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21. Frank Smithies (1912 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: In fact this was the second member of the Whittaker family who had lectured to Smithies for he had studied the history of mathematics with John Whittaker's father Edmund Whittaker ... London Math. Soc. 29 (2) (1997), 129-138. F Smithies, Cauchy's

22. Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    18 Jan 2024: His command of the classical tools of analysis was superb; he worked in practically all the main fields of analysis and left a mark for himself in several. ... A Gluchoff and F Hartmann, On a 'Much Underestimated' Paper of Alexander, Archive for History

23. Abstract linear spaces - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Abstract_linear_spaces/

    7 Mar 2023: T W Hawkins, Weierstrass and the theory of matrices, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 17 (1977), 119-163. ... E Knobloch, Determinants, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences

24. John Machin (1680 - 1751) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Aug 2023: For nearly 30 of these years he acted as Secretary to the Royal Society, being appointed in 1718 and holding the post until 1747. ... I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on Inverse- tangent Series for p, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 (1)

25. Non-Euclidean geometry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry/

    7 Mar 2023: Colombiana Ci. Exact. Fis. Nat. 7 (1946), 63-81. H Freudenthal, Nichteuklidische Geometrie im Altertum?, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 43 (3) (1991), 189-197. ... J J Gray, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.),

26. 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.

27. Fund theorem of algebra - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Fund_theorem_of_algebra/

    7 Mar 2023: Student 52 (1-4) (1984), 101-105. C Gilain, Sur l'histoire du théorème fondamental de l'algèbre : théorie des équations et calcul intégral, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 ... Wisk. 64 (4) (1976/77), 173-175. S S Petrova, From the history

28. 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,

29. Quantum mechanics history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins/

    7 Mar 2023: Phys. 26 (4) (1996), 545-557. L M Brown, Quantum mechanics, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (London, 1994), 1252-1260. ... G S Im, Experimental constraints on formal quantum

30. 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