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Emil Artin (1898 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Artin/23 Apr 2024: All his life Emil would have a love of music which essentially equalled his love of mathematics. ... K Miyake, The establishment of the Takagi-Artin class field theory, in The intersection of history and mathematics (Basel, 1994),109-128.
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Donald Knuth (1938 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Knuth/19 Apr 2024: After completion of his doctorate in 1963 Knuth became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1966. ... Nowadays mathematicians communicate by e-mail and whenever they
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Yuri Ivanovich Manin (1937 - 2023) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Manin/29 Mar 2024: The computational formalism of mathematics is a thought process that is externalised to such a degree that for a time it becomes alien and is turned into a technological process. ... His interests beyond mathematics are also extremely varied. Manin has
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Herta Freitag (1908 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Freitag/9 May 2024: The fusion of the history of mathematics with its teaching and learning promises desirable outcomes for both student and teacher. ... H T Freitag and A H Freitag, Using the history of mathematics in teaching on the secondary school level, The Mathematics
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Sylvester Medal - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/SylvesterMedal/10 Mar 2024: for his distinguished work on the foundations of mathematics. 1937 Augustus E H Love. ... 1994 Peter Whittle. for his major distinctive contributions to time series analysis, to optimisation theory, and to a wide range of topics in applied probability
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Savilian Chairs - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Savilian/29 Mar 2024: See Savile's biography for details of what the professors were required to teach. ... Again, see Savile's biography for details of what the professors were required to teach.
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Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kolmogorov/28 Apr 2024: He studied a number of subjects, for example in addition to mathematics he studied metallurgy and Russian history. ... his ideas in set-theoretic topology, approximation theory, the theory of turbulent flow, functional analysis, the foundations of
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- MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Gibbs_Lectures/10 Mar 2024: is to make people aware of the importance and the impact of mathematics on the world in which we live.The lectures are given annually, but there have been a few ... 7. December 1929. Des Moines, IA. Irving Fisher. The applications of mathematics to the
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Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale/12 May 2024: However, what is less well known about this amazing woman is her love of mathematics, especially statistics, and how this love played an important part in her life's work. ... Nightingale's knowledge of mathematics became evident when she used her
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William Coppel (1930 - 2023) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Coppel/9 May 2024: Stephen studied history and worked as a print curator at the National Gallery of Australia, and later for over 30 years at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper in the Department ... He withdrew into himself, confining his company to his immediate