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41. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    1 Apr 2024: Comput. Graph. Statist. 4 (1) (1995), 1-11. S M Stigler, The History of Statistics.

42. 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.

43. Augustin Fresnel (1788 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 May 2024: Born. 10 May 1788. Died. 14 July 1827. Ville-d'Avray, France. Summary. Augustin Fresnel did important work on optics where he was one of the founders of the wave theory of light. . View two larger pictures. Augustin Fresnel's parents were Jacques

44. 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

45. 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.

46. 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).

47. 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:

48. 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.

49. Arabic numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 May 2024: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).

50. 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