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31. Group theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... B M Kiernan, The development of Galois theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8

32. 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. ... Sci. 8 (2) (1983), 75-80. O B Sheynin, On the history of the de Moivre-Laplace limit

33. Robert Woodhouse (1773 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Sep 2023: If the methods of Lagrange, rather than those of Cauchy, had become the accepted methods then Woodhouse would have a much more prominent role in the history of mathematics today. ... E Koppelman, The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra

34. 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

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

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

    18 Jan 2024: A number of papers from 1912 established him as a first-class mathematician. ... A Gluchoff and F Hartmann, On a 'Much Underestimated' Paper of Alexander, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 55 (2000), 1-41.

36. 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.),

37. Ahmes (1680 BC - 1620 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Nothing is known of Ahmes other than his own comments in the papyrus. ... R J Gillings, The recto of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. How did the ancient Egyptian scribe prepare it?, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 12 (1974), 291-298.

38. 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

39. al-Kashi (1390 - 1450) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kashi/

    23 Nov 2023: being a simple compiler, went one step beyond al-Samawal and represents an important dimension in the history of decimal fractions. ... A-K Dakhel, Al-Kashi on root extraction, Sources and Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences 2.

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

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

    27 Aug 2023: A M Clerke, John Machin, Dictionary of National Biography XII (London, 1893), 554. ... I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on Inverse- tangent Series for p, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 (1) (1991), 1-14.