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21. Adam Ries: "Coss" - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: This permits the reader to make comparisons. Scientific contributions and commentary provide information on the history and the significance of the word 'coss'. ... The collection concludes with the following commentaries: The history of the Coss (Peter

22. Wilks Award of the ASS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: methodology to basic problems in metrology; and for his singular contributions to the history of methodology in the field of statistics. ... for distinguished contributions to statistical methodology and to study of the history of statistics, for

23. Her other work - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-16/

    7 Mar 2023: Mittag-Leffler and Weierstrass both became frustrated with Sofia at times due to the manner in which they felt she wasted her time and talent on matters other than mathematics. ... The role which she played in introducing Western European ideas to

24. Elemér Kiss (1929 - 2006) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The research for which Kiss is most famous is his contributions to the history of mathematics which he began in the middle of the 1990s. ... His contributions to the history of mathematics are exclusively on topic related to János Bolyai.

25. Mary Somerville - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Somerville/

    28 May 2025: phenomena of the universe." This she followed up with her Physical Geography, which, as its name imports, comprises the history of the earth in its whole material organization. ... There is little, therefore, to be added to what has already been made

26. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Jacob Palis (2010) for Mathematics (Pure and Applied):. For his fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of dynamical systems. ... Paolo Rossi Monti (2009) for History of Science:. For his major contributions to the study of the intellectual

27. Dahlin Introduction - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    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. ... To complete the victory of Cartesian philosophy, Charles XI moved Bilberg to the faculty of Theology.

28. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: P Freguglia, The determination of π in Fibonacci's 'Practica geometriae' in a fifteenth-century manuscript (Italian), Contributions to the history of mathematics (Italian) (Modena, 1990), 75-84. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. C Pereira da Silva, A

29. Leopold Vietoris (1891 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2025: Died. 9 April 2002. Innsbruck, Austria. Summary. Leopold Vietoris was a long-lived Austrian mathematician best known for his contributions to topology, especially the Mayer-Vietoris sequence. ... H Reitberger, The contributions of L Vietoris and H Tietze

30. An interview with Prof Eduardo L Ortiz - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was John Simon Guggenheim Research Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University from 1996 to 1998. ... I think he was more an inspiring teacher than researcher, but unfortunately his contributions to mathematics have been largely