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About Edward Kasner
- American National Biography https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-978...
- National Academy Of Sciences http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-p...
- Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was a prominent American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jew appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University. 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.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_the_Imagination
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasner_metric
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_polygon
- "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. They had eight children, Edward being the sixth child with older siblings Annie, Marcus, Alexander, Lottie and Adolf." Source: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kasner/
- http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Kasner.html
- "There Could Be No Google Without Edward Kasner" https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB108575924921724042
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Edward Kasner's Timeline
| 1878 |
April 2, 1878
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New York City, New York, United States
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| 1955 |
January 7, 1955
Age 76
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New York City, New York, United States
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