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31. Berwick Prizewinner - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: Berwick Prizes are named after Professor W E H Berwick a past vice president of the LMS.

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

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

    14 May 2024: William Braikenridge's father was John Braikenridge of Glasgow. William Braikenridge taught mathematics in Edinburgh in the 1720s. ... this is the main way in which Braikenridge enters the history of mathematics.

33. AMS Steele Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    3 Mar 2024: for his fundamental work in establishing probability as a branch of mathematics and for his continuing profound influence on its development. ... for entirely reshaping representation theory, and, in the process, changing much of mathematics.

34. Stan Ulam (1909 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 May 2024: However this required an understanding of mathematics and so, at age 14, he began to study mathematics from books, going well beyond the school level mathematics he was learning. ... He remained at Los Alamos until 1965 when he was appointed to the chair

35. Wolf Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Mar 2024: for his profound contributions to all aspects of finite group theory and connections with other branches of mathematics. ... for his many fundamental contributions to mathematical logic and set theory, and their applications within other parts of

36. Mary Ellen Rudin (1924 - 2013) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 May 2024: Mary Ellen was not working for the money, but for the love of mathematics [1]:-. ... R McCroskey Karr, J Rezaie and J E Wilson, Mary Ellen Rudin, in L S Grinstein and P J Campbell (eds.), Women of Mathematics (Westport, Conn., 1987), 190-192.

37. Abel Prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Mar 2024: for playing a key role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebraic geometry and number theory. ... for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading

38. Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

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

39. EMS Presidents - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/EMSPresidents/

    7 Mar 2023: The Edinburgh Mathematical Society was founded in 1883. The first president was elected at the first meeting of the Society which took place at 8 p.m. ... on Friday 2 February 1883 in the Mathematics Classroom of Edinburgh University.

40. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    1 Apr 2024: compasses This was the most major advance in this field since the time of Greek mathematics and was published as Section VII of Gauss's famous work, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae. ... Comput. Graph. Statist. 4 (1) (1995), 1-11. S M Stigler, The History of