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

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

   5 Mar 2026: During the twenty-five years spent in Berlin, Euler wrote around 380 articles. ... Fuss helped Euler prepare over 250 articles for publication over a period on about seven years in which he acted as Euler's assistant, including an important work on

2. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

   28 Feb 2026: About 350 mathematicians in our archive have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them. ... You can see a Wikipedia article on the feature by clicking on the (W) next to a name.

3. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Glossary/

   30 Sep 2025: Ammonius (born: about 550 AD) was a Greek philosopher who worked mainly on logic and science. ... Euclid of Megara (born: 430 BC, died: about 360 BC) was a pupil of Socrates.

4. Hopf Eckmann - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   15 Mar 2026: We give below a translation of the article 'Zum Gedenken an Heinz Hopf', Neue Züricher Zeitung (1971) by Beno Eckmann. ... Aleksandrov and Hopf registered their ideas about the new field in an important book on the subject.

5. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   18 Jan 2024: It is a very popular article and has prompted many to ask for a similar article about the number. ... e. e. e to 205 places. In fact one needs about 120 terms of.

6. Earliest Uses of Symbols for Constants - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/constants/

   7 Mar 2023: D'Alembert. Histoire de l'Académie. 1747. e. Euler. various articles. 1751. e. ... Please note that, in this fascinating passage about logarithms, Euler does not introduce the symbol i such that.

7. Simon Newcomb - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Newcomb/

   28 May 2025: The tables of the moon published by Hansen about the middle of the last century were for a time supposed to afford the means of accurately fixing its position; but Newcomb ... Another question to which he made important contributions is that of the

8. Henry Smith - RAS obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Smith_RAS/

   2 Nov 2025: In the years 1838-39, Henry Smith, then a boy of eleven years of age, read with me for about nine months at Ryde, on the Isle of Wight. ... If, on the other hand, we turn to a memoir of Euler's, there is a sort of free and luxuriant grace- fulness about

9. Professorship and Mittag-Leffler - Sofia Kovalevskaya - Projects -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Ellison/chapter-12/

   7 Mar 2023: The problem which distracted her was that of the motion of a rigid body about a fixed point. ... Prior to the work done by Sofia on the motion of a rigid body about a fixed point, the only solutions given to the problem by Leonhard Euler and J.

10. Nikolai Fuss (1755 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Oct 2025: He helped Euler prepare over 250 articles for publication over a period on about seven years in which he acted as Euler's assistant, including an important work on insurance which ... On 18 September 1783 Euler spent the first half of the day as usual.