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21. Professor Paul Cohn - Times obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The funding cuts of the early 1980s led to the closure of the small colleges of the University of London. ... He read widely and developed a particular interest in German history, the background to his early troubles, of which he would talk freely.

22. Felix Klein (1849 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: D E Rowe, The early geometrical works of Sophus Lie and Felix Klein, The history of modern mathematics I (Boston, MA, 1989), 209-273. ... D E Rowe, The philosophical views of Klein and Hilbert, The intersection of history and mathematics, Sci.

23. Johan de Witt - The first calculation on the valuation of life…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Daxenberger/

    7 Mar 2023: Kopf, E.W. (1927) The early history of the annuity. New York: printed by L.W. ... Assurance Magazine II, pp. 393-395. Poitras, G. (2000) The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478-1776: From Commercial Arithmetic to Life Annuities and Joint Stocks.

24. Gordon Preston on semigroups - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: G B Preston, Personal reminiscences of the early history of semigroups, in Monash Conference on Semigroup Theory, Melbourne, 1990 (World Sci. ... There must be many of you here who know as much, or more, of this early history than I do.

25. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (I) -…

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

    23 Jan 2024: See M. G. Kendall "The Early History of Index Numbers" in M. ... th. or early 19. th. century. (A History of Inverse Probability from Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson.).

26. Egyptian Papyri - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: show). A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

27. Australian Academy of Science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The foundation stone for the Academy's building was laid on 2 May 1958 when John Eccles delivered a speech explaining the early history of the Academy [2]:-. ... The quote above giving the early history of the Academy came from the laying the foundation

28. Max Newman (1897 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: He ran this section admirably. He soon became involved in designing a much more advanced machine, which many think has a place in the early history of digital computers. ... His early work on Combinatory Topology has exercised a decisive influence on the

29. Maini_papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In early embryonic development, fibroblast cells move through an extracellular matrix (ECM) exerting large traction forces which deform the ECM. ... Rep. 171 (2) (1988), 59-84. The central issue in development is the formation of spatial patterns of

30. Indian Mathematics - Redressing the balance - Projects - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: J. (1998). A History of Mathematics (an introduction). USA: Addison-Wesley. Rashed, R. ... 2000). Birth and Early Development of Indian Astronomy. The History of Non-Western Astronomy, 303-340.