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11. Georges Buffon (1707 - 1788) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Apr 2025: It is a major achievement which ambitiously attempts to present all knowledge of natural history, geology, and anthropology and their interconnections in a systematic way in a single work. ... He emphasised the importance of natural history and the great

12. Croatian Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The Croatian Natural History Society was founded in 1885 in Zagreb with a view to developing and popularising the natural sciences. ... The Croatian Natural History Society founded the Mathematical-Physical Section in 1945 and a year later, the

13. Van der Waerden reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Ancient theories of physics, of natural history or astronomy or medicine are understandable; we see how such notions evolved and we can fit them into the development of thought. ... Historians have long subscribed to the synthesis as the highest form of

14. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/Eminger.pdf

    1 Sep 2015: With the introduction of the Department for Mathematics and Physics Teachers in 1866, Geiser taught a lecture course, “Introduction to Synthetic Geometry”, in this department. ... The book is discussed in section 5.1. After being promoted to

15. Martin Bartels (1769 - 1836) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In particular Bartels informed Eberhard August Wilhelm Zimmermann (1743-1815) who had been professor of mathematics, physics and natural history at the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick since 1766. ... He then moved to the University of Göttingen where

16. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Created a museum of physics and natural history in La Specola beside the Pitti Palace in Florence. ... Domenico Cotugno (1736-1822). A physician who worked on metaphysics, mathematics, physics and natural sciences, he became professor of anatomy in Naples

17. Charles Cailler (1865 - 1922) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    5 Oct 2024: He was President of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva for the year 1883. ... A list of the titles of his early papers show the range of his research interests in pure mathematics, mathematical physics and astronomy.

18. Georgian Mathematical Union - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: natural languages and computational linguistic; Mathematical Education and History; Mathematical Logic, Applied Logic and Programming; Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis; Mathematical Physics; Mechanics of Continua; Ordinary and Partial

19. Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History …

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

    7 Oct 2024: At the Gymnasium, he studied a full range of subjects, geography, history, languages, mathematics, natural history, philosophy, physics, and religion. ... P C Hamilton, Reaching out: Janne Rydberg's struggle for recognition, in Svante Linqvist (ed.),

20. Mario Pieri (1860 - 1913) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Oct 2024: Mario studied Italian, French, German, social studies and mathematics throughout his four-year course, taking courses in physics, chemistry and natural history in his final two years. ... Enrico Betti taught him 'Mechanics' in 1882-83, and 'Mathematical