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A short report on BMC 2007 held in Swansea - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2007/Report2007/7 Mar 2023: The Swansea BMC was attended by 280 participants and was preceded by a well attended Student Conference. The main speakers were H.-D. Cao, A. Connes, H. McKean, and D. Stroock. In addition we had 12 morning speakers, 2 special sessions (in Fourier
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A Short Break - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-14/7 Mar 2023: for a short time suffering from exhaustion.
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W Andrew Coppel - Obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Coppel/16 Apr 2024: My housemaster lent me his own copy of Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics.
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Walter Rouse Ball (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ball/25 Jan 2024: Rouse Ball wrote A short account of the history of mathematics (1888) which provided a very readable and popular account of the subject [5]:-. ... We also present short extracts from six of Rouse Ball's papers which are either on history or puzzles.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2004/7 Mar 2023: Erika Rozgonyi, The short history the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Miskolc. ... Tünde Kántor, The life and work of Samuel Mikoviny. Gyula Maurer I, A short history of Hungarian mathematical life in Transylvania until 1945.
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The Dynamics of the Solar System - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/dynamics/7 Mar 2023: See: Reaches of the Milky Way]. References:. A Berry, A short history of astronomy from the earliest times through the nineteenth century (New York, 1961). ... M Hoskin A Very Short Introduction: The History of Astronomy (New York, 2003).
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Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Biblio2/7 Mar 2023: Bailey, Gemma (ed.). Lady Margaret Hall. A Short History. ... Bradbrook, M.C. 'That Infidel Place': A Short History of Girton College 1869-1969.
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Cubic surfaces - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Cubic_surfaces/10 Jul 2023: These include cones, cylinders and paraboloids. The surface whose history we are interested in for this short article is a surface of order three which is called a cubic surface. ... points. The last person we will mention in this short history of the
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Links to other Mathematics pages - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/other_sources/19 May 2023: A site where one can trace mathematicians back in history via their supervisors. ... W. Rouse Ball's. A short account of the history of mathematics.
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Adam Ries: "Coss" - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ries_Coss/7 Mar 2023: This permits the reader to make comparisons. Scientific contributions and commentary provide information on the history and the significance of the word 'coss'. ... In addition to a short biographical outline there are also some remarks on the well-known