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1. A Brief History of Time and Calendars - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/bhistory/

   7 Mar 2023: Astronomy is at the heart of many early civilizations and one of its most important applications is that of time keeping. ... An important part of time keeping is calendars as these are essential in religious practice, agriculture, and governance.

2. Stephen Hawking (1942 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   11 Jan 2024: By 1984 he had produced a first draft of A Brief History of Time. ... It was with these difficulties that he revised the draft of A Brief History of Time which was published in 1988.

3. Kerr awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   28 Feb 2024: When Albert Einstein finally presented his theory in November 1915, all previous concepts of time and space were turned upside-down. ... This also affects the passage of time -- seen from the outside, time moves more slowly close to a large mass.

4. 20th century time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Time_2/

   7 Mar 2023: The laws of science will hold at them. The history in real time, however, will look very different. ... S W Hawking, A brief history of time (London, 1988). P Yourgrau, P The disappearance of time: Kurt Gödel and the idealistic tradition in philosophy

5. Stephen Hawking - NY Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Hawking_NY_Times/

   7 Mar 2023: Dr. Hawking did that largely through his book A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, published in 1988. ... In A Brief History of Time Dr. Hawking concluded that "if we do discover a complete theory"of the universe, " it should in

6. Mathematics at Aberdeen 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_1/

   7 Mar 2023: Betty Ponting published a two-part article on the history of Mathematics at Aberdeen in The Aberdeen University Review. ... The students were then subjected to Chronology, a list of dates from the time of the Creation (roughly 4000 B.C.) to 1629 with a

7. Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   30 Dec 2023: I was unable to devote myself to the learning of this algebra and the continued concentration upon it, because of obstacles in the vagaries of time which hindered me; for we ... R Rashed and A Djebbar (eds), L'Oeuvre algébrique d'al-Khayyam (Arabic),

8. History of Astronomy Index page - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/

   7 Mar 2023: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - ... Sir Isaac Newton. Astronomy and mathematics have been intimately linked throughout history, and nearly 600 astronomers feature in the MacTutor history of mathematics archive.

9. history of reliability - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: We present here the first section on the Brief History of Reliability:. ... A brief history. Reliability, as a human attribute, has been praised for a very long time.

10. Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: S Hawking, A Brief History of Time (Bantam Press, London-New York, 1988). ... S Schaffer, John Mitchell and Black Holes, Journal for the History of Astronomy 10 (1979), 42-43.