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1. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   18 Jan 2024: You can see more about these numbers in the History topics article Perfect numbers at THIS LINK. ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

2. Chronology for 30000 BC - 500 BC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/1/

   7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Babylonians know Pythagoras's Theorem. (See this History Topic.). ... See this History Topic.). The Rhind papyrus (sometimes called the Ahmes papyrus) is written.

3. Thomas Muir (1844 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   16 Feb 2024: In 1930, at the age of 86, Muir published Contributions to the history of determinants. ... It is worth thinking exactly what Muir was attempting here. Can you imagine setting out to write today (in 2003) the history of a mathematical topic from 1993 to

4. Perfect numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: R Shoemaker, Perfect numbers (Washington, 1973). A Weil, Number theory : An approach through history (Boston-Basel-Stuttgart, 1984). ... A History Topic on Prime numbers.

5. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/

   16 Apr 2024: The history of the use of the function in probability is traced in S. ... 39. The history of the contributing inequalities is given in Inequalities byand G.

6. Chebyshev nets - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: An interesting comment from Clive J. Grant reads:. What nobody writes about is something you may wish to consider as a useful topic for inclusion in a history of mathematics and ... In addition to the arcane mathematical notations of mid-nineteenth

7. Introduction - Indian Mathematics - Redressing the balance - Projects …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/chapter-2/

   7 Mar 2023: (Abstract). Early Indian culture - Indus civilisation). The history of science, and specifically mathematics, is a vast topic and one which can never be completely studied as much of the work of ... reasons as to why Europe has chosen to neglect the

8. Brian Griffiths - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Accordingly, new options were introduced for third-year students. One was on the history of mathematics; another allowed students to select a topic they wished to study and, supervised by a

9. Croatian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Rački was an ordained Catholic priest and a leading historian, working mainly on Church history, who was a leader in promoting Slavic culture. ... Much of the early work of the Academy involved Croatian history and numerous publications on this topic

10. Brazilian maths colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: The Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium is organised by the National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics. It has been held every two years since the first meeting in 1957. We give below details of the first 20 of the colloquia. Most of the