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1. Gilberte Pascal: "The life of Pascal" - MacTutor History of …

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

   7 Mar 2023: languages. But since my father had been so careful to conceal all these [mathematical objects] from him that he did not even know their names, he ws forced to invent his ... considered such an important intellectual achievement that it was said that

2. John Wallis English version PDF (468k)

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   4 Mar 2021: n with decreasing a the area ratio converged to 31. Since this was already known to ARCHIMEDES, WALLIS saw his approach. ... and since 1. 132. 21. = , it follows by analogy to the above formula.

3. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   30 Dec 2023: Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer. We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of ... It is true that. individual works of Archimedes were obviously

4. Trisecting an angle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: Now certainly this work is not just a translation of a work of Archimedes since Archimedes is quoted several times in the work in a way that is quite impossible for ... They could never progress to plane solutions since we know that such are impossible.

5. 1986 ICM - Berkeley - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   15 Dec 2023: Since 1962 the IMU has been responsible for preparing the scientific program of the Congresses. ... At least since the days of Archimedes, mathematicians have corresponded with one another and travelled great distances to study, teach, and confer.

6. Cajori history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: problems which were, perhaps, solved long since; it discourages him from attacking an unsolved problem by the same method which has led other mathematicians to failure; it teaches that fortifications can ... The circle-squarers have existed in crowds

7. Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   14 May 2024: Euler became professor of physics at the Academy in 1730 and, since this allowed him to become a full member of the Academy, he was able to give up his Russian ... Of course hydrostatics had been studied since Archimedes, but Euler gave a definitive

8. Bonaventura Cavalieri PDF (655k)

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   17 Jun 2021: With GALILEO's express recommendation (. few, if any, have delved so deeply into the science of geometry since ARCHIMEDES. ), ... In the theory of indivisibles, the infinitely many intersecting surfaces are regarded as the leaves of a book, which, however

9. Greek sources I - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: In 1906 Heiberg was able to start examining the Archimedes palimpsest in Istanbul. ... Of course this involved writing the new texts at right angles to the Archimedes text and, since it was bound as a book, part of the Archimedes text was in the

10. Adriaan van Roomen (1561 - 1615) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Scaliger had stated that Archimedes' method of calculating the area of a circle was useless since he was using an arithmetical method to solve a geometrical problem. ... In the second part he defends Archimedes from Scaliger's attack introducing a