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

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

    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.

62. 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.

63. 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.

64. 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.

65. Physical world - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    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

66. 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

67. 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

68. The Scottish Book - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    23 Apr 2024: As most readers will realize, the city of Lwow, and with it the "Scottish Book", was fated to have a very stormy history within a few years of the book's ... I should be grateful if the recipients of this collection were willing to point out errors,

69. Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Apr 2024: The editorial policy was:-. to focus on research in functional analysis and related topics.

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

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

    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