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41. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713 - 1762) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    4 Oct 2023: Indeed Bradley had been elected to the Academy of Sciences in July 1748. ... C A Wilson, Perturbations and Solar Tables from Lacaille to Delambre: the Rapprochement of Observation and Theory, Part I, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 22 (1/2) (1980),

42. Matrices and determinants - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    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

43. William Kermack (1898 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: in the records of the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum from 1898 to 1901. ... S C Coutinho, A lost chapter in the pre-history of algebraic analysis: Whittaker on contact transformations, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 64 (6) (2010), 665-706.

44. Thales of Miletus (624 BC - 547 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: O Neugebauer, The exact sciences in antiquity (Providence, R.I., 1957). B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961). ... F Ueberweg, A History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1972) (2 Volumes).

45. Ibn Yunus (950 - 1009) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: D A King, Ibn Yunus' Very Useful Tables for Reckoning Time by the Sun, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences 10 (1973), 342-394. ... D A King, Ibn Yunus and the pendulum : a history of errors, Arch.

46. Al-Khwarizmi (790 - 850) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi/

    30 Dec 2023: O Neugebauer, The exact sciences in Antiquity (New York, 1969). R Rashed, The development of Arabic mathematics : between arithmetic and algebra (London, 1994). ... 42 (1991), 1-12. B B Hughes, Robert of Chester's Latin translation of al-Khwarizmi's

47. Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892 - 1965) - Biography - MacTutor History …

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

    7 Mar 2023: In that year he was appointed extraordinary professor in the history of mathematics and the natural sciences at Utrecht University. ... In 1955 he also accepted an extraordinary professorship in the history of mathematics and the exact natural sciences

48. Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 May 2023: M Anglade and J Y Briend, La notion d'involution dans le 'Brouillon Project' de Girard Desargues, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 71 (6) (2017), 543-588. ... M Anglade and J Y Briend Le diamètre et la traversale: dans l'atelier de Girard Desargues,

49. Eudoxus (408 BC - 355 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Eratosthenes, who wrote a history of the problem, says that Eudoxus solved the problem by means of curved lines. ... O Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (Providence, R.I., 1957). O Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (3 Vols.

50. Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: J V Field, A Lutheran Astrologer : Johannes Kepler, Archive for History of Exact Science 31 (1984), 189-. ... J V Field, Rediscovering the Archimedean polyhedra: Piero della Francesca, Luca Pacioli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Daniele Barbaro,