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mathematician

vr.tr.mathematician · thing-q170790

Let an agent handle mathematicians by field, notable work, careers, education and recognition, with sourced biographies.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.PER
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Person Which mathematician.

Biography

Life and work.

Biography

Biography.

  1. What are the main facts of this mathematician life and work, according to reliable sources? provenance
  2. Which theorems or results are they known for? provenance

Lineage

Academic genealogy.

Lineage

Academic lineage.

  1. Who were their doctoral advisor and students, according to the Mathematics Genealogy Project? provenance
  2. Where did they work? provenance
Fields Areas.

Area

Field.

Area

Field.

  1. Which field of mathematics did they work in? definition
  2. How would it be explained simply? action

Applications

Uses.

Applications

Applications.

  1. How is their work applied outside mathematics? provenance
  2. Which examples are well documented? provenance
Career Becoming a mathematician.

Education

Study.

Education

Education.

  1. What education leads to a career in mathematics? provenance
  2. Which competitions or programmes help students? provenance

Jobs

Careers.

Jobs

Careers.

  1. Which sectors employ mathematicians? provenance
  2. Which professional societies support them? provenance
Recognition Prizes.

Prizes

Awards.

Prizes

Awards.

  1. Who has won the Fields Medal or Abel Prize, according to official lists? provenance
  2. What are the criteria? provenance

History

History of mathematics.

History

History.

  1. Which sources cover the history of mathematics across cultures? provenance
  2. Are contributions fairly attributed? boundary

Classifiers Filled

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Other names and narrower kinds
amateur mathematician, recreational mathematician, Mathlete, Professor of Mathematics (University of Otago), applied mathematician, quantitative ecologist, mathematical physicist, number theorist, ethnomathematician, graph theorist, mathemagician, differential geometer

What it is Filled

A person with extensive knowledge of mathematics who uses it in their work, whether in research on pure mathematics, applied fields such as physics, biology or finance, teaching, or as an amateur or recreational mathematician.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent handle mathematicians by field, notable work, careers, education and recognition, with sourced biographies.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • Works with mathematical reasoning
  • Pure or applied focus
  • Publishes proofs or models
  • Includes amateurs

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Misattribute theorems or erase contributors, such as women and non-Western mathematicians.
  • Publish unsourced biographical claims, especially about living people.
  • Share a living mathematician's private details.

Only with a human decision

  • Publishing claims about priority disputes or misconduct involving living people.

May

  • Report a mathematician's work and life from sourced biographies.
  • Attribute theorems and results to the people who proved them, with sources.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Credit for discoveries shapes careers; misattribution is an injustice that tends to repeat.

Who is affected

  • Mathematicians and their families
  • Students and learners

Owners Filled

Steward

Nobody owns the profession; each mathematician answers for their own work.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • Q108289378 - registry parent class
  • Q901 - registry parent class

related

  • scientist - category
  • mathematics - field
  • Fields Medal and Abel Prize - awards
  • statistician - related profession

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.mathematician
  • Wikidata: Q170790 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170790)

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Research papers and theorems
  • Academic and industry roles
  • Statisticians and actuaries are related professions
  • A person; work is visible in papers, proofs, lectures and software.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • find biographies of mathematicians
  • explain fields of mathematics
  • describe education and career routes
  • find major prizes and their winners

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Unsourced biographical claims
  • Misattributing theorems

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Teaching qualification rules for school teachers

Context of use required Filled

  • Doing, applying and teaching mathematics.
  • pure mathematicians
  • applied mathematicians
  • mathematics teachers
  • computational mathematicians
  • recreational and amateur mathematicians

Sources Filled

  1. Wikidata item Q170790: mathematician - identity and sense of the item
  2. Wikipedia: Mathematician - general description of the item

Open questions

  • Should each mathematician be a separate entry?
  • How should MacTutor and genealogy data be linked?
  • How should amateurs be recorded?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

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