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21. Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: As well as being professor of mathematics, he was also the professor of Arabic. ... This new branch of mathematics enabled the mathematician to study properties of curves by algebraic means.

22. AMS Colloquium Lecturer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Mar 2024: T S Fiske writes:-. The summer meeting at Buffalo in 1896 is memorable for the first colloquium of the Society. ... The Colloquium of the American Mathematical Society was born and continues today with the list of speakers through the years listed.

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

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

    12 May 2024: Here he was first introduced to science and he began to show a liking for mathematics, particularly as a result of some fine teaching. ... Fresnel published his first tentative results in July 1816 but asked that the readers of his article show patience

24. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

    11 Jul 2023: You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. ... Click on the name to access the MacTutor biography. CATENAS. James).

25. Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750 - 1800) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: At first he taught rhetoric then, from 1778, he taught physics and mathematics at the seminary at Bergamo. ... The article [3] gives an idea of the content of Mascheroni's book.

26. AMS President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: 1889 - 1890 J H Van Amringe. 1891 - 1894 J E McClintock. 1897 - 1898 Simon Newcomb. 1899 - 1900 R S Woodward. 1901 - 1902 Eliakim Moore. 1909 - 1910 Maxime Bôcher. 1913 - 1914 E B Van Vleck. 1917 - 1918 L E Dickson. 1919 - 1920 Frank Morley. 1923 -

27. Pictures of Alice Everett - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Everett/pictdisplay/

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28. Paris street names - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 Oct 2023: A Walk around the the Latin Quarter of Paris is available at THIS LINK. ... Click on the name below to go to the biography. The Mairie de Paris have a website at THIS LINK giving the history of all Parisian street names and if you

29. Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Indexes/alphname_M/

    7 Mar 2023: Click on a name below to see details of that mathematician.

30. Pictures of Annie Scott Dill Maunder - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maunder/pictdisplay/

    17 May 2024: Maunder with her telescopes.