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21. Tom Whiteside (1932 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: His doctoral thesis was published in 1961 in the first volume of the newly established journal - the Archive for the History of the Exact Sciences. ... In 1987 he became University Professor of the History of Mathematics and Exact Sciences in the

22. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (G) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/g/

    7 Mar 2023: This information is taken from a footnote in the paper "Development of the concept of homotopy," by Ria Vanden Eynde (in History of topology, pages 65-102. ... 1049). (Based on E. Hewitt & R. E. Hewitt "The Gibbs-Wilbraham phenomenon: An episode in

23. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: C Jami, Une histoire chinoise du 'nombre π', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 38 (1) (1988), 39-50. ... Inst. Math. Appl. 25 (3-4) (1989), 74-77. I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on inverse-tangent series for π, Archive for History of

24. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Un. Mat. Ital. (2) 2 (1940), 147-171. K Anderson, Cavalieri's method of indivisibles, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 31 (4) (1985), 291-367. ... Jahrhundert (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1990), 64-99. P Palmieri, Superposition: on

25. Max Planck (1858 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Planck always took on administrative duties, in addition to his research activities, such as Secretary of the Mathematics and Natural Science Section of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, a post he ... J Franck, Max Planck, Science 107 (1948), 534-537. M

26. Kepler's Laws - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: And because it was expressed geometrically, the solution would potentially be exact - the closed orbit of a single planet in a plane round the fixed Sun. ... A E L Davis: 'The Mathematics of the Area Law: Kepler's successful proof in Epitome Astronomiae

27. Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Verein. Versicherungsmath. Mitt. (2) (1989), 217-228. I Schneider, Der Mathematiker Abraham de Moivre, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 5 (1968), 177-317. ... Sci. 8 (2) (1983), 75-80. O B Sheynin, On the history of the de Moivre-Laplace limit

28. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Gaz. 59 (410) (1975), 250-260. S Aoki, The moon-test in Newton's 'Principia' : accuracy of inverse-square law of universal gravitation, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 44 (2) ... History Exact Sci. 2 (1964/1965), 365-386. H A M Snelders, Christiaan

29. Robert Woodhouse (1773 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Sep 2023: If the methods of Lagrange, rather than those of Cauchy, had become the accepted methods then Woodhouse would have a much more prominent role in the history of mathematics today. ... E Koppelman, The calculus of operations and the rise of abstract algebra

30. Group theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... B M Kiernan, The development of Galois theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8