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1. Mary Cannell - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Cannell_Guardian/

   7 Mar 2023: Cannell's book placed Green studies, and the history of mathematical physics in the 19th century, in a new light. ... Mary's prewar studies into French culture lent insight into the mathematical sources used by Green, and her interest in English social

2. Joseph Bertrand (1822 - 1900) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   12 Mar 2023: A I Dale, A history of inverse probability : From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson (Second edition), Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (Springer-Verlag, New York, ... The Laplace integral and the Bertrand problem (Russian

3. Otto Toeplitz PDF (755k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/toeplitz.pdf

   7 Aug 2023: He was passionate about his teaching and set up an educational colloquium for his student teachers, which dealt in particular with topics from the history of mathematics. ... Physik (Sources and Studies on the History of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics

4. al-Kashi (1390 - 1450) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kashi/

   23 Nov 2023: being a simple compiler, went one step beyond al-Samawal and represents an important dimension in the history of decimal fractions. ... A-K Dakhel, Al-Kashi on root extraction, Sources and Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences 2.

5. Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   30 Dec 2023: The Seljuq Turks were tribes that invaded southwestern Asia in the 11th Century and eventually founded an empire that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of Iran. ... R Rashed and A Djebbar (eds), L'Oeuvre algébrique d'al-Khayyam (Arabic),

6. Adolphe Quetelet (1796 - 1874) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   23 Nov 2023: Roy. Belg. Cl. Sci. Mém. Collect. 8(3) 13 (1997), 137-159. P F Lazarsfeld, Notes on the history of quantification in sociology - trends, sources and problems, Isis 52 (1961), ... 333. P F Lazarsfeld, Notes on the history of quantification in sociology -

7. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   30 Dec 2023: N M Swerdlow and O Neugebauer, Mathematical astronomy in Copernicus's 'De revolutionibus.' Part 1, 2, Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences 10 (New York-Berlin, 1984). ... The Commentariolus of Copernicus. The Letter against Werner.

8. Ptolemy (85 - 165) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   30 Dec 2023: Another work on Optics is in five books and in it Ptolemy studies colour, reflection, refraction, and mirrors of various shapes. ... J P Britton, Models and precision : the quality of Ptolemy's observations and parameters, in Sources and Studies in the