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Who is this mathematician on the Fields medal?

On the Fields Medal, there is a picture of a human portrait. Picture is given below: Who is this mathematician on the Fields Medal? I think this portrait may be an ancient Greek mathematician.
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Photograph of Marjorie Rice

I'm giving a presentation this weekend about Marjorie Rice's work on tilings. The only photograph I have of her (from her website) is small and pixelated, and I haven't been able to make contact with her to ask her for a better one. I'd be most…
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Rose Katherine Morton

I stumbled upon something called The Morton Number, I wonder if anyone knows about it? I found out that it is related to Rose Katherine Morton, I know she was an american mathematician, but very little information on the web about her. So i started…
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Did Hilbert present all of his problems to the ICM in 1900?

In texts of Hilbert's speech to the ICM in Paris in 1900, all 23 problems are listed. However, Wikipedia claims that he only presented 10 in his speech, and the others were published later. I know in general to consider Wikipedia less reliable, but…
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Theory of reality by Ramanujan

I am reading the Book "The man who knew Infinity" by Robert Kanigel.In it, in the second chapter "Ranging with delight", page: 66, he says: Later in England, Ramanujan would build Theory of Reality around Zero and infinity, though his friends…
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Name of mathematician who made an error, which made his later work useless?

In school, many years ago, my teacher taught me about a mathematician who was working on developing tables (or something similar to that). He apparently worked for years and then made a single mistake in his calculations. Consequently, the…
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Independent Study

Aiming for a Pure Mathematics Degree. So I have currently completed 1.5 years at a junior college and have completed all of my lower division mathematics courses (i.e Single Variable Calculus, Multi-Variable Calculus, Vector Calculus, Linear…
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Curiosity of roulette system

What is the probability of me losing a 3/1 bet 10 times in a row I've tried working out myself but the equations needed go straight over my head
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