1905 in Science - Mathematics

Mathematics

  • Pierre Fatou defines the Mandelbrot set.
  • Oswald Veblen proves the Jordan curve theorem.
  • Martin Kutta describes the popular fourth-order Runge-Kutta method.
  • James Cullen, S.J., begins the study of Cullen numbers.
  • Emanuel Lasker proves the Lasker–Noether theorem for the special case of polynomial rings.

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