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51. Varahamihira (505 - 587) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Shukla states in [11]:-. The Pancasiddhantika of Varahamihira is one of the most important sources for the history of Hindu astronomy before the time of Aryabhata I I. ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the

52. Karl von Staudt (1798 - 1867) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: R Hartshorne, Publication history of von Staudt's Geometrie der Lage, Arch. ... 2) 5 (1) (1995), 69-74. I Sh Slavutskii, Outline of the history of research on the arithmetic properties of Bernoulli numbers (von Staudt, Kummer, Voronoi) (Russian),

53. Petre Sergescu (1893 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    16 Feb 2024: During this period he taught courses on Algebra,Function Theory, and the History of Mathematics. ... He helped to arrange the first hall, devoted to the history of numbers, a series of lectures on the history of science, and special exhibitions devoted

54. al-Karaji (953 - 1029) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Karaji/

    4 Jan 2024: To give another quote from Rashed's description of al-Karaji's contribution:-. Al-Karaji's work holds an especially important place in the history of mathematics. ... 23 (1957), 173-178. L S Mokhamed, On negative numbers in al-Karaji's works (Russian),

55. Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: P Dugac, The limit concept and irrational numbers: ideas of Charles Méray and Karl Weierstrass (Russian), Studies in the history of mathematics (Moscow, 1973),176-180. ... P Dugac, Eléments d'analyse de Karl Weierstrass, Archive for History of Exact

56. Jane Wadsworth (1942 - 1997) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: Seven hundred and eighty-five adults participated in a structured interview. The schedule included demographic details, attitudes to AIDS, numbers of sexual partners in different time periods, history of homosexuality and ... C Overy, L A Reynolds and E

57. Sankara Narayana (840 - 900) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The system is based on writing numbers using the letters of the Indian alphabet. ... G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998).

58. Bronowski and retrodigitisation - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Further details of cognate interest were collated by Leonard Dickson (1874 - 1954) in the first volume of his A History of the Theory of Numbers [5, Chap. ... ed., Dover Pub. Inc., New York, NY, 1953). [5] L E Dickson, A History of the Theory of Numbers

59. Atle Selberg (1917 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Jan 2024: The history of the prime number theorem is very interesting. The theorem states:-. ... His contributions to mathematics are so deep and original that his name will always be an important part of the history of mathematics.

60. Ibn al-Banna (1256 - 1321) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Banna/

    26 May 2023: p. p. p objects in twos, and then polygonal numbers of order 4 and combinations of. ... R Rashed, Materials for the study of the history of amicable numbers and combinatorial analysis (Arabic), J.