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41. Edwin Elliott (1851 - 1937) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Outside mathematics, Elliott had many interests. Music, natural history and literature were all high on his list of hobbies.

42. Mathematics at Aberdeen 3 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Aberdeen_3/

    7 Mar 2023: Geography, Chronology and Natural and Civil History in the semi (second) year were accompanied by a compulsory Mathematics course consisting of Arithmetic, Euclidean Geometry, Plane Trigonometry, Practical Geometry and Elementary Algebra,

43. New York Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The New York Academy of Sciences was founded in 1817 but at that time it was named The Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York. ... the title of the publication appeared as the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, late Lyceum of Natural

44. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/Eminger.pdf

    1 Sep 2015: highlighted. A selection of Rudio’s contributions to the history of mathematics is studied as well. ... Neither achieved lasting mathematical fame, but both made valuable contributions in related fields, such as education and the history of mathematics.

45. D'Arcy Thompson by David Burt - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: David Raitt Robertson Burt, Lecturer in Zoology at the University of St Andrews, wrote about Natural History at the University of St Andrews in James B Salmond (ed.), Veterum Laudes (Oliver ... In 1917 Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson came to the

46. Adolph Pavlovich Yushkevich (1906 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In addition to his professorship of mathematics at the Moscow Higher Technical School, Adolph Pavlovich was appointed to the Institute of History of Natural Sciences and Technology in 1945. ... He was able, however, to keep his post at the Institute of

47. Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) - Nature obituary - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: How natural, then, that he should become a scholarship boy at the University of Cambridge, in 1933. ... The most egregious example was the allegation that the British Natural History Museum's specimen of Archaeopteryx is a forgery.

48. Classical light - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Light_1/

    7 Mar 2023: J. Phys. 61 (2) (1993), 108-112. E I Pogrebysskaya, The development of the ideas about dispersion of light in the seventeenth century (Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences, ... Russian), History and methodology of the natural sciences

49. George Chrystal and Scottish University Reforms. - MacTutor History…

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

    7 Mar 2023: with the higher standard of entrance for mathematics and the lower for natural philosophy. ... that mathematics should be entered on the higher standard, and that natural philosophy should remain as Newton made it and Gregory expounded it.

50. Zurich Scientific Research Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Gessner was elected as President of the new Society. The Physical Society soon built up a scientific library, a collection of mathematical and physical instruments, natural history collections, a botanical garden, ... The wide range of activities of the