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For questions about those who did mathematics
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Which mathematicians died very young or in a tragic way?
Roger Cotes, a contemporary of Newton and best known for the Newton-Cotes quadrature rules in numerical integration, died of a fever aged only 33.
Newton supposedly said of his death 'If he had lived …
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Literary works authored by mathematicians
He is not a mathematician per se, but J.M. Coetzee studied mathematics at university and worked as a computer programmer when he was younger. He is probably the most mathematically minded person to w …
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Why didn't John von Neumann win the Turing Award, Fields Medal or Nobel Prize?
At the inception of the Fields medal it was intended to encourage young mathematicians, hence the age restriction. …
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Who are the youngest mathematicians that published an original research article in a peer-re...
John von Neumann published his first co-authored paper ''On the position of zeroes of certain minimum polynomials'' with Michael Fekete at the age of 18.
His first solo paper ''On the introduction of …
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