Search

Filter

Results

31. The teaching of mathematics in Britain in the Seventeenth Century. -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Watson/chapter-7/

    7 Mar 2023: It was vastly successful in this aim, giving public lectures in both Latin and English on topics drawn from Geometry, Astronomy and Mathematics which attracted large numbers of people. ... These topics were taught by educators such as Adam Martindale and

32. The teaching of mathematics in The Renaissance - Some topics in the…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Watson/chapter-6/

    7 Mar 2023: based on applied topics. ... Using this approach Ramus worked on many topics and wrote a whole series of textbooks on logic and rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, astronomy, and optics.

33. Weil family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    9 May 2024: preferred topics of conversation at the Weils dinner table - music, literature, and André's favourite hobby, the collecting rare editions of Greek and Latin texts - were occasionally held in the

34. African women 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_women_1/

    18 Jan 2024: Her publications include The use of history of mathematics in the teaching of mathematics in secondary education (1983). ... Jennifer Denise KEY. Country: South Africa. Year: 1969. Degree: Ph.D. Thesis title: Some Topics in Finite Permutation Groups.

35. Debating topics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Topic 1. The first ideas we present are simply to make people think about numbers, and in particular to encourage the use of the history archive to find birth dates and

36. African men 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_men_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Contribution to the research on the foundations and the history of logical and mathematical thought in West Africa].

37. Herstein: Preface to "Topics in algebra" - MacTutor History …

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1964 Israel Nathan Herstein had his classic text Topics in algebra published by Blaisdell Publishing Co. ... Topics that a few years ago were considered proper subject matter for semi-advanced graduate courses in algebra have filtered down to, and are

38. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: One of the first articles which we included in the "History Topics" section of our web archive was on the history of π. ... Now the reader might ask, not unreasonably, why we have not started our article on the history of.

39. Arabic numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 May 2024: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... G G Joseph, The crest of the peacock (London, 1991). R Kaplan, The nothing that is : a natural history of zero (London, 1999).

40. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    1 Apr 2024: Comput. Graph. Statist. 4 (1) (1995), 1-11. S M Stigler, The History of Statistics.