The History of Mathematics archive was an outgrowth of Mathematical MacTutor system, a
HyperCard database by the same authors,[4] which won them the European Academic Software award in 1994. In the same year, they founded their web site. As of 2015,[update] it has biographies on over 2800 mathematicians and scientists.[5]
In 2015, O'Connor and Robertson won the Hirst Prize of the
London Mathematical Society for their work.[5][6] The citation for the Hirst Prize calls the archive "the most widely used and influential web-based resource in history of mathematics".[6]
^Ross, Peter (January 1999), "MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland", The College Mathematics Journal, 30 (1): 69,
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