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21. Catalan numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Parentheses: the number of ways in which parentheses can be placed in a sequence of numbers to be multiplied, two at a time. ... show). B Hayes, A Question of Numbers, American Scientist, January-February 1996.

22. Aleksandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: of the history and the present state of the theory of transcendental numbers (1930). ... numbers and the history of mathematics.

23. Real numbers 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Real_numbers_2/

    7 Mar 2023: 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 history of mathematics, No. ... Storia Sci. Mat. 4 (1) (1984), 25-63. M Lopez Pellicer, Constructions

24. Harriot and binary numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: On another page Harriot has six different examples of calculating with binary numbers. ... Try multiplying the binary numbers 11000011000 and 11001010101 using this last method of Harriot.

25. Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: Some of Ginsburg's papers, published around 1930, are: Note on Stirling's Numbers (1928); On the Early History of the Decimal Point (1928); Napier on the Napier Rods (1929); and ... He published two books, both jointly authored with D E Smith: A History

26. Perfect numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Jahrhundert, Nieuw Arch. Wisk. (4) 8 (2) (1990), 239-241. M Crubellier and J Sip, Looking for perfect numbers, History of Mathematics : History of Problems (Paris, 1997), 389-410. ... H S Uhler, A brief history of the investigations on Mersenne numbers

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

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

    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

28. Eight Squares Identity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: To see how this works let us look at multiplication of two complex numbers. (. ... quaternions while the eight squares identity corresponds to the multiplication of the Graves-Cayley Numbers.

29. Jakob Kulik (1793 - 1863) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Apr 2024: 1-2: All factors of numbers up to 21500 and the smallest factors up to 67100. ... Issled. 6 (1953), 573-608. L E Dickson, Jakob Kulik, in History of the theory of numbers I (Washington, D.C., 1919), 351-352.

30. Zero - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: J., 1999). G Ifrah, From one to zero : A universal history of numbers (New York, 1987). ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).