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11. George Birkhoff (1884 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: His close contacts with mathematicians in Europe made him a natural person to write a report for the International Education Board on the state of mathematics in Europe. ... 1986). R C Archibald, A semicentennial history of the American Mathematical

12. Chinese overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Chinese_overview/

    7 Mar 2023: R Calinger, A contextual history of mathematics (New York, 1999). C Cullen, Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China (Cambridge, 1996). ... 12 (3) (1985), 219-228. D Liu, 400 years of the history of mathematics in China - an introduction to the major

13. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

14. U of St Andrews History - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/U_of_St_Andrews_History/

    2 Jun 2023: Reforms in 1574 meant that specific duties were allocated to professors in each college and a master in St Mary's College was to act as Professor of Mathematics. ... He actively supported Gregory in his plans for the new Observatory and, when Gregory

15. Fellow of the Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/FRS/

    10 Mar 2024: The list of fellows given below is only those scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society whose biographies appear in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, together with some present day ... mathematicians. The list also gives their date of

16. Most popular biographies – 2024 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/Popular/

    8 Jan 2024: Of our 3150 biographies, those below are the 200 which were consulted most often in the last three months. ... The popularity of female mathematician's biographies declined markedly as you can see at1].

17. Émile Borel (1871 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 May 2024: However, he took for the most part an opposed view because of his realistic attitude toward mathematics. ... Issled. No. 35 (1994), 255-285. F A Medvedev, Two proofs of the finite covering theorem (Russian), in History and methodology of the natural

18. Gibson History 11 - John Playfair, Sir John Leslie - MacTutor History …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_11/

    7 Mar 2023: Playfair in particular was widely read in the history of mathematics, was in spite of (perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "because of ") his great admiration for Newton, disappointed ... been "assumed by others, particularly by Ludlam in his

19. African women 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_women_1/

    18 Jan 2024: The International and African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa produced a Special Issue of their AMUCHMA Newsletter 33 in 2006 which listed women born in Africa ... Her publications include The use of history of

20. Honours/Prizes Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/

    29 May 2024: