Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (2001)(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

12 points by jonathan_landy 2 years ago | 1 comments

Roger Bacon (1214 – 1292) – Biography (2003)(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

47 points by abudabi123 3 years ago | 8 comments

Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

134 points by jzox 1 month ago | 24 comments

Leonhard Euler's Letters to a German Princess(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)

64 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 18 comments

The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

Why Haskell?(gtf.io)

387 points by mesaoptimizer 2 years ago | 533 comments

A long personal essay arguing why Haskell is a practical, productive language for building real software like web servers, covering fewer mistakes and easier reasoning.