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11. 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. ... After thus triumphantly overcoming the Pascal aporia, the defender of the history of science opens himself full of confidence to all

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

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

    16 Mar 2025: 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

13. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Aug 2024: 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 ... to the history of science as such.

14. Paolo Ruffini (1765 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 Sep 2024: G Barbensi, Paolo Ruffini nel suo tempo (Modena, 1955). R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of Exact Science 23 (1980), 253-277. ... R A Bryce, Ruffini and the quintic equation, in First Australian Conference on

15. Calixto Calderón (1939 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    5 Jan 2025: He also took a strong interest at this time in the history of science and, in particular, the early contributions to science of the Hispanic culture. ... The themes of the thesis of his Ph.D. students, like his research, ranged from Harmonic Analysis to

16. Carolyn Eisele (1902 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    5 Jan 2025: She served as Treasurer of the Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society after its founding and then as president of the Section from 1959 to 1963. ... University. In 1985, the New York Academy of Sciences recognised Eisele for her

17. David Eugene Smith (1860 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Oct 2024: Finally let us note Smith's many contributions to the American Mathematical Society, the History of Science Society and the Mathematical Association of America. ... He was the founder of the History of Science Society and founded the journal Scripta

18. Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    5 Aug 2024: in the relation of science to common sense on the one hand, and the relation of science to moral philosophy on the other, it is essential that the contribution of contemporary ... are necessary to illustrate these principles; secondly, it deals

19. Erwin Hiebert (1919 - 2012) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: If the reader is familiar with Hiebert's main contributions to science, they will know that he was a major figure in the history of science. ... He was also elected President of the Division of the History of Science of the International Union of the

20. Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    17 Jun 2025: He made contributions to numerous branches of mathematics, celestial mechanics, fluid mechanics, the special theory of relativity and the philosophy of science. ... Finally we look at Poincaré's contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and science.