~INTRODUCTION~
1) comparing two famous mathematicians
2) Jessie MacWilliams and Leonard Nelson
3) Jessie MacWilliams - England female
mathematician
4) and Leonard Nelson - male German Philosopher
5) both successful and intelligent mathematicians
6) both had great contribution to mathematics
JESSIE
MACWILLIAMS
1) born in 1917 in England
2) received her BA in 1938 and her MA the
following year - both from Cambridge University
3) 1939, received traveling scholarship from
Cambridge - went to Johns Hopkins University
4) 1940, went to Harvard University - study for a
year
5) married in 1941, left her mathematical work for
some years - raise her three children (one
daughter and two sons)
JESSIE
MACWILLIAMS
1) 1955 - became programmer - learned coding
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theory
Although did major research at Bell Labs
turned down - promotion for mathematics
research position
she received a Ph.D
completed her PhD after returning to Harvard one more year (1961-1962).
MacWilliams retired from Bell Labs in January
1983 and died in May 1990
LEONARD NELSON
1) In contrast Leonard Nelson - born in July 11,
1882 in Berlin.
2) part of the Neo-Friesian School
3) friend of another famous mathematician David
Hilbert
4) Georg August University of Gottingen
5) advised by Julius Bauman
6) critical of Hengel in his work
7) progress and Regress in Philosophy
8) died young from pneumonia in October 29, 1927
SIMILARITIES
1) Leonard Nelson and Jessie MacWilliams had
similarities
2) both worked really hard on mathematics
3) famous of one main type of mathematics
4) Leonard Nelson, it was philosophy.
5) Jessie MacWilliams, it was for Ph.D.
6) both had huge contribution in mathematics
7) little similarities between the two different
mathematicians
8) both a success in mathematics.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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MacWilliams F. Jessie, Profiles of woman in Mathematics. 2005 http://www.awmmath.org/noetherbrochure/MacWilliams80.html
MacWilliams Jessie, Albert Einstein, September 30th.2011
http://medbib.com/Jessie_MacWilliams
Maths, 7C, October 3rd,2011
http://wjhs7c.pbworks.com/w/page/5144851/7C%20Math
Math, Wilson primary 3rd grade math
http://www.wilson3rdgrade.zoomshare.com/2.html
Maths, Friday Octorber 24, 2008
http://ohtongkeong126.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
Nelson Leonard, Wikipedia, 31 March 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nelson
Nelson Leonard, Mathematicians, September 30th, 2011
http://stuffaboutnames.com/leonard/mathematicians.htm
Nelson Leonard, factbites, September 30th,2011
http://www.factbites.com/topics/Leonard-Nelson
The end October 3rd,2011 http://casablancaauthors.blogspot.com/2010/12/endonly-means-new-beginning.html