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• because of Salvatore Pincherle, German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I?
• in surgery theory, the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak, a mathematician specializing in differential geometry?
• refugee mathematician Emil Grosswald's first three scientific papers were published under a pseudonym?
• as a student, mathematician Audrey Terras was steered into math away from her other choice, history, by a post-Sputnik program that paid students to study mathematics?
• an American consul in Riga examined Russian-American mathematician Jacob Tamarkin in analytic geometry in order to verify his identity?
• American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework?
• although Harold McCarter Taylor was a theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked with Ernest Rutherford, he is best known for a three-volume work on Anglo-Saxon architecture?
• the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square, a cryptographic technique?
• the mathematician W. T. Tutte refused to admit that Blanche Descartes was a collective pseudonym?
• the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage?
• the traditional account of the papal conclave, 1513 has been judged extremely improbable by a modern mathematician?
• the Barnsley fern (pictured) was first described by and named after a mathematician, and despite its name, it is not a real fern?
• the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
• the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
• the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy?
• Tito Livio Burattini explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves?
• quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi?
• Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962?
• Luxembourger mathematician Joseph Neuberg founded the journal Nouvelle correspondance mathématique in honour of the earlier journal Correspondance mathématique et physique?
• mathematician Paul Erdős called the Hadwiger conjecture, a still-open generalization of the four-color problem, "one of the deepest unsolved problems in graph theory"?
• German mathematician Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin wrote an important two-volume treatise on potential theory and spherical functions in 1909 and 1921?
• English mathematician and geographer Robert Hues served his master Thomas Grey, the last Baron Grey de Wilton, while Grey was imprisoned in the Tower of London?
• Austrian mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger (1865–1945) showed how to compute the fundamental group of a knot?
• Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy"?
• mathematician Harald Bohr, brother of Niels Bohr, won a silver medal in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics?
• mathematician Herbert Busemann was awarded 2,000 Russian rubles for winning the Lobachevsky Medal in 1985, the first American to do so?
• Iya Abubakar, a Nigerian mathematician, served as his country's Minister of Defence?
• Marcia P. Sward, who created the children's environmental education program GreenKids, started her career as a mathematician?
• Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
• Norwegian mathematician Bernt Michael Holmboe played an important role in the career of Niels Henrik Abel?
• mathematician Nathan Mendelsohn was on the first Putnam Competition-winning team in 1938, but also won second prize in an International Brotherhood of Magicians contest?
• New York City-born mathematician Judith Roitman serves as the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center?
• "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?