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

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

    28 Apr 2024: He studied a number of subjects, for example in addition to mathematics he studied metallurgy and Russian history. ... We must mention just a few of the numerous other major contributions which Kolmogorov made in a whole range of different areas of

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: numbers and the history of mathematics. ... He also contributed to the study of differential and integral equations and to the history of mathematics.

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

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

    21 Dec 2023: From 1886 until 1888 Tannery was in Tonneins and, deprived of library and other resources, he was unable to carry out any serious work on the history of mathematics except editorial ... His main contributions were to the history of Greek mathematics and

34. 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

35. 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:-.

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: He worked in Bergen until 1938 when, at the age of 51, he returned to Oslo as Professor of Mathematics at the university. ... Philos. Logic 1 (2) (1996), 99-106. G Gjone, Über Leben und Werk von Thoralf Skolem, Contributions to the history, philosophy

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

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

    28 Feb 2024: While in Berlin, Abel learnt that the position of professor of mathematics at the University of Christiania, the only university in Norway, had been given to Holmboë. ... R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of

38. 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

39. Fibonacci (1170 - 1250) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: Died. 1250. (possibly) Pisa (now Italy). Summary. Leonard of Pisa or Fibonacci played an important role in reviving ancient mathematics and made significant contributions of his own. ... P Freguglia, The determination of π in Fibonacci's 'Practica

40. Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Nov 2023: In 1902 he was promoted to an extraordinary professorship of mathematics at Leipzig and turned down the offer of a similar appointment at Göttingen. ... J Flachsmeyer, Merkwürdiges zur jungen Geschichte der Geometrie und Topologie : die Auswahlsätze