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

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

    14 May 2024: 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 ... It would be fair to say that Gödel's ideas have changed the course of mathematics [3

42. Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846 - 1927) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mittag-Leffler/

    24 May 2024: While Mittag-Leffler was in Berlin he learnt that the professor of mathematics at Helsingfors (today called Helsinki), Lorenz Lindelöf, the father of Ernst Lindelöf, was leaving the chair to take ... He was the first holder of the mathematics chair in

43. Clay Award - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: for a lifetime of achievement, especially for pointing the way to unify apparently disparate fields of mathematics and to discover their elegant simplicity through links with the physical world. ... global existence theorems for KdV type equations, as

44. Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: As well as being professor of mathematics, he was also the professor of Arabic. ... This new branch of mathematics enabled the mathematician to study properties of curves by algebraic means.

45. MAA Hedrick Lecturer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: who will present a series of at most three lectures accessible to a large fraction of those who teach college mathematics. ... 1952 Tibor Radó, Ohio State University. 1953 Paul R Halmos, University of Chicago.

46. Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 May 2024: Here he was first introduced to science and he began to show a liking for mathematics, particularly as a result of some fine teaching. ... Fresnel published his first tentative results in July 1816 but asked that the readers of his article show patience

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

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

    8 Apr 2024: This was [8]:-. an important event in the history of. American mathematics. ... Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1989), 191-193. F E Browder, The Stone Age of mathematics on the Midway, Math.

48. Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Indexes/alphname_B/

    7 Mar 2023: Click on a name below to see details of that mathematician.

49. Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Indexes/alphname_M/

    7 Mar 2023: Click on a name below to see details of that mathematician.

50. Berwick Prizewinner - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: Berwick Prizes are named after Professor W E H Berwick a past vice president of the LMS.