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51. Cartography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: The book gives a good insight into the history of surveying in China and its links with cartography. ... It was the most popular atlas of its time, and it is important in the history of cartography partly because Ortelius quotes 87 authorities for the

52. Gomes Teixeira (1851 - 1933) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: In order to appreciate the state of the studies of that history at the time this book appears, we briefly mention and analyse the works previously published on this subject; and ... science that in Portugal played a great role in nautical studies, and,

53. 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),

54. Muskhelishvili Academy President - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Supervised by N I Muskhelishvili, the Academy of Sciences has achieved significant results in mathematics and mechanics, physics and astronomy, physiology and biology, chemistry and geology, linguistics and oriental studies, history ... of Social

55. Doubling the cube - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The plague certainly was a major event in the history of Athens and about a quarter of the population died from it. ... Eratosthenes is important in the story both because the history of the problem has been communicated through him and also for his own

56. Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: W Knobloch, Leonhard Eulers Wirken an der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1741-1766, Studies in the History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR 11 (Berlin, 1984). ... C Truesdell, Prefaces to volumes of Euler's Opera Omnia. I A Tyulina, Euler's

57. Ioan James (1928 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Sep 2023: Summary. Ioan James is an English mathematician who works in topology and the history of mathematics. . ... In 1999 he edited History of topology and contributed three chapters to the book: From combinatorial topology to algebraic topology; Topologists

58. Cantor Moritz historiography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: It was from this inclination that the first essays in the History of Science were born. ... It was because he was imbued with the conviction of being alone in reviving the studies of the History of Mathematics.

59. Michele de Franchis (1875 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: C Ciliberto, M de Franchis and the theory of hyperelliptic surfaces, Studies in the history of modern mathematics III, Rend. ... Circ. Mat. Palermo (2) Suppl. No. 55 (1998), 45-73. E Sernesi, de Franchis' contributions to the theory of algebraic curves,

60. Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky (1859 - 1935) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In the following year he was appointed to the chair of mechanics at St Petersburg Women's College and he held this, in addition to a number of other posts, until ... N S Ermolaeva, D K Bobylev and I V Meshcherskii's work on the hydrodynamic theory of