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31. Carl Jacobi (1804 - 1851) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: In fact Jacobi's interests in mathematics were very wide and while in Rome he took the opportunity to satisfy his interest in the history of mathematics working on manuscripts of ... Geschichte Naturwiss. Tech. Medizin 6 (1) (1969), 61-67. S S Demidov,

32. 20th century time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Time_2/

    7 Mar 2023: Mach published a history of mechanics in 1883. ... S W Hawking, A brief history of time (London, 1988). P Yourgrau, P The disappearance of time: Kurt Gödel and the idealistic tradition in philosophy (Cambridge, 1991).

33. Apostol Project - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The history of surveying instruments is outlined, from Hero's dioptra to modern orbiting satellites. ... Although the initial units do survey the history of mathematics, the remaining units focus on mathematical ideas and supply some historical context.

34. Walther von Dyck (1856 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The Deutsches Museum was first of its kind and its ideas were soon copied by other science museums around the world. ... B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982).

35. function concept - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... M Panza, Concept of function, between quantity and form, in the 18th century, in History of mathematics and education: ideas and experiences, Essen, 1992

36. Whitrow books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: The author gives an instructive history of the dispute between the advocates of the "long" estimate of the age of the universe (over a million million years) and the "short" estimate ... give a historical account of the exploration of the universe and of

37. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    16 Feb 2024: His study of church history led him to astronomy which in turn led him to study geometry. ... H Pycior, Mathematics and philosophy : Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow and Berkeley, Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987), 265-287.

38. Jacob Bronowski (1908 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: In 1953 he was visiting professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... It was during this period that he worked on the ideas which were to appear in his book Science and Human Values :-. from which the great debate on 'two cultures'

39. Hewitt books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Many sections also contain historical notes We have tried to trace the history of the principal theorems and concepts, but we obviously have not produced a complete history, and it would ... Many interesting sections are devoted to the history of the

40. Group theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... B M Kiernan, The development of Galois theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8