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  1. Chronology for 30000 BC - 500 BC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/1/

    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Babylonians know Pythagoras's Theorem. (See this History Topic.). ... See this History Topic.). The Rhind papyrus (sometimes called the Ahmes papyrus) is written.

  2. Chronology for 1500 - 1600 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Hudalrichus Regius finds the fifth perfect number. ... See thispublishes his trigonometric tables and the trigonometrical parts of Copernicus's work.

  3. Jean-François Le Gall (1959 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    29 Mar 2024: For more information about the history of probability, how Brownian motion came into this topic, and Le Gall's own contributions, see the English translation of Le Gall's article [27] ... For more information about these books, including extracts from

  4. Chronology for 500 BC - 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Date of earliest Chinese document Suanshu shu (A Book on Arithmetic). ... See thiswrites On the Ascension of Stars. In this work he is the first to divide the Zodiac into 360 degrees.

  5. Chronology for 1 - 500 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See thiswrites Arithmetica, a study of number theory problems in which only rational numbers are allowed as solutions. ... See thiswrites on astrology and mysticism. His Life of Pythagoras is a fascinating account.

  6. Chronology for 1900 - 1910 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Themethod for numerically solving ordinary differential equations is proposed. ... See thispublishes the special theory of relativity. (See thisproves the decomposition theorem for ideals into primary ideals in a polynomial ring.

  7. Chronology for 500 - 900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See this THIS LINK.). Chinese mathematics is introduced into Japan. ... Li Chunfeng starts to assemble the Chinese Ten Mathematical Classics. (See this History Topic.).

  8. Chronology for 1850 - 1860 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See thiss book Paradoxien des Undendlichen (Paradoxes of the Infinite) is published three years after his death. ... See thispublishes Traité de géométrie which discusses cross ratio, pencils and involutions, all notions which he introduced.

  9. Chronology for 1830 - 1840 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/21/

    7 Mar 2023: See thisuses algebra in treating dynamics in On a General Method in Dynamics. ... This paper gives the first statement of the characteristic function applied to dynamics.

  10. Chronology for 1820 - 1830 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Steiner develops synthetic geometry. He publishes his theories on the topic in 1832. ... See this History Topic.).