• Otto Eduard Neugebauer (May 26, 1899 – February 19, 1990) was an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research...
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  • For example, the largest sexagesimal digit is "59". According to Otto Neugebauer, the origins of sexagesimal are not as simple, consistent, or singular...
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    to a concrete and difficult industrial problem." Since 2012, the Otto Neugebauer Prize (endowed by Springer Verlag) has been awarded to a researcher...
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    eternal return in the world's mythologies or philosophies. Historian Otto Neugebauer writes: The difficulty with the term "great year" lies in its ambiguity...
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  • with a Sanskrit commentary by Dvivedi 1970: English translation by Otto E. Neugebauer and David Pingree 1993, Chennai: Edited and translated by T. S. Kuppanna...
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    British Museum Press. pp. 123–142. ISBN 0-7141-1746-3. pp. 127–9. Otto Neugebauer, "The Transmission of Planetary Theories in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy...
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    1163/9789004315631. ISBN 9789004315617. Otto Neugebauer, "Melothesia and Dodecatemoria"; Analecta Biblica 3, 1959; reprinted in Neugebauer (1983), Astronomy and History:...
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    989–1188. Otto Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, (New York: Springer Verlag, 1975), p. 731. ISBN 0-387-06995-X Otto Neugebauer, A History...
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    sexagesimal notation using semicolon–commas was introduced by Otto Neugebauer in the 1930s. Neugebauer, Otto; Sachs, Abraham Joseph; Götze, Albrecht (1945). Mathematical...
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  • codes for organising reviews by topic. Mathematicians Richard Courant, Otto Neugebauer, and Harald Bohr, together with the publisher Ferdinand Springer, took...
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  • Philosophical Society. pp. 11, 284-289. Greek Horoscopes, Volume 48, by Otto Neugebauer and Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen, American Philosophical Society, 1959...
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    1999, where "20b" refers to the 20th page 2nd folio of the tractate. Neugebauer, Otto (1949). "The Astronomy of Maimonides and its Sources". Hebrew Union...
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  • scientist Marcia Neugebauer, American geophysicist Otto E. Neugebauer, Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science Rainer O. Neugebauer, German educationalist...
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    scholarly estimates for Hero's dates range from 150 BC to 250 AD. Otto Neugebauer (1938) noted a lunar eclipse observed in Alexandria and Rome used as...
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    ISSN 0021-1753. S2CID 181950933. A. Aaboe; J. P. Britton; J. A. Henderson; Otto Neugebauer; A. J. Sachs (1991). "Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical...
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    Christine Proust, John M. Steele. (2016). A Mathematician's Journeys: Otto Neugebauer and Modern Transformations of Ancient Science. Springer. pp. 285-286...
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  • astronomy. Neugebauer was born in Göttingen, Germany and was the son of Otto Neugebauer, an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science, and Grete...
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  • professors and lecturers included Paul Bernays, Emmy Noether, Hans Lewy, Otto Neugebauer, Herbert Busemann, Werner Fenchel, Franz Rellich, and Wilhelm Magnus...
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  • Levi-Civita, who was Jewish, was forced out from the editorial board, and Otto Neugebauer resigned in protest along with most of the rest of the board. In 2014...
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  • his collaboration with Otto Neugebauer, whom he met in 1941 when the latter visited the Oriental Institute in Chicago. Neugebauer and Sachs worked jointly...
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    Princeton, New Jersey. At Princeton he studied ancient astronomy with Otto Neugebauer. In 1959 he joined the Department of History at Yale University initially...
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    differ from the ancient calendars of the Sumerians and the Babylonians. Otto Neugebauer suggests that the complexity of Egyptian calendars: represents the...
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    sin, and cosine (with English translation and commentary). In 1952 Otto Neugebauer wrote on Tamil astronomy. In 1972 K. V. Sarma published his A History...
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    cofounded "Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik" with Otto Neugebauer and Julius Stenzel. Beginning in the 1920s, Toeplitz advocated a "genetic...
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  • Society, 1 Jan 1999, pp. 11, 284-289 Greek Horoscopes, Volume 48, by Otto Neugebauer and Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen, American Philosophical Society, 1959...
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    Ramses VII. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, ISBN 3-8053-1067-6. Hans-Otto Lange, Otto Neugebauer: Papyrus Carlsberg No. 1 – Ein hieratisch-demotischer kosmologischer...
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    Otto von Habsburg (German: Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius, Hungarian: Ferenc...
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    The Earth Is Round, and It's This Big". Wired. Retrieved 2013-06-22. Otto Neugebauer (1975). A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy. New York: Springer...
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  • Sources on his website (below). In 2012, he was awarded the inaugural Otto Neugebauer Prize for History of Mathematics, by the European Mathematical Society...
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    tablets have been described by Abraham Sachs and later published by Otto Neugebauer in the Astronomical Cuneiform Texts (ACT). Herodotus writes that the...
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