Home›Sources›MacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveSourcesMacTutor History of Mathematics ArchiveBiographical ReferenceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextMathematics Atlas. "MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/sources/mactutor-history-of-mathematics.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextMathematics Atlas. (n.d.). MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/sources/mactutor-history-of-mathematicsCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{mathematicsatlas-mactutor-history-of-mathematics-archive, author = {Mathematics Atlas}, title = {MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive}, year = {2026}, url = {https://mathematics.interactiveatlas.org/sources/mactutor-history-of-mathematics}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe University of St Andrews' MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a peer-built biographical and historical reference maintained by the School of Mathematics and Statistics; the standard scholarly first stop for a mathematician's life and the historical context of a result.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (665 claims)Take a Related QuizComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and StatisticsURLWell-attestedhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Source TypeWell-attestedReference WorkAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1SourcesMacTutor History of Mathematics Archivetier 1University of St Andrews, School of Mathematics and StatisticsView the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (665 claims)This source backs 665 claims across the atlas. As facts: 481 well-attested, 16 scholarly debate, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 78 holds, 39 connected. Plus 50 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicMathematicians, 370 claims: 308 well-attested, 12 scholarly debate, 1 open question, 35 holds, 14 general references.Articles, 91 claims: 72 well-attested, 6 holds, 13 general references.Concepts, 72 claims: 29 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 10 holds, 22 connected, 10 general references.Theorems, 53 claims: 23 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 19 holds, 3 connected, 5 general references.Branches of Mathematics, 37 claims: 22 well-attested, 1 holds, 8 connected, 6 general references.Conjectures, 23 claims: 12 well-attested, 7 holds, 4 connected.Open Questions, 14 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 connected, 2 general references.Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Well-attested481ArticlesA Century to Become RigorousA Name Borrowed for EverythingA War With No WinnerComplete Disorder Is ImpossibleCompleting What Bayes BeganNo Need of That HypothesisOdessa, 1918The Atoms of ArithmeticThe Essay Found After His DeathThe Man We Know Nothing AboutThe Man Who Had Hundreds of CoauthorsThe Mathematics of Symmetry ItselfThe Night BeforeThe Refugee Who Counted the OddsThe Shape Hidden Inside an EquationTwo Men, One Idea, No PeaceUpdating Belief by the NumbersWhy the Bell Curve Is EverywhereBranches of MathematicsAlgebraAnalysisApplied and Computational MathematicsCombinatoricsGeometryNumber TheoryProbability and StatisticsTopologyConceptsAlgorithmDerivativee (Euler's Number)FunctionsGroup (Abstract Algebra)i (The Imaginary Unit)IntegralLimitManifoldMathematical ProofMatrixNumber SystemsPrime NumberProbabilityRing (Abstract Algebra)SymmetryZeroConjecturesGoldbach ConjectureRiemann HypothesisTwin Prime ConjectureMathematiciansAbraham de MoivreAleksandr LyapunovArchimedesBernhard RiemannShowing 1 to 50 of 94 entities carrying this claim. NextScholarly debate16ConceptsPiMathematiciansArchimedesEuclidLeonardo of PisaMuhammad ibn Musa al-KhwarizmiPierre de FermatPythagorasTheoremsCentral Limit TheoremInfinitude of PrimesPythagorean TheoremOpen question1MathematiciansEuclidHolds78ArticlesA Century to Become RigorousComplete Disorder Is ImpossibleThe Essay Found After His DeathThe Man Who Had Hundreds of CoauthorsUpdating Belief by the NumbersWhy the Bell Curve Is EverywhereBranches of MathematicsCombinatorial Game TheoryConceptsDerivativee (Euler's Number)FunctionsGroup (Abstract Algebra)i (The Imaginary Unit)Number SystemsPrime NumberZeroConjecturesBirch and Swinnerton-Dyer ConjectureCollatz ConjectureGoldbach ConjectureRiemann HypothesisTwin Prime ConjectureMathematiciansArchimedesBernhard RiemannCarl Friedrich GaussChristian GoldbachEuclidGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizJohn ConwayLeonardo of PisaLeonhard EulerLothar CollatzMuhammad ibn Musa al-KhwarizmiNiels Henrik AbelPaul ErdosPierre de FermatPythagorasRichard HamiltonSophie GermainSrinivasa RamanujanTheoremsAbel's Lemniscate Division TheoremBayes' TheoremCentral Limit TheoremConstructibility of the Regular HeptadecagonFour Color TheoremFundamental Theorem of AlgebraFundamental Theorem of ArithmeticFundamental Theorem of CalculusInfinitude of PrimesPythagorean TheoremConnected39Branches of MathematicsAlgebraCombinatoricsGame TheoryGeometryLogic and FoundationsNumber TheoryTopologyConceptsAlgorithme (Euler's Number)Functionsi (The Imaginary Unit)LimitMathematical ProofMatrixPiProbabilityRing (Abstract Algebra)Surreal NumbersSymmetryZeroConjecturesGoldbach ConjectureNavier-Stokes Existence and SmoothnessTwin Prime ConjectureOpen QuestionsCan every even integer greater than two really always be written as the sum of two primes?Do infinitely many twin prime pairs really exist, or does the last one eventually appear?TheoremsBayes' TheoremCentral Limit TheoremConstructibility of the Regular HeptadecagonGeneral References50ArticlesA Century to Become RigorousA Name Borrowed for EverythingComplete Disorder Is ImpossibleCompleting What Bayes BeganNo Need of That HypothesisOdessa, 1918The Atoms of ArithmeticThe Mathematics of Symmetry ItselfThe Night BeforeThe Refugee Who Counted the OddsThe Shape Hidden Inside an EquationTwo Men, One Idea, No PeaceUpdating Belief by the NumbersBranches of MathematicsAlgebraAnalysisCombinatoricsGeometryNumber TheoryTopologyConceptsAlgorithmIntegralLimitManifoldMatrixProbabilityRing (Abstract Algebra)SymmetryMathematiciansBryan BirchClaude-Louis NavierFrancis GuthrieGeorge Gabriel StokesGrigori PerelmanHenri PoincareJohn ConwayJohn NashJohn von NeumannKenneth AppelPeter Swinnerton-DyerRichard HamiltonWilliam Vallance Douglas HodgeOpen QuestionsCan every even integer greater than two really always be written as the sum of two primes?Do infinitely many twin prime pairs really exist, or does the last one eventually appear?TheoremsBayes' TheoremCentral Limit TheoremFundamental Theorem of ArithmeticInfinitude of PrimesPythagorean TheoremTake a Related QuizThe Mathematics Atlas Founding QuizIncludes a question about MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.Comments (0)No comments yet. 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