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1. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: For his outstanding success in promoting interest and further research in the history of science. ... Paolo Rossi Monti (2009) for History of Science:. For his major contributions to the study of the intellectual foundations of science from the

2. Rudolf Wolf (1816 - 1893) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   2 Nov 2023: It is likely that only after 1884 was Wolf aware of the history of the problem, and that Buffon was the first to propose it. ... Wolf also made significant contributions to the history of science. He discovered where the correspondence of Johann

3. Eisele books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Indeed, her role in developing the current interest in Peirce is especially significant, for she is one of the very few who studies his contributions to the history of science, geography, ... Now we have her faithfully edited and handsomely produced

4. 1950 ICM - Cambridge USA - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Cambridge_1950/

   15 Dec 2023: not only are most promising as to their future work but have already given contributions of the uttermost importance and originality to our science; indeed they have already written their names ... Because of this, the progress of science is endangered

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

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

   7 Mar 2023: His contributions to the history of ancient mathematics and astronomy continued to astound. ... The article [2] gives Neugebauer's main contributions which led to the award and, although his distinguished work on the history of science is praised, the

6. Smith's Obituaries and Biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Florian Cajori. Science, New Series 72 (1864) (1930), 287-288. During [the years 1884-1918, Florian Cajori] paid particular attention to the history of the subjects of his major interest, and ... recall in a scientific journal his contributions to science

7. Salomon Bochner (1899 - 1982) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: In addition to teaching mathematics he participated in the history of science program, was responsible for the foundation of an interdisciplinary institute for the history of ideas, and gave university-wide ... public lectures on the history of science.

8. Guglielmo Libri (1803 - 1869) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   2 Nov 2023: argument for studying the history of science in general and the history of mathematics in particular. ... science. What are we to make of Libri's contributions here when we now know that indeed he was a thief?

9. Paolo Ruffini (1765 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   23 Nov 2023: G Barbensi, Paolo Ruffini nel suo tempo (Modena, 1955). R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of Exact Science 23 (1980), 253-277. ... R A Bryce, Ruffini and the quintic equation, in First Australian Conference on

10. Dijksterhuis inaugural - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The history of science should not be limited to merely recounting successes; it must also be aware of errors. ... After thus triumphantly overcoming the Pascal aporia, the defender of the history of science opens himself full of confidence to all