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  • Abstract group concept
  • Abstract linear spaces
  • African American mathematicians
  • African men with a doctorate in mathematics (1923 - 1981)
  • African men with a doctorate in mathematics (1982 - 1999)
  • African women with a doctorate in mathematics (1963 - 1996)
  • African women with a doctorate in mathematics (1997 - 2006)
  • Alcuin's: Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes
  • Alphabetical lists of African mathematicians
  • AMS Women
  • Arabic mathematics : forgotten brilliance?
  • Arabic numerals
  • Architecture and mathematics
  • Art and mathematics - perspective
  • Attempts to understand Real numbers
  • Babylonian mathematics
  • Babylonian numerals
  • Babylonian Pythagoras's theorem
  • Bakhshali manuscript
  • Black hole history
  • Bolzano's manuscripts
  • Bourbaki: the post-war years
  • Bourbaki: the pre-war years
  • Brachistochrone problem
  • Braid's Arithmetic Exercises
  • Burnside problem history
  • Calculus history
  • Cartography
  • Ceres' discovery
  • Chandrasekhar-Eddington dispute
  • Chasles and forgery
  • Chinese mathematical classics
  • Chinese mathematics
  • Chinese numerals
  • Chinese problems
  • Christianity and Mathematics
  • Chronology of π
  • Chrystal and the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Classical time
  • Computational Group Theory History
  • Concept of function
  • Copernicus's De revolutionibus autograph
  • Cosmology
  • Cubic surfaces
  • De revolutionibus autograph
  • Debating topics on mathematics
  • Decimal time and angles
  • Difesa of Galileo
  • Doubling the cube
  • e history
  • Edinburgh Mathematical Society history
  • Egyptian mathematics
  • Egyptian numerals
  • Egyptian papyri
  • Elliptic functions
  • English attack on the Longitude Problem
  • Euclid's definitions
  • Fair book of 1852
  • Fermat's last theorem
  • Forgery and Chasles
  • Forgery and the Berlin Academy
  • Four colour theorem
  • Fractal Geometry
  • Function concept
  • Fundamental theorem of algebra
  • Galileo's Difesa
  • General relativity
  • Geography of Ptolemy
  • Golden ratio
  • Gravitation
  • Greek Astronomy
  • Greek mathematicians - sources
  • Greek mathematics - sources
  • Greek number systems
  • Greek poetry
  • Gregory's St Andrews Observatory
  • Group theory history
  • Harriot's manuscripts
  • Hirst's diary comments
  • History of black holes
  • History of calculus
  • History of Computational Group Theory
  • History of e
  • History of Fractal Geometry
  • History of group theory
  • History of mathematics at St Andrews to 1700
  • History of Quantum mechanics
  • History of Set Theory
  • History of the Burnside problem
  • History of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
  • History of the Zurich Federal Polytechnic
  • History of Time: 20th Century time
  • History of Time: Classical time
  • History of Topology
  • History of Zero
  • History of π
  • History overview
  • History Topics Index
  • How do we know about Greek mathematicians?
  • How do we know about Greek mathematics?
  • Inca mathematics
  • Indian mathematics
  • Indian Mathematics - Redressing the balance
  • Indian numerals
  • Indian Sulbasutras
  • Infinity
  • Jaina mathematics
  • James Walker's Fair book
  • Kepler's Planetary Laws
  • Kinematic planetary motion
  • Ledermann's St Andrews interview
  • Light: Ancient Greece to Maxwell
  • Light: Relativity and quantum era
  • Linear spaces
  • London Coffee houses and mathematics
  • Longitude and the Académie Royale
  • Longitude Problem and the English attack
  • Manuscript Tradition in Ptolemy's Geography
  • Mathematical discovery of planets
  • Mathematical games and recreations
  • Mathematics and architecture
  • Mathematics and the physical world
  • Mathematics in Scotland in 1883
  • Matrices and determinants
  • Matrix versus wave mechanics
  • Maxwell's house visit
  • Mayan mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Memory and mental arithmetic
  • Missing Planet
  • Newton and Poetry
  • Newton's bucket
  • Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
  • Non-Euclidean geometry
  • Number e
  • Orbits and gravitation
  • Overview of Babylonian mathematics
  • Overview of Chinese mathematics
  • Overview of Egyptian mathematics
  • Overview of Indian mathematics
  • Overview of the history of mathematics
  • Pell's equation
  • Perfect numbers
  • Perspective
  • Physical world and mathematics
  • Pi chronology
  • Pi history
  • Planet discovery
  • Planetary motion
  • Poetry about Euclid and Archimedes
  • Poetry about Newton
  • Poincaré - Inspector of mines
  • Prime numbers
  • Ptolemy's Geography
  • Quadratic, cubic and quartic equations
  • Quantum mechanics history
  • Real numbers: Attempts to understand
  • Real numbers: Pythagoras to Stevin
  • Real numbers: Stevin to Hilbert
  • Ring theory
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh and George Chrystal
  • Science in the 17th century: From Europe to St Andrews
  • Scottish Book
  • Scottish mathematical physics and topology
  • Set Theory
  • Size of the Universe
  • Special relativity
  • Squaring the circle
  • St Andrews mathematics up to 1700
  • St Andrews Observatory
  • Statistical material
  • Sundials
  • Tait's scrapbook
  • Tartaglia versus Cardan
  • Ten classics of Chinese mathematics
  • Thomas Harriot's manuscripts
  • Thomas Hirst's diary comments
  • Topology
  • Topology and Scottish mathematical physics
  • Trigonometric functions
  • Trisecting an angle
  • Twentieth Century time
  • Visit to Maxwell's house
  • Voting
  • Walker's Fair book of 1852
  • Walter Ledermann's St Andrews interview
  • Water clocks
  • Wave versus matrix mechanics
  • Weather forecasting
  • Weil family
  • Word problems for groups
  • Zero
  • Zurich Federal Polytechnic history