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31. Gibson History 9 - Colin Maclaurin - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_9/

    7 Mar 2023: In what I have to say of Maclaurin I borrow freely from Mr Tweedie's articles, but I hope that all interested in the history of mathematics will have the good ... In estimating Maclaurin's place in the history of mathematics we should, I think, interpret

32. Matthew Stewart (1717 - 1785) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart; John Stewart; William Trail.

33. John Leslie (1766 - 1832) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: As well as writing textbooks on mathematics and works on natural philosophy, Leslie anonymously translated Buffon's multivolume "Natural History". , ... century, Annals of Science 26 (1970), 273-304. R G Olson, Scottish philosophy and mathematics :

34. James Gregory (1638 - 1675) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: A Malet, James Gregorie on Tangents and the 'Taylor' Rule for Series Expansions, Archive for History of Exact Science 46 (1993-94), 97-137.

35. James Stirling (1692 - 1770) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: I Tweedle, James Stirling's early work on acceleration of convergence, Archive for History of Exact Science 45 (1992), 105-125.

36. Gibson appointment - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: George Alexander Gibson was appointed to the Chair of Mathematics in Glasgow University in 1909. ... Professor Gibson is a native of Greenlaw, Berwickshire, where he was born in 1858, and he is a graduate of Glasgow University.

37. 125th Anniversary 1 The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded ... PDF (2493k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/booklet.pdf

    16 Jun 2020: He published several important textbooks and was an enthusiast for the History of Mathematics. ... More details at: http://www-history.mcs.st-. and.ac.uk/Biographies/Gibson.html Robert Gillespie Born 1903 at Johnstone, Renfrewshire; Died 1977 EMS

38. Tom Whiteside (1932 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: In this annotated version of his ninth Gibson Lecture in the history of mathematics, delivered at the University of Glasgow on 21 October 1969, the author shows how feeble the documentary ... Whiteside received many honours for his outstanding

39. David Gregory (1659 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: C M Eagles, David Gregory and Newtonian Science, British Journal for the History of Science 10 (1977), 216-225.

40. Moritz Cantor (1829 - 1920) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: George Gibson, in the review [7], writes:-. It hardly requires to be stated that this history is certain to remain for many years the standard work on the subject with which ... G A Gibson, Review: Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik (Vols I, II