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31. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HMTM/2012/

    7 Mar 2023: Lilla Korenova, Controlled research of well-known discoveries from history of mathematics using GeoGebra as an effective method on elementary and secondary schools. ... Adam Besenyei, From Cauchy to Peano: a brief history of the proofs of the mean value

32. Theodorus (465 BC - 398 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: 27 (101) (1977), 231-236. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics I (Oxford, 1921), 203-204, 209-212. ... A Wasserstein, Theaetetus and the History of the Theory of Numbers, Classical Quarterly 8 (1958), 165-179.

33. Barlow Numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Peter Barlow's first book was An Elementary Investigation of the Theory of Numbers published in 1811. ... be expected that his work should contain a complete investigation of the theory of numbers.

34. Hermann Hankel (1839 - 1873) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. 29 August 1873. Schramberg (near Tübingen), Germany. Summary. Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician who worked on the theory of complex numbers, the theory of functions and the history of ... He worked on the theory of complex numbers, the

35. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: e. e. e. There is a great contrast between the historical developments of these two numbers and in many ways writing a history of. ... Now the reader might ask, not unreasonably, why we have not started our article on the history of.

36. Caspar Wessel (1745 - 1818) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Nov 2023: M J Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis (Notre Dame, 1967). ... O Pedersen, Lovers of learning : A history of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 1742-1992 (Copenhagen, 1992), 89-104; 119-132.

37. Heinrich Tietze on Numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Tietze_numbers_1/

    7 Mar 2023: The solution to this problem is clearly reflected in the nomenclature of numbers. ... With each additional aide the range of numbers that can be counted is multiplied by ten.

38. Francesco Cantelli (1875 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: G Fenaroli, F Furinghetti and A M Somaglia, Works on probability theory published in Italian journals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Italian), in Conference on the History of ... E Seneta, On the history of the strong law of large

39. Heinrich Tietze on Numbers, Part 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Tietze_numbers_2/

    7 Mar 2023: The difficulty in evolving the positional system (which children now take for granted) is best illustrated by the history of zero, i.e. ... Later, the domain of numbers was extended in three ways, but each extension had to overcome many obstacles.

40. Rabbi Ben Ezra (1092 - 1167) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Of the most interest to us in this archive devoted to the history of mathematics is ibn Ezra's work on numbers. ... He wrote three treatises on numbers which helped to bring the Indian symbols and ideas of decimal fractions to the attention of some of