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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. [1] [2] [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. [5] [6]
In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society for their work. [5] [7] The citation for the Hirst Prize calls the archive "the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics". [7]
Krystyna M. Kuperberg is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, where she was formerly an Alumni Professor of Mathematics.
The Sylvester Medal is a bronze medal awarded by the Royal Society (London) for the encouragement of mathematical research, and accompanied by a £1,000 prize. It was named in honour of James Joseph Sylvester, the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford in the 1880s, and first awarded in 1901, having been suggested by a group of Sylvester's friends after his death in 1897. Initially awarded every three years with a prize of around £900, the Royal Society have announced that starting in 2009 it will be awarded every two years instead, and is to be aimed at 'early to mid career stage scientist' rather than an established mathematician. The award winner is chosen by the Society's A-side awards committee, which handles physical rather than biological science awards.
John Mackintosh Howie was a Scottish mathematician and prominent semigroup theorist.
Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and amateur musician.
Joseph Bishop Keller was an American mathematician who specialized in applied mathematics. He was best known for his work on the "geometrical theory of diffraction" (GTD).
The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. It is named after Sir Edmund Whittaker.
Robert Alexander Rankin FRSE FRSAMD was a Scottish mathematician who worked in analytic number theory.
Hermann Cäsar Hannibal Schubert was a German mathematician.
James Alexander "Sandy" Green FRS was a mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory.
George Chrystal FRSE FRS was a Scottish mathematician. He is primarily known for his books on algebra and his studies of seiches which earned him a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London that was confirmed shortly after his death.
Thomas Archer Hirst FRS was a 19th-century English mathematician, specialising in geometry. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1883.
Edmund Frederick Robertson is a professor emeritus of pure mathematics at the University of St Andrews.
Graham Robert Allan was an English mathematician, specializing in Banach algebras. He was Reader in functional analysis and Vice-Master of Churchill College at Cambridge University.
Kate Adebola Okikiolu is a British mathematician. She is known for her work with elliptic differential operators as well as her work with inner-city children.
Svetlana Yakovlevna Jitomirskaya is a Soviet-born American mathematician working on dynamical systems and mathematical physics. She is a distinguished professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech and UC Irvine. She is best known for solving the ten martini problem along with mathematician Artur Avila.
Robert Tucker (1832–1905) was an English mathematician, who was secretary of the London Mathematical Society for more than 30 years.
Andrew Jeffrey Gunion Barclay (1849–1943) was a Scottish mathematician, known for being one of the founders of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.