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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. MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jun 2025: 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.

  3. 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

  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. William Henry Young - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Apr 2025: Young had been Hardinge Professor of Mathematics at the University of Calcutta, being the first appointment to that Chair; had served as Professor of the Philosophy and History of Mathematics at

  6. 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).

  7. Canadian Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: G F D Duff, The second generation : a history of the Canadian Mathematical Society 1966-1995, in P Fillmore (ed.), Canadian Mathematical Society, 1945-1995 1: Mathematics in Canada (Ottawa, ON,

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

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

    1 Jun 2025: You can see the biographies indexed by postage stamps at THIS LINK. Latest entry: Gumbel, Emil.. Heinz Klaus Strick's Home page is at.

  9. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

  10. Balzan Prize in Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: For his outstanding success in promoting interest and further research in the history of science. ... Paolo Rossi Monti (2009) for History of Science:. For his major contributions to the study of the intellectual foundations of science from the