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1. MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   27 Mar 2024: category. MacTutor was created and is maintained by Edmund Robertson and John O'Connor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, and is hosted by ... Their contributions to the history of mathematics have been

2. History overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Copernicus and Galileo revolutionised the applications of mathematics to the study of the universe. ... How we view history. We view the history of mathematics from our own position of understanding and sophistication.

3. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: The idea of Conferences on the History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics came from Katalin Munkácsy (Eőtvős University of Budapest). ... Details of each of the conferences are available at the links below.

4. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Balzan_Prize/

   7 Mar 2023: For his exceptional results in many fields of mathematics, such as topology, geometry, the theory of Kleinian groups, analysis, and number theory. ... For his outstanding success in promoting interest and further research in the history of science.

5. Gibson: "History of Scottish Mathematics" - MacTutor…

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

   7 Mar 2023: The first paper in the new Series was by George Gibson and it was the first part of his two-part paper Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to ... Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools.

6. Links to other Mathematics pages - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   19 May 2023: The British Society for the History of Mathematics. ... W. Rouse Ball's. A short account of the history of mathematics.

7. Birthplace Map - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Map/

   7 Mar 2023: No Location Chosen. Choose a location on the map to see which mathematicians were born there.

8. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

   6 Jul 2023: Diogenes Laertius (3rd century BC) was a Greek author who wrote an important history of Greek philosophy. ... Groups of permutations, symmetries, matrices,. are widely used in many areas of mathematics and physics..

9. Jeff Miller's postage stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/stamps/

   25 Apr 2024: Issued by Norway in 2002, on the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth. ... HRONEC, Jur Issued by Czechoslovakia in 1963, for the centenary of the Czech Mathematics and Physics Union.

10. William Feller (1906 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Apr 2024: In retrospect, nothing could be farther from the truth. Feller's treatise on probability is one of the great masterpieces of mathematics of all time. ... History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics (2016), 61-70. C J Stone, Review: An Introduction