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361. Michael Stifel (1487 - 1567) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Stifel/

     7 Mar 2023: K Vogel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

362. Eisele books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Eisele_books/

     7 Mar 2023: Its tentative title is Studies in the Scientific and Mathematical Philosophy of Charles S Peirce. ... It opens with the substantial contribution on Peirce that she was asked to prepare for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1974).

363. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: The OED's earliest quotation for pseudo-random number is from 1949, Seminar on Sci. ... F. Smithies Cauchy and the Creation of Complex Function Theory.) The OED's earliest quotation is from A.

364. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (V) -…

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     30 Dec 2023: The OED's earliest entry is from a technical dictionary of 1704: J. ... OED 2 traces the evolution of the term Venn diagram through the following quotations: "The application of Mr Venn's diagrammatic scheme to syllogistic reasonings" in J.

365. Corrado Segre (1863 - 1924) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     7 Mar 2023: Moreover Corrado Segre is regarded as a crucial figure in the scientific evolution and in the history of Algebraic Geometry. ... P Speziali, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

366. Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     16 Dec 2023: M B, Maria Mitchell, Scientific American 61 (3) (1889), 38. M K Babbitt, Maria Mitchell as her students knew her (Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1912). ... Maria Mitchell, History of Scientific Women.

367. William Cochran (1909 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     7 Mar 2023: He died in Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. R L Anderson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

368. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (L) -…

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     23 Jan 2024: in 1693 [Barnabas Hughes]. Latus rectum is found in English in A Mathematical Dictionary by Joseph Raphson: "In a Parabola the Rectangle of the Diameter, and Latus Rectum, is equal to ... Likelihood was first used in a Bayesian context by Harold Jeffreys

369. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (B) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;. I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:. ... th. century: there is an entry in 1868 in A Dictionary of Medical Science.

370. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (H) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: HEPTAKAIDECAGON (17-sided polygon) appears in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). ... Landau]. HOMOGENEOUS is found in 1795 in A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary Vol.