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Diophantus (200 - 284) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diophantus/30 Dec 2023: J Sesiano, K Vogel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (N) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/n/7 Mar 2023: Apparently, except for the various Random House dictionaries, all modern dictionaries define the term natural number to exclude 0. ... The 1828 Webster dictionary defines nonagon and enneagon. NON-CANTORIAN appears in Paul J.
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Heinrich Burkhardt (1861 - 1914) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burkhardt/7 Mar 2023: 1904-8). This latter work is rather chaotic, with unconnected textual quotations following each other, but nevertheless it is very useful as a historical source. ... Soc. 28 (9) (1922), 475. M-A Knus, Heinrich Burkhardt, Historical Dictionary of
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Giovanni Benedetti (1530 - 1590) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Benedetti/7 Mar 2023: S Drake, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... C S Roero, Giovanni Battista Benedetti and the scientific environment of Turin in the 16th century, Centaurus 39 (1) (1997), 37-66.
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (P) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/p/7 Mar 2023: Particular integral is found in English in 1814 in New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary by P. ... These quotations were provided by Raul Nunes to a mathematics history mailing list.
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Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821 - 1894) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chebyshev/23 Nov 2023: on. These were lively, absorbing lectures; curious remarks on the significance and importance of certain problems and scientific methods were always abundant. ... A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Pappus (290 - 350) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pappus/4 Aug 2023: Certainly an instrument to measure liquids is attributed to him. I Bulmer-Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kepler/30 Dec 2023: Historiographic note. Much has sometimes been made of supposedly non-rational elements in Kepler's scientific activity. ... O Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William Feller (1906 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Feller/25 Apr 2024: J L Doob, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/30 Dec 2023: However he was wise enough not to try to overrule political dogma with scientific facts. ... R Fox, C S Gillespie, I Grattan-Guinness, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).