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Frigyes Riesz (1880 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riesz/7 Mar 2023: He was elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences and to the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund in Sweden. ... M Bernkopf, The Development of Functional Spaces, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 3 (1966-67), 1-96.
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Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gronwall/18 Jan 2024: A number of papers from 1912 established him as a first-class mathematician. ... A Gluchoff and F Hartmann, On a 'Much Underestimated' Paper of Alexander, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 55 (2000), 1-41.
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Abstract linear spaces - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Abstract_linear_spaces/7 Mar 2023: T W Hawkins, Weierstrass and the theory of matrices, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 17 (1977), 119-163. ... E Knobloch, Determinants, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences
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al-Kashi (1390 - 1450) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Kashi/23 Nov 2023: being a simple compiler, went one step beyond al-Samawal and represents an important dimension in the history of decimal fractions. ... A-K Dakhel, Al-Kashi on root extraction, Sources and Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences 2.
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Non-Euclidean geometry - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry/7 Mar 2023: Colombiana Ci. Exact. Fis. Nat. 7 (1946), 63-81. H Freudenthal, Nichteuklidische Geometrie im Altertum?, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 43 (3) (1991), 189-197. ... J J Gray, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.),
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Ahmes (1680 BC - 1620 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ahmes/7 Mar 2023: Nothing is known of Ahmes other than his own comments in the papyrus. ... R J Gillings, The recto of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. How did the ancient Egyptian scribe prepare it?, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 12 (1974), 291-298.
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Quantum mechanics history - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins/7 Mar 2023: Phys. 26 (4) (1996), 545-557. L M Brown, Quantum mechanics, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (London, 1994), 1252-1260. ... G S Im, Experimental constraints on formal quantum
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John Machin (1680 - 1751) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Machin/27 Aug 2023: A M Clerke, John Machin, Dictionary of National Biography XII (London, 1893), 554. ... I Tweddle, John Machin and Robert Simson on Inverse- tangent Series for p, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 (1) (1991), 1-14.
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Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lambert/30 Dec 2023: He wanted to gain a position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin and so become a colleague of Euler and Lagrange. ... Hist. Exact Sci. 19 (4) (1978/79), 309-370. O B Sheynim, J H Lambert's Work on Probability, Archive for History of Exact
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Fund theorem of algebra - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Fund_theorem_of_algebra/7 Mar 2023: Student 52 (1-4) (1984), 101-105. C Gilain, Sur l'histoire du théorème fondamental de l'algèbre : théorie des équations et calcul intégral, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 42 ... Wisk. 64 (4) (1976/77), 173-175. S S Petrova, From the history