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- Roger Bacon (1214 – 1292) – Biography (2003) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bacon/ 11 comments
- 2000 Years of Matrix Multiplication https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Matrices_and_determinants/ 32 comments
- Light through the ages: Ancient Greece to Maxwell (2002) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Light_1/ 4 comments
- Paul Erdős (2000) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Erdos/ 81 comments
- Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (1951) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Lehrer_Songs/ 44 comments
- Newton, the Man (1946) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Keynes_Newton/ 11 comments
- Happy 70th birthday to Andrew Wiles! He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem and for his work in number theory and won the 2016 Abel Prize. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles/ 50 comments math
- In 1769 Alexander Wilson used a Gregorian telescope, with a 26 inch focus and 112 power, to observe an extraordinary sunspot. He concluded that it was a vast excavation in the luminous matter of the Sun https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Wilson_effect/ 3 comments space
- Happy 80th birthday to Lenore Blum! She is famous for her work on computer science and Blum Blum Shub, a pseudorandom number generator. She is also known for her efforts to increase diversity in mathematics and computer science. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Blum/ 7 comments math
- Today is the birthday of American mathematician, Julia Robinson (1919) | In addition to her countless contributions, Robinson was chosen as the first female president of the AMS but was unable to complete her term as she was suffering from leukemia https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Robinson_Julia/ 6 comments math
- Astronomer Rudolf Wolf tried to estimate pi using a needle experiment. He conducted experiments throwing the needle 5000 times, obtaining a value of 3.1596 https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wolf/ 21 comments space
- Today would have been the 99th birthday of Toronto-born mathematician, Cathleen Morawetz | In addition to her countless contributions, Dr. Morawetz was the 1st female president of the American Mathematical Society & 1st female mathematician to receive a National Medal of Science https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Morawetz/ 7 comments math
- How did Schubert count the number of intersections in his day? https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schubert/ 4 comments math