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51. Nicholas Oresme (1323 - 1382) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 May 2023: Oresme also worked on infinite series and argued for an infinite void beyond the Earth. ... E Grant, Nicole Oresme and the Commensurability or Incommensurability of Celestial Motions, Archive for History of Exact Science 1 (1961), 420-.

52. Ibn Yunus (950 - 1009) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: D A King, Ibn Yunus' Very Useful Tables for Reckoning Time by the Sun, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 10 (1973), 342-394. ... D A King, Ibn Yunus and the pendulum : a history of errors, Arch.

53. Joseph Larmor (1857 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: After leaving school, Larmor continued his education in Belfast, studying for his B.A. ... A Warwick, On the role of the FitzGerald- Lorentz contraction hypothesis in the development of Joseph Larmor's electronic theory of matter, Archive for History of

54. Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 May 2023: M Anglade and J Y Briend, La notion d'involution dans le 'Brouillon Project' de Girard Desargues, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 71 (6) (2017), 543-588. ... M Anglade and J Y Briend Le diamètre et la traversale: dans l'atelier de Girard Desargues,

55. Jordanus Nemorarius (1225 - 1260) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: This is enough to say for the instruction of the students of Toulouse. ... J Hoyrup, Jordanus de Nemore, 13th Century Mathematical Innovator, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 307-363.

56. William Kermack (1898 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 May 2024: For extracts from the Introductions, and the Summaries of these five papers, see THIS LINK. ... S C Coutinho, A lost chapter in the pre-history of algebraic analysis: Whittaker on contact transformations, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 64 (6) (2010

57. Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    23 Apr 2024: The University of Glasgow, in Scotland, had an engineering school with a long established history, the chair of engineering being established in 1840. ... L C Arboleda, Les recherches de M Fréchet, P Alexandrov, W Sierpinski et K Kuratowski sur la

58. Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Verein. Versicherungsmath. Mitt. (2) (1989), 217-228. I Schneider, Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 5 (1968), 177-317. ... S M Stigler, Abraham de Moivre, The History of Statistics. The Measurement of Uncertainty

59. René Baire (1874 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Some suggested that the cause for his problems lay in intellectual overexertion in his student days. ... P Dugac, Notes et documents sur la vie et l'oeuvre de René Baire, Archive for History of Exact Science 15 (1976), 297-.

60. Philipp Furtwängler (1869 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 Jun 2023: B Chandler and W Magnus, The History of Combinatorial Group Theory: A Case Study in the History of Ideas (New York - Heidelberg - Berlin, 1982). ... D D Fenster and J Schwermer, Beyond class field theory: Helmut Hasse's arithmetic in the theory of