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61. Ball books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: history of mathematics which many who are unwilling, or have not the time, to study it systematically may yet desire to know. ... on the History of the Mathematical Tripos, which at one time appeared in my Mathematical Recreations and Essays, since these

62. Mary Cartwright (1900 - 1998) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Mary Cartwright's father was William Degby Cartwright (born in Tilney Street, London about 1865), and at the time of Mary's birth he was the Vicar at Aynho. ... She wrote several biographical memoirs that portray her exceptional sense of history.

63. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: The variant forms of this construction thus provide an unusual case history of the working methods of the editors and commentators of late antiquity. ... Observations on the early history of the conics. Centaurus 26 (1) (1982/83), 1-24.

64. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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    30 Dec 2023: By the time of his election he had read 13 papers to the Académie in less than three years. ... Russian), in Problems in the history of mathematics and mechanics (Kiev, 1977), 58-67.

65. Boyer's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: history of mathematics, but for a long time it has lacked a good, up-to-date, broad, and comprehensive history of the subject. ... Even though the problems are gone, I will probably adopt it the next time I teach our history-of-mathematics course.

66. Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    25 Apr 2024: Although he only had a basic education, never attending college, he had a particular interest in mathematics and studied mathematics and its history in his spare time. ... Certainly, as he realised in reading about the history of mathematics, its

67. Florian Cajori (1859 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Feb 2024: A History of Mathematical Notations, 2 volumes (1928-29) is undoubtedly Cajori's greatest work. ... Cajori wrote about twelve books and a large number of papers and reports on the history of mathematics.

68. Craig books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: subject. The literature of projections is very large, and its history presents the names of many of the most eminent mathematicians that have lived between the time of Ptolemy and the ... Unquestionably the most important treatise on the subject at this

69. William Braikenridge (1700 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    14 May 2024: this is the main way in which Braikenridge enters the history of mathematics. ... If this was only meant as a piece of innocent history to show that you were at that time in a more exalted position than I was, this is very well

70. Weil reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: time. But carters need roads. Not seldom, in the history of our science, has it happened that a king opened up a new road into the promised land and that his ... His lifelong familiarity with the history of number theory culminates in this book, which