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'''Lucy Joan Slater''' (5 January 1922 – 6 June 2008) was a British mathematician who studied [[Function (mathematics)|mathematical functions]] [[category:British mathematicians]] ...

...a million times larger than the last named number. It is also called the "British Standard". This scale used to be common in Britain, but is not often used i ...e root]] of two, which equals 1.414213 ... . This is an irrational number. Mathematicians have [[mathematical proof|proved]] that the [[square root]] of every natura ...

...correct proof was found for 357 years. It was finally proven in 1995. Most mathematicians do not think that Fermat really had a proof of this theorem. [[File:Andrew wiles1-3.jpg|thumb|upright|British mathematician [[Andrew Wiles]]]] ...

...lliance. He was an invited speaker at the 1998 [[International Congress of Mathematicians|ICM]] in Berlin for his discovery and work on rho-functions. He made major ...Rado'' in ''Surveys in Combinatorics 1987: Invited Papers for the Eleventh British Combinatorial Conference by C. Whitehead, CUP Archive, Jul 16, 1987, p. 70' ...