relation in respect of size between two magnitudes of the same kind. For Aristotle and Euclid, relations were conceived as whole numbers (Michell, 1993). John Wallis later conceived of ratios of magnitudes as real numbers : When
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2142-531: The probability and likely cost of the occurrence of an event such as death, sickness, injury, disability, or loss of property. Actuaries also address financial questions, including those involving the level of pension contributions required to produce a certain retirement income and the way in which a company should invest resources to maximize its return on investments in light of potential risk. Using their broad knowledge, actuaries help design and price insurance policies, pension plans, and other financial strategies in
2193-484: The real world, many applied mathematicians draw on tools and techniques that are often considered to be "pure" mathematics. On the other hand, many pure mathematicians draw on natural and social phenomena as inspiration for their abstract research. Many professional mathematicians also engage in the teaching of mathematics. Duties may include: Many careers in mathematics outside of universities involve consulting. For instance, actuaries assemble and analyze data to estimate
2244-481: The relationship between quantity and number, in the following terms: By number we understand not so much a multitude of unities, as the abstracted ratio of any quantity to another quantity of the same kind, which we take for unity. Continuous quantities possess a particular structure that was first explicitly characterized by Hölder (1901) as a set of axioms that define such features as identities and relations between magnitudes. In science, quantitative structure
2295-403: The seventeenth century at Oxford with the scientists Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle , and at Cambridge where Isaac Newton was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics & Physics . Moving into the 19th century, the objective of universities all across Europe evolved from teaching the "regurgitation of knowledge" to "encourag[ing] productive thinking." In 1810, Alexander von Humboldt convinced
2346-468: The size, or extent, of the object or system of which the quantity is a property, whereas magnitudes of an extensive quantity are additive for parts of an entity or subsystems. Thus, magnitude does depend on the extent of the entity or system in the case of extensive quantity. Examples of intensive quantities are density and pressure , while examples of extensive quantities are energy , volume , and mass . In human languages, including English , number
2397-943: Was Al-Khawarizmi . A notable feature of many scholars working under Muslim rule in medieval times is that they were often polymaths. Examples include the work on optics , maths and astronomy of Ibn al-Haytham . The Renaissance brought an increased emphasis on mathematics and science to Europe. During this period of transition from a mainly feudal and ecclesiastical culture to a predominantly secular one, many notable mathematicians had other occupations: Luca Pacioli (founder of accounting ); Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (notable engineer and bookkeeper); Gerolamo Cardano (earliest founder of probability and binomial expansion); Robert Recorde (physician) and François Viète (lawyer). As time passed, many mathematicians gravitated towards universities. An emphasis on free thinking and experimentation had begun in Britain's oldest universities beginning in
2448-680: Was a teacher at the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague . Under a contract from the SS , Gentzen worked for the V-2 project. Gentzen was arrested during the citizens uprising against the occupying German forces on 5 May 1945. He, along with the rest of the staff of the German University in Prague were detained in a Soviet prison camp, where he died of starvation on 4 August 1945. Gentzen's main work
2499-782: Was fired as "non- Aryan " in April 1933 and therefore Hermann Weyl formally acted as his supervisor. Gentzen joined the Sturmabteilung in November 1933, although he was by no means compelled to do so. Nevertheless, he kept in contact with Bernays until the beginning of the Second World War . In 1935, he corresponded with Abraham Fraenkel in Jerusalem and was implicated by the Nazi teachers' union as one who "keeps contacts to
2550-424: Was on the foundations of mathematics , in proof theory , specifically natural deduction and the sequent calculus . His cut-elimination theorem is the cornerstone of proof-theoretic semantics , and some philosophical remarks in his "Investigations into Logical Deduction", together with Ludwig Wittgenstein 's later work, constitute the starting point for inferential role semantics . One of Gentzen's papers had
2601-431: Was ongoing throughout the reign of certain caliphs, and it turned out that certain scholars became experts in the works they translated, and in turn received further support for continuing to develop certain sciences. As these sciences received wider attention from the elite, more scholars were invited and funded to study particular sciences. An example of a translator and mathematician who benefited from this type of support
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