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Abraham Kästner (1719 - 1800) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kaestner/2 Nov 2023: Kästner taught Bolyai's father and J M C Bartels, one of Kästner's students, taught Lobachevsky.
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LMS Senior Whitehead Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LMSSeniorWhiteheadPrize/3 Nov 2023: It is to honour J H C Whitehead, a former President of the Society. ... 2011 J Pila. 2013 F C Kirwan. 2015 R Mackay. 2017 P Cameron.
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The Davis historical archive: - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/22 May 2023: This archive contains details of the approximately 2500 women who graduated in mathematics from universities in Britain and Ireland before 1940. Additionally, bibliographic evidence has been introduced -- both Primary Sources (books written by the
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Helmholtz/4 Jan 2024: 82. C Chevalley, Hermann von Helmholtz, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 4 (London, New York, 1998), 337-340. ... A C Crombie, Helmholtz, Scientific American 198 (3), (1958), 94-102. Falconer, I.
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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/30 Dec 2023: C C Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1749-1827. A life in exact science (Princeton, NJ, 1997). ... E T Whittaker, Laplace, Amer. Math. Monthly 56 (1949), 369-372. C Wilson, The great inequality of Jupiter and Saturn : from Kepler to Laplace, Arch.
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Walter Rouse Ball (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ball/25 Jan 2024: He described this in a letter to E T Whittaker written in 1924 (see [22]):-. ... E T Whittaker, W W Rouse Ball, The Mathematical Gazette 12 (178) (1925), 449-454.
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Lazare Carnot (1753 - 1823) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot/23 Nov 2023: C C Gillispie and R Pisano, Lazare and Sadi Carnot. A scientific and filial relationship (Springer, 2013). ... C C Gillispie, Lazare Carnot Savant, American Journal of Physics 40 (1) (1972), 214-214.
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William Kermack (1898 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kermack/26 May 2024: His most immediate associate was his research assistant Walter T Spragg who worked with him for many years. ... Series A 115 (772) (1927), 700-721. T H Pennington, Kermack, William Ogilvy (1898-1970), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
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Madhava (1350 - 1425) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Madhava/18 Jan 2024: C T Rajagopal and M S Rangachari, On an untapped source of medieval Keralese mathematics, Arch. ... History Exact Sci. 18 (1978), 89-102. C T Rajagopal and M S Rangachari, On medieval Keralese mathematics, Arch.
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Władysław Orlicz (1903 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Orlicz/20 Sep 2023: Ω x(t)y(t)dμ(t):Ω ϕ(y(t))dμ(t)1}. or the Luxemburg-Nakano norm:. x. ϕ. || x ||_{phi}. ... 1979), C Wu and T Wang, Orlicz Spaces and their Applications, (Harbin 1983 - Chinese), A C Zaanen, Riesz Spaces II, (North-Holland 1983), C Wu, T Wang, S Chen