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21. George McVittie (1904 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: George entered the University of Edinburgh in 1923. There he studied mathematics and natural philosophy (physics), strongly influenced by his lecturers E T Whittaker and C G Darwin. ... He was a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, being elected

22. AMS President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/AMSPresidents/

    10 Mar 2024: 1889 - 1890 J H Van Amringe. 1891 - 1894 J E McClintock. 1897 - 1898 Simon Newcomb. 1899 - 1900 R S Woodward. 1901 - 1902 Eliakim Moore. 1909 - 1910 Maxime Bôcher. 1913 - 1914 E B Van Vleck. 1917 - 1918 L E Dickson. 1919 - 1920 Frank Morley. 1923 -

23. John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: W Aspray, The mathematical reception of the modern computer: John von Neumann and the Institute for Advanced Study computer, Studies in the history of mathematics (Washington, DC, 1987), 166-194. ... Hist. Comput. 11 (3) (1989), 189-195. W Aspray, The

24. Paris street names - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/ParisNames/

    19 Oct 2023: A Walk around the the Latin Quarter of Paris is available at THIS LINK. ... Click on the name below to go to the biography. The Mairie de Paris have a website at THIS LINK giving the history of all Parisian street names and if you

25. Gian-Carlo Rota (1932 - 1999) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: He loved to write, loved to edit. He was a gourmet of mathematics. ... Gian-Carlo Rota on combinatorics (Boston, MA, 1995). C Bernardi, Gian-Carlo Rota: a mathematician reflecting on the activity of mathematics (Italian), Archimede 46 (4) (1994), 189-197.

26. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Groups_St_Andrews/

    29 May 2024: For a brief history of this conference series see the article Twenty-Five Years of Groups St Andrews. ... Miklos Abert (Alfrd Rnyi Institute of Mathematics). Groups and graph limits.

27. Raymond Smullyan (1919 - 2017) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 May 2024: He wanted to learn about groups, rings and fields, the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic. ... The puzzle books present to the general public an enjoyable introduction to some of the deepest ideas in the foundations of mathematics.

28. Mary Tsingou Menzel (1928 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 May 2024: Division High School and she had been told that mathematics teachers were in high demand, so she entered the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1947 taking the Mathematics Education course designed ... Jackson had flown missions in the Army Air Corps

29. Serge Lang (1927 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    19 May 2024: Among your many monographs there is one called 'The Beauty of Doing Mathematics', a collection of three dialogues you gave in Paris in the '80s. ... His books, although many are on the topics that he was undertaking research in, cover an even wider range

30. Richard Bellman (1920 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: to describe some of the ways that the problems of the modern world provide interesting mathematical questions and open up entirely new domains of mathematics. ... 1986). Bellman received a great many honours for his outstanding contributions to the