Index
A
Abel, Niels Henrik, 93–94
Abel-Ruffini theorem, 73
abstract algebra, 95
Adams, John Quincy, 206
Adleman, Leonard, 167
aesthetic value, Birkhoff’s formula for
computing, 246 – 47
aging, impacts on mathematicians and
physicists of, 238–39
Ahmes of Egypt, 83
Alabama paradox, 228–31
Al-Assad, Bashir, 218
algebra, 35, 36–37, 83, 133–34
abstract, 95
fundamental theorem of, 42
naming of, 83
algebraic geometry, 122
algorithms
Arrow’s theorem, see Arrow’s
theorem
nearest neighbor, 160 –62, 241
polynomial-time, 163 – 64, 165, 166,
167, 240 – 41
for professional sports teams, 7–8
for scheduling tasks, 4, 7, 8,
156–58
Al-Khowarizmi, 83
Allen, George, 7–8
American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 180
American Mathematical Society, 234
analytic geometry, 35
analytic number theory, 72