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Mathematics web site
The
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and
Edmund F. Robertson
and hosted by the
University of St Andrews
in
Scotland
. It contains detailed
biographies
on many historical and contemporary
mathematicians
, as well as information on famous
curves
and various topics in the
history of mathematics
.
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[3]
The History of Mathematics archive was an outgrowth of
Mathematical MacTutor system
, a
HyperCard
database by the same authors,
[4]
which won them the European Academic Software award in 1994. In the same year, they founded their web site. It has since expanded to include biographies of more than 3200 mathematicians and scientists.
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In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the
London Mathematical Society
for their work.
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The citation for the Hirst Prize calls the archive "the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics".
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See also
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References
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Hughes, Barnabas (July 2007),
"St Andrews History of Mathematics Archive"
,
Convergence
, Mathematical Association of America
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Ellison, J. H. (January?February 1999),
"MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive"
,
Choice
,
27
(3): 46
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Ross, Peter (January 1999), "MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland",
The College Mathematics Journal
,
30
(1): 69,
ProQuest
203934232
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"MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive"
,
CM
, vol. III, no. 17, Manitoba Library Association, 25 April 1997, archived from
the original
on 2016-03-03
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a
b
Mulcahy, Colm (19 July 2015),
"MacTutor History of Mathematics website creators honoured by LMS"
,
The Aperiodical
,
archived
from the original on 2015-07-20
, retrieved
2015-07-19
.
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"Chronological Biographies Index"
,
MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
, retrieved
2024-05-28
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a
b
London Mathematical Society Hirst Prize and Lectureship
, University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, 3 July 2015, archived from
the original
on 2016-12-11
, retrieved
2015-07-19
.
External links
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