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

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

   17 Mar 2025: 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/

   25 May 2025: 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/

   6 Jul 2023: 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. 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.

5. 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

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. Iwaniec Henryk books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   3 Jun 2025: Euler pushed further the use of methods from analysis to questions about number theory. ... From the Publisher. The Riemann zeta function was introduced by L Euler (1737) in connection with questions about the distribution of prime numbers.

8. 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.

9. W Andrew Coppel - Obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   9 May 2024: One problem we were given in first year was about iterating the values of the function. ... It seems odd now that Hardy and Littlewood knew nothing about linear algebra.

10. 1897 ICM - Zurich - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Zurich_1897/

    15 Dec 2023: When asked to give an example, please give me, on Swiss soil, credit for thinking about publishing the works of Leonhard Euler, for example. ... Article 7 of the regulations mentions the printing of the proceedings of the congress.