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41. Report on the 2018 St Andrews BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2018/Report2018/

    7 Mar 2023: There was a total of 172 registered participants. We believe that the Colloquium was very successful. ... There were 5 workshops, in Algebra, Analysis & Probability, Combinatorics, Dynamics, History of Mathematics, each of which comprised 8 thirty-five

42. Quaternion Association - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: For a version of this paper ([6] in the references below), see THIS LINK. ... show). M J Crowe, A history of vector analysis: The evolution of the idea of a vectorial system (Courier Corporation, 1967).

43. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (A) -…

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

    30 Dec 2023: ANALYSIS is a term with a long history in Mathematics and its meaning has changed several times. ... E. Montucla, "A History of Mathematics," in The Critical Review; or, Annals of Literature; Extended & Improved: "Several new branches of analysis having

44. function concept - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: in that year in which he makes the function concept central to his presentation of analysis. ... H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003).

45. Frank Smithies (1912 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Died. 16 November 2002. Cambridge, England. Summary. Frank Smithies was a Scottish mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. . ... London Math. Soc. 29 (2) (1997), 129-138. F Smithies, Cauchy's

46. Edmund Landau: "Foundations of Analysis" Prefaces -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The full title, including subtitles, was Foundations of Analysis: the Arithmetic of Whole, Rational, Irrational and Complex Number: A Supplement to Text-Books on the Differential and Integral Calculus. ... For the next Spring term (as once before) I have

47. Report on the 2011 Leicester BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2011/Report2011/

    7 Mar 2023: 6 afternoon research workshops (on algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and number theory, dynamical systems, representation theory, differential geometry and harmonic analysis). ... Other sessions including afternoon splinter groups on the history of

48. Earliest Uses of Symbols in Probability and Statistics - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/stat/

    7 Mar 2023: established with a different meaning in the analysis of variance and in correlation. ... R. A. Fisher used z in the analysis of variance (see the entry.

49. Pell's equation - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). I G Bashmakova and E I Slavutin, History of Diophantine analysis (Russian) : From Diophantus to Fermat "Nauka" (Moscow, 1984). ... C Brezinski, History of continued fractions and Padé approximants (Berlin, 1991).

50. The Dundee Numerical Analysis Conferences - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: This included an Honours course in numerical analysis, taught mainly by Jim Fulton, although Mike Osborne contributed some lectures on the numerical solution of differential equations. ... The 2005 meeting included a special lecture sponsored by the IMA,