Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’
Evolution of mathematics traced using unusually comprehensive genealogy database.
26 August 2016
- Davide Castelvecchi’s genealogy goes back to
- Leonhard Euler, via
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange; to
- Friedrich Leibniz, the father of the co-inventor of calculus; and to thirteenth-century Persian astronomer
- Shams ad-Din Al-Bukhari
Production of PhD in Math: Global Decline since 1970
SOURCE
http://www.nature.com/news/majority-of-mathematicians-hail-from-just-24-scientific-families-1.20491
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