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11. Jules Tannery (1848 - 1910) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 11 December 1910. Paris, France. Summary. Jules Tannery was a French mathematician whose main contributions were to the history and philosophy of mathematics. . ... His main contributions were to the history and philosophy of mathematics.

12. Hirst prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    27 Mar 2024: The Prize regulations stated:. The Hirst Prize and Lectureship for the History of Mathematics - For contributions to the study of the history of mathematics. ... There were about 60 members and guests present to hear a lovely programme of two lectures on

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: The importance of this role should not be underestimated. She was never to lose respect for those problems based in the more applied areas of mathematics which meant that her Russian ... The role which she played in introducing Western European ideas to

14. Dov Jarden Born 17 January 1911 (17 Tevet, Taf ... PDF (4653k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/dovjarden.pdf

    9 Jul 2018: 11. journal Scripta Mathematica, devoted primarily to the history, philosophy,. and expository treatment of mathematics, in 1932 [Boy58]. ... Lexicography: My father’s contributions to the Hebrew language lay in. two areas, lexicography and the study

15. Otto Neugebauer (1899 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 19 February 1990. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Summary. Otto Neugebauer was an Austrian mathematician who made important contributions to the history of ancient mathematics and astronomy. . ... His contributions to the history of ancient mathematics

16. 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. ... 1679. During the former time period, with the exception of the last 11 years, we were unable to find a Swedish

17. Ernst Lindelöf (1870 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Another important role which Lindelöf played in Finland was the encouragement of the study of the history of mathematics in that country. ... For his outstanding contributions to Scandinavian mathematics he was honoured by the universities of Uppsala,

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: Eduardo L Ortiz is Professor of Mathematics and the History of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. ... I think he was more an inspiring teacher than researcher, but unfortunately his contributions to mathematics have been largely overlooked because

19. 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.

20. A A Krishnaswami Ayyangar (1892 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    6 Jul 2023: During nearly three decades during which he taught and undertook research at Mysore he made many contributions to geometry, statistics, astronomy, the history of Indian mathematics, and other topics. ... A K Srinivasan and A K Rajagopal (eds.), A A