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  2. Étienne Bobillier (1798 - 1840) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: Bobillier then went on to pose the problem of how to determine the corresponding centre of curvature in the path of the third vertex, c, when given the centres of curvature

  3. Edmund Gunter (1581 - 1626) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: C J Sangwin writes [17]:-. A sector is a mathematical instrument which consists of two hinged rulers on which there are engraved scales. ... C H Cotter, Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), Journal of Navigation 34 (1981), 363-367.

  4. William Greaves (1897 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    20 Aug 2023: William Greaves' family came from the west of England but were living in Barbados where his father, Eustace C Greaves, was a doctor. ... A Baker, and Sir E T Whittaker.

  5. Louis Nirenberg (1925 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 Feb 2024: That's the thing I try to get across to people who don't know anything about mathematics, what fun it is! ... Louis Nirenberg (French), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. Gén. Vie Sci 6 (6) (1989), 509.

  6. Bernhard Riemann (1826 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Born. 17 September 1826. Breselenz, Hanover (now Germany). Died. 20 July 1866. Selasca, Italy. Summary. Bernhard Riemann's ideas concerning geometry of space had a profound effect on the development of modern theoretical physics. He clarified the

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

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

    30 Dec 2023: Med. 15 (4-5) (2010), 371-409. C B Boyer, Cavalieri, limits and discarded infinitesimals, Scripta Math. ... C R Wallner, Die Wandlungen des Indivisibilienbegriffs von Cavalieri bis Wallis, Bibliotheca Mathematica (3) 4 (1903), 28-47.

  8. Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825 - 1888) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    1 Apr 2024: H C Kennedy, Peano : Life and Works of Giuseppe Peano (Dordrecht, 1980).

  9. Shen Kua (1031 - 1095) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 Nov 2023: He composed many works, but the most famous was Meng ch'i pi t'an (Brush talks from Dream Brook). ... c. (. c. a. ). ). h. /. 6. ((2b d)a (2d b)c (c - a))h/6.

  10. Børge Jessen (1907 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: During this time he played a major role in planning the H C Ørsted Institute which opened in 1963 to house mathematics, physics and chemistry. ... C Berg, Børge Jessen, 19.6.1907-20.3.1993, Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics 5

  11. D R Kaprekar (1905 - 1986) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: all is members divisible by 3 but not by 9; C has all is members divisible by 9. ... R C Gupta, D R Kaprekar - a birth centenary tribute (1905-1986), Indian J.