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  1. Peano Axioms - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1 is a natural number. Every natural number. n. n. n has a natural number. ... n. ′. nprime. n′ as a successor. 1 is not the successor of a natural number.

  2. D'Arcy Thompson (1860 - 1948) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 May 2024: changed to natural history. ... In 1917 D'Arcy Thompson was appointed to the Chair of Natural History in St Andrews.

  3. University of Edinburgh Natural Philosophy Examinations 1882-83 -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Education/Edinburgh_maths/Edinburgh_p_exams/

    7 Mar 2023: We give the papers for the M.A. Pass degree in Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. ... We give two Natural Philosophy papers, one from October 1882 and the other from April 1883.

  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. Arabic numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 May 2024: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).

  6. Paris Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Paris/

    7 Mar 2023: The three Physical Sciences of chemistry, botany and anatomy became four subjects: chemistry and metallurgy; mineralogy and natural history; botany and agriculture; and anatomy. ... Physical Sciences now consisted of: chemistry; natural history and

  7. Bakerian Lecturer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Bakerian/

    7 Mar 2023: on such part of natural history or experimental philosophy, at such time and in such manner as the President and the Council of the Society for the time being shall be

  8. Joseph Plateau - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Darcy/plateau/

    1 May 2023: All letters were written in French (ms22329-ms22337). They mainly corresponded about natural history, discussed specimens, studies and developments as well as personal and career news.

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

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/

    16 Apr 2024: The history of the use of the function in probability is traced in S. ... 39. The history of the contributing inequalities is given in Inequalities byand G.

  10. Indian Mathematics - Redressing the balance - Projects - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Pearce/

    7 Mar 2023: J. (1998). A History of Mathematics (an introduction). USA: Addison-Wesley. Rashed, R. ... Archive for History of Exact Sciences 18, 89-102. [Denoted by CR/MR1].