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  1. Menaechmus (380 BC - 320 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: J L Coolidge, A history of the conic sections and quadric surfaces (Oxford, 1945). ... T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).

  2. Ptolemy (85 - 165) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: Summary. Ptolemy was the most influential of Greek astronomers and geographers of his time. ... T L Heath, A Manual of Greek Mathematics (1963). T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931).

  3. Empedocles (492 BC - 432 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: The reason for his four element theory was to argue a modification of the belief of the Eleatic School, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek philosophy, which had ... W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy II (Cambridge, 1965), 122-265.

  4. David Fowler (1937 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: I corresponded with him, particularly regarding the history of ancient Greek mathematics, and in one letter he explained to me how he first became interested in history. ... C Zeeman, Obituary David Fowler : A leading expert on the history of early Greek

  5. Hippocrates (470 BC - 410 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: A Aaboe, Episodes from the early history of mathematics (Washington, D.C., 1964). ... 7 (2) (1974), 105-107. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics I (Oxford, 1921), 182-202.

  6. Leopold Kronecker (1823 - 1891) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: as applied to astronomical observations, the theory of definite integrals, series and differential equations, as well as on Greek, and the history of philosophy. ... H M Edwards, Kronecker's views on the foundations of mathematics, in The history of

  7. Menelaus (70 - 130) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

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

  8. Thymaridas (400 BC - 350 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. about 350 BC. Summary. Thymaridas was a Greek follower of Pythagoras who wrote on prime numbers and gave methods for solving simultaneous linear equations. ... T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).

  9. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Italy/

    7 Mar 2023: Main work was in observing but he wrote an interesting history of science in Lombardy. ... Created a museum of physics and natural history in La Specola beside the Pitti Palace in Florence.

  10. Simplicius (490 - 560) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Oct 2023: In his commentary on Aristotle's Physics Simplicius quotes at length from Eudemus's History of Geometry which is now lost. ... T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931).