Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics...

American mathematician Edward Kasner. He may have been inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google. Kasner popularized the concept...

googol of zeroes. Its prime factorization is 2googol ×5googol. In 1920, Edward Kasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol, which...

The Kasner metric (developed by and named for the American mathematician Edward Kasner in 1921) is an exact solution to Albert Einstein's theory of general...

Kasner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angela Merkel, née Kasner (born 1954), German Chancellor Edward Kasner (1878–1955), American...

Mathematics and The Imagination, co-authored with Edward Kasner. In 1940 Newman and Edward Kasner wrote Mathematics and the Imagination, in which they...

the midpoints of the edges of P. It is sometimes called the Kasner polygon after Edward Kasner, who termed it the inscribed polygon "for brevity". The midpoint...

Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician who served as the 35th chancellor...

9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. It was popularized in Kasner's 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination, where it...

representing a constant is a whole word. For example, American mathematician Edward Kasner's 9-year-old nephew coined the names googol and googolplex. g o o g o...

2 (4): 397–404, doi:10.2307/2369492, ISSN 0002-9327, JSTOR 2369492 Edward Kasner & James Newman (1940) Mathematics and the Imagination, pp 177–80, Simon...

Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, Oxford University Press, 1979. Edward Kasner and James Newman: Mathematics and the Imagination, Simon and Schuster...

ISBN 978-0-9700664-1-1 Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, foreword by Edward Kasner, notes by M. Kendig, Institute of General Semantics, 1950, hardcover...

1090/S0002-9904-1928-04589-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Allen, Edward Switzer (1929). "Three books on non-euclidean geometry". Bull. Amer. Math...

through a sheet. Physical Review Letters, 91, (2003). link.aps.org Edward Kasner & James Newman (1940) Mathematics and the Imagination, pp 196–200, Simon...

suggests that the snowflake curve is due to the American mathematician Edward Kasner. The Koch snowflake can be constructed by starting with an equilateral...

1954), mathematician E. Morton Jellinek (1890-1963), biostatistician Edward Kasner (1878-1955), mathematician Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), hyperbolic...

published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940. The authors are Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. The illustrator Rufus Isaacs provided 169 figures...

names googol and googolplex were invented by Edward Kasner's nephew Milton Sirotta and introduced in Kasner and Newman's 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination...

foundations of inversive geometry was Mario Pieri in 1911 and 1912. Edward Kasner wrote his thesis on "Invariant theory of the inversion group". More...

Hudson Edward Vermilye Huntington Gregorius Itelson Zygmunt Janiszewski Philip Jourdain Theodore von Kármán Dénes Kőnig József Kürschák Edward Kasner Helge...

(pseudonym of Francine Bloch), of Les Mathématiques et l'Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman, Paris, Payot, 1950. On literature LiPo (1er Manifeste...

(1943) Scientific career Fields Calculus of variations Differential geometry Institutions City College of New York MIT Doctoral advisor Edward Kasner...

Logic. 49 (1): 91–98. doi:10.1007/s10469-010-9080-y. S2CID 122711859. Edward Kasner & James Newman (1940) Mathematics and the Imagination, pp 205–7, Simon...

Lagrange and Laplace, though of Catholic parentage, were agnostics. Edward Kasner; James Newman; James Roy Newman (2001). Mathematics and the Imagination...

greatest impact on him, the other being Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James R. Newman. In 1956, Gamow was awarded the Kalinga Prize by...

Speiser Hugo Steinhaus Gabriel Sudan Teiji Takagi Hermann Weyl Ernst Zermelo Other notable students Edward Kasner John von Neumann Carl Gustav Hempel...

Mathematics", "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians", "Definition of Number" Edward Kasner and James R. Newman, "New Names for Old", "Beyond the Googol" Tobias...

algebra and number theory Jesse Douglas (1897–1965), Fields Medalist Edward Kasner (1878–1955) Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) Emilie Martin (1869–1936)...

was originally invented by Milton Sirotta, nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, in 1938 during a discussion of large numbers and exponential notation...