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41. Felix Klein (1849 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: G Birkhoff and M K Bennett, Felix Klein and his 'Erlanger Programm', History and philosophy of modern mathematics, Minnesota Stud. ... D E Rowe, The philosophical views of Klein and Hilbert, The intersection of history and mathematics, Sci.

42. Georgy Voronoy (1868 - 1908) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: Today they have wide applications to the analysis of spatially distributed data, so have become important in topics such as geophysics and meteorology. ... There he met Minkowski and they discovered that they were each working on similar topics.

43. Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: He studied a number of subjects, for example in addition to mathematics he studied metallurgy and Russian history. ... his ideas in set-theoretic topology, approximation theory, the theory of turbulent flow, functional analysis, the foundations of

44. Stan Ulam (1909 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 May 2024: Soon after I met him, I was made to understand that, as far as our conversations went, his drama would be one of the Forbidden Topics.

45. African men 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_men_1/

    10 Jul 2023: Thesis title: Some topics in the theory of non-linear differential equations of the third order. ... I am particularly active in the history of Arabic mathematics and the history of mathematics teaching in Arabic/Islamic countries.

46. Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Mar 2024: C B Boyer, The Age of Euler, in A History of Mathematics (1968). ... E Knobloch, Leibniz and Euler : problems and solutions concerning infinitesimal geometry and calculus, Conference on the History of Mathematics (Rende, 1991), 293-313.

47. The Scottish Book - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Apr 2024: As most readers will realize, the city of Lwow, and with it the "Scottish Book", was fated to have a very stormy history within a few years of the book's ... I should be grateful if the recipients of this collection were willing to point out errors,

48. Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Apr 2024: The editorial policy was:-. to focus on research in functional analysis and related topics.

49. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 - 1857) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: A N Bogolyubov, Augustin Cauchy and his contribution to mechanics and physics (Russian), Studies in the history of physics and mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1988), 179-201. ... Philos. Sci. 30 (3) (1979), 261-265. H Freudenthal, Did Cauchy plagiarise

50. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Perhaps his most famous work, however, is History of Greek Mathematics which appeared in 1921. ... Following the publication of History of Greek Mathematics he was elected president of the Mathematical Association for 1922-23.