Joseph-Diaz (sometimes rendered as Diez) Gergonne introduced the word polar into mathematics along with the principal of duality in projective geometry. Gergonne also solved the problem of Apollonius of Perga. In 1810 Gergonne started editing and...

1771-1859 French mathematician who introduced the term duality into mathematics and founded the influential journal Annales de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquées. A duality is a symmetry in a mathematical theory such that if certain objects or...

Joseph Diaz Gergonne (19 June 1771 Nancy, France -- 4 May 1859 Montpellier, France) was a French mathematician and...

In upscale Hancock Park (a district within Los Angeles), St. Brendan's parishioners recently gave a tearful farewell to their pastoral associate, Sr. Judy Diaz Molosky of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. Her contract was not renewed by incoming pastor Fr. John...

If there's one thing people would be surprised to learn about Cheryl Diaz Meyer (Filipinas, June 2004), it's that she has always wished she had the courage to sing karaoke. She finds it easier to cover a war. A senior staff photographer for...