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31. Smith Overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: We give the Preface to this work and short extracts from some reviews at THIS LINK. ... We have given short extracts from some reviews of this and eleven other books by Smith on the history of mathematics at THIS LINK.

32. Philippa Fawcett (1868 - 1948) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Alice Gardner wrote in her Short History of Newnham :-. Besides being one to whose brilliant mathematical powers the highest honours were due, [Fawcett] was a singularly suitable person for this distinction

33. Ball books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1888), by W W Rouse Ball. ... 2. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th edition) (1908), by W W Rouse Ball.

34. Ulugh Beg (1393 - 1449) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 Jan 2024: Hist. Astronom. 21 (2) (1990), 187-201. A U Usmanov, A short survey of the history of the development of astronomy in the medieval East up to the age of Ulugh ... Beg (Russian), Questions on the history of mathematics and astronomy I, Trudy Samarkand.

35. The French Statistical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Roots4/

    7 Mar 2023: The history of these last three entities is of course too short to talk about more, but their importance should not be neglected. ... We have reconstructed the history thanks to the documents quoted below and the notes written by Henri Caussinus and Marie

36. Dennis Sullivan (1941 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: R Kirby, Review: Mathematics at Berkeley : A history, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 55 (10) (2008), 1237-1240. ... A Phillips, (2005), Dennis Sullivan - A short history, in Graphs and patterns in mathematics and theoretical physics

37. Gibson History 1 - Introduction - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to the end of the 18th Century: Part I. ... Sir JOHN LESLIE. 1783. ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH CONSTITUTED. In the short sketch which I propose to give of the History of Mathematics in Scotland up to the

38. James McBride (1868 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: This paper studies the history of a particular geometrical problem, namely the equal internal bisectors theorem. ... McBride begins his paper by writing:-. This paper contains (i) a short history of the geometrical theorem proposed in 1840 by Professor

39. Edward Routh's family history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1953 H C E Routh published A Short History of the Family of Routh.

40. Olaus Henrici (1840 - 1918) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: A R Hall, Science for industry : a short history of the Imperial College of Science and Technology and its antecedents (1982).