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51. Growth and Form - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: history. Even now the zoologist has scarce begun to dream of defining in mathematical language even the simplest organic forms. ... But natural history deals with ephemeral and accidental, not eternal nor universal things; their causes and effects thrust

52. Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (1906 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In addition to his professorship of mathematics at the Moscow Higher Technical School, Adolph Pavlovich was appointed to the Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology in 1945. ... He was able, however, to keep his post at the Institute of

53. Zurich Scientific Research Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Zurich/

    7 Mar 2023: Gessner was elected as President of the new Society. The Physical Society soon built up a scientific library, a collection of mathematical and physical instruments, natural history collections, a botanical garden, ... The wide range of activities of the

54. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Hist. Sci. (N.S.) 4 (1951), 638-653. A B Kozhevnikov, The views of Faraday and Maxwell on gravitation (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XXXI (Moscow, 1985), ... History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders,

55. D'ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON (1860 - 1948) - EMS obituary - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/DArcy_Thompson_obituary/

    7 Mar 2023: For over sixty years he occupied a Chair of Natural History in a Scottish University, first at the newly founded University College of Dundee and since 1917 at the United College, ... His approach to the history of the Ancients, and particularly of

56. DArcy Thompson knighted - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Litt., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History, University of St Andrews, who has received a Knighthood. ... In 1888 the Chair of Biology became the Chair of Natural History or Zoology, and the Dundee College became part of the University

57. al-Karaji (953 - 1029) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Karaji/

    4 Jan 2024: 23 (1957), 173-178. L S Mokhamed, On negative numbers in al-Karaji's works (Russian), in History and methodology of the natural sciences No. ... XXV (Moscow, 1980), 115-120. L S Mohammed, The Sufficient book of al-Karaji (Russian), in History and

58. Education in St Andrews in 1849 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/St_A_education_1849/

    7 Mar 2023: The eight professorships are devoted to the inculcating of Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Logic and Rhetoric, Medicine, Moral Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Civil History. ... The class of Civil History is at present not taught, and the professorship

59. Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Spanish_Academy/

    7 Mar 2023: The Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences (The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Madrid) was founded in February, 1847. ... The Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences was explicitly declared to be the equal of the other

60. function concept - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... Issled. Vyp. 20 (1975), 232-245; 380. F A Medvedev, Newton's concept of function (Russian), in History and methodology of the natural sciences, No.