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Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Democritus/30 Dec 2023: T Cole, Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology, Amer. Philos. ... W K C Guthrie, A history of Greek philosophy (six vols.) (Cambridge, 1962-81).
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Frank Harary (1921 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Harary/2 Jun 2023: W T Tutte and the late Øystein Ore represent this point of view. ... C Holdsworth, Harary honoured by Exeter, Bull. Inst. Combin. Appl. 7 (1993), 10-12.
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Takebe Katahiro (1664 - 1739) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Takebe/7 Mar 2023: H Fukagawa and T Rothman, Sacred Mathematics : Japanese Temple Geometry (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008). ... C Zhou and J K Zhang, Takebe's mathematical thought and methodology, Stud.
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Kathleen Booth (1922 - 2022) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Booth_Kathleen/11 Jan 2024: C Putnam, Remembering a USask computing pioneer, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan (6 December 2022). ... C B T, Review: Programming for an automatic digital calculator, by Kathleen H V Booth, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to
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Ida Metcalf (1856 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Metcalf/11 Jan 2024: W C Eells, American doctoral dissertations on mathematics and astronomy written by women in the nineteenth century, The Mathematics Teacher 50 (5) (1957), 374-376. ... W T Hewett, Cornell University: A History (University Publishing Society, New York,
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Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Biblio2/7 Mar 2023: Bradbrook, M.C. 'That Infidel Place': A Short History of Girton College 1869-1969. ... Butler, K.T. and McMorran, H. I. (eds). Girton College Register 1869-1946.
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Mark Kac (1914 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kac/7 Mar 2023: I am fascinated, also, with mathematical problems, and particularly. the role of dimensionality: why certain things happen in 'from three dimensions on' and some others don't. ... M Kac, Enigmas of chance : an autobiography (California, 1987). L R
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Cyril Offord (1906 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Offord/1 May 2023: He was proposed by Sir Edmund T Whittaker, John W Heslop Harrison, Alexander C Aitken, and Alfred D Hobson. ... Retirements: A C Offord, LSE Magazine No 46 (November 1973), 8.
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Francis Allotey (1932 - 2017) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Allotey/23 Nov 2023: He said that he wanted to be like them when he grew up, like those he read about in E T Bell's Men of Mathematics. ... C Kudah, State Funeral held for Prof Allotey, Citi FM Online (23 February 2018).
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Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bassi/4 Jan 2024: Stegani wrote the preface [53] to the collection of poems published in honour of Laura Bassi in 1732, addressing it "To the most learned and erudite young lady Laura M C ... M Cavazza, P Govoni and T Pironi, Eredi di Laura Bassi.