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Constantin Carathéodory (1873 - 1950) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Caratheodory/23 Nov 2023: A Panayotopolos (ed.), Proceedings of C Carathéodory International Symposium, September 1973, Athens (Athens, 1974). ... H Behnke, Carathéodorys Leben und Wirken, in A Panayotopolos (ed.), Proceedings of C Carathéodory International Symposium,
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Ptolemy (85 - 165) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ptolemy/30 Dec 2023: C. C. C of the epicycle moving round a circle whose centre was offset from the earth. ... C. C. C uniform not about the centre of the circle around which it moves, but around a point called the equant which is symmetrically placed on the opposite side of
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David Borwein (1924 - 2021) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Borwein/27 Mar 2024: Although Borwein was appointed by Herbert Turnbull to the lectureship in St Andrews, he never served under him for Turnbull retired and E T Copson filled the Regius Chair of Mathematics ... Math. Monthly 93 (7) (1986), 531-539. J M Borwein, Jonathan M
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Georg Vega (1754 - 1802) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Vega/18 Jan 2024: Books LLC, Slovenian Astronomers (General Books LLC, 2010). T Pisanski et al., Baron Jurij Vega and his time (DMFA - zaloznistvo, 2006). ... T Pisanski, Calculating the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle (Slovenian), Obzornik Mat
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Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frege/8 Nov 2023: T Aho, Frege and his groups, Hist. Philos. Logic 19 (3) (1998), 137-151. ... C Thiel, Natorps Kritik an Freges Zahlbegriff, in Frege in Jena, Jena, 1996 (Würzburg, 1997), 123-128.
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Giovanni Cassini (1625 - 1712) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cassini/30 Dec 2023: S Débarbat and C Wilson, The Galilean satellites of Jupiter from Galileo to Cassini, Rømer and Bradley, in Planetary astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of astrophysics Part A (Cambridge, ... T J Herczeg, On Cassini's early 'observations' of
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Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frobenius/4 Jan 2024: C W Curtis, Pioneers of representation theory : Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer (Providence, Rhode Island, 1999). ... T Hawkins, New light on Frobenius' creation of the theory of group characters, Arch.
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Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/30 Dec 2023: A Aaboe, Episodes from the early history of mathematics (Washington, D.C., 1964). ... D C Gazis and R Herman, Square roots geometry and Archimedes, Scripta Math.
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Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boyle/30 Dec 2023: T Birch (ed.), The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (5 vols.) (London, 1744). ... L T More, The Life and Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (London, 1944).
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Joseph Burchnall (1892 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burchnall/25 Jan 2024: Almost half of Burchnall's mathematical papers were written with T W Chaundy, with whom he collaborated for 20 years.