British Journal for the History of Mathematics

Philip Beeley

Robin Wilson

Richard Simpson

理查德·辛普森

Brigitte Stenhouse

BSHM Meeting News

BSHM会议新闻

Tony Mann

David Williams

大卫·威廉姆斯

There were very few married women on the British statistical scene before the 1960s. This paper identifies them and considers their fortunes. It sketches the prevailing rules of the game for married women, including a Civil Service marriage bar in force until 1946. Among the individuals discussed are Frances Wood and Enid Charles, who began their careers before the Second World War, and Vera Norris, Monica Creasy and Muriel Nissel who started later.

John Aldrich

Married women in British statistics before the 1960s

1960年代前英国统计中的已婚女性

In this paper, we review the history of the dyadic as developed by Gibbs. This mathematical construct appeared in the second part of Gibbs's pamphlet on vector analysis (published in 1884), and it represented the first known development of a Cartesian theory of tensors. Gibbs made extensive use of the dyadic to express his theory of linear vector functions, that is, functions that acted on vectors and mapped them to new vectors. The dyadic proved to be a capable vehicle in Gibbs's hands, and his theory for dyadics (which we would now call second-order Cartesian tensors) was relatively advanced. The theory detailed notions such as the decomposition of vectors and conditions under which a tensor would have an inverse. While Gibbs's theory for linear operators expressed by dyadics was robust, it did not seem to garner the attention that the more conventional vector analysis (published in the first half of his pamphlet in 1881) did. Perhaps in part because of the general unfamiliarity with the dyadic, two distinct and conflicting definitions of the gradient of a vector field have arisen in the literature. The details of these differences in notation, possible reasons for the difference, and a potential resolution are proposed.

Brian Wood

Stephen Whitaker

The development of Gibbs's dyadic and implications for the gradient of a vector field

吉布斯对偶的发展及其对向量场梯度的影响

John M. Campbell

Paul Levrie

The Bauer–Ramanujan formula: historical analyses and perspectives

Bauer-Ramanujan公式：历史分析与展望

Christopher D. Hollings

R. B. Parkinson

Ancient Egyptian mathematics in the early 20th century: a mathematical view from Kiel, 1926

20世纪初的古埃及数学：1926年基尔的数学视角

Abbreviation	Br. J. Hist. Math.
Journal Impact	0.71
Quartiles(Global)	MATHEMATICS(Q3)

Publication Information	Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2019，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 30.30%

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Richard Simpson

BSHM Meeting News

David Williams

Married women in British statistics before the 1960s

The development of Gibbs's dyadic and implications for the gradient of a vector field

The development of Gibbs's dyadic and implications for the gradient of a vector field

Married women in British statistics before the 1960s

The Bauer–Ramanujan formula: historical analyses and perspectives

Ancient Egyptian mathematics in the early 20th century: a mathematical view from Kiel, 1926

Richard Simpson

ISSN	2637-5451, 2637-5494
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