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1. CGT history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: One section of his talk involved the history of Computational Group Theory (CGT) and we give a version of this below. ... Early history (1953-1967). This may be thought of as starting with the first implementations of computing methods for groups.

2. British Mathematical Colloquium - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/

   1 Jul 2024: The British Mathematical Colloquium is the largest pure mathematical conference to be held annually in the UK. It has been held every year since 1949, usually around Easter, though some of the earlier meetings were in September. The venues of the

3. MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   15 Aug 2024: University. Their contributions to the history of mathematics have been recognised by Numerous Awards including the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2015.

4. Gibson History 11 - John Playfair, Sir John Leslie - MacTutor History …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_11/

   7 Mar 2023: Playfair in particular was widely read in the history of mathematics, was in spite of (perhaps it would be more appropriate to say "because of ") his great admiration for Newton, disappointed

5. A Brief History of Time and Calendars - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/bhistory/

   7 Mar 2023: This reflects the lack of information that historians of science have as they delve further back into history. ... D Leverington, Encyclopaedia of the History of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Cambridge, 2013).

6. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   2 Oct 2024: You can see the biographies indexed by postage stamps at THIS LINK.. Heinz Klaus Strick's Home page is at.

7. Edinburgh Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: In a move to counter this proposal the Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh, John Walker, proposed that the University of Edinburgh, the Faculty of Advocates, the Philosophical Society

8. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/

   19 Jun 2024: The idea of Conferences on the History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics came from Katalin Munkácsy (Eőtvős University of Budapest).

9. Zero - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   18 Jan 2024: J., 1999). G Ifrah, From one to zero : A universal history of numbers (New York, 1987). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

10. Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_2/

    1 Oct 2024: The low value thus placed on mathematics is not, however, peculiar to Scotland; John Wallis's Account of some Passages in his Own Life (quoted in Adamson's Short History of