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51. Magnus books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Magnus_books/

    7 Mar 2023: Here we encounter the second difficulty facing every historian. It is impossible to write a universal history. ... It was however a moot question for the reviewer whether such a specialised topic like "combinatorial group theory" deserved a history (or

52. Chronology for 1910 - 1920 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/29/

    7 Mar 2023: Russell and Whitehead publish the first volume of Principia Mathematica. They attempt to put the whole of mathematics on a logical foundation. They were able to provide detailed derivations of many major theorems in set theory, finite and

53. Greek numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

54. Yakov Grigorevich Sinai (1935 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: He was required to take an examination on the History of the Communist Party and, being a topic in which he had no interest, he failed. ... resit. He took another History of the Communist Party examination and passed with grade B.

55. Chronology for 1100 - 1300 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/6/

    7 Mar 2023: Jabir ibn Aflah writes works on mathematics which, although not as good as many other Arabic works, are important since they will be translated into Latin and become available to European mathematicians. Bhaskara II (sometimes known as Bhaskaracharya

56. Abstract groups - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Cauchy went on to write 25 papers on this topic between September 1845 and January 1846.

57. Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: This ties up with Kepler's astronomy to the extent that he apparently found somewhat similar intellectual difficulties in explaining how 'force' [See the History Topic on Kepler's planetary laws] ... the orbit of Mars [See the History Topic on Kepler's

58. Indian Sulbasutras - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: P Juskevic, S S Demidov, F A Medvedev and E I Slavutin, Studies in the history of mathematics 19 "Nauka" (Moscow, 1974), 220-222; 302.

59. Jonathan Borwein books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Borwein_Jonathan_books/

    21 Sep 2023: It also includes the history of π calculations and results on Diophantine approximations (irrationality measures) of π. ... To pursue this topic as it developed throughout the millennia is to follow a thread through the history of mathematics that

60. Chronology for 1970 - 1980 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/35/

    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Adleman, Rivest, and Shamir introduce public-key codes, a system for passing secret messages using large primes and a key which can be published.