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  1. Paul Tannery (1843 - 1904) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    21 Dec 2023: proposed course on the history of science. ... It did not escape the notice of Tannery, his friends, and his international colleagues that a course on the history of science seemed appropriate for a professor of the history of

  2. Hiebert's student - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Wisconsin when he became interested in the history of science through a course on the history of early modern science taught by Robert C Stauffer. ... At that time I was unaware of Erwin's high stature in the profession, but I did know that graduate

  3. Philip Jourdain (1879 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: of science, and his important work on induction and probability, which was in course of publication in "Mind". ... We must, however, mention that Jourdain had in preparation a large work on "The History of Mathematical Thought".

  4. Wussing Reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The presentation and selection of material is in accordance with directives issued by the government authorities of the German Democratic Republic on the study of the history of science in the ... For Germans, it does provide a rather nice coffee-table

  5. Thomas Lancaster Wren (1889 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Geometry was not Wren's only contribution. He lectured on the history of mathematics as part of a 1919-20 course given in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science ... of University College London on the history of science.

  6. Lászlo Rátz (1863 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: From 4 October 1887 to 7 August 1888 he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin, before going to Strassburg where he studied science and natural history for a year starting ... the course on 31 October 1888.

  7. Doris Hellman (1910 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Dec 2023: As soon as she was appointed, she began to give a course on the history of science. ... Carolyn Eisele went to Boston on December 28, 1949, to attend the annual meeting of the History of Science Society at the Club of Odd Volumes on Beacon Hill.

  8. Carl Boyer (1906 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: While an undergraduate at Columbia, Boyer took a course on the history of science given by Frederick Barry (1876-1943). ... A Prag, Review: A History of Mathematics, by Carl B Boyer, The British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1) (1970), 89.

  9. Paul Koebe (1882 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He entered this school in 1891 and there he studied religion, Latin and modern languages, history and geography, mathematics and science. ... The course, which was based more on practical applications than that of the more academic gymnasium, still