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  1. Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661 - 1704) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: There is a letter from him to Leibniz dated 1695 in which he asks whether. ... L'Hôpital considered publishing a work on integration but, on learning that Leibniz was going to publish a work on the topic, he dropped his plans.

  2. 28th April - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/messages/04-28/

    30 Mar 2023: On this day in 1693, Leibniz wrote to de L'Hôpital, announcing his discovery of determinants fifty years before Cramer, who was the real driving force in the development of determinants. ... Leibniz's work had little or no influence because it was not

  3. Mathematician stamps up to 1970 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    29 Apr 2024: Here are stamps featuring mathematicians which were issued up to 1970. You can see thumbnails of these stamps at THIS LINK. Issued by USA in 1847 (the first stamps issued by the USA)Issued by USA in 1855 franklin_benjamin1. Issued by USA in 1890

  4. African men 2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/African_men_2/

    7 Mar 2023: The list continues with those whose doctorates were obtained between 1982 and 1999. The earlier part of the list is at THIS LINK.. Mohamed EL-AGAWANY. Country: Egypt. Year: 1982. Degree: Doctorat. Thesis title: Sur les algèbres universelles.

  5. John Craig (1663 - 1731) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: d. y. d. x. Largefrac{dy}{dx}normalsize. dxdy notation of Leibniz in Britain and also contained the integration symbol. ... and the "Acta Eruditorum" of Leipzig ranked him among the originators of the calculus (after Leibniz, but before Newton).

  6. More definitions for associated curves - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Definitions2/

    7 Mar 2023: is an algebraic curve. The term is due to Leibniz. ... For example the cycloid is a transcendental curve. The term is due to Leibniz.

  7. L'Hôpital: "Analyse des infiniment petits" Preface -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: I have made free use of their work as well as that of M Leibniz. ... M Leibniz's characteristics but he also completely rejects second, third and further differences.

  8. Images of Mathematicians by issuing country - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2024: You can see thumbnails of ALL the mathematician stamps at THIS LINK. Click on to see the thumbnails for that country.. AFGHANISTAN . Issued in 1951. Issued in 1973 al-biruni5. AJMAN . Issued in 1968. Issued in 1968 durer50. Issued in 1970 durer51.

  9. Mathematicians in Richard S Westfall's archive - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Richard Westfall's archive contains concise biographical details of more than 640 members of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries. The mathematicians who have biographies in our archive are listed below. You can search the whole

  10. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: In that year Leibniz wrote a letter to Huygens and in this he used the notation.