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Recent Changes — up to March 2026
In 2007, Springer published a Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers.
About 360 mathematicians in our archive have entries in this.
We list them alphabetically at THIS LINK.
We have added the Alfréd Rényi Prize and the Fejes Tóth László Medal to the list of Honours and Prizes.
We have expanded our account of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
There are 23 new entries in our Additional material category. Each is linked to the biography on the left.
Heinz Klaus Strick has added another four biographies to his Collection of biographies:
The collection of the 20 years of German originals of these biographies is now at THIS LINK.
The list of changes up to December 2025 is at THIS LINK.
About 360 mathematicians in our archive have entries in this.
We list them alphabetically at THIS LINK.
We have added the Alfréd Rényi Prize and the Fejes Tóth László Medal to the list of Honours and Prizes.
We have expanded our account of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
We have added 11 new biographies:
- György Alexits
- Márk Antal
- Bohumil Bydžovský
- György Hajós
- Thomas Henderson
- Václav Hlavatý
- Banesh Hoffmann
- Dezső Lázár
- László Fejes Tóth
- Gladys Mae Brown West
- Ira Vivion West
We have added 4 extended biographies:
There are 23 new entries in our Additional material category. Each is linked to the biography on the left.
| Alexits | A 1968 interview of György Alexits |
| Alexits | Convergence Problems of Orthogonal Series |
| Apollonius | Circles of Apollonius |
| Bessel | Parallax : Bessel and Henderson |
| Bolyai | The Life and Work of János Bolyai |
| Bydzovsky | Bohumil Bydzovsky in the American press |
| Cartan_Henri | Henri Cartan Books |
| Eckmann | Heinz Hopf by Beno Eckmann |
| Henderson | A M Clerke's biography of Thomas Henderson |
| Hlavaty | Books by Václav Hlavatý |
| Hlavaty | Newspaper reports concerning Vaclav Hlavaty |
| Hoffmann | Books by Banesh Hoffmann |
| Hoffmann | Some Banesh Hoffmann papers |
| Konig_Julius | Neue Grundlagen der Logik, Arithmetik, und Mengenlehre |
| Northcott | Douglas G Northcott Books |
| Reiner | Books by Irving Reiner |
| Riesz | Frigyes Riesz's books |
| Riesz_Marcel | Marcel Riesz's doctoral thesis |
| Toth | László Fejes Tóth: Regular figures |
| Toth | Interview with László Fejes Tóth |
| Wallis | John Wallis Autobiography |
| West_Gladys | Gladys West honours |
| West_Gladys | Gladys West: In her own words |
Heinz Klaus Strick has added another four biographies to his Collection of biographies:
The collection of the 20 years of German originals of these biographies is now at THIS LINK.
The list of changes up to December 2025 is at THIS LINK.