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11. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2010/

    7 Mar 2023: Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (National University of Ireland Maynooth), The lessons that struggling mathematics students can learn from the History of Mathematics. ... Daniel Mintz (University of St Andrews), Mathematics for History's Sake: A New Approach to

12. A Brief History of Time and Calendars - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/bhistory/

    7 Mar 2023: Astronomy is at the heart of many early civilizations and one of its most important applications is that of time keeping. ... This reflects the lack of information that historians of science have as they delve further back into history.

13. The history of a history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/about_us/

    7 Mar 2023: One of the things we added quite early on was a certain amount of material on the history of mathematics. ... Our early system had links to a few hundred of the most well-known mathematicians as well as a collection of essays on the history of various

14. Early Indian culture - Indus civilisation - Indian Mathematics -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/chapter-3/

    7 Mar 2023: Figure 3.1: Ruler found at Lothal. [SSr1, P17]. Above all else there are also brief references to an early decimal system of numeration. ... This lends indirect support to suggestions of the existence of early decimal numeral forms.

15. Carrier papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Even before the award of his Ph.D., Carrier was submitting papers. The first was Provided stress analysis for the case of anisotropic rotating disks of uniform thickness (1943) and the second was The thermal-stress and body-force problems of the

16. George Darwin (1845 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: One of his theories, namely that the Moon was pulled from a molten Earth early in its history by tidal action of the Sun, is now considered incorrect.

17. London Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: J W L Glaisher, Notes on the early history of the Society, J. ... London Math. Soc. 1 (1926), 51-64. A Rice, The London Mathematical Society : A brief history, European Mathematical Society Newsletter 37 (September, 2000), 28-29.

18. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

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

    16 Apr 2024: The history of the use of the function in probability is traced in S. ... 39. The history of the contributing inequalities is given in Inequalities byand G.

19. Brachistochrone problem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: K Pedersen and K M Pedersen, The early history of the calculus of variations (Danish), Nordisk Mat.

20. Downing publications - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: A M W Downing began publishing in 1877 and by the following year had around a dozen notes and papers in print. We give some extracts from a few of these below. A Determination of the Semi-diameter of Venus at the mean distance of the Sun from the