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61. William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: History Exact Sci. 19 (2) (1978/79), 177-200. A J McConnell, Hamilton's work in applied mathematics, Bull. ... Inst. Math. Appl. 13 (9-10) (1977), 228-233. N D McMillan, History of mathematics : J MacCullagh and W R Hamilton - the triumph of Irish

62. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: The volume entitled 'The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish' was published in 1879, and is unequalled as a chapter in the history of electricity. ... Falconer, I. J. No actual measurement. was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null

63. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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    30 Dec 2023: and to the theory of probability, two major topics which he would work on throughout his life. ... Russian), in Problems in the history of mathematics and mechanics (Kiev, 1977), 58-67.

64. Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: History Exact Sci. 11 (1973/74), 1-37. E T Bell, Newton after three centuries, Amer. ... Tverd. Tela 20 (1988), 46-67; 112. C W Kilmister, The history of Newton's laws, Bull.

65. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: You can see more about these numbers in the History topics article Perfect numbers at THIS LINK. ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

66. Pierre Fermat (1601 - 1665) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: This grew out of Huygens interest in probability and the correspondence was soon manipulated by Fermat onto topics of number theory. ... I G Basmakova, Diophantos and Fermat : On the history of the method of tangents and extrema (Russian), Istor.-Mat.

67. Physical world - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    18 Jan 2024: In this article we explore a little of the history of the philosophy of science in order to look at differing views to the type of questions that we have just

68. Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The papers by Lagrange which appear in these transactions cover a variety of topics. ... His work in Berlin covered many topics: astronomy, the stability of the solar system, mechanics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, probability, and the foundations of the

69. Edward Copson (1901 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Born. 21 August 1901. Died. 16 February 1980. St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Summary. Edward Copson was an expert on Complex Analysis and was Regius Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews from 1950 until 1969. . View ten larger pictures. Edward

70. Edmond Laguerre (1834 - 1886) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    11 Apr 2024: Born. 9 April 1834. Died. 14 August 1886. Bar-le-Duc, France. Summary. Edmond Laguerre studied approximation methods and is best remembered for the special functions: the Laguerre polynomials. . View two larger pictures. Edmond Laguerre had poor