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31. Swedish Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Swedish_Academy/

    7 Mar 2023: The Academy has seven Institutes, the three most relevant to this archive being the Institute for Astrophysics, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, and the Centre for the History of Science. ... The Centre for the History of Science was established in 1988 and

32. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: L E Dickson, History of the Theory of Numbers (3 volumes) (New York, 1919-23, reprinted 1966). ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

33. Doris Hellman (1910 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Dec 2023: She was elected as a member of the Council of History of Science Society in 1949 and in 1951 she was appointed to the Pratt Institute. ... C D Hellman, History of Science, Science, New Series 131 (3397) (1960), 362-364.

34. Dodgson natural science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In answer to that question, let me sketch, in dramatic fashion, the history of her recent career in Oxford. ... undergraduates, "The feast of Science is spread!

35. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Italy/

    7 Mar 2023: Main work was in observing but he wrote an interesting history of science in Lombardy. ... Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746-1822). A priest who was a physicist, literary man, diplomat and historian of science who discovered the Venturi effect.

36. William Feller (1906 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Apr 2024: E Pitcher, Mathematical Reviews, in E Pitcher (ed.), A History of the Second Fifty Years. ... D Zubrinic, William Feller (1906-1970), History of Croatian Science, 20th-21st centuries, Croatian History (1995).

37. Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: F Henderson, Almost a Fellow: Hertha Ayrton and an embarrassing episode in the history of the Royal Society, The Royal Society of London (8 March 2012). ... M B Ogilvie, Hertha Ayrton, in Uneasy careers and intimate lives, women in science 1789-1979

38. Applied maths science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Applied mathematics is a branch of science which seeks knowledge and understanding of the external physical universe through the use of mathematical methods and scientific inference. ... Mathematics in combination with scientific inference provide the

39. Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    23 Apr 2024: To understand what Kuratowski's school years were like it is necessary to look a little at the history of Poland around the time he was born. ... History of Exact Science 24 (4) (1981), 339-388.

40. Hirst prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    27 Mar 2024: It is the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics. ... We learned of Whittaker's huge breadth of scholarship, in science, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, religion, history of physics and mathematics, and gardening