Personal Math Geneology of Henry Wolkowicz

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Quotes and Historical Links

• "Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics"-- Simion Poisson
• "The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure. Preface to Micanique Analytique." LaGrange, Joseph-Louis "
• "If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus. " Euler, Leonhard (1707 - 1783) ">

• Leonhard Euler --> Joseph Louis Lagrange --> Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier --> Gustav Peter Lejeune Dirichlet
• Michel Chasles --> H.A. Newton --> E.H. Moore --> L. Dickson --> C. McDuffee --> D.R. Fulkerson --> R.G. Bland --> J. Lee.
• Michel Chasles --> H.A. Newton --> E.H. Moore --> G.D. Birkhoff --> Joseph Leonard Walsh --> Richard S. Varga --> Stephen Demko -->
• Michel Chasles --> H.A. Newton --> E.H. Moore --> G.D. Birkhoff --> H. C. Marston (Harold Calvin) Morse --> Gustav Arnold Hedlund --> W. Roy (Winfield) Utz, Jr. --> Paul Elvis Waltman --> Hal L. Smith -->

Links

From The History of Mathematics: (See also: Chronological List of Mathematicians or The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
• Euler and Euler who studied with Johann Bernoulli
• Lagrange
• Poisson
• Fourier