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61. Dijksterhuis inaugural - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The history of science should not be limited to merely recounting successes; it must also be aware of errors. ... that it only takes cognizance of works that contribute to the growth of that science as far as those contributions are concerned.

62. Hans Freudenthal (1905 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Freudenthal's work on the history of mathematics included contributing articles to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. ... Bos, in [4], discusses his contributions to the history of geometry around 1900:-.

63. Niels Abel (1802 - 1829) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Feb 2024: R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of Exact Science 23 (1980), 253-277. ... Hist. Exact Sci. 48 (1) (1994), 81-103. D Harkin, The scientific contributions of Niels-Henrik Abel (1802-1829) and Sophus Lie (1842-1899

64. Thoralf Skolem (1887 - 1963) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: was considered so outstanding that his achievement was reported to the King of Norway. ... Philos. Logic 1 (2) (1996), 99-106. G Gjone, Über Leben und Werk von Thoralf Skolem, Contributions to the history, philosophy and methodology of mathematics, Wiss.

65. Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: History of the Homeland: The Story of the British Background by Henry Hamilton (1947) (editor). ... The book is a contribution of real distinction to the literature of endocrinology.

66. Farkas Bolyai (1775 - 1856) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Apr 2024: P Stäckel, W und J Bolyai, Geometrische Untersuchungen (Leipzig, 1913). B Szénássy, History of Mathematics in Hungary until the 20th Century (Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1992). ... Lapok 31 (1-3) (1978/83), 3-14. B Szénássy, Contributions to the

67. Federigo Enriques (1871 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 14 June 1946. Rome, Italy. Summary. Federigo Enriques was an Italian mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and to the history and philosophy of mathematics. . ... Enriques made important contributions to geometry and to the

68. Van der Waerden reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: It covers the development of mathematics from the dawn of history to the beginning of the Middle Ages, with special emphasis on the contributions of Babylonian empiricism to Greek rationalisation. ... Chronological summaries are given with each of the

69. Guglielmo Libri (1803 - 1869) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: However he made many contributions to number theory and to the theory of equations. ... In it he wrote:-. The collection about to be sold is composed for the most part of books relative to the sciences (more particularly mathematics), and their history,

70. Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: M Heller, Lemaître, big bang, and the quantum universe, Pachart History of Astronomy Series 10 (Pachart Publishing House, Tucson, AZ, 1996). ... Roy. Belg. Cl. Sci. Mém. Collect. (8) (3) 10 (1995). O Godart, Contributions of Lemaître to general