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31. Mathematics at Aberdeen 4 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_4/

    7 Mar 2023: From the available lecture notes, Natural History seems to have been of dwindling importance, forming only a small part of the course by the end of the century. ... He taught the Mathematics and Natural History course until 1811, when, exercising his

32. St Andrews Physics Examinations - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: At the University of St Andrews two Natural Philosophy papers were set in October 1884 and two papers on the same topics in April 1884. ... In addtition two papers in Honours Natural Philosophy were set in 1885.

33. Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon English version PDF (591k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/Buffon.pdf

    16 Nov 2018: post of head of the Parisian Jardin du Roi. Thereafter, he devoted himself more intensively to questions of natural. ... naturelle, générale et particulière (A Natural History, in General and in Detail), planned to.

34. D'Arcy Wentworth Thomson - Scotsman obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Professor Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Professor of Natural History in the University of St Andrews, died at his home in St Andrews yesterday morning at the age of 88 years. ... the country round Edinburgh on Saturdays and teach them the plants,

35. ETH history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: It was decided that a federal polytechnic would first and foremost produce engineers, chemists and foresters, but that supplementary subjects such as mathematics, natural sciences, modern languages, history, and politics would ... geometry; [knowledge]

36. André-Marie Ampère (1775 - 1836) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Before being able to read, the young Ampère's greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. ... Histoire Sci. Appl. 30 (2) (1977), 119-123. F A Medvedev, A theorem of Ampère (Russian), in History and methodology of the

37. Croatian Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The Croatian Natural History Society was founded in 1885 in Zagreb with a view to developing and popularising the natural sciences. ... Over time, almost all Croatian scientific societies have had their genesis in the Croatian Natural History Society.

38. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Mathematics - D'Arcy Thompson and…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/GowenlockTuminauskaite/chapter-1/

    7 Mar 2023: After his education, he became Professor of Biology at Dundee University in 1884 and later Chair of Natural History at the University of St Andrews in 1917.

39. John Dougall - RSE Obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Dr Dougall maintained throughout his life an interest in the history of mathematics in Scotland, so that it was natural that he should be invited by the University of Glasgow to ... give, in 1936, the second of the Gibson Lectures on the History of

40. Elliptic functions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: E I Slavutin, Euler's works on elliptic integrals (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences XIV: Mathematics (Moscow, 1973), 181-189. ... Issled. 27 (1983), 163-178. J Stillwell, Mathematics and history (New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1989