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1. More definitions for associated curves - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Definitions2/

   7 Mar 2023: is an algebraic curve. The term is due to Leibniz. ... For example the cycloid is a transcendental curve. The term is due to Leibniz.

2. Jakob Hermann (1678 - 1733) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   7 Mar 2023: In 1701 Hermann became a member of the Berlin Academy of Science, his election being very much due to support from Leibniz who was delighted to see the clarity with which ... He spent eleven years in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, again a position which, as we

3. Forgery 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: The paper which König gave to Maupertuis both attacked the validity of the principle of least action and also claimed that the principle was due to Leibniz and not Maupertuis. ... Clearly the original letter was sent by Leibniz to a mathematician other

4. Carnot reflexions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: that the glory of the discovery is due to Leibniz almost entirely, and for the rest to the two Bernoullis. ... analysis. This immense advantage would be lost, or at any rate diminished, if, instead of this pure and simple method such as Leibniz supplied,

5. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (I) -…

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   23 Jan 2024: According to Stein and Barcellos (page 311), the term integral calculus is due to Leibniz. ... The term INTEGRAL GEOMETRY is due to Wilhelm Blaschke (1885-1962), according to the University of St.

6. Willem 'sGravesande (1688 - 1742) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   29 Sep 2023: There were two rival theories, one due to Huygens and Leibniz, the other due to Descartes. ... motions". The motion of the planets, he claims, is due to universal gravitation, by the cause of gravity remains a mystery to him:-.

7. Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   30 Dec 2023: Desperate to get a chair in Cambridge he begged Johann Bernoulli to persuade Leibniz to write supporting him. ... He did so in 1710 explaining to Leibniz that de Moivre was living a miserable life of poverty.

8. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

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   16 Apr 2024: The restricted meaning of calculus, meaning differential and integral calculus, is due to Leibniz. ... Nonetheless, the first proof of categoricity is due to Dedekind: in his Was sind und Was sollen die Zahlen?

9. Biography of Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: It took almost two centuries for the correct definition of a limit to appear, due to Cauchy. ... The most important contribution to the study of Geometry through the methods of infinitesimal calculus is due to the great mathematician of the last century,