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  1. 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

  2. Cajori history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Florian Cajori wrote A history of mathematics which was published by The Macmillan Company in London in 1893. ... Again we gain two insights, one into the history of mathematics, the other into Cajori's views:-.

  3. Finlay Freundlich (1885 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2024: Walter Ledermann, who was a young lecturer in mathematics at St Andrews when Freundlich arrived, writes [5]:-. ... K Hentschel, Erwin Finlay Freundlich and Testing Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 47 (1994), 143-201.

  4. African men 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_men_1/

    10 Jul 2023: I am particularly active in the history of Arabic mathematics and the history of mathematics teaching in Arabic/Islamic countries. ... The Debate about the Market and the State (1993). His interests are in Algebraic number theory, Commutative Algebra,

  5. LMS Honorary Member - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Apr 2024: The following mathematicians have been given honorary membership of the London Mathematical Society.

  6. Descartes on History - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: René Descartes wrote the following in a letter responding to having read John Pell's Idea of Mathematics:. ... I distinguish between the History and the Science of Mathematics. By the History I mean all that has already been discovered and contained in

  7. Egyptian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: show). A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964). ... R Calinger, A conceptual history of mathematics (Upper Straddle River, N.

  8. LMS President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Mar 2024: 1866 - 1868 J J Sylvester. 1870 - 1872 W Spottiswoode. 1874 - 1876 H J S Smith. 1876 - 1878 Lord Rayleigh. 1878 - 1880 C W Merrifield. 1884 - 1886 J W L Glaisher. 1890 - 1892 G Greenhill. 1894 - 1896 P A MacMahon. 1896 - 1898 E B Elliott. 1904 -

  9. 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

  10. A N Whitehead: "Mathematics in the History of Thought" -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Alfred North Whitehead wrote Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought. ... Even now there is a very wavering grasp of the true position of mathematics as an element in the history of thought.