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21. Her other work - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-16/

    7 Mar 2023: Mittag-Leffler and Weierstrass both became frustrated with Sofia at times due to the manner in which they felt she wasted her time and talent on matters other than mathematics. ... The role which she played in introducing Western European ideas to

22. Elemér Kiss (1929 - 2006) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The research for which Kiss is most famous is his contributions to the history of mathematics which he began in the middle of the 1990s. ... His contributions to the history of mathematics are exclusively on topic related to János Bolyai.

23. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Jacob Palis (2010) for Mathematics (Pure and Applied):. For his fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of dynamical systems. ... Paolo Rossi Monti (2009) for History of Science:. For his major contributions to the study of the intellectual

24. Dahlin Introduction - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Ernst Mauritz Dahlin's Ph.D. thesis Contributions to the history of mathematics in Sweden before 1679 was published as a book. ... To complete the victory of Cartesian philosophy, Charles XI moved Bilberg to the faculty of Theology.

25. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: P Freguglia, The determination of π in Fibonacci's 'Practica geometriae' in a fifteenth-century manuscript (Italian), Contributions to the history of mathematics (Italian) (Modena, 1990), 75-84. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. C Pereira da Silva, A

26. Thomas Muir (1844 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    16 Feb 2024: In 1930, at the age of 86, Muir published Contributions to the history of determinants. ... It is worth thinking exactly what Muir was attempting here. Can you imagine setting out to write today (in 2003) the history of a mathematical topic from 1993 to

27. An interview with Prof Eduardo L Ortiz - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was John Simon Guggenheim Research Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University from 1996 to 1998. ... I think he was more an inspiring teacher than researcher, but unfortunately his contributions to mathematics have been largely

28. Bouchet award - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1995: Joseph Johnson III Florida, A&M University. Citation:. For outstanding research achievements in investigation of turbulent and non-equilibrium fluids, and for contributions to the development of minority scientists and ... 2006: Angel Garcia,

29. Ernst Lindelöf (1870 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Another important role which Lindelöf played in Finland was the encouragement of the study of the history of mathematics in that country. ... For his outstanding contributions to Scandinavian mathematics he was honoured by the universities of Uppsala,

30. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

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

    1 Sep 2015: In addition to the congress, they also made valuable contributions to mathematical education, and in Rudio’s case, the history of mathematics. ... highlighted. A selection of Rudio’s contributions to the history of mathematics is studied as well.