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51. Bourbaki 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bourbaki_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Arch. Contemp., Amsterdam, 1998), 75-123. L Baulieu, Dispelling a myth : questions and answers about Bourbaki's early work, 1934-1944, in The intersection of history and mathematics, (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1994), ... Intelligencer 20 (1) (1998), 22-28. K

52. Galileo's Difesa - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Click on the picture above to see a larger version. On 18 August 2009 I [EFR] received an email from the Head of Special Collections at the University of St Andrews Library asking me to write a short essay on Galileo's Difesa di Galileo Galilei.

53. Coffee houses - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: But the most pathetic figure associated with its history is that of Abraham De Moivre, that French mathematician who became the friend of Newton and Leibniz. ... E F Robinson, The early history of coffee houses in England (London, 1893).

54. Size of the Universe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: I [EFR] am sitting at my desk in St Andrews beginning to write this article just after 10 am on Tuesday 8 June 2004. Why is this such a special time? Well a very rare event is happening as I write, namely a transit of Venus across the Sun. Sadly I

55. African American mathematicians - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: During his long Delaware State University tenure, the institution would experience the greatest growth ever achieved under any presidential tenure in its history. ... He published around 30 research papers, mostly on algebra, and wrote a History of

56. Real numbers 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Real_numbers_1/

    10 Jul 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... M Lopez Pellicer, Constructions of real numbers (Spanish), in History of mathematics in the XIXth century, Part 2 (Spanish), Madrid, 1993, Real Acad.

57. Jaina mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: History Sci. 10 (1) (1975), 38-46. R C Gupta, Errata: "Chords and areas of Jambudvipa regions in Jaina cosmography", Ganita Bharati 10 (1-4) (1988), 124. ... History Sci. 11 (2) (1976), 85-111. L C Jain, System theory in Jaina school of mathematics,

58. Egyptian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Egyptian_Academy/

    7 Mar 2023: Medicine, Agronomy and Natural History, its main tendency remained literary and artistic.

59. Cubic surfaces - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: These include cones, cylinders and paraboloids. The surface whose history we are interested in for this short article is a surface of order three which is called a cubic surface. ... points. The last person we will mention in this short history of the

60. Greek astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: J L E Dreyer, A history of astronomy from Thales to Kepler (New York, 1953). ... A Pannekoek, A history of astronomy (New York, 1989). H Thurston, Early astronomy (New York, 1994).