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21. Italian Mathematical Union - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: It is reasonable to ask why. The reason must be the way that mathematics was supported in Italy at the time. ... A section on the history of mathematics was added in 1939 and at the same time it began publishing articles on mathematical education.

22. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (H) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: 74.). These terms have been around for a long time but notoriously the history of slang is hard to document. ... 2. The lectures are described by S. M. Stigler History of Statistics pp.

23. The Classical period: III. Brahmagupta, and the influence on Arabia - …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/chapter-11/

    7 Mar 2023: L Gurjar describes his results as:. Unique in the history of world mathematics. ... However Indian mathematics continued to flourish independently throughout the subcontinent for another 400 years, and some of the most outstanding contributions to the

24. Decimal time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: the first two volumes of which appeared in 1799, was written using the new units of time and angle. ... However Laplace was one of the few to greet the changes in the units of time and angle with any enthusiasm.

25. Marshall Stone (1903 - 1989) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Apr 2024: my conviction that the time was also ripe for a fundamental revision of graduate and undergraduate mathematical education. ... This was [8]:-. an important event in the history of. American mathematics.

26. Dehn on Aristotle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: However, he dedicated considerable attention to the topic of space and time as continua, at first on their properties on "a small scale". ... In deriving time measurement from movement, the concept of number take on a significant role.

27. 1990 ICM - Kyoto - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Kyoto_1990/

    15 Dec 2023: It appears that the attendance is the highest in the history of ICM. ... This seems to be an almost megalomaniac dream at this time of specialisation.

28. Swedish Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The aims set out by the Academy at the time of its foundations were:-. ... Each year a theme is chosen and mathematicians, up to 35 at any one time, working in that area can visit for periods of time.

29. African women 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_women_1/

    18 Jan 2024: Her publications include The use of history of mathematics in the teaching of mathematics in secondary education (1983). ... At the time of writing these papers she was on a research visit to the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

30. The Structure of the Solar System - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Using this hypothesis, he was able to predict the transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun, for the first time in human history. ... D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013).