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31. Babylonian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: show). A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964). ... 2) 6 (3) (1997), 229-230. K Muroi, Babylonian mathematics - ancient mathematics written in cuneiform writing (Japanese), in Studies on the history of mathematics (Kyoto, 1998), 160

32. John Scott Russell (1808 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    9 May 2024: In 1838, Russell was an unsuccessful applicant for the chair of Mathematics, which Philip Kelland secured. ... R K Bullough, The Wave 'par excellence', the solitary, progressive great wave of equilibrium of the fluid - an early history of the solitary

33. LMS President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Mar 2024: 1866 - 1868 J J Sylvester. 1870 - 1872 W Spottiswoode. 1874 - 1876 H J S Smith. 1876 - 1878 Lord Rayleigh. 1878 - 1880 C W Merrifield. 1884 - 1886 J W L Glaisher. 1890 - 1892 G Greenhill. 1894 - 1896 P A MacMahon. 1896 - 1898 E B Elliott. 1904 -

34. Ten classics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). J-C Martzloff, A history of Chinese mathematics (Berlin-Heidelberg, 1997). J-C Martzloff, Histoire des mathématiques chinoises (Paris, 1987). ... Tenth Internat. Conf. History of Science, 1962 (Paris, 1964), 489-492. Written by J J O'Connor and E

35. Mary Ellen Rudin (1924 - 2013) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 May 2024: Mary Ellen was not working for the money, but for the love of mathematics [1]:-. ... R McCroskey Karr, J Rezaie and J E Wilson, Mary Ellen Rudin, in L S Grinstein and P J Campbell (eds.), Women of Mathematics (Westport, Conn., 1987), 190-192.

36. AMS Colloquium Lecturer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Mar 2024: T S Fiske writes:-. The summer meeting at Buffalo in 1896 is memorable for the first colloquium of the Society. ... The Colloquium of the American Mathematical Society was born and continues today with the list of speakers through the years listed.

37. Indian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: Indeed work is now being undertaken and we should soon have a better understanding of this important part of the history of mathematics. ... show). 1. R Calinger, A conceptual history of mathematics (Upper Straddle River, N.

38. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

    11 Jul 2023: You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. ... You can see a Lunar and Planetary Institute picture of the feature by clicking on the (L) next to a name.

39. Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: He studied a number of subjects, for example in addition to mathematics he studied metallurgy and Russian history. ... his ideas in set-theoretic topology, approximation theory, the theory of turbulent flow, functional analysis, the foundations of

40. AMS President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: 1889 - 1890 J H Van Amringe. 1891 - 1894 J E McClintock. 1897 - 1898 Simon Newcomb. 1899 - 1900 R S Woodward. 1901 - 1902 Eliakim Moore. 1909 - 1910 Maxime Bôcher. 1913 - 1914 E B Van Vleck. 1917 - 1918 L E Dickson. 1919 - 1920 Frank Morley. 1923 -