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Edward Kasner (* 2. April 1878 in New York City, New York; † 7. Januar 1955 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Mathematiker, der sich vor allem mit Geometrie und Differentialgeometrie beschäftigte.
Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jewish person appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University.
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29. Aug. 2021 · Der US-amerikanische Mathematiker suchte in den 1920er Jahren nach einer Bezeichnung für die bereits beschrieben Zahl: Eine 1 mit 100 Nullen. Also 10 hoch 100. Und er fand sie – aber nicht selbst.
Edward Kasner was an American mathematician who worked on differential geometry. View two larger pictures. Biography. Edward Kasner's parents, Fanny Ritterman and Bernard Kasner, were born in Austria in 1843 and 1841 respectively. They emigrated to the United States in the late 1860s, settling in New York.
Mathematics and the Imagination is a book 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. It rapidly became a best-seller and received several glowing reviews.
- Edward Kasner, James Roy Newman
- 380 pp.
- 1940
- 1940
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 relativity. It describes an anisotropic universe without matter (i.e., it is a vacuum solution).
American. Biography Contributors. Barile. Edward Kasner (1878-1955) This entry contributed by Margherita Barile. American mathematician, who was awarded the Adrian Professorship at the Columbia University. His main research field was differential geometry in Euclidean space.
