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Encyclopedia > MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

The MacTutor history of mathematics archive is a website hosted by University of St Andrews in Scotland. It contains detailed biographies of many famous mathematicians. The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410 and 1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the anglophone world. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning life, and graphein meaning write) is a genre of literature and other forms of media like film, based on the written accounts of individual lives. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ...


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MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (231 words)
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.
The History of Mathematics archive is part of a larger project the Mathematical MacTutor system[1] by the same authors, which is an 18 MByte HyperCard database.
MacTutor covers a wide range of mathematical topics, though its contents have been biased by the interests and enthusiasms of its authors.
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