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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).
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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).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/r/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.
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Corrado Segre (1863 - 1924) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Segre_Corrado/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).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (V) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/v/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.
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Maria Mitchell (1818 - 1889) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mitchell_Maria/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.
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William Cochran (1909 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cochran/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).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (L) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/l/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
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (B) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/b/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.
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (H) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/h/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.