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  1. Georges Buffon (1707 - 1788) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: 1777), Praxis Math. 22 (6) (1980), 167-171. P Holgate, Buffon's cycloid, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXXIX, Biometrika 68 (3) (1981), 712-716. ... P Holgate, Correction : 'Studies in the history of probability and statistics.

  2. Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711 - 1787) - Biography - MacTutor…

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    23 Nov 2023: R W Farebrother, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLII. ... Natur. 18 (2-3) (1980/81), 327-355. S M Stigler, Studies in the history of probability and statistics.

  3. Ball books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In discussing the mathematics of these periods I have confined myself to giving the leading events in the history, and frequently have passed in silence over men or works whose influence ... I have included a memoir, written for a London Society, on

  4. Non-Euclidean geometry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry/

    7 Mar 2023: J J Gray, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, in I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (London, 1994), 877-886. ... J J Gray, The discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, in Studies in

  5. Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: P Dugac, The limit concept and irrational numbers: ideas of Charles Méray and Karl Weierstrass (Russian), Studies in the history of mathematics (Moscow, 1973),176-180. ... The Casorati- Weierstrass theorem, Historia Math. 5 (2) (1978), 139-166. E

  6. Knorr's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: This book studies the history of the Greek theory of irrationals, which culminated, with Theaetetus and Eudoxus, in the geometric constructions and classification of ratios (medial, binomial, apotome, bimedial, etc.) in ... Beginning from the 12th century

  7. Liu Hong (129 - 210) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: F Ye, The History of the Eastern Han Dynasty (Chinese) 12 (Beijing, 1965). ... C Meidong, The Life, Thinking and Astronomical Achievements of Liu Hong, Studies in the History of Natural Sciences 5 (2) (1986), 129 -142.

  8. Indian Sulbasutras - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Later prose was added called Brahmanas which explained how the texts were to be used in the ceremonies. ... P Juskevic, S S Demidov, F A Medvedev and E I Slavutin, Studies in the history of mathematics 19 "Nauka" (Moscow, 1974), 220-222; 302.

  9. Pierre Varignon (1654 - 1722) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Internat. Hist. Sci. 35 (114-115) (1985), 330-345. V N Chinenova, The application of differential calculation by P Varignon in the science about movement, in Studies in history of mathematics ... Varignon to the science of motion (Russian), in Studies in

  10. Kosambi books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Studies]. The Marxist interpretation of Indian history does not seem to be so unanimous: the dogma is obviously still in the making. ... This book is a collection of five studies in Indian religious and socio-economic history, four already published in