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  1. Paul Tannery (1843 - 1904) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    21 Dec 2023: His main contributions were to the history of Greek mathematics and to the philosophy of mathematics. ... He published a history of Greek science in 1887, a history of Greek geometry in the same year, and a history of ancient astronomy in 1893.

  2. Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: W K C Guthrie, A history of Greek philosophy (six vols.) (Cambridge, 1962-81). ... T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics I (Oxford, 1921).

  3. Erich Bessel-Hagen (1898 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bessel-Hagen/

    7 Mar 2023: He not only had a wide-ranging knowledge of various areas of mathematics, but also was well versed in classical Greek, Greek philosophy, and the history of Greek mathematics. ... J W Dauben and C J Scriba, Writing the History of Mathematics: Its

  4. 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. ... I (Boston, MA, 1989), 67-77. H M Edwards, Kronecker's place in history, in History and

  5. Thales of Miletus (624 BC - 547 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics I (Oxford, 1921). ... F Ueberweg, A History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1972) (2 Volumes).

  6. Wilbur Knorr (1945 - 1997) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Owen, born in Wales and educated in England, was an expert on the history of Ancient Greek philosophy. ... I should like to thank the members of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, for support during the tenure

  7. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy 4 (1975), 5 (1978). ... B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961), 112-172. K M Sayre, Propositional logic in Plato's Protagoras, Notre Dame J.

  8. Zeno of Elea (490 BC - 425 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The Eleatic School, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek philosophy, had been founded by Parmenides in Elea in southern Italy. ... W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy (Vol. 2) (Cambridge, 1962).

  9. Monteiro da Rocha (1734 - 1819) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Letters involved the study of Latin, Greek, History, geography, poetry and oratory. ... Gomes Teixeira writes [5]:-. Monteiro da Rocha and Olbers must therefore figure together in the history of astronomy, as the first inventors of a practical method for

  10. Max Dehn (1878 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 Jun 2023: David Peifer writes [14]:-. Dehn taught Mathematics, Philosophy, Greek, and Italian. ... Dehn also wrote on statics, projective planes and, as we have noted above, on the history of mathematics.