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1. MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   27 Mar 2024: Recent changes to the archive (Up to MARCH 2024). include 16 New Biographies mainly of mathematicians who have won major prizes, as well as 34 New Entries in the Additional Material ... Their contributions to the history of mathematics have been

2. Epidemic theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: 2. Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics. II. The Problem of Endemicity, by W O Kermack and A G McKendrick. ... 3. Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics. III. Further Studies of the Problem of Endemicity, by W O Kermack

3. Mauritz Dahlin (1843 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: You can read an English translation of the Introduction to Contributions to the history of mathematics in Sweden before 1679 at THIS LINK. ... E M Dahlin, Contributions to the history of mathematics in Sweden before 1679 (Swedish) (1875).

4. Hirst Prize winner - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   14 May 2023: The London Mathematical Society first decided to award a prize for contributions to the history of mathematics as a part of the celebrations to mark the LMS 150th Anniversary. ... 2021 Karine Chemla. in recognition of her outstanding and innovative work

5. The Classical period: III. Brahmagupta, and the influence on Arabia - …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/chapter-11/

   7 Mar 2023: th. century. He is thought to have lived from 505 AD till 587 AD and made only fairly small contributions to the field of mathematics, he is described by Ifrah as:. ... However Indian mathematics continued to flourish independently throughout the

6. Elliptic functions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: show). R Ayoub, The lemniscate and Fagnano's contributions to elliptic integrals, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 29 (2) (1984), 131-149. ... R Cooke, Elliptic integrals and functions, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the

7. John Sturgeon Mackay - Gazette Obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: It is not possible to enter here on an analysis of his contributions to the history of geometry; most of these are contained in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, ... valuable guide to one aspect of English mathematical history.

8. Emigration: St Andrews 1936 - 1938 - Walter Ledermann - Encounters of …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Ledermann/chapter-5/

   7 Mar 2023: Exceptionally, in the examination paper for second year students, there were questions about the history of mathematics. ... He was the author of the charming little book The Great Mathematicians and he had made some major contributions to the history of

9. Stern PDF (477k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/stern.pdf

   3 Mar 2021: He was the first full Jewish professor in Germany. It would not be appropriate to emphasise MORITZ ABRAHAM STERN only because of this significant historical event in the history of Jews ... Naturally in comparison to GAUSS and RIEMANN, his contributions

10. Otto Neugebauer (1899 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 19 February 1990. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Summary. Otto Neugebauer was an Austrian mathematician who made important contributions to the history of ancient mathematics and astronomy. . ... His contributions to the history of ancient mathematics