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11. ‘A man who has infinite capacity for making things go’: Sir Edmund… PDF (836k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BSHM/Maidment_Whitaker.pdf

    26 May 2019: 8 British Journal for the History of Mathematics. 53). In furthering the practice of computation, the Mathematical Laboratory made useof some of the most modern calculating machines. ... Born went onto win the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his

12. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (I) -…

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

    23 Jan 2024: 332: "In the annual Commercial History and Review of the Economist newspaper, there has, for many years, appeared a table containing the Total Index Number of prices, or the arithmetical sum ... G. Kendall and R. L. Plackett Studies in the History of

13. Thomas Simpson (1710 - 1761) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: R W Farebrother, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLII. ... S M Stigler, Studies in the history of probability and statistics.

14. Babylonian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: Cuneiform Stud. 33 (1) (1981), 57-64. S Gandz, A few notes on Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage ... 2) 6 (3) (1997), 229-230. K Muroi, Babylonian mathematics - ancient

15. An early manuscript of MacLaurin’s: mathematical modelling of the ... PDF (246k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/tweddle_maclaurin.pdf

    29 Jun 2021: he continued his studies in mathematics and philosophy and read classic authors. ... mathematical papers’ in the Colin Campbell Collection, Edinburgh University Library. (GB 237 Coll–38).

16. Eisele papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: and studies of nomenclature and the history of mathematics. ... In the introduction to a series of lectures on the history of science in 1892 Peirce mentioned the motivations for such studies and his own interest in discovering how such 'truth'

17. Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    4 Jan 2024: 29 (1) (1983), 95-100. B V Bulyubash, The problems of electrodynamics in Helmholtz' discussion with Weber (Russian), in Studies in the history of physics and mechanics, 1986 (Russian) 'Nauka' (Moscow, ... L L Kul'vetsas, The status of the concept of

18. Cosmology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: G F R Ellis, The expanding universe : a history of cosmology from 1917 to 1960, in Einstein and the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1989), 367-431. ... H Urbantke, Schrödinger and cosmology, in Studies in the history of general relativity

19. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Mar 2024: G Berg, On the origin of the concept of an Einstein space, in Studies in the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1992), 336-343; 460. ... L Kostro, An outline of the history of Einstein's relativistic ether concept, in Studies in the history of

20. Ginsburg books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Nov 2023: Interest in the history of scientific thought in American colonies is notable, particularly in medicine, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics. ... The last chapter gives the history of certain words in the terminology of arithmetic.