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21. Andrei Andreyevich Markov (1856 - 1922) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    21 Apr 2023: O B Sheynin, A A Markov's Work on Probability, Archive for History of Exact Science 39 (1988), 337-377. ... O B Sheynin, Errata for the contribution: 'A A Markov's work on probability', Archive for History of Exact Science 40 (4) (1989), 387.

22. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: C Jami, Une histoire chinoise du 'nombre π', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 38 (1) (1988), 39-50. ... Inst. Math. Appl. 25 (3-4) (1989), 74-77. I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on inverse-tangent series for π, Archive for History of

23. Maria Agnesi (1718 - 1799) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: C Truesdell, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Archive for History of Exact Science 40 (1989), 113-142. ... C Truesdell, Correction and Additions for Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Archive for History of Exact Science 43 (1991), 385-386.

24. Group theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... B M Kiernan, The development of Galois theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8

25. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: RANGE (of a function). In 1865, The Differential Calculus by John Spare has: "It is useful to become acquainted with the methods of fully examining the entire history of a function ... See. MODULUS. and. REMAINDER. RESIDUE CLASS appears in 1948 in Number

26. Giuseppe Peano (1858 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: Philos. Logic 8 (1) (1987), 15-24. M Segre, Peano's axioms in their historical context, Archive for History of Exact Science 48 (3-4) (1994), 201-342. ... E A Zaitsev, An interpretation of Peano's logic, Archive for History of Exact Science 46 (4) (1994),

27. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Lorentz developed his mathematical theory of the electron for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1902. ... J A Kox, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the Ether and the General Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 67-78.

28. Abstract linear spaces - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: T W Hawkins, Weierstrass and the theory of matrices, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 17 (1977), 119-163. ... E Knobloch, Determinants, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: See Materials for the History of Statistics for the full reference. ... Their earlier history is obscure: William C. Waterhouse writes in "The Discovery of the Regular Solids" Archive for History of Exact Science, 9, (1972-1973).

30. Robert Woodhouse (1773 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Sep 2023: If the methods of Lagrange, rather than those of Cauchy, had become the accepted methods then Woodhouse would have a much more prominent role in the history of mathematics today. ... E Koppelman, The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra