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  1. Chronology for 1810 - 1820 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/19/

    7 Mar 2023: See thisproduces Barlow's Tables which give factors, squares, cubes, square roots, reciprocals and hyperbolic logs of all numbers from 1 to 10000.

  2. Chronology for 1870 - 1880 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/25/

    7 Mar 2023: Maxwell publishes Electricity and Magnetism. This work contains the four partial differential equations, now known as "Maxwell's equations". ... See thispublishes On the theory of the stability of statistical series which begins the study of time series.

  3. Chronology for 1910 - 1920 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/29/

    7 Mar 2023: See thisformulates thepublishes The algebraic theory of modular systems which studies ideals in polynomial rings.

  4. Chronology for 1100 - 1300 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/6/

    7 Mar 2023: The name of the "sine" function comes from this translation. Chinese start to use a symbol for zero. ... See thiswrites Liber abaci (The Book of the Abacus), which sets out the arithmetic and algebra he had learnt in Arab countries.

  5. Chronology for 1970 - 1980 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/35/

    7 Mar 2023: See this History Topic.). Adleman, Rivest, and Shamir introduce public-key codes, a system for passing secret messages using large primes and a key which can be published.

  6. Chronology for 1840 - 1850 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/22/

    7 Mar 2023: This leads to the development ofis the first person to investigate "geometry of. ... See thispublishes Galois' papers on the solution of algebraic equations in Liouville's Journal.

  7. Chronology for 1890 - 1900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/27/

    7 Mar 2023: He proves that five colours suffice. (See this History Topic.). Fedorov and Schönflies independently classify crystallographic space groups showing that there are 230 of them. ... He is the originator of algebraic topology publishing six papers on the

  8. Chronology for 1930 - 1940 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/31/

    7 Mar 2023: G D Birkhoff proves the general ergodic theorem. This will transform thekinetic theory of gases into a rigorous principle through the use of Lebesgue measure. ... See thispublishes Foundations of the Theory of Probability which presents an axiomatic

  9. Chronology for 1780 - 1800 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/17/

    7 Mar 2023: See thisintroduces his "Legendre polynomials" in his work Recherches sur la figure des planètes on celestial mechanics. ... See thispublishes the first volume of five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (Celestial Mechanics).

  10. Chronology for 1740 - 1760 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/15/

    7 Mar 2023: See thispublishes Analysis Infinitorum (Analysis of the Infinite) which is an introduction to mathematical analysis. ... This latter result led Euler to prove the addition formula forpublishes his theory of logarithms of complex numbers.