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31. 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).

32. Gibson History 9 - Colin Maclaurin - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_9/

    7 Mar 2023: In what I have to say of Maclaurin I borrow freely from Mr Tweedie's articles, but I hope that all interested in the history of mathematics will have the good ... In estimating Maclaurin's place in the history of mathematics we should, I think, interpret

33. 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

34. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: You can see more about these numbers in the History topics article Perfect numbers at THIS LINK. ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

35. Gibson History 3 - Founding of the Universities - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_3/

    7 Mar 2023: is no name of any special note in the history of mathematics that is associated with the Universities in these years.

36. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The links below will take you to individual articles or to index pages for articles on these topics.

37. Indian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: Histories of Indian mathematics used to begin by describing the geometry contained in the Sulbasutras but research into the history of Indian mathematics has shown that the essentials of this geometry ... show). 1. R Calinger, A conceptual history of

38. Statistics index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Although at present this archive does not contain any specially written article on Statistics, nevertheless there is a wealth of information on the history of Statistics. ... R A Fisher's History of Statistics.

39. Wave versus matrix - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: superstition (which is as old as the history of thought) that the destiny of men could be read from the stars.

40. Gravitation - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: One of the most obvious properties of the world is that if you hold a stone in your hand and release it, then the stone falls. Although we now know that the Moon orbits the Earth and the planets orbit the Sun because of the same force that makes the