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11. Bernard de Fontenelle (1657 - 1757) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    23 Nov 2023: Gregory Matthew Adkins, When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle, Journal of the History of Ideas 61 (3) (2000), 433-452. ... Amer. Philos. Soc. 49 (1959), 1-64. Leonard M. Marsak, Bernard De Fontenelle: In Defense of Science, Journal of the

12. Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: J O Fleckenstein, The line of descent of the infinitesimal calculus in the history of ideas, Arch. ... 22. A Rosenthal, The history of calculus, The American Mathematical Monthly 58 (1951), 75-86.

13. 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 ... S. Morgan A History of Econometric Ideas, Cambridge

14. Stephen Hawking - Guardian obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Hawking_Guardian/

    7 Mar 2023: This began with the writing of his astoundingly successful book A Brief History of Time (1988), which was translated into some 40 languages and sold over 25m copies worldwide. ... High-quality pictures and computer-generated graphics also featured in his

15. Pierre Rémond de Montmort (1678 - 1719) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Sci. Hum. Math. Soc. Sci. No. 174 (2006), 5-24. D Bellhouse, Banishing Fortuna: Montmort and De Moivre, Journal of the History of Ideas 69 (4) (2008) 559-581. ... R Goulding, Histories of Science in Early Modern Europe: Introduction, Journal of the

16. African men 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_men_1/

    10 Jul 2023: I am particularly active in the history of Arabic mathematics and the history of mathematics teaching in Arabic/Islamic countries. ... The Debate about the Market and the State (1993). His interests are in Algebraic number theory, Commutative Algebra,

17. Henry Baker addresses the British Association in 1913, Part 2 -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1913_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Quite recently the ideas evolved in the previous history have prompted a vast general theory of the classification of algebraical surfaces according to their essential properties, which is opening endless new ... Dogmas and philosophies, it would seem,

18. Otto Hesse (1811 - 1874) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: In 1871 he became an honorary foreign member of the London Mathematical Society. ... History of mathematics and education: ideas and experiences (Göttingen, 1996), 149-172.

19. Hadamard on the calculus - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Thus Oresme, Keper, and Fermat failed to discover the Differential Calculus because they did not pursue their initial and fruitful ideas. ... We see how psychological considerations can be illustrated by the history of science; and conversely, how they

20. Topology history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: A second way in which topology developed was through the generalisation of the ideas of convergence. ... II, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 25 (2-3) (1981), 85-267.