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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. Set theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: The history of set theory is rather different from the history of most other areas of mathematics. ... I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Selected essays on the history of set theory and logics (1906-1918) by Philip E B Jourdain (Bologna, 1991).

33. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: One of the first articles which we included in the "History Topics" section of our web archive was on the history of π. ... Now the reader might ask, not unreasonably, why we have not started our article on the history of.

34. Gibson History 2 - Mathematics in the schools - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_2/

    1 Oct 2024: The low value thus placed on mathematics is not, however, peculiar to Scotland; John Wallis's Account of some Passages in his Own Life (quoted in Adamson's Short History of

35. U of St Andrews History - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    2 Jun 2023: The University of St Andrews was founded by Bishop Henry Wardlaw. His charter of incorporation is dated 28 February 1412 (1411 according to the Scottish calender which had a year start of 25 March until 1600) and he set up the University partly for

36. History Topics Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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37. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders, Christiaan Huygens and Newton's theory of gravitation, Notes and Records Roy. ... C Wilson, The three-body problem, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and

38. Gibson: "History of Scottish Mathematics" - MacTutor…

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

    1 Oct 2024: The first paper in the new Series was by George Gibson and it was the first part of his two-part paper Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to ... Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, William Trail.

39. Some topics in the history of mathematical education - Projects -…

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40. Kepler's Laws - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: A E L Davis: 'The Mathematics of the Area Law: Kepler's successful proof in Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1621)', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 57, 5 (2003), especially Section 6.