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1. MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   27 Mar 2024: category. MacTutor was created and is maintained by Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, and is hosted by ... 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. Devil's Curve - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Cramer (1704-1752) was a Swiss mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at Geneva and wrote on work related to physics; also on geometry and the history of mathematics. ... He is best known for his work on determinants (1750) but also made

5. 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

6. 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

7. HERBERT WESTREN TURNBULL - LMS Obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Turnbull was a mathematician of the classical school. He made substantial contributions to the theory of invariants. ... Apart from his contributions to classical algebra Turnbull will be remembered as an authority on the history of mathematics.

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. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   10 Jul 2023: They show the surprising results that infinite processes can achieve and point the way to the wonderful richness of modern mathematics. ... P Freguglia, The determination of π in Fibonacci's 'Practica geometriae' in a fifteenth-century manuscript

10. 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