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11. 1908 ICM - Rome - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Rome_1908/

    15 Dec 2023: For those who minutely investigate, as for those who seek the history of civilisation in large strokes and in summary, the recent excavations of the Roman Forum, due to the brilliant ... a secular experience does not tell to us that the most abstract

12. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2004/

    7 Mar 2023: László Filep, Third Conference on the History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics. ... Margit Tarcsi, Once Upon a Time. Agnes Tuska, History of Mathematics for Teachers of Upper Grades.

13. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (E) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/e/

    7 Mar 2023: Some time ago I researched the history of the power and related methods to compute eigenvectors and found out that these methods were used first for differential and integral equations, before ... very different things, as the history of science teaches."

14. Mathematics at Aberdeen 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Betty Ponting published a two-part article on the history of Mathematics at Aberdeen in The Aberdeen University Review. ... The students were then subjected to Chronology, a list of dates from the time of the Creation (roughly 4000 B.C.) to 1629 with a

15. SIR THOMAS MUIR, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. - EMS obituary - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Muir_obituary/

    7 Mar 2023: As his great lifework, the history of determinants, came to absorb more and more of his time and attention, it was only natural that his later papers should be almost exclusively ... Africa, the other to give a survey and adequate account of his 307

16. Isaac Schoenberg: Mathematical time exposures - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1983, ten years after he retired, Isaac Schoenberg published Mathematical time exposures. ... In conscious tribute, Schoenberg has described his 18 more-or-less independent essays as "time exposures", claiming that his "aims are roughly similar, but

17. William Braikenridge (1700 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    14 May 2024: this is the main way in which Braikenridge enters the history of mathematics. ... If this was only meant as a piece of innocent history to show that you were at that time in a more exalted position than I was, this is very well

18. AMS Fulkerson Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/AMSFulkerson/

    8 Mar 2024: 4, 761-777. Alexander Schrijver. for 'A combinatorial algorithm minimizing submodular functions in strongly polynomial time', Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 80 (2000), no. ... Mark Jerrum, Alistair Sinclair and Eric Vigoda. for 'A

19. History of Astronomy Index page - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/

    7 Mar 2023: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - ... Sir Isaac Newton. Astronomy and mathematics have been intimately linked throughout history, and nearly 600 astronomers feature in the MacTutor history of mathematics archive.

20. 1900 ICM - Paris - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Paris_1900/

    15 Dec 2023: It was delivered at the Congress in a joint session of the Teaching Section and of the History Section. ... Another point worth making is that, because of lack of time, Hilbert only spoke about 10 of his 23 problems in the lecture although all 23 appear