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41. Heinrich Tietze (1880 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... H Reitberger, The contributions of L Vietoris and H Tietze to the foundations of general topology, in Handbook of the

42. Dahlin Extracts - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Ernst Mauritz Dahlin's Ph.D. thesis Contributions to the history of mathematics in Sweden before 1679 was published as a book. ... Taking this into account, one can only assign a great value to his contributions to the mathematical studies in Sweden.

43. Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde (1735 - 1796) - Biography - MacTutor …

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

    28 Feb 2024: T Muir, History of determinants Volume 3 (1920). J H Przytycki, History of the knot theory from Vandermonde to Jones, in XXIVth National Congress of the Mexican Mathematical Society (México City, ... 15 (4) (1988), 361-367. J J Tattersall, Vandermonde's

44. Garding books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: The book treats Backlund transformations, Mittag-Leffler's theorem, the Phragmen-Lindelof theorem and Carleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantum mechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. ... As the redundancy in the

45. Hans Wussing (1927 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Wussing received many honours for his outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics. ... The most prestigious of these was the Kenneth O May Prize given for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics.

46. Dirk Struik (1894 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He turned his attention to a number of topics of special interest to him, in particular to promoting the history of the sciences, especially mathematics, in Latin America. ... D E Rowe, Dirk Jan Struik and his contributions to the history of mathematics,

47. Ulam books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    24 May 2024: Can one describe its development and its role in history of scientific thinking and can one predict its future?" So begins the introduction to this Britannica Perspective prepared to commemorate the ... m. (. E. ). =. 1. m(E) = 1. m(E)=1. With Schreier

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

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

    24 May 2024: Von Neumann was one of the pioneers of computer science making significant contributions to the development of logical design. ... His valuable contributions included a proposal of the implosion method for bringing nuclear fuel to explosion and his

49. Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: Nor should it be thought that Russian history was merely a topic to fill out his course, indeed he wrote a serious scientific thesis on the owning of property in Novgorod ... His contributions to] each of these branches. [is] a single whole, where a

50. Atiyah awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: From 1937 to 1983 the medal was given for especially noteworthy contributions to the American Philosophical Society. ... And in 1987, the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service was established to honour exceptional contributions to the