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H W Turnbull: "Scottish Contribution to the Calculus" -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_Scottish/7 Mar 2023: Several lectures given in the "History" part of Section VII "History and Education". ... H W Turnbull gave a lecture in "History" on The Scottish Contribution to the Early History of the Calculus.
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David Fowler - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Fowler_David_Guardian/7 Mar 2023: Fowler's initial venture into history began in 1979 with a ground-breaking paper Ratio In Early Greek Mathematics, published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. ... The history of mathematics then became his major research interest, and
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Thumbnails for early stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/early_thumbs/19 Nov 2023: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. 1847: franklin_benjamin9. 1847: franklin_benjamin10. 1855: franklin_benjamin1. 1890: franklin_benjamin3. 1902: franklin_benjamin2. 1914: franklin_benjamin12. 1923: copernicus5. 1923: copernicus6. 1925:
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Early Life - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-2/7 Mar 2023: Although Sofia was later to realise that she was in fact her father's favourite, the lack of self-confidence which this early belief caused may have been responsible for the ... When discussing her early years Sofia herself was always quick to point out
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All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/6 Jul 2023: Early theories of cosmology had concentric spheres for the planets to move on.. ... Although the result was conjectured as early as 1852 its proof was not completed until 1976..
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Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ginsburg/27 Mar 2024: Some of Ginsburg's papers, published around 1930, are: Note on Stirling's Numbers (1928); On the Early History of the Decimal Point (1928); Napier on the Napier Rods (1929); and ... J Ginsburg, On the Early History of the Decimal Point, The American
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Royal Astronomical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Astronomical/18 Jan 2024: This article looks at the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... Visit theJ L E Dreyer and H H Turner (eds.), History of the Royal Astronomical Society (London, 1923).
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Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883- 2023 - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/15 Mar 2024: J S Mackay (The Academy, Edinburgh) Early history of the symmedian point. ... J S Mackay (The Academy, Edinburgh) History of a theorem in elementary geometry: the isosceles triangle.
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2015 British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2015/30 Apr 2023: Heard, J. The Early History of The London Mathematical Society. Hollings, C.
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Babylonian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics/18 Jan 2024: 2) 5 (3) (1996), 249-254. M A Powell Jr, The antecedents of old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics, Historia Math. ... 3 (1976), 417-439. A E Raik, From the early history of algebra.