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1. Nicolas Bourbaki (1935 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Arch. Contemp., Amsterdam, 1998), 75-123. L Baulieu, Dispelling a myth : questions and answers about Bourbaki's early work, 1934-1944, in The intersection of history and mathematics, (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1994), ... Intelligencer 20 (1) (1998), 22-28. K

2. Greek sources II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_2/

   10 Jul 2023: In the 5th century AD, Proclus wrote his Commentary on Euclid which is our principal source of knowledge about the early history of Greek geometry. ... Let us give a little background about the city and state of Pergamum.

3. Kelvin on the sun, Part 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Kelvin_sun_2/

   7 Mar 2023: Now we come to the most interesting part of our subject - the early history of the Sun. ... star of about the same dimensions, heat, and brightness as our present sun, but differing from him in this, that it will have no rotation.

4. George Halsted (1853 - 1922) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: He was interested in mathematical education and in the history of mathematics. . ... Student reminiscences picture Halsted as one of the more colourful professors in the university's early history and a popular speaker on and off campus whether talking

5. Bourbaki 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bourbaki_1/

   7 Mar 2023: They begin a lively discussion about the topics to be covered and the order in which they should appear. ... Arch. Contemp., Amsterdam, 1998), 75-123. L Baulieu, Dispelling a myth : questions and answers about Bourbaki's early work, 1934-1944, in The

6. George Salmon (1819 - 1904) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   25 Jan 2024: Testament (1885), The infallibility of the Church (1888), Thoughts on the textual criticism of the New Testament (1897), and a series of articles between 1877 and 1887 on the history of ... the early Christian Church in the Dictionary of Christian

7. Gordon Preston on semigroups - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Gordon himself gave a lecture Personal reminiscences of the early history of semigroups and a version of this talk appeared in the conference Proceedings as:. ... G B Preston, Personal reminiscences of the early history of semigroups, in Monash

8. Proclus (411 - 485) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Proclus wrote Commentary on Euclid which is our principal source about the early history of Greek geometry. ... In particular he certainly used the History of Geometry by Eudemus, which is now lost, as is the works of Geminus which he also used.

9. Bourbaki 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bourbaki_2/

   7 Mar 2023: Dieudonné, in [15], gives a similar description of the Congresses and talks about the qualities that members of the team must have:-. ... Arch. Contemp., Amsterdam, 1998), 75-123. L Baulieu, Dispelling a myth : questions and answers about Bourbaki's

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

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

    1 Sep 2015: highlighted. A selection of Rudio’s contributions to the history of mathematics is studied as well. ... In German universities there was a kind of anonymous vote about the performance of the professor.