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41. Rudolf Wolf (1816 - 1893) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: It is likely that only after 1884 was Wolf aware of the history of the problem, and that Buffon was the first to propose it. ... Wolf also made significant contributions to the history of science. He discovered where the correspondence of Johann

42. Garding books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: The book treats Backlund transformations, Mittag-Leffler's theorem, the Phragmen-Lindelof theorem and Carleman's contributions to the spectral theorem, quantum mechanics, and the asymptotics of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. ... As the redundancy in the

43. Heinrich Tietze (1880 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... H Reitberger, The contributions of L Vietoris and H Tietze to the foundations of general topology, in Handbook of the

44. Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde (1735 - 1796) - Biography - MacTutor …

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

    28 Feb 2024: T Muir, History of determinants Volume 3 (1920). J H Przytycki, History of the knot theory from Vandermonde to Jones, in XXIVth National Congress of the Mexican Mathematical Society (México City, ... 15 (4) (1988), 361-367. J J Tattersall, Vandermonde's

45. Yau books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Nov 2023: A History in Sum elucidates the contributions of these extraordinary minds and makes clear why the history of the Harvard mathematics department is an essential part of the history of mathematics ... 2006) are linked by "The War and Its Aftermath," as

46. Hans Wussing (1927 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Wussing received many honours for his outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics. ... The most prestigious of these was the Kenneth O May Prize given for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics.

47. John Backus (1924 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification ... In 1997 he received the

48. Atiyah awards - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: From 1937 to 1983 the medal was given for especially noteworthy contributions to the American Philosophical Society. ... And in 1987, the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Public Service was established to honour exceptional contributions to the

49. Dirk Struik (1894 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He turned his attention to a number of topics of special interest to him, in particular to promoting the history of the sciences, especially mathematics, in Latin America. ... D E Rowe, Dirk Jan Struik and his contributions to the history of mathematics,

50. Gordon Preston on semigroups - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1990 a conference was held in Melbourne, Australia, to pay tribute to the contributions of Gordon Preston. ... G B Preston, Personal reminiscences of the early history of semigroups, in Monash Conference on Semigroup Theory, Melbourne, 1990 (World Sci.