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Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_rise_of_calculus/18 Jan 2024: Histoire Sci. 39 (3) (1986), 223-253. C B Boyer, The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (New York, 1959). ... 22. A Rosenthal, The history of calculus, The American Mathematical Monthly 58 (1951), 75-86.
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H W Turnbull: "Scottish Contribution to the Calculus" -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Turnbull_Scottish/7 Mar 2023: H W Turnbull gave a lecture in "History" on The Scottish Contribution to the Early History of the Calculus. ... by. H W Turnbull. Recent examination of original and mostly unpublished manuscripts and letters has thrown new light upon the early
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Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler/25 Mar 2024: In 1755 Euler published Institutiones calculi differentialis which begins with a study of the calculus of finite differences. ... E Knobloch, Leibniz and Euler : problems and solutions concerning infinitesimal geometry and calculus, Conference on the
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Edinburgh Mathematical Society Lecturers 1883- 2023 - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/EMS/ems_lecturers/15 Mar 2024: G A Gibson (Glasgow) On the history of the Fourier series. ... J H M Wedderburn (Edinburgh) On Newton's theorem in the calculus of variations.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2020/7 Mar 2023: Aleksandar Nikolic, Serbian Mathematics Institutions 1841-1941. Lajos Klukovits, Selected Passages from the History of the Szeged Mathematical School. ... Katalin Munkácsy and Eleonóra Stettner, How can we use the results of mathematics history in the
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (L) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/l/23 Jan 2024: 46-7). (See H. H. Goldstine A History of the Calculus of Variations from the 17. ... Boyer in The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development.
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1920 ICM - Strasbourg - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Strasbourg_1920/15 Dec 2023: Sarrus, whose name will remain in the history of the calculus of variations, and Arbogast, who appears as a precursor of Functional Calculus. ... Unnamed crimes will leave a stain on the history of guilty nations, that signatures at the bottom of a peace
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Claude Shannon - New York Times obituary - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Shannon_NYTimes/7 Mar 2023: Vannevar Bush on one of the early calculating machines, the "differential analyzer," which used a precisely honed system of shafts, gears, wheels and disks to solve equations in calculus. ... Though analog computers like this turned out to be little more
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Hadamard on the calculus - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hadamard_calculus/7 Mar 2023: What is certain is that Gregory was the first to publish a proof of this fundamental theorem of the calculus. ... We see how psychological considerations can be illustrated by the history of science; and conversely, how they can help us to understand
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Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heaviside/25 Jan 2024: J Lutzen, Heaviside's operational calculus and the attempts to rigorise it, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21 (1979), 161-200. ... S S Petrova, Heaviside and the Development of the Symbolic Calculus, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 37 (1987),