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

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

   25 Mar 2024: 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. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   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.

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

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   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.

4. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   11 Jul 2023: 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.

5. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   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.

6. "Heinz Hopf Collected papers" Preface - MacTutor History of …

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   7 Mar 2023: It is indeed astonishing to realise that this oeuvre of a whole scientific life consists of only about 70 writings, Comptes Rendus Notes and survey articles included, and of course the ... The fourth consists of the many remarks Heinz Hopf himself wrote

7. Leonhard Euler English version PDF (718k)

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   3 Mar 2021: Heinz Klaus Strick Leverkusen, p. 3 / 8. In 1766, EULER returned to St. ... 29796729441232 = into the product 641 6 700 417. In looking for this factorization, EULER was able to use FERMAT’s little theorem and a theorem about.

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

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   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.

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

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   7 Mar 2023: 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.

10. 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.