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31. London Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/RS/

    7 Mar 2023: E N da Costa, A brief history of the Royal Society (London, 1960). ... T Sprat, A history of the Royal Society (London, 1667). T Thompson, History of the Royal Society (London, 1812).

32. Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bessel/

    23 Nov 2023: A M Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1902).

33. Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hoyle/

    26 Feb 2024: Born. 24 June 1915. Bingley, Yorkshire, England. Died. 20 August 2001. Bournemouth, England. Summary. Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer best known for his espousal of the "steady-state" theory of the universe and rejecting the "big bang" theory.

34. Gilbert Bliss (1876 - 1951) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bliss/

    25 Sep 2023: R C Archibald, A semicentennial history of the American Mathematical Society 1888-1938 (New York, 1980), 201-206. ... S MacLane, Mathematics at the University of Chicago : a brief history, in A century of mathematics in America II (Amer.

35. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Einstein/

    25 Mar 2024: L Kostro, Einstein's relativistic ether, its history, physical meaning and updated applications, Organon No. ... The debate over general covariance. Reflections on spacetime : foundations, philosophy, history, Erkenntnis 42 (2) (1995), 223-245.

36. Callippus (370 BC - 310 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Callippus/

    7 Mar 2023: T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921). ... O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

37. Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brahe/

    30 Dec 2023: W G Wesley, Tycho Brache's solar observations, Journal for the history of astronomy 10 (1979), 96-101.

38. Groups St Andrews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Groups/

    7 Mar 2023: For a brief history of this conference series see the article Twenty-Five Years of Groups St Andrews.

39. Roy Kerr (1934 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kerr_Roy/

    28 Feb 2024: history seems to confirm that Roy came to no lasting harm over it. ... S Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988). K S Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (W W Norton & Co, 1995).

40. Henry Savile - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Savile_Aubrey/

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).