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  1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz English version PDF (598k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/leibniz.pdf

    3 Mar 2021: LEIBNIZ’s notation in their works on calculus and its applications to physics. ... derive what is today called the LEIBNIZ series for the number π: 4.

  2. Russian/St Petersburg Academy - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Russian/

    7 Mar 2023: The form of the Academy was imported ready-made from the Berlin model proposed to Peter the Great by Leibniz several years earlier. ... In [3] Gordin:-. argues that Peter took Leibniz's academic structure and used it as the apex of both his educational

  3. Brachistochrone problem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: M de Icaza Herrera, Galileo, Bernoulli, Leibniz and Newton around the brachistochrone problem, Rev. ... durch Leibniz und die Brüder Bernoulli, Basel, 1987, Studia Leibnitiana Sonderheft 17 (Wiesbaden, 1989).

  4. Tractrix - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Tractrix/

    7 Mar 2023: Laterand others studied the curve. The study of the tractrix started with the following problem being posed to Leibniz:.

  5. Encyclopaedia Britannica biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/EB_list/

    22 May 2023: Below is a list of mathematicians with biographies in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as in our archive. Click on a name to go to the Encyclopaedia biography.

  6. Chronology for 1650 - 1675 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/11/

    7 Mar 2023: Leibniz demonstrates his incomplete calculating machine to the Royal Society. It can multiply, divide and extract roots.

  7. Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: He integrated Leibniz's differential calculus and Newton's method of fluxions into mathematical analysis. ... E Knobloch, Leibniz and Euler : problems and solutions concerning infinitesimal geometry and calculus, Conference on the History of Mathematics

  8. Thumbnails for early stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/early_thumbs/

    29 Apr 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. 1847: franklin_benjamin9. 1847: franklin_benjamin10. 1855: franklin_benjamin1. 1890: franklin_benjamin3. 1902: franklin_benjamin2. 1914: franklin_benjamin12. 1921: bessel4. 1923: copernicus5. 1923:

  9. Google doodles - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/google_doodle/

    29 Feb 2024: Google frequently publish what they call a Google doodle to decorate the top of their search page. In the past some of them have been of mathematicians in our archive. A list of these is below. Most of the doodles are just pictures, but the ones

  10. Heinz Klaus Strick's biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/index2/

    1 May 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Click on the name to go to Heinz Klaus Strick's biography.