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61. Chinese numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). G Ifrah, The universal history of numbers (London, 1998). J-C Martzloff, A history of Chinese mathematics (Berlin-Heidelberg, 1997).

62. Chronology for 1840 - 1850 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Cauchy publishes the first volume of the four volume work Exercises d'analyse et de physique mathematique. Gauss publishes a treatise on optics in which he gives a formulae for calculating the position and size of the image formed by a lens with a

63. Felice Casorati (1835 - 1890) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: 1868) on this topic. Particularly pleasing to those with an interest in the history of mathematics is the fact that in the first part of the text he gives a valuable ... Lombardo Accad. Sci. Lett. Rend. A 136/137 (2002/03), 7-48. E Neuenschwander,

64. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: C Jami, Une histoire chinoise du 'nombre π', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 38 (1) (1988), 39-50. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. C Pereira da Silva, A brief history of the number π (Portuguese), Bol.

65. Grattan-Guinness books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: The book covers more than the standard territory of the history of calculus. ... However, the concentration on the history of the calculus serves a purpose for those who wish to learn the history of that topic.

66. Chronology for 1890 - 1900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: He proves that five colours suffice. (See this History Topic.). Fedorov and Schönflies independently classify crystallographic space groups showing that there are 230 of them. ... He is the originator of algebraic topology publishing six papers on the

67. Babylonian numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: J., 1999). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... J Hoyrup, Babylonian mathematics, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the

68. Marian Țarină (1932 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: He made a particular study of Recurrent Spaces for the five years following 1965, although he returned to the topic in 1980-81. ... We noted earlier his interest in the history of mathematics so let us mention three papers Țarină wrote on that topic,

69. Chronology for 1930 - 1940 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Van der Waerden's famous work Modern Algebra is published. This two volume work presents the algebra developed byandproves his embedding theorem for separable metric spaces into compact spaces. Kuratowski proves his theorem on planar graphs. G D

70. Special relativity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: L S Swenson, The ethereal aether : a history of the Michelson-Morley-Miller aether-drift experiments, 1880-1930 (Austin, 1972). ... A A Tyapkin, On the history of the special relativity concept, Hadronic J.