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11. Ulam Rota - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    24 May 2024: His immense work stands at the crossroads of the development of exact sciences. ... The rationalisation of the idea of infinity - the life blood of its history - with its mysterious power to encode succinctly and generally the properties of numbers and

12. Topology history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: II, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 25 (2-3) (1981), 85-267. ... A Weil, Riemann, Betti and the birth of topology, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 20 (2) (1979), 91-96.

13. Johan de Witt - The first calculation on the valuation of life…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Daxenberger/

    7 Mar 2023: London. Hald, A. (2003) A History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750. ... Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 16(2), 119-136. Weir, D.R. (1989).

14. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (F) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/f/

    7 Mar 2023: th. century; see J. Dutka "The early history of the factorial function", Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 1991, 43, (3), 225-249. ... the 1940s principally in the work ofdefines a fibre-bundle in "On the Theory of Sphere-Bundles", Proceedings of

15. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J Lutzen, Heaviside's operational calculus and the attempts to rigorise it, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21 (1979), 161-200. ... S S Petrova, Heaviside and the Development of the Symbolic Calculus, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 37 (1987),

16. Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: C J Scriba, The inverse method of tangents. A dialogue between Leibniz and Newton (1675-1677), Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2 (1964), 113-137. ... Internat. Histoire Sci. 25 (97) (1975), 304-308. D T Whiteside, Patterns of mathematical thought

17. Cotlar interview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Carlos Borches:. When one reviews the history of science in Argentina and, in particular, the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, the period that tragically ended in 1966 stands out. ... Carlos Borches:. When you mention the stage that preceded 1958,

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

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/r/

    7 Mar 2023: Muir and my father, and, what is really more important than the exact form of the name, they both independently thought of the necessity of giving a name to the ... RANGE (of a function). In 1865, The Differential Calculus by John Spare has: "It is

19. Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: J. Philos. 51 (1973), 70-71. J Dauben, The trigonometric background to Georg Cantor's theory of sets, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 7 (1971), 181-216. ... H Meschkowski, Aus den Briefbüchern Georg Cantors, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2

20. Elliptic functions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: show). R Ayoub, The lemniscate and Fagnano's contributions to elliptic integrals, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 29 (2) (1984), 131-149. ... E I Slavutin, Euler's works on elliptic integrals (Russian), History and methodology of the natural