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  1. Ring Theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: Any book on Abstract Algebra will contain the definition of a ring. It will define a ring to be a set with two operations, called addition and multiplication, satisfying a collection of axioms. These axioms require addition to satisfy the axioms for

  2. The Scottish Book - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Apr 2024: As most readers will realize, the city of Lwow, and with it the "Scottish Book", was fated to have a very stormy history within a few years of the book's

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Egyptian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... History Exact Sci. 12 (1974), 291-298. R J Gillings, The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Role - line 8 : How did the scribe do it?, Historia Math.

  6. 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

  7. Herschel Museum - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    31 Aug 2024: On a Saturday in August I [EFR] visited The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath. This house was home to William and Caroline Herschel for some of their time in the city of Bath and the garden of this house is where William set

  8. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

  9. Advice on organising a BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2008/Advice2008/

    7 Mar 2023: Special Lecture. A lecture on history or relevant current events (mathematical finance?).

  10. Ancient Islamic mathematics - History Topics - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/category-arabs/

    15 Aug 2024: