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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]
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The Kasner metric (developed by and named for the American...
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Edward Kasner (1878–1955) is an American mathematician...
- Kasner metric - Wikipedia
Edward Kasner was an American mathematician who worked on differential geometry and coined the term 'googol'. He taught at Columbia University and Barnard College, and wrote a popular book on mathematics with his nephew James R Newman.
Edward Kasner (1878–1955) is an American mathematician (person who studies math). He is famous for creating the word googol and the word googolplex. Kasner went to Columbia University and received his Ph.D. (a degree (measure) of learning) in 1899.
The Kasner metric (developed by and named for the American mathematician Edward Kasner in 1921) [2] 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).
Dr. Kasner is an Assistant Teaching Professor with a research focus on leveraging technology to prevent injury and illness among working populations. He has conducted exposure assessments in the United States and China; led occupational epidemiology studies through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; and sat on state ...
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.
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Edward Kasner (1878-1955) American mathematician, who was awarded the Adrian Professorship at the Columbia University. His main research field was differential geometry in Euclidean space. He studied its applications to mechanics, but also to stereographic projections and cartography.
