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61. Gino Loria (1862 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: he stated that general history of mathematics was written "by a mathematician for mathematicians". ... But the delay was short. And the French Institute in conferring the Binoux Prize [1922] for my 'History of Descriptive Geometry from Origins up to our

62. William Herschel (1738 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: A Armitage, William Herschel (Nelson, 1962). A Berry, A Short History of Astronomy. ... M Hoskin, The Herschel Partnership: as viewed by Caroline (Science History Publications, Cambridge, 2003).

63. Proudman books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: There is a short history and bibliography at the end of each chapter. ... Each chapter has a short and useful introduction to the type of problem about to be discussed, and a concluding paragraph on the history of the subject, with a well-selected

64. Heinrich Scholz (1884 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: a short but erudite study, which looks at the history of results in logic leading to the study of mathematical logic.

65. Journal of the Statistical Society of London - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The first part contained a short Introduction which gave the background to statistics, particularly in Britain. ... The History of Statistics in this country will occupy but a short space.

66. Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (1848 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Anon, Édouard Benjamin Baillaud, Astronomische Nachrichten 253 (1934), 15-16. L Baillaud, The Chalon Astronomer Benjamin Baillaud, and a Short History of His Bust in the Public Garden of

67. Tverberg Bergen institute - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: On this occasion Helge Tverberg gave a talk on the history of the Institute which is given at:. ... I then gave a short talk in which I tried to give an impression of the Institute's early history and it is presented here in written form.

68. Pierre Verhulst (1804 - 1849) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: It took him more than an hour to walk the short distance from his house to his office. ... N Bacaër, Verhulst and the logistic equation (1838), in N Bacaër, A short history of mathematical population dynamics (Springer-Verlag London, Ltd., London, 2011)

69. Percy MacMahon addresses the British Association in 1901, Part 2 -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1901_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Many a false step had to be retraced. Many a road which a first reconnaissance had shown to be straight for a short distance, was found on further exploration, to suddenly ... I propose to give some account of these problems, and to add a short history

70. Elemér Kiss (1929 - 2006) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: For a short history of the Bolyai University we refer the reader to our biography of Gyula Maurer who was also a student at the Bolyai University when Kiss entered, but ... His contributions to the history of mathematics are exclusively on topic related