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11. Anton Kazimirovich Suschkevich (1889 - 1961) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: We refer the reader to [3] for a detailed discussion of the contents but we give one example of the remarkable nature of these contributions. ... He was honoured for his contributions to the history of mathematics by the Soviet Association of Science

12. 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 ... to the history of science as such.

13. 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

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

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

    11 Jan 2024: 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

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

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

    11 Jan 2024: 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

16. 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

17. Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: 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

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: 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

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

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

    25 Jan 2024: 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.