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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. History overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Copernicus and Galileo revolutionised the applications of mathematics to the study of the universe. ... How we view history. We view the history of mathematics from our own position of understanding and sophistication.

  3. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The idea of Conferences on the History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics came from Katalin Munkácsy (Eőtvős University of Budapest). ... Details of each of the conferences are available at the links below.

  4. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: For his exceptional results in many fields of mathematics, such as topology, geometry, the theory of Kleinian groups, analysis, and number theory. ... For his outstanding success in promoting interest and further research in the history of science.

  5. Gibson: "History of Scottish Mathematics" - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The first paper in the new Series was by George Gibson and it was the first part of his two-part paper Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to ... Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools.

  6. Links to other Mathematics pages - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 May 2023: The British Society for the History of Mathematics. ... W. Rouse Ball's. A short account of the history of mathematics.

  7. Birthplace Map - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: No Location Chosen. Choose a location on the map to see which mathematicians were born there.

  8. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    6 Jul 2023: Diogenes Laertius (3rd century BC) was a Greek author who wrote an important history of Greek philosophy. ... Groups of permutations, symmetries, matrices,. are widely used in many areas of mathematics and physics..

  9. Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (1935 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of

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

    27 Mar 2024: Pavel Sergeevich Aleksandrov was head of mathematics and he, together with Kolmogorov, went to see the Head of the History of the Party Department and asked that Sinai be allowed to ... In 1993 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Mathematics

  10. British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    3 May 2023: From 1994 onwards there were some Special Sessions which each concentrated on a particular area of mathematics. ... Minutes of the general and committee meetings are available for many of the colloquia.