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1. Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schooten/

   14 May 2024: He had a good background in mathematics having studied Michael Stifel's edition of Christoff Rudolff's Coss and read both Dutch and French editions of works by Simon Stevin. ... Van Schooten was also familiar with the classical Greek texts having read

2. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/

   30 Dec 2023: Only after Eutocius brought out editions of some of Archimedes works, with commentaries, in the sixth century AD were the remarkable treatises to become more widely known. ... 22 (2) (1995), 186-187. A P Yushkevich, On the first Russian editions of the

3. Dijksterhuis books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   12 Jul 2023: The bulk of the work is a discussion of all the writings of Archimedes, proposition by proposition. ... With meticulous scholarship, Dijksterhuis surveys the whole range of evidence on Archimedes' life and the 2000-year history of the manuscripts and

4. Tartaglia (1500 - 1557) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tartaglia/

   11 Jan 2024: Tartaglia also published Latin editions of Archimedes' works. He died in poverty in his house in the Calle del Sturion near the Rialto Bridge (not the present one which was constructed ... Notae 1 (1941), 26-33. P Schultz, Tartaglia, Archimedes and cubic

5. Gregory of Saint-Vincent (1584 - 1667) - Biography - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Saint-Vincent/

   18 Jan 2024: He [1]:-. elaborated the theory of conic sections on the basis of Commandino's editions of Archimedes (1558), Apollonius (1566), and Pappus (1588). ... In Book IX he extends his methods to give volumes of cylindrical bodies.