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51. Netherlands Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1851 - Institute Closed, Academy Founded, History of the Academy, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. ... 1902 The Second Golden Age, History of the Academy, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.

52. Egyptian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: R J Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs (Cambridge, MA., 1982). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

53. Lasiecka Awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    11 May 2025: Review the sections on this page to learn about the history of the IEEE Fellow grade, the elevation process, and how the programme evolved through the years to become the programme ... In the 40-year history of this annual Bellman Award, this is the

54. Georges Buffon (1707 - 1788) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Apr 2025: He emphasised the importance of natural history and the great length of geological time. ... 1777), Praxis Math. 22 (6) (1980), 167-171. P Holgate, Buffon's cycloid, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXXIX, Biometrika 68 (3) (1981), 712

55. Marshall Stone (1903 - 1989) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Mar 2025: my conviction that the time was also ripe for a fundamental revision of graduate and undergraduate mathematical education. ... This was [8]:-. an important event in the history of. American mathematics.

56. Cartography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: It was the most popular atlas of its time, and it is important in the history of cartography partly because Ortelius quotes 87 authorities for the data on which his maps ... Such a map or survey would be useful both in time of war and peace, and many

57. Stanley books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2025: It is ridiculous to compare Enumerative Combinatorics with History of the Peloponnesian War, but I can appreciate the sentiment of Thucydides. ... The problem of analysing the running time of algorithms on a computer may be expressed precisely as an

58. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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    19 Mar 2025: By the time of his election he had read 13 papers to the Académie in less than three years. ... Russian), in Problems in the history of mathematics and mechanics (Kiev, 1977), 58-67.

59. Ball books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    24 Sep 2024: history of mathematics which many who are unwilling, or have not the time, to study it systematically may yet desire to know. ... on the History of the Mathematical Tripos, which at one time appeared in my Mathematical Recreations and Essays, since these

60. Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Apr 2025: Mathematics and languages ranked well above literature and history. At the time it was rumoured that in the whole of his time at High School not only was his work in ... He visited Princeton for the second time, spending the first term of session 1938-39