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41. William Hodge (1903 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Apr 2025: He opted to take optional courses on Latin and Greek instead of science. ... one of the great landmarks in the history of science in the present century.

42. Herbert Dingle (1890 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Apr 2025: He was one of the founders of the British Society for the History of Science, which he presided from 1955 to 1957. ... L Pyenson, Review: Science at the Crossroads, by Herbert Dingle, The British Journal for the History of Science 9 (3) (1976), 336-337.

43. Florian Cajori (1859 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 Mar 2025: A History of Mathematical Notations, 2 volumes (1928-29) is undoubtedly Cajori's greatest work. ... He also served in that capacity for the History of Science Society (1924-25) and the Comité International d'Histoire des Sciences (1929-30).

44. James Joseph Sylvester (1814 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Apr 2025: R C Archibald, Material concerning James Joseph Sylvester, in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton on the Occasion of his Sixtieth ... M Noether, James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematische Annalen 50

45. Paul Erdős (1913 - 1996) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2025: foundation of computer science. ... He was also one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, with more than 1,500 papers to his name.

46. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Apr 2025: 1875. He was appointed professor of mathematical physics at Leiden University in 1878. ... J A Kox, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the Ether and the General Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 67-78.

47. Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Apr 2025: Few men in all the history of science have stimulated as many other people to cultivate and to enlarge the fields they themselves had planted. ... M E Magnello, The non-correlation of biometrics and eugenics : Rival forms of laboratory work in Karl

48. Maria Agnesi (1718 - 1799) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    17 May 2025: C Truesdell, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Archive for History of Exact Science 40 (1989), 113-142. ... C Truesdell, Correction and Additions for Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Archive for History of Exact Science 43 (1991), 385-386.

49. Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    29 May 2025: He also contributed to the study of differential and integral equations and to the history of mathematics. ... As to his interests outside cutting edge mathematical research [5]:-. he was an expert (of professional standard or almost professional standard

50. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    19 Mar 2025: V M Kir'yanova, The ideas of the symbolic calculus of Leibniz and Euler (Russian), in Questions on the history of mathematical natural science (Kiev, 1979), 91-96. ... Natur. 28 (2) (1991), 117-146. F C Kreiling, Leibniz' views on the history of science,