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Eudoxus (408 BC - 355 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eudoxus/30 Dec 2023: y. y by finding a length. t. t. t so that. ... a,b,c,d are possibly irrational) if for every possible pair of integers.
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Epitrochoid - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Epitrochoid/7 Mar 2023: Parametric Cartesian equation:. x. =. (. a. b. ). cos. (. t. ). c. cos. (. (. a. /. b. 1. ). t. ). ,. y. =. (. a. b. ). sin. (. t. ). c. sin. (. (. a. /. b. 1. ). t. ). x = (a b) cos(t) - c ... cos((a/b 1)t), y = (a b) sin(t) - c sin((a/b 1)t).
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Russell/30 Dec 2023: T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... C W Kilmister, Russell (1984). E D Klemke (ed.), Essays on Bertrand Russell (Urbana, 1970).
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Straight Line - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Straight/10 Jul 2023: Cartesian equation:. y. =. m. x. c. y = mx c. ... y=mxc. or parametrically:. x. =. a. t. b. ,. y. =. c. t. d. x = at b, y = ct d.
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Colloquium photo 1996 - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/photo_1996/15 Sep 2023: FOURTH ROW, Dr N Watt, Ms S J van Willigenberg, Prof J Wojciechowski, Dr C J Smyth, Prof K J Falconer, Dr T O'Neil, Dr M J Crabb, Dr J ... FRONT ROW, Dr P Heywood, Prof P F Smith, Prof G Grimmett, Prof D Zagier, Prof P Diaconis, Prof M D Atkinson, Mr C G
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Lipman Bers (1914 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bers/11 Jan 2024: He was an honorary life member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and of theW Abikoff, C Corillon, I Kra, T Weinstein and J Gilman, Remembering Lipman Bers, Notices Amer. ... D J Albers and C Reid, An interview with Lipman Bers, College Math.
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John Conway (1937 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway/30 Dec 2023: He wrote:-. I became very depressed. I felt that I wasn't doing real mathematics; I hadn't published, and I was feeling very guilty because of that. ... T M Thompson, From error-correcting codes through sphere packings to simple groups (Washington, 1983).
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Geoffrey Kneebone (1918 - 2003) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kneebone/24 Oct 2023: C A Baylis, Review: Philosophy and Mathematics, by G T Kneebone, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 13 (2) (1948), 124. ... J C Shepherdson, Review: Mathematical Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, by G T Kneebone, The British Journal for the Philosophy
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Max Newman (1897 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Newman/25 Jan 2024: C Whitehead and Bill Tutte.
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Siobhán Vernon (1932 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Vernon/22 Jan 2024: At the recent conferring of degrees at U.C.C., Miss Siobhán O'Shea M.Sc, daughter of Mrs M O'Shea and the late Mr J O'Shea, Main St., ... degree in Mathematics. Dr O'Shea has been on the staff in the mathematics department at U.C.C.