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  1. Von Humboldt Eisenstein - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The following is an extract from Karl Bruhns (ed, ) Life Of Alexander von Humboldt: Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary of his Birth, Translated from the German by Jane and Caroline ... Before giving the extract, let us note that Friedrich Wilhelm

  2. Carl Jacobi (1804 - 1851) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Dec 2025: Let us now return to Dirichlet and Alexander von Humboldt's attempts to help obtain support for Jacobi's trip to Italy. ... H Pieper (ed.), Briefwechsel zwischen Alexander von Humboldt und C G Jacob Jacobi (Berlin, 1987).

  3. Berlin Academy of Science - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    5 Dec 2024: He is especially important for the history of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1827 with the strong support of Alexander von Humboldt.

  4. Professor Alexandru Lupas (1942-2007) - AMS obituary - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: During this period, he obtained, after severe competition, a Humboldt scholarship at the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen. ... Mathematical Society, of the Society of Mathematical Sciences in Romania, of the Director Committee of the Romanian

  5. Werner Heisenberg - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Heisenberg/

    28 May 2025: In 1951 he became President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

  6. Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet English version PDF (663k)

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

    4 Mar 2021: In the year 1828, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT organized a congress of the Gesellschaft Deutscher. ... accompany JACOBI on a convalescence trip to Italy; ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT saw to it that neither.

  7. sci_hi PDF (270k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/dirichlet_sh.pdf

    11 Dec 2025: Habilitation or Not. In 1825, encouraged by Alexander von Humboldt, Dirichlet decided to return to Germany. ... Carl Gustav Jacobi wrote in a letter to Alexander von Humboldt on 21 December 1846:.

  8. Gotthold Eisenstein (1823 - 1852) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Dec 2025: Crelle communicated with Alexander von Humboldt who also took immediate note of the extraordinarily talented youngster. ... Eisenstein died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. His great supporter Alexander von Humboldt, by that time 83 years of

  9. Faltings prizes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 Jul 2026: The award is named after Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, who held the chair of mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg from 1835 to 1867. ... The realisation of the civil class of conferrals for science and the arts was

  10. Ronald V. Book - University of California obituary - MacTutor History …

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

    16 Jul 2025: Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He frequently presented invited plenary lectures in international meetings.