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41. Frank Smithies (1912 - 2002) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: In fact this was the second member of the Whittaker family who had lectured to Smithies for he had studied the history of mathematics with John Whittaker's father Edmund Whittaker ... London Math. Soc. 29 (2) (1997), 129-138. F Smithies, Cauchy's

42. Matrices and determinants - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    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

43. Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    18 Jan 2024: u(t)ABat u(s)ds. holds for all. t. I. t in I. tI with. ... A Gluchoff and F Hartmann, On a 'Much Underestimated' Paper of Alexander, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 55 (2000), 1-41.

44. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Gaz. 59 (410) (1975), 250-260. S Aoki, The moon-test in Newton's 'Principia' : accuracy of inverse-square law of universal gravitation, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 44 (2) ... History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders, Christiaan

45. John Machin (1680 - 1751) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Aug 2023: He continued to correspond with Taylor for many years and this is a useful source for understanding his mathematical thinking. ... I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on Inverse- tangent Series for p, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 (1)

46. Anastácio da Cunha (1744 - 1787) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Struik, reviewing [12] writes:-. His importance for the history of mathematics is due to his "Principios Mathemáticos". , ... A J Franco de Oliveira, Anastácio da Cunha and the Concept of Convergent Series, Archive for History of Exact Science 39 (1988)

47. Kepler's Laws - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: Thus Kepler knew the angular amount he should allow as compensation for them. ... A E L Davis: 'The Mathematics of the Area Law: Kepler's successful proof in Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (1621)', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 57, 5 (2003),

48. John O'Connor (1945 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 Apr 2024: The MacTutor history archive has won a number of awards including the Hirst Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2015. ... B Hughes, St Andrews History of Mathematics Archive, Mathematical Association of America (2007).

49. Enrico Betti (1823 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: A Weil, Riemann, Betti and the Birth of Topology, Archive for History of Exact Science 20 (2) (1979), 91- 96. ... A Weil, A postscript to: 'Riemann, Betti and the Birth of Topology', Archive for History of Exact Science 21 (4) (1979/80), 387.

50. Nicholas Oresme (1323 - 1382) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 May 2023: Oresme also worked on infinite series and argued for an infinite void beyond the Earth. ... E Grant, Nicole Oresme and the Commensurability or Incommensurability of Celestial Motions, Archive for History of Exact Science 1 (1961), 420-.