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51. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Perhaps his most famous work, however, is History of Greek Mathematics which appeared in 1921. ... Following the publication of History of Greek Mathematics he was elected president of the Mathematical Association for 1922-23.

52. Kerr awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: When Albert Einstein finally presented his theory in November 1915, all previous concepts of time and space were turned upside-down. ... This also affects the passage of time -- seen from the outside, time moves more slowly close to a large mass.

53. New York Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The New York Academy of Sciences was founded in 1817 but at that time it was named The Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York. ... In 1823 the Lyceum published the first volume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York which

54. Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: F A Medvedev, The delta-function of G L Giorgi and P A M Dirac (Russian), Studies in the history of physics and mechanics (Moscow, 1988), 78-88. ... Vl P Vizgin, P A M Dirac and the problem of the interrelation between physics and mathematics (Russian),

55. Greek astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). A F Aveni, Empires of time : Calendars, clocks and cultures (New York, 1989). ... J L E Dreyer, A history of astronomy from Thales to Kepler (New York, 1953).

56. Christodoulou books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: In classical mechanics the domain of the unknowns is the real line of time, the action is a single integral and the Euler-Lagrange equations are ordinary differential equations. ... The theory's roots extend over almost the entire previous history of

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

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

    30 Dec 2023: Another major project which Leibniz undertook, this time for Duke Ernst August, was writing the history of the Guelf family, of which the House of Brunswick was a part. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London,

58. Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 Apr 2024: To understand events in Barozzi's life we need to look briefly at the history of Crete. ... The island was Greek up to the time of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 when the island was given to the leader of the Crusade after Constantinople was destroyed.

59. Whitrow books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Time in History: The Evolution of Our General Awareness of Time and Temporal Perspective (1988). ... 6. The Natural Philosophy of Time (1961), by G J Whitrow. 6.1.

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

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

    25 Mar 2024: Tijdschr. Natuurk. 21 (1955), 125-129. M Francaviglia, History of a work of Albert Einstein (Italian), Atti Accad. ... R M Nugayev, The history of quantum mechanics as a decisive argument favoring Einstein over Lorentz, Philos.