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  1. Ahlfors' Complex Analysis preface - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Lars Ahlfors published his famous book Complex Analysis in 1953. There were several later editions but we reproduce here a version of the Preface to the First Edition of 1953:. ... The author has omitted these topics mainly to keep down the bulk of this

  2. ‘A man who has infinite capacity for making things go’: Sir Edmund… PDF (836k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BSHM/Maidment_Whitaker.pdf

    26 May 2019: Historically, the problem often related to theSun, Moon, and Earth. 4 British Journal for the History of Mathematics. ... 1900–1926, London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1st edition, 1953. 14 British Journal for the History of Mathematics.

  3. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/Eminger.pdf

    1 Sep 2015: highlighted. A selection of Rudio’s contributions to the history of mathematics is studied as well. ... Neither achieved lasting mathematical fame, but both made valuable contributions in related fields, such as education and the history of mathematics.

  4. John Sturgeon Mackay - Gazette Obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: It is not possible to enter here on an analysis of his contributions to the history of geometry; most of these are contained in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, ... valuable guide to one aspect of English mathematical history.

  5. Imre Lakatos (1922 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: This article, Cauchy and the Continuum : The Significance of Non-Standard Analysis for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics is one of the most enjoyable that I have read. ... T Koetsier, Negation in the development of mathematics: Plato, Lakatos,

  6. Godement's preface - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Secondly, I strongly insisted, sometimes using developments in ordinary language, on the basic ideas of analysis and, in some cases, on their historical evolution. ... This only means that the aim of an exposition of the principles of analysis is not to

  7. Report on BMC 2008 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2008/Report2008/

    7 Mar 2023: In addition there were:. Twelve morning lectures;. Three special sessions (Number Theory, Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Stochastic PDEs and Stochastic Analysis);. ... A history of mathematics lecture (Edmund Robertson);. Four special

  8. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (D) -…

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

    23 Jan 2024: Compare. DATA ANALYSIS. and. EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS. DESIGN MATRIX in the analysis of variance and regression. ... D. Tocher's "The Design and Analysis of Block Experiments," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B, 14, (1952), p.

  9. Luxembourg Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: A leading expert on the history of mathematics he published books such as L'analyse harmonique. ... In addition he published many papers on the History of Mathematics, and several on Harmonic Analysis and Functional Analysis.

  10. General relativity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: J Earman and C Glymour, The gravitational red shift as a test of general relativity : history and analysis, Stud. ... D Howard and J Stachel (eds.), Einstein and the history of general relativity (Boston, 1989).