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51. Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In addition to his important work in the number theory of transcendental numbers, Gelfond made significant contributions to the theory of interpolation and the approximation of functions of a complex variable. ... He also contributed to the study of

52. Paul Tannery (1843 - 1904) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    21 Dec 2023: Since Paul Tannery is famous as an historian of mathematics it is particularly fitting that we should give details of his life and work in this archive dedicated to the history ... His main contributions were to the history of Greek mathematics and to

53. Gordon Preston on semigroups - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1990 a conference was held in Melbourne, Australia, to pay tribute to the contributions of Gordon Preston. ... G B Preston, Personal reminiscences of the early history of semigroups, in Monash Conference on Semigroup Theory, Melbourne, 1990 (World Sci.

54. János Bolyai (1802 - 1860) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Apr 2024: Inst. History of Science II (1948), 323-399. F Kárteszi, The lifework of János Bolyai (Hungarian), Mat. ... Lapok 31 (1-3) (1978/83), 3-14. B Szénássy, Contributions to the history of the discovery of the two Bolyais (Hungarian), Mat.

55. Kosambi books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: James Mill's History down to the History and culture of the Indian people. ... I shall try to follow in general Kosambi's order of presentation, devoting my chief care to two sorts of items, those which seem to me new contributions to Indian history

56. John Backus (1924 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification ... In 1997 he received the

57. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: They are almost all devoted to critical appraisals of science from a philosophical point of view illuminated by the history of science, and in this sense they are not original contributions ... Science has progressed like a ship with an all-powerful

58. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    23 Nov 2023: A Ashtekar, Chandrasekhar's contributions to general relativity, Current Sci. 70 (9) (1996), 800-804. ... K C Wali, S Chandrasekhar's contributions to general relativity, in The attraction of gravitation : new studies in the history of general relativity,

59. Asger Aaboe (1922 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 19 January 2007. North Haven, Connecticut, USA. Summary. Asger Aaboe was a Danish mathematician who is known for his contributions to the history of ancient Babylonian astronomy. . ... Aaboe was promoted to Associate Professor at Tufts in 1959,

60. Karel Rychlik (1885 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Rychlik is best known, however, for his contributions to the history of mathematics, particularly his work on Bernard Bolzano. ... 1948. However he began to undertake deep research in the history of mathematics, and in particular he worked again on