Three high-stakes math exams

DOI10.1007/BF02985838MaRDI QIDQ2574458zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tatyana Shaposhnikova

Publication date 21 November 2005

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02985838

zbMATH Keywords

analytic geometryintegrationMacLaurin's series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

Three examples are given of dramatic life situations in which to answer or of a mathematical question became decisive for the fate of some today wellknown mathematicians. Jacob David Tamarkin had to answer a question of analytic geometry raised by an American consul. Igor Tamm (co-recipient of the Nobel prize in Physics, in 1958) had to answer a question of estimation of error one makes by cutting off MacLaurin's series at the \(n\)-th term, raised by an Ataman. Gaetano Fichera had to give a sufficient condition for interchanging limit and integration, a question raised by a student of mathematics from the University of Bologna.

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