The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive is a website maintained by John J. O'Connor and

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and hosted by the

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. It contains detailed

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on many historical and contemporary

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s, as well as information on famous

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s and various topics in the

history of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

. The History of Mathematics archive was an outgrowth of Mathematical MacTutor system, a

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/ref> which won them the European Academic Software award in 1994. In the same year, they founded their web site. it has biographies on over 2800 mathematicians and scientists. In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the

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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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* {{official, https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Mathematical MacTutor system
Works about the history of mathematics Mathematics websites University of St Andrews

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