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11. Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883- 2023 - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/

    15 Mar 2024: G A Gibson (Glasgow) Gilbert's method of treating tangents to confocal conicoids. ... G A Gibson (Glasgow) On the history of the Fourier series.

12. Gibson History 8 - James Stirling - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_8/

    7 Mar 2023: The connection with Italy is preserved by the epithet "The Venetian" which is applied to him in the Family History of the Stirlings.

13. Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, William Trail -…

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    7 Mar 2023: On the death of Maclaurin it is stated by Sir Alexander Grant (Story of the Univ. of Edin. II., p. 301) that the patrons desired to appoint Stirling to the Chair but that "his Jacobite principles led him to reject the offered appointment." I am not

14. John Playfair (1748 - 1819) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J Challinor, The History of British Geology, a Bibliographical Study (Newton Abbot, 1979). ... H Coburn, Memorial's of His Time (Edinburgh, 1861). D R Dean, James Hutton and the History of Geology (London, 1992).

15. Gibson History 1 - Introduction - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to the end of the 18th Century: Part I. ... By Professor G A Gibson. (Read 6th August 1926. Received 4th January 1927.).

16. John Dougall - RSE Obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Dr Dougall maintained throughout his life an interest in the history of mathematics in Scotland, so that it was natural that he should be invited by the University of Glasgow to ... give, in 1936, the second of the Gibson Lectures on the History of

17. 1892-93 May meeting

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    31 May 2021: Location: Edinburgh Institution, Edinburgh Chair: Alison, John. Papers:. Gibson, George Alexander: "On the history of the Fourier series".

18. Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_2/

    7 Mar 2023: The low value thus placed on mathematics is not, however, peculiar to Scotland; John Wallis's Account of some Passages in his Own Life (quoted in Adamson's Short History of

19. William Trail (1746 - 1831) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: Born. 23 June 1746. Logie, near Montrose, Scotland. Died. 3 February 1831. Bath, Somerset, England. Summary. William Trail was a Scottish mathematician who became Professor of Mathematics at Aberdeen. . View one larger picture. William Trail's

20. Gibson History 4 - John Napier - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: In the Napier Tercentenary Memorial Volume Napier's achievements are so fully and interestingly set forth that I may confine myself to a short statement on one or two of the more salient topics. The conditions prevailing in Napier's day are