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21. Salomon Bochner (1899 - 1982) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: His interests in the philosophy of mathematics led to his becoming one of the editors of the five volume work Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973-74). ... In addition to teaching mathematics he participated in the history of science program, was

22. Magnus books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: 12. The history of combinatorial group theory. A case study in the history of ideas (1982), by Bruce Chandler and Wilhelm Magnus. ... Granting that it is impossible for an individual mathematician to have a profound grasp of extensive areas in mathematics

23. Nine chapters - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    10 Jul 2023: The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art [4]:-. has dominated the history of Chinese mathematics. ... century), in History of mathematics and education: ideas and experiences (Essen, 1992) (1996), 69-112.

24. Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (1651 - 1708) - Biography -…

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    11 Apr 2024: his excessive enthusiasm for Descartes' ideas, and instilled in him a greater measure of self-criticism. ... C A Van Peursen, E W Von Tschirnhaus and the Ars Inveniendi, Journal of the History of Ideas 54 (3) (1993), 395-410.

25. Florence Nightingale David (1909 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Among her research interests were the history of probability and of statistical ideas. . ... It presents a history of probability and statistical ideas and was republished by Dover Publications in 1998.

26. History overview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: What are other examples of notational problems. The best known is probably the notation for the calculus used by Leibniz ands notation lead more easily to extending the ideas of the ... How we view history. We view the history of mathematics from our own

27. Bell books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: It is a history of ideas, not of men or of theorems, and as such is a notable advance on certain existing histories. ... This book is a history of the evolution of mathematical ideas; in the author's words, an "endeavour to portray mathematics as the

28. Charles Méray (1835 - 1911) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: P Djugak, The limit concept and irrational numbers: ideas of Charles Méray and Karl Weierstrass (Russian), Studies in the history of mathematics (Moscow, 1973),176-180. ... Histoire Sci. Appl. 23 (4) (1970), 333-350. M López Pellicer, Constructions of

29. Christianity and Mathematics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Internaz. Storia Sci. 20 (1-4) (1978), 271-283. E Rosen, Calvin's attitude towards Copernicus, Journal of the History of Ideas 21 (1960), 431-441. ... E Rosen, Was Copernicus' Revolutions approved by the Pope, Journal of the History of Ideas 36 (1975),

30. A N Whitehead: "Mathematics in the History of Thought" -…

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    7 Mar 2023: Alfred North Whitehead wrote Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought. ... I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from