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41. 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 -

42. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Mar 2024: is to make people aware of the importance and the impact of mathematics on the world in which we live.The lectures are given annually, but there have been a few ... 7. December 1929. Des Moines, IA. Irving Fisher. The applications of mathematics to the

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

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

    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.

44. Emil Artin (1898 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Apr 2024: All his life Emil would have a love of music which essentially equalled his love of mathematics. ... K Miyake, The establishment of the Takagi-Artin class field theory, in The intersection of history and mathematics (Basel, 1994),109-128.

45. Donald Knuth (1938 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 Apr 2024: After completion of his doctorate in 1963 Knuth became an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, being promoted to Associate Professor in 1966. ... Nowadays mathematicians communicate by e-mail and whenever they

46. Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854 - 1923) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: Hertha did not excel in her studies of mathematics but showed amazing talents in other ways. ... F Henderson, Almost a Fellow: Hertha Ayrton and an embarrassing episode in the history of the Royal Society, The Royal Society of London (8 March 2012).

47. John Backus (1924 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: You don't by trying to find the laws of physics. J W Backus, The History of Fortran I, II and III, History of Programming Languages (New York, 1981). ... S Weiss, John Backus, The History of Computing Project. Other pages about John Backus:.

48. Agner Erlang (1878 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: thorough knowledge of the history of mathematical tables from ancient times right up to the present. ... We get further insight into his character from [3]:-. He collected a large library of books mainly on mathematics, astronomy and physics, but he was

49. Heinz Klaus Strick's biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/index2/

    1 May 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Click on the name to go to Heinz Klaus Strick's biography.

50. Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    23 Apr 2024: In 1934 he left Lwów and became professor of mathematics at the University of Warsaw. ... Kuratowski also played a major role in the publishing of mathematics in general and Polish mathematics in particular.