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61. Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: had the satisfaction of making some experiments on cylindrical surfaces I have in mind), I have never ceased to think of the theory of numbers. ... J H Sampson, Sophie Germain and the Theory of Numbers, Archive for History of Exact Science 41 (2) (1990),

62. Lalla (720 - 790) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... History Sci. 9 (1) (1974), 51-55; 141. R C Gupta, Aryabhata I's value of π, Math.

63. Alan Baker (1939 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    12 Dec 2023: In [5] Baker makes remarks on the history of number theory, in particular on transcendental numbers. ... A Baker, Effective methods in the theory of numbers, Actes du Congrès International des Mathématiciens, Nice, 1970 Vol.

64. Carmichael note 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Carmichael_Hardy_2/

    7 Mar 2023: 204-205], and in the third (1782), as indicated. These references are given also in Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers, vol. ... II, pp. xviii and 717 in connection with his elaborate history of Waring's problem.

65. Harry Vandiver (1882 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: By 1902 he was contributing papers to the Monthly. For example he published two short papers in 1902 A Problem Connected with Mersenne's Numbers and Applications of a Theorem Regarding ... He also worked during the summer with Dickson at Chicago on his

66. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy 4 (1975), 5 (1978). ... Hist. Exact Sci. 27 (1) (1982), 87-99. M Pihl, The place of Theodoros in Plato's 'Theaitetos' and the earliest history of irrational numbers (Danish), Mat.

67. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Korkin (1837 - 1908) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: B N Delone, The St Petersburg school in the theory of numbers (Russian) (Moscow-Leningrad, 1947). ... Yu A Belii, Anniversaries in the history of mathematics for 1987 (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat.

68. Stanley books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    26 Feb 2024: Various kinds of partitions - of numbers, of sets, and of geometric objects - are considered. ... It is ridiculous to compare Enumerative Combinatorics with History of the Peloponnesian War, but I can appreciate the sentiment of Thucydides.

69. Indian numerals - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: show). G Ifrah, A universal history of numbers : From prehistory to the invention of the computer (London, 1998). ... L C Karpinski, The history of arithmetic (New York, 1965). K W Menninger, Number words and number symbols : A cultural history of

70. Debating topics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Topic 1. The first ideas we present are simply to make people think about numbers, and in particular to encourage the use of the history archive to find birth dates and ... 0. x 1 = 0. x1=0? Do we need to introduce negative numbers to get solutions of