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Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heath/25 Jan 2024: Cayley recommended its publication by Cambridge University Press and Diophantus of Alexandria: a study in the history of Greek algebra appeared in 1885. ... Following the publication of History of Greek Mathematics he was elected president of the
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Diophantus (200 - 284) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diophantus/30 Dec 2023: T L Heath, Diophantus of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra (New York, 1964). ... T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics 2 (Oxford, 1931).
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Cantor Moritz historiography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Cantor_Moritz_historiography/7 Mar 2023: Nicolas Chuquet, like Michael Stifel, like François Viète, wrote their names on missing pages and must be missing from Cossali, but are absolutely necessary in a general history of algebra. ... We therefore have from him, like the History of Algebra,
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (P) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/p/7 Mar 2023: Yule "Notes on the History of Pauperism in England and Wales from 1850. " ... The following is taken from Sir Thomas L. Heath, Diophantus of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, page 285-286:.