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1. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   25 Jan 2024: He was a specialist in the history of Greek mathematics, writing articles on 'Pappus' and 'Porisms' for Encyclopaedia Britannica while still an undergraduate. ... Cayley recommended its publication by Cambridge University Press and Diophantus of

2. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (P) -…

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

   7 Mar 2023: The following is taken from Sir Thomas L. Heath, Diophantus of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra, page 285-286:. ... See that date in Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization

3. Diophantus (200 - 284) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   30 Dec 2023: Knorr gives a different translation of the same passage (showing how difficult the study of Greek mathematics is for anyone who is not an expert in classical Greek) which has a ... T L Heath, Diophantus of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek

4. Monteiro da Rocha (1734 - 1819) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Letters involved the study of Latin, Greek, History, geography, poetry and oratory. ... Baía, where he was educated, and then continued progress without a teacher in the study of the other branches of those sciences and in the improvement of the