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61. Jacobi memorial - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: which gave the most abstract geometric truths an adequate form for mechanics and mathematical physics, not long after the theorems of today's potential theory were built up, in the history ... from envy and resentment, carried only by the purest love of

62. Paul Montel (1876 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: F J Beer, Paul Montel, mathématicien niçois (Nice, 1966). U Bottazzini and J Gray, Complex function theory from Zurich (1897) to Zurich (1932), in Studies in the history of modern mathematics ... B Penkov, A history-of-mathematics calendar for the year

63. Henry Watson (1827 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: This afforded him ample leisure to pursue his mathematical and scientific studies. ... 41 (1966), 385-406. D G Kendall, Branching processes since 1873, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London

64. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    30 Dec 2023: S S Petrova, On the history of Laplace's method of cascades (Russian), in Studies in the history of mathematics 19 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1974), 125-131, 301. ... S M Stigler, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXXII : Laplace, Fisher, and

65. Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: an equal appeal to those whose studies have not been in the realms of pure science. ... The crowded curriculum of the medical student has inevitably led to a greater and greater stress being laid, in the earlier scientific studies, upon the teaching

66. Raphael Weldon (1860 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Why is this zoologist in our History of Mathematics Archive? His work soon began to involve statistical analysis. ... K Pearson, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1906, in E S Pearson and M G Kendall, Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability

67. Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: O B Sheynin, Daniel Bernoulli on the normal law, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), 101-104. ... O B Sheynin, D Bernoulli's work on probability, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett

68. Eduard Wiltheiss (1855 - 1900) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: From Giessen Wiltheiss went to Berlin in 1876 to continue his mathematical studies. ... Nevertheless his work secures a continuing place for him in the history of Abelian functions.

69. James McBride (1868 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: in Experimental Physics from the University of London in 1898. It appears that his studies for the B.Sc. ... This paper studies the history of a particular geometrical problem, namely the equal internal bisectors theorem.

70. J Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: It is universally recognised that its publication was an event of the first importance in the history of chemistry. ... N V Vdovichenko, A few words in memory of J Willard Gibbs (on the 150th anniversary of his birth) (Russian), Studies in the history of