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31. Sources for the Math Symbols and Words Pages - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics. New York: Dover Publications, 1960. ... A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth: From the Time of Newton to that of Laplace.

32. 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.

33. Donaldson extras - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    9 Dec 2023: I was most interested in history at that time - the history school masters were keen on me. ... Part of my problem was my passion for boats all through this time.

34. Kosovar Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The date of 2008 is highly significant in the history of Kosovo which lets us understand why the Society was founded at that time. ... Kosovo was at this time an autonomous province of Serbia. The Yugoslav Mathematical Society was formed in Belgrade in

35. Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    25 Apr 2024: Although he only had a basic education, never attending college, he had a particular interest in mathematics and studied mathematics and its history in his spare time. ... Certainly, as he realised in reading about the history of mathematics, its

36. Egyptian Papyri - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: R J Gillings, Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs (Cambridge, MA., 1982). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

37. Stanley books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    26 Feb 2024: It is ridiculous to compare Enumerative Combinatorics with History of the Peloponnesian War, but I can appreciate the sentiment of Thucydides. ... The problem of analysing the running time of algorithms on a computer may be expressed precisely as an

38. Arthur Milne (1896 - 1950) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: However, his work made people rethink old ideas and led to new approaches to the fundamental concepts of space and time. ... M C Johnson, Time, knowledge and the Nebulae : an introduction to the meanings of time in physics, astronomy, and philosophy, and

39. Finnish Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The time that the Society was founded was a crucial one in the history of Finland. ... M Seppälä, Fragments of the history of the Finnish Mathematical Society (Finnish.

40. Mostow Feit - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    11 Jan 2024: and presented a lively history of mathematics that made a case for the value of the expansion of mathematical knowledge. ... at a special seminar at the time of Kazhdan's scheduled talk.