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21. Peres books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Excellent accurate history of mathematics. The author first endeavours to draw up a summary account of the knowledge which was transmitted, especially by the Arabs, to the men of the fifteenth ... This volume offers a good summary of the history of the

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

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    25 Jan 2024: Died. 16 November 2002. Cambridge, England. Summary. Frank Smithies was a Scottish mathematician who worked on integral equations, functional analysis, and the history of mathematics. . ... London Math. Soc. 29 (2) (1997), 129-138. F Smithies, Cauchy's

23. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (G) -…

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    7 Mar 2023: This information is taken from a footnote in the paper "Development of the concept of homotopy," by Ria Vanden Eynde (in History of topology, pages 65-102. ... 1049). (Based on E. Hewitt & R. E. Hewitt "The Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon: An episode in

24. Tom Whiteside (1932 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    6 Sep 2023: His doctoral thesis was published in 1961 in the first volume of the newly established journal - the Archive for the History of the Exact Sciences. ... In 1987 he became University Professor of the History of Mathematics and Exact Sciences in the

25. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Gaz. 59 (410) (1975), 250-260. S Aoki, The moon-test in Newton's 'Principia' : accuracy of inverse-square law of universal gravitation, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 44 (2) ... History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders, Christiaan

26. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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    30 Dec 2023: Un. Mat. Ital. (2) 2 (1940), 147-171. K Anderson, Cavalieri's method of indivisibles, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 31 (4) (1985), 291-367. ... Jahrhundert (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1990), 64-99. P Palmieri, Superposition: on

27. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: C Jami, Une histoire chinoise du 'nombre π', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 38 (1) (1988), 39-50. ... Inst. Math. Appl. 25 (3-4) (1989), 74-77. I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on inverse-tangent series for π, Archive for History of

28. Frigyes Riesz (1880 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: He was elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences and to the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund in Sweden. ... M Bernkopf, The Development of Functional Spaces, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 3 (1966-67), 1-96.

29. Kepler's Laws - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: And because it was expressed geometrically, the solution would potentially be exact - the closed orbit of a single planet in a plane round the fixed Sun. ... A E L Davis: 'The Mathematics of the Area Law: Kepler's successful proof in Epitome Astronomiae

30. Max Planck (1858 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: Planck always took on administrative duties, in addition to his research activities, such as Secretary of the Mathematics and Natural Science Section of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, a post he ... J Franck, Max Planck, Science 107 (1948), 534-537. M