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database by the same authors, 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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for their work. 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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Ross, Peter (January 1999), "MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland",
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In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the
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London Mathematical Society Hirst Prize and Lectureship
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The History of Mathematics archive was an outgrowth of
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mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk
Edmund F. Robertson
University of St Andrews
Scotland
biographies
mathematicians
curves
history of mathematics
HyperCard
London Mathematical Society
Mathematics Genealogy Project
MathWorld
PlanetMath
"St Andrews History of Mathematics Archive"
"MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive"
ProQuest
203934232
"MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive"
the original


"MacTutor History of Mathematics website creators honoured by LMS"
archived
"Chronological Biographies Index"


London Mathematical Society Hirst Prize and Lectureship
the original
MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Mathematical MacTutor system

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