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31. Conon (280 BC - 220 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921). ... O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

32. Paul Mansion (1844 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: in 1887. He wrote on the history of Greek mathematics and on many mathematicians including:and Helmholtz. ... He also wrote on the history of physics and on Greek astronomy in Note sur le caractère géométrique de l'ancienne astronomie.

33. Marinus (450 - 500) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931). ... O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

34. Pappus (290 - 350) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 Aug 2023: I Bulmer-Thomas, Selections illustrating the history of Greek mathematics II (London, 1941). ... T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics II (Oxford, 1921).

35. Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (1839 - 1920) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was also an expert on the history of medieval mathematics and produced important studies of Greek mathematics. ... He wrote 40 papers and books on the history of mathematics, some of which have become classics.

36. Bryson (450 BC - 390 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died? Summary. Bryson was a Greek mathematician who was probably a pupil of Socrates and contributed to the problem of squaring the circle. ... T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931).

37. Pythagoras (570 BC - 490 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics 1 (Oxford, 1931). ... R. Math. Rep. Acad. Sci. Canada 7 (2) (1985), 107-114. W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy I (1962), 146-340.

38. John Wallis (1616 - 1703) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Wallis made other contributions to the history of mathematics by restoring some ancient Greek texts such as Ptolemy's Harmonics, Aristarchus's On the magnitudes and distances of the sun and ... C B Boyer, A History of Mathematics, 2nd ed. rev. by U C

39. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    4 Jan 2024: Whitehead's father taught him Latin from the age of ten and Greek from the age of twelve. ... There was little choice of subjects and all the boys studied as their major subjects Latin, Greek and English, with the minor subjects of mathematics, physical

40. Gregory of Saint-Vincent (1584 - 1667) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Saint-Vincent/

    18 Jan 2024: 2. 3. largefrac{2}{3}normalsize. 32 , which he called the terminus. In contrast with classical Greek mathematics, St Vincent thus accepts, for the first time in the history of mathematics, ... He also applies his summation of series to the classical