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  1. Gravitation - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: One of the most obvious properties of the world is that if you hold a stone in your hand and release it, then the stone falls. Although we now know that the Moon orbits the Earth and the planets orbit the Sun because of the same force that makes the

  2. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

  3. Advice on organising a BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2008/Advice2008/

    7 Mar 2023: Special Lecture. A lecture on history or relevant current events (mathematical finance?).

  4. Water-clocks - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2001. xxxii(108): p. 189-222. J Fermor, Timing the sun in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

  5. History of the LMS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The London Mathematical Society dates back to 1864. Augustus De Morgan's wife, writing after his death described how the London Mathematical Society was founded:-. It was in the year 1864 that Mr Arthur Cowper Ranyard and George [George De Morgan,

  6. History of the AMS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: It appears that the idea for a mathematical society in the United States came from a visit T S Fiske made to England where he visited Cambridge. He arrived with letters of introduction toandwrites:-. Scientifically I benefited most from my contacts

  7. Christianity and Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: E Rosen, Copernicus and his successors (London, 1995). B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961). ... E Rosen, Was Copernicus' Revolutions approved by the Pope, Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975), 531-542.

  8. Coffee houses - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: But the most pathetic figure associated with its history is that of Abraham De Moivre, that French mathematician who became the friend of Newton and Leibniz. ... E F Robinson, The early history of coffee houses in England (London, 1893).

  9. Size of the Universe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: I [EFR] am sitting at my desk in St Andrews beginning to write this article just after 10 am on Tuesday 8 June 2004. Why is this such a special time? Well a very rare event is happening as I write, namely a transit of Venus across the Sun. Sadly I

  10. Forgery 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Forgery_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Three of the principal characters in this story areand Voltaire. They had known each other over a long period and all had been close friends at one stage in their lives. It was Emilie du Châtelet who had brought these three together. In 1739