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There are two new History Topics:
History of Fractal Geometry and James Walker's Fair book of 1852

There are 9 new biographies and 37 extended biographies.

A memoir by Walter Ledermann, who died receently, is available at THIS LINK

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School of Mathematics
and Statistics

University of St Andrews
Scotland

Created by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson

The URL of this page is:     
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/index.html

JOC/EFR May 2009