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41. Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: One wonders what to admire most, the psychological understanding for the development of ideas, the sureness of mathematical deduction, the profound physical insight, the capacity for lucid, systematical presentation, the knowledge ... His starting point

42. Taleb reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1.2. Review by: M Novarese. History of Economic Ideas 15 (3) (2007), 188-191. ... Rather than defending against gratuitous insults, statisticians should go on the offensive, attacking some of the main ideas of the book.

43. Classical light - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Light_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Only about five years after the publication of Kepler's work, Galileo constructed a telescope, following ideas of Hans Lippershey from the Netherlands who had constructed one in the previous year. ... J. Phys. 61 (2) (1993), 108-112. E I Pogrebysskaya,

44. Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: He also corresponded with Jourdain on the history of set theory and his religious tract. ... J Dauben, Georg Cantor and Pope Leo XIII : Mathematics, theology, and the infinite, Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (1977), 85-108.

45. Temple books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In contrast, I first learnt the ideas of Lebesgue integration as a first-year postgraduate student at Cambridge. ... Consequently, this book does not provide a real history of mathematical developments and growth.

46. Real numbers 3 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... Math. 1 (1) (1977), 9-20. P Djugak, The limit concept and irrational numbers: ideas of Charles Méray and Karl Weierstrass (Russian), inStudies in the

47. John Wallis (1616 - 1703) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: C B Boyer, A History of Mathematics, 2nd ed. rev. by U C Merzbach (1989). ... Hist. Sci. 26 (90, 3) (1993), 271-279. H Pycior, Mathematics and philosophy : Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow and Berkeley, Journal of the History of Ideas 48 (1987), 265-287.

48. Lehr writings - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: But they do not confuse the two activities. We must keep clear our conviction, born out of the history of man's own ideas, that free inquiry in any field is ... Incidentally, that steady reformulation over centuries, as current means change, is one of

49. Non-Euclidean geometry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Non-Euclidean_geometry/

    7 Mar 2023: J J Gray, Ideas of Space : Euclidean, non-Euclidean and Relativistic (Oxford, 1989). ... I Toth, From the pre-history of non-euclidean geometry (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 16 (1965), 300-315.

50. Heinrich Suter (1848 - 1922) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: He obtained a doctorate from the University of Zürich in 1871 on the history of mathematics. ... Although Suter set forth the goal of treating the history of mathematics in terms of the history of ideas, he was prevented from attaining it because of the