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Giovanni Vailati (1863 - 1909) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Vailati/28 Feb 2025: However, Vailati's interests were remarkably broad and, in addition to courses on mathematics and engineering, he read works on philosophy, history of science, psychology, pedagogy and economics. ... His third inaugural lecture was on the role of
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Descartes on History - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Descartes_History/7 Mar 2023: I distinguish between the History and the Science of Mathematics. By the History I mean all that has already been discovered and contained in books; by Science, the skill of resolving ... If such a book were available it would be easy for anyone to learn
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Paul Koebe (1882 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Koebe/5 Dec 2024: He entered this school in 1891 and there he studied religion, Latin and modern languages, history and geography, mathematics and science. ... D van Dalen, L E J Brouwer - Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life (Springer
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James Pierpont (1866 - 1938) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pierpont/9 Dec 2024: His lectures were forceful and clear and showed the impression of his wide knowledge of mathematics. ... on the History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century, he addressed the American Mathematical Society summer meeting at Wellesley in 1921 on Some
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Loria by Togliatti - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Loria_Togliatti/10 Feb 2025: He then took on the teaching of History of Mathematics, and delivered courses for some years, until the beginning of racial persecution in Italy forced him to stop all university activity. ... Gino Loria's academic activity at the University of Genoa
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Eisele books - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Eisele_books/5 Aug 2024: After all, his work in mathematics was for the sake of the logic of mathematics, and his work in the history of science was for the sake of the logic of ... Carolyn Eisele has been identified with the scholarly recovery of C S Peirce's work in
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Beniamino Segre (1903 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Segre_Beniamino/6 Mar 2025: Besides discharging several academic duties outside the University of Rome, he was teaching an undergraduate course in the Department of Mathematics of the University and an advanced course in the Istituto ... The name of this great man already belongs
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Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (1906 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yushkevich/7 Mar 2023: In addition to his professorship of mathematics at the Moscow Higher Technical School, Adolph Pavlovich was appointed to the Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology in 1945. ... His doctorate was on Russian mathematics during the 18th
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Calixto Calderón (1939 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Calderon_Calixto/5 Jan 2025: Mathematical Models Applied to Biology and Medicine, and History of Mathematics and Science. ... The themes of the thesis of his Ph.D. students, like his research, ranged from Harmonic Analysis to the history of Spanish mathematics and related science.
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Oskar Morgenstern (1902 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Morgenstern/19 Mar 2025: As a consequence he took courses on economics, philosophy, and political and economic history but no science or mathematics courses were offered. ... R J Leonard, "Between Worlds," or an Imagined Reminiscence by Oskar Morgenstern about Equilibrium and