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1. H W Turnbull: "Scottish Contribution to the Calculus" -…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Several lectures given in the "History" part of Section VII "History and Education". ... H W Turnbull gave a lecture in "History" on The Scottish Contribution to the Early History of the Calculus.

2. David Fowler - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Fowler_David_Guardian/

   7 Mar 2023: Fowler's initial venture into history began in 1979 with a ground-breaking paper Ratio In Early Greek Mathematics, published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. ... The history of mathematics then became his major research interest, and

3. Thumbnails for early stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/early_thumbs/

   29 Apr 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. 1847: franklin_benjamin9. 1847: franklin_benjamin10. 1855: franklin_benjamin1. 1890: franklin_benjamin3. 1902: franklin_benjamin2. 1914: franklin_benjamin12. 1921: bessel4. 1923: copernicus5. 1923:

4. Early Life - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-2/

   7 Mar 2023: Although Sofia was later to realise that she was in fact her father's favourite, the lack of self-confidence which this early belief caused may have been responsible for the ... When discussing her early years Sofia herself was always quick to point out

5. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

   6 Jul 2023: Early theories of cosmology had concentric spheres for the planets to move on.. ... Although the result was conjectured as early as 1852 its proof was not completed until 1976..

6. John Scott Russell (1808 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   12 May 2024: He spoke of his work at early meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831; and the Association appointed him and Sir John Robison of Edinburgh ... R K Bullough, The Wave 'par excellence', the solitary, progressive

7. Royal Astronomical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Astronomical/

   18 Jan 2024: This article looks at the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... Visit theJ L E Dreyer and H H Turner (eds.), History of the Royal Astronomical Society (London, 1923).

8. 2015 British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2015/

   30 Apr 2023: Heard, J. The Early History of The London Mathematical Society. Hollings, C.

9. Babylonian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   18 Jan 2024: 2) 5 (3) (1996), 249-254. M A Powell Jr, The antecedents of old Babylonian place notation and the early history of Babylonian mathematics, Historia Math. ... 3 (1976), 417-439. A E Raik, From the early history of algebra.

10. Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883- 2023 - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/

    15 Mar 2024: J S Mackay (The Academy, Edinburgh) Early history of the symmedian point. ... J S Mackay (The Academy, Edinburgh) History of a theorem in elementary geometry: the isosceles triangle.