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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/RSE/FRSE/

    7 Mar 2023: Below is a list of about 300 Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh who were (among other things) mathematicians. ... There is also a list ordered by date of election, and you can also read about the history of the RSE.

  5. 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

  6. Stamps thumbnails - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    29 Apr 2024: durer19. Democratic Republic of the Congo 1978. ... einstein22. Democratic Republic of the Congo 1979.

  7. Clay Award - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: for a lifetime of achievement, especially for pointing the way to unify apparently disparate fields of mathematics and to discover their elegant simplicity through links with the physical world. ... global existence theorems for KdV type equations, as

  8. Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian (1908 - 1996) - Biography -…

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

    29 Apr 2024: A Blaauw, History of the IAU: The Birth and First Half-Century of the IAU (Kluwer, Boston, 1994). ... A I Eremeeva, Political Repression and Personality: The History of Political Repression Against Soviet Astronomers, J.

  9. Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Apr 2024: Banach] was pleasant in dealings with his colleagues, but outside of mathematics he was not interested in anything. ... Andrzej Turowicz, also a professor of mathematics at the an Kazimierz University in Lwów, also described Banach's style of working

  10. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    28 Apr 2024: The official setting up of the Indian Statistical Institute was on 17 December 1931 when Mahalanobis, together with the Professor of Economics and the Professor of Applied Mathematics at Presidency College ... the Institute may hold such examinations and