Student projects on the history of mathematics
The essays indexed below are taken from projects submitted by St Andrews students as part of their honours degree.
Mathieu Ayel | The French Grandes Ecoles |
Fiona Brunk | The development of Galois theory |
Tom Burslem | Sofia Kovalevskaya |
Livia Daxenberger | Johan de Witt - The first calculation on the valuation of life annuities |
Leigh Ellison | Sofia Kovalevskaya |
Kevin Johnson | James Clerk Maxwell - The Great Unknown |
John MacQuarrie | Mathematics and Chess |
Ian G Pearce | Indian Mathematics: Redressing the balance |
Helen Watson | Some topics in the history of mathematical education |
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