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  1. David Fowler - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Fowler_David_Guardian/

    7 Mar 2023: Fowler's initial venture into history began in 1979 with a ground-breaking paper Ratio In Early Greek Mathematics, published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. ... Although parts of his work have been considered controversial by some,

  2. Ancient Greek mathematics - History Topics - MacTutor History of…

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

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  3. Ancient Greek mathematics - Biographies - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/category-greeks/

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  4. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

    6 Jul 2023: Apollodorus (born: about 130 BC) was a Greek scholar who is best known for his Chronicle of Greek history. ... Diogenes Laertius (3rd century BC) was a Greek author who wrote an important history of Greek philosophy.

  5. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2008/

    7 Mar 2023: Angela Blaga (Colegiul National "Al Papiu Ilarian"), About the History of the Number "i". ... Lajos Klukovit (University of Szeged), On two long lasting Delusions in the History of Equations.

  6. D'Arcy Thompson on Greek irrationals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: As part of the purpose of the article is to discuss the translation of these pieces of Greek text, this give some difficulty in presenting the article for readers who do ... Yet there is no account of it, nor the least allusion to it, in all the history

  7. Greek sources II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_2/

    10 Jul 2023: First let us see what facts Heath knew when he wrote his famous book [1], A history of Greek mathematics, which he began in 1913. ... show). T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1921).

  8. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Perhaps his most famous work, however, is History of Greek Mathematics which appeared in 1921. ... Following the publication of History of Greek Mathematics he was elected president of the Mathematical Association for 1922-23.

  9. Greek numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: However this is simply a consequence of changes to the Greek alphabet after the numerals coming from these letters had been fixed. ... show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

  10. Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 Apr 2024: To understand events in Barozzi's life we need to look briefly at the history of Crete. ... Francesco attended school in Padua where he learnt Greek and Latin, then he studied at the University of Padua where mathematics was part of his course.