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51. Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: They were 26 and 24 years of age, respectively, at the time of Henri's birth. ... A quote from these writings is particularly relevant to this archive on the history of mathematics.

52. New York Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/New_York_Academy/

    7 Mar 2023: The New York Academy of Sciences was founded in 1817 but at that time it was named The Lyceum of Natural History in the City of New York. ... In 1823 the Lyceum published the first volume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New-York which

53. Christodoulou books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Christodoulou_books/

    28 Feb 2024: In classical mechanics the domain of the unknowns is the real line of time, the action is a single integral and the Euler-Lagrange equations are ordinary differential equations. ... The theory's roots extend over almost the entire previous history of

54. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Perhaps his most famous work, however, is History of Greek Mathematics which appeared in 1921. ... Following the publication of History of Greek Mathematics he was elected president of the Mathematical Association for 1922-23.

55. Greek astronomy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). A F Aveni, Empires of time : Calendars, clocks and cultures (New York, 1989). ... J L E Dreyer, A history of astronomy from Thales to Kepler (New York, 1953).

56. Whitrow books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Whitrow_books/

    12 Jul 2023: Time in History: The Evolution of Our General Awareness of Time and Temporal Perspective (1988). ... 6. The Natural Philosophy of Time (1961), by G J Whitrow. 6.1.

57. Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: F A Medvedev, The delta-function of G L Giorgi and P A M Dirac (Russian), Studies in the history of physics and mechanics (Moscow, 1988), 78-88. ... Vl P Vizgin, P A M Dirac and the problem of the interrelation between physics and mathematics (Russian),

58. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Another major project which Leibniz undertook, this time for Duke Ernst August, was writing the history of the Guelf family, of which the House of Brunswick was a part. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London,

59. Ball books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ball_books/

    7 Mar 2023: history of mathematics which many who are unwilling, or have not the time, to study it systematically may yet desire to know. ... on the History of the Mathematical Tripos, which at one time appeared in my Mathematical Recreations and Essays, since these

60. Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 Apr 2024: To understand events in Barozzi's life we need to look briefly at the history of Crete. ... The island was Greek up to the time of the Fourth Crusade in 1204 when the island was given to the leader of the Crusade after Constantinople was destroyed.