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31. Egyptian mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: show). A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

32. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (S) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/s/

    6 Jul 2023: For the history of this form of graphical representation of data see Michael Friendly, Daniel Denis "The early origins and development of the scatterplot," Journal of the History of the Behavioral ... In his early work Cantor used the term

33. Willebrord Snell (1580 - 1626) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Apr 2024: is a striking example of the early seventeenth century man. There is in his mind no overwhelming desire to break with the past. ... Opt. Soc. Amer. 66 (1) (1976), 1-8. K van Berkel, A note on Rudolf Snellius and the early history of mathematics in Leiden,

34. Mathematics and Chess - Projects - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Duke Mathematical Journal, 11, 1-7. Murray, H.J.R. (1913) A History of Chess. ... http://janko.at/Retros/ColoringCollection.htm [Accessed 2/12/04]. Schwalbe, U. and Walker, P. (1997) Zermelo and the Early History of Game Theory.

35. Babylonian Pythagoras - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: show). A Aaboe, Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics (1964). ... J., 1999). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

36. Early Maths in America - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Let us now turn to a brief review of the history of the society which brings us together on this occasion. ... America. The next event of special importance in the history of the society occurred in 1896.

37. Florian Cajori (1859 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    28 Feb 2024: He did not carry out research into any area of mathematics other than its history. ... An early book was The teaching and history of mathematics in the United States (1890) which profiles twenty-two American institutions.

38. Yung-Chow Wong - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: My early life 1913-1948. I was born on June 2nd, 1913 in Canton, China. ... My (late) father Wong Shi Yu alias Chiu Jung was at that time Professor of Chinese literature and history at Kwangtung Advanced Normal College.

39. Louis N G Filon (1875 - 1937) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: A study of the early history of any branch of knowledge is therefore, apart from its interest to the curious, of practical importance to those concerned in teaching it. ... He had a deep knowledge of the early history of astronomy, and gave an excellent

40. Hirst prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    27 Mar 2024: John O'Connor and Edmund Robertson created the MacTutor History of Mathematics web site in the early-1990s as enrichment for the Mathematical MacTutor system developed at St Andrews to support ... It is the most widely used and influential web-based