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  1. Gibson History 11 - John Playfair, Sir John Leslie - MacTutor History …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_11/

    7 Mar 2023: Playfair in particular was widely read in the history of mathematics, was in spite of (perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "because of ") his great admiration for Newton, disappointed ... been "assumed by others, particularly by Ludlam in his

  2. African women 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_women_1/

    18 Jan 2024: The International and African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa produced a Special Issue of their AMUCHMA Newsletter 33 in 2006 which listed women born in Africa ... Her publications include The use of history of

  3. Fellow of the Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: The list of fellows given below is only those scientists elected Fellows of the Royal Society whose biographies appear in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, together with some present day ... mathematicians. The list also gives their date of

  4. Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    25 Apr 2024: Although he only had a basic education, never attending college, he had a particular interest in mathematics and studied mathematics and its history in his spare time. ... Certainly, as he realised in reading about the history of mathematics, its

  5. Cajori history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Florian Cajori wrote A history of mathematics which was published by The Macmillan Company in London in 1893. ... Again we gain two insights, one into the history of mathematics, the other into Cajori's views:-.

  6. Other mathematical stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    25 Apr 2024: Issued by Romania in 2004 : history of calculators postcardsthe Original Odhner Counter produced in Gothenburg). ... Issued by Brazil in 1967 celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium moebius1.

  7. African men 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: I am particularly active in the history of Arabic mathematics and the history of mathematics teaching in Arabic/Islamic countries. ... The Debate about the Market and the State (1993). His interests are in Algebraic number theory, Commutative Algebra,

  8. Descartes on History - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: René Descartes wrote the following in a letter responding to having read John Pell's Idea of Mathematics:. ... I distinguish between the History and the Science of Mathematics. By the History I mean all that has already been discovered and contained in

  9. International Congress Speaker - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Mar 2024: André Weil, History of Mathematics: Why and How. ... Kim Plofker, "Indian" Rules, "Yavana" Rules: Foreign Identity and the Transmission of Mathematics.

  10. Vladimir Drinfeld (1954 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    23 Apr 2024: Thus I reverse the history of the subject, hoping to make its logic clearer. ... Drinfeld's work deeply influenced the world of mathematics of the last two decades," said Manin, who served as Drinfeld's and Beilinson's Ph.D.