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41. Herman Goldstine (1913 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    16 Apr 2024: It was of course a decision with momentous consequences for the early history of the computer. ... A history of the calculus of variations from the 17th through the 19th century was published in 1980.

42. Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: Some of Ginsburg's papers, published around 1930, are: Note on Stirling's Numbers (1928); On the Early History of the Decimal Point (1928); Napier on the Napier Rods (1929); and ... J Ginsburg, On the Early History of the Decimal Point, The American

43. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Apr 2024: But this does not reduce the value of the article, rather it helps us to understand how the history of mathematics develops. ... It may seem strange that a proposition whose proof (as given in modern textbooks) is comparatively difficult, should have

44. Tom Apostol (1923 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1974 Jane Apostol began publishing research articles, mostly on South Pasadena local history. ... F J Swetz, Review: Project MATHEMATICS! Early History of Mathematics, by Tom M Apostol, The Mathematics Teacher 95 (2) (2002), 158-159.

45. Leucippus (480 BC - 420 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The reason that some early writers did not believe in the existence of Leucippus seems to be because his views and those of Democritus became completely entwined. ... C Bailey, The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (Oxford, 1928). J Barnes, Early Greek

46. Cosmology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). D Basu, Early history of cosmology, Indian Sci. Cruiser 8 (1) (1994), 17-23. ... H Urbantke, Schrödinger and cosmology, in Studies in the history of general relativity (Boston, MA, 1992) 453-459.

47. Smith's History Papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Possible Boundaries in the Early History of Mathematics. Amer. Math. Monthly 45 (8) (1938), 511-515. ... I well recall that in one of our visits we dwelt upon the possibility of the opening of new regions in the early history of the subject, necessarily

48. Luigi Amoroso (1886 - 1965) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: J H Keppler, Luigi Amoroso (1886-1965): Mathematical Economist, Italian Corporatist, History of Political Economy 26 (4) (1994), 589-611. ... A G Monroy and E Minelli, Consumer Theory and Axiomatics: A Note on an Early Contribution by Luigi Amoroso,

49. Guglielmo Righini (1908 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: his great predecessors in that field, unique benefits to the history of science result. ... 2008). 1966 - The Flood, Museo Galileo, Institute and Museum of the History of Science.

50. David Eugene Smith (1860 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Books of all periods of history and of all countries are found there. ... He was the founder of the History of Science Society and founded the journal Scripta Mathematica.