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11. General relativity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: J Eisenstaedt, La relativité générale à l'étiage : 1925-1955, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 35 (2) (1986), 115-185. ... J Illy, Einstein teaches Lorentz, Lorentz teaches Einstein : Their collaboration in general relativity, 1913-1920,

12. Maurice Fréchet (1878 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Sep 2023: A E Taylor, A study of Maurice Fréchet II, Archive for History of Exact Science 34 (1985), 279-380. ... A E Taylor, A study of Maurice Fréchet III, Archive for History of Exact Science 37 (1987), 25-76.

13. Johan de Witt - The first calculation on the valuation of life…

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

    7 Mar 2023: London. Hald, A. (2003) A History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750. ... Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 16(2), 119-136. Weir, D.R. (1989).

14. Elliptic functions - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). R Ayoub, The lemniscate and Fagnano's contributions to elliptic integrals, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 29 (2) (1984), 131-149. ... Issled. 27 (1983), 163-178. J Stillwell, Mathematics and history (New York, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1989),

15. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J Lutzen, Heaviside's operational calculus and the attempts to rigorise it, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 21 (1979), 161-200. ... S S Petrova, Heaviside and the Development of the Symbolic Calculus, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 37 (1987),

16. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (G) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: C. Althoen and R. McLaughlin (1987) "Gauss-Jordan Reduction: A Brief History," American Mathematical Monthly, 94, 130-142. ... 1049). (Based on E. Hewitt & R. E. Hewitt "The Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon: An episode in Fourier analysis," Archive for History

17. Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: C J Scriba, The inverse method of tangents. A dialogue between Leibniz and Newton (1675-1677), Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2 (1964), 113-137. ... Internat. Histoire Sci. 25 (97) (1975), 304-308. D T Whiteside, Patterns of mathematical thought

18. Ahmes (1680 BC - 1620 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Ahmes is the scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus (named after the Scottish Egyptologist Alexander Henry Rhind who went to Thebes for health reasons, became interested in excavating and purchased the ... R J Gillings, The recto of the Rhind Mathematical

19. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 - 1857) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Philos. Sci. 30 (3) (1979), 261-265. H Freudenthal, Did Cauchy plagiarise Bolzano, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 7 (1971), 375-392. ... Histoire Sci. Appl. 26 (2) (1973), 97-112. F Smithies, Cauchy's conception of rigor in analysis, Archive for

20. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (F) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: th. century; see J. Dutka "The early history of the factorial function", Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 1991, 43, (3), 225-249. ... This citation was provided by Peter Flor to a math history mailing list.