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41. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

42. Advice on organising a BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2008/Advice2008/

    7 Mar 2023: Special Lecture. A lecture on history or relevant current events (mathematical finance?).

43. History Topics Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/OtherIndexes/histtopics/

    7 Jun 2023:

44. Science in the 17th century - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Science_17C/

    10 Jul 2023: This period in the history of Europe is known as the Scientific Revolution. ... L Jardine, Britain and the rise of science, BBC History (17 February 2011).

45. Water-clocks - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2001. xxxii(108): p. 189-222. J Fermor, Timing the sun in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

46. History of the LMS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LMShistory/

    7 Mar 2023: The London Mathematical Society dates back to 1864. Augustus De Morgan's wife, writing after his death described how the London Mathematical Society was founded:-. It was in the year 1864 that Mr Arthur Cowper Ranyard and George [George De Morgan,

47. History of the AMS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/AMShistory/

    7 Mar 2023: It appears that the idea for a mathematical society in the United States came from a visit T S Fiske made to England where he visited Cambridge. He arrived with letters of introduction toandwrites:-. Scientifically I benefited most from my contacts

48. Christianity and Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: E Rosen, Copernicus and his successors (London, 1995). B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961). ... E Rosen, Was Copernicus' Revolutions approved by the Pope, Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975), 531-542.

49. Forgery 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Forgery_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Three of the principal characters in this story areand Voltaire. They had known each other over a long period and all had been close friends at one stage in their lives. It was Emilie du Châtelet who had brought these three together. In 1739

50. Smith Major History books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: reckoning. History of mathematics. Volume I. General survey of the history of elementary mathematics (1923). ... These volumes are at once more scholarly and more useful than the other general histories of mathematics.