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  1. 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,

  2. Zero - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: J., 1999). G Ifrah, From one to zero : A universal history of numbers (New York, 1987). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

  3. 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.

  4. African women 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_women_2/

    7 Mar 2023: The list continues with those whose doctorates were obtained between 1997 and 2006. The earlier part of the list is at THIS LINK.. Souad Ameziane HASSANI. Country: Morocco. Year: 1997. Degree: Doctorat. Thesis title: Not known. University:

  5. Alec Aitken (1895 - 1967) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Born. 1 April 1895. Died. 3 November 1967. Edinburgh, Scotland. Summary. Alec Aitken was a New Zealand mathematician who served at Gallipoli and in France. He had a prodigious memory and calculating ability and worked in Statistics, Numerical

  6. William Thomson (1824 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science A 65-66 suppl.C (2017), 74-86.

  7. Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: A quote from these writings is particularly relevant to this archive on the history of mathematics. ... In 1908 he wrote:-. The true method of foreseeing the future of mathematics is to study its history and its actual state.

  8. P G Tait (1831 - 1901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Jan 2024: these. It would be quite impossible in an article of this length to cover all the topics which Tait worked on. ... Tait wrote a highly prejudiced account of the history of thermodynamics which was stupidly pro-British and Tyndall was right to be offended.

  9. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J A Kox, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the Ether and the General Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 67-78.

  10. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: and Malebranche, discussing with Arnauld a variety of topics but particularly church reunification. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961), 563-576.