City College of New York (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Known for
Kasner metric Kasner polygon "googol"
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
Columbia University
Doctoral advisor
Felix Klein David Hilbert
Doctoral students
Rufus Isaacs Joseph Ritt Jesse Douglas Edna Kramer
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.[1] Subsequently, he became an adjunct professor in 1906, and a full professor in 1910, at the university. Differential geometry was his main field of study. In addition to introducing the term "googol", he is known also for the Kasner metric and the Kasner polygon.[2]
^Columbia and the "Jewish Problem”
^Douglas, Jesse (1958) Edward Kasner, A Biographical Memoir prepared for the National Academy of Sciences.
EdwardKasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics...
googol of zeroes. Its prime factorization is 2googol ×5googol. In 1920, EdwardKasner's nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, coined the term googol, which...
of U.S. mathematician EdwardKasner. He may have been inspired by the contemporary comic strip character Barney Google. Kasner popularized the concept...
The Kasner metric (developed by and named for the American mathematician EdwardKasner in 1921) is an exact solution to Albert Einstein's theory of general...
Kasner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Angela Merkel, née Kasner (born 1954), German Chancellor EdwardKasner (1878–1955), American...
the midpoints of the edges of P. It is sometimes called the Kasner polygon after EdwardKasner, who termed it the inscribed polygon "for brevity". The midpoint...
Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician and chemist who served as...
9-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician EdwardKasner. It was popularized in Kasner's 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination, where it...
representing a constant is a whole word. For example, American mathematician EdwardKasner's 9-year-old nephew coined the names googol and googolplex. g o o g o...
through a sheet. Physical Review Letters, 91, (2003). link.aps.org EdwardKasner & James Newman (1940) Mathematics and the Imagination, pp 196–200, Simon...
published in New York by Simon & Schuster in 1940. The authors are EdwardKasner and James R. Newman. The illustrator Rufus Isaacs provided 169 figures...
1090/S0002-9904-1928-04589-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Allen, Edward Switzer (1929). "Three books on non-euclidean geometry". Bull. Amer. Math...
Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, Oxford University Press, 1979. EdwardKasner and James Newman: Mathematics and the Imagination, Simon and Schuster...
ISBN 978-0-9700664-1-1 Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, foreword by EdwardKasner, notes by M. Kendig, Institute of General Semantics, 1950, hardcover...
Johnson Herrick L. Johnston Karla Jurvetson Gordon L. Kane Charles K. Kao EdwardKasner Jerome Kavka Yoshihiro Kawaoka Donald Keck Charles David Keeling Klaus...
Hudson Edward Vermilye Huntington Gregorius Itelson Zygmunt Janiszewski Philip Jourdain Theodore von Kármán Dénes Kőnig József Kürschák EdwardKasner Helge...
foundations of inversive geometry was Mario Pieri in 1911 and 1912. EdwardKasner wrote his thesis on "Invariant theory of the inversion group". More...
names googol and googolplex were invented by EdwardKasner's nephew Milton Sirotta and introduced in Kasner and Newman's 1940 book Mathematics and the Imagination...
Speiser Hugo Steinhaus Gabriel Sudan Teiji Takagi Hermann Weyl Ernst Zermelo Other notable students EdwardKasner John von Neumann Carl Gustav Hempel...
(1943) Scientific career Fields Calculus of variations Differential geometry Institutions City College of New York MIT Doctoral advisor EdwardKasner...
Mathematics", "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians", "Definition of Number" EdwardKasner and James R. Newman, "New Names for Old", "Beyond the Googol" Tobias...
was originally invented by Milton Sirotta, nephew of mathematician EdwardKasner, in 1938 during a discussion of large numbers and exponential notation...
algebra and number theory Jesse Douglas (1897–1965), Fields Medalist EdwardKasner (1878–1955) Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) Emilie Martin (1869–1936)...
mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Columbia University with EdwardKasner as her advisor. She wrote The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics...
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