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31. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Prime_numbers/

    18 Jan 2024: L E Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers (3 volumes) (New York, 1919-23, reprinted 1966). ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

32. John O'Connor (1945 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 Apr 2024: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, Applied Math and Science Education Repository (2008). ... T Mann, History of Mathematics and History of Science, Isis 102 (2011), 518-526.

33. Dodgson natural science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dodgson_natural_science/

    7 Mar 2023: In answer to that question, let me sketch, in dramatic fashion, the history of her recent career in Oxford. ... undergraduates, "The feast of Science is spread!

34. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Main work was in observing but he wrote an interesting history of science in Lombardy. ... Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822). A priest who was a physicist, literary man, diplomat and historian of science who discovered the Venturi effect.

35. Doris Hellman (1910 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Dec 2023: She was elected as a member of the Council of History of Science Society in 1949 and in 1951 she was appointed to the Pratt Institute. ... C D Hellman, History of Science, Science, New Series 131 (3397) (1960), 362-364.

36. Yau books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Yau_books/

    24 May 2024: It was not only at Harvard or in mathematics, of course, that Europe's loss was America's gain; here, too, the story reflects the larger history of science in America. ... 7.3. Review by: Albert C Lewis. Mathematical Reviews MR3100544. As the title

37. William Thomson (1824 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Thomson served as president of yet a third society when he was elected as president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1871. ... was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics,

38. Ulam books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ulam_books/

    24 May 2024: changes in the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic, mathematisation of science and technology, much more. ... The strength of the book consists of a fascinating variety of excellent examples from the history of mathematics.

39. Carolyn Eisele (1902 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: This letter, and others, clearly showed that Peirce was a master of the history of science as well as the history of mathematics. ... In 1953 Eisele was one of the founders of the Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society [14]:-.

40. Applied maths science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Applied_maths_science/

    7 Mar 2023: Applied mathematics is a branch of science which seeks knowledge and understanding of the external physical universe through the use of mathematical methods and scientific inference. ... Mathematics in combination with scientific inference provide the