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  1. 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.

  2. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (E) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/e/

    7 Mar 2023: C. MacDuffee, The Theory of Matrices, Springer (1933). Equivalent is found in 1884 in an article in The Messenger of Mathematics. ... When R. A. Fisher wrote about regression and the analysis of variance he was reviving the theory of errors.

  3. Topology history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: Perhaps the first work which deserves to be considered as the beginnings of topology is due to Euler. ... The next step in freeing mathematics from being a subject about measurement was also due to Euler.

  4. Arnold Shaw prize - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: We also give the Press announcement and the essay about Vladimir Arnold's contributions. ... Continued Fractions;. Euler Groups and Geometric Progressions Arithmetics;. Dynamics, Statistics and Projective Geometry of Galois Fields;.

  5. Jean d'Alembert (1717 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: However Euler was unhappy to publish these works and d'Alembert stopped publishing his mathematical articles, collecting them together and publishing them as Opuscules mathématiques. ... show). Other pages about Jean d'Alembert:. Other websites about

  6. Bernhard Riemann English version PDF (780k)

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

    3 Mar 2021: developed his ideas further by leaps and bounds. In one case, it was an article. ... unfinished articles. On June 15, 1866, he left one last time for Italy.

  7. Earliest Uses of Symbols from Geometry - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Heron about A. D. 150 used a triangle as a symbol for triangle (Cajori). ... 1, page 424). (W for Winkel = angle). An article in The Mathematics Teacher in March 1938 uses a.s.a. =

  8. Brachistochrone problem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: I do not love to be dunned [pestered] and teased by foreigners about mathematical things. ... The question of the existence of a solution was not solved by Euler's contribution.

  9. Samuel König (1712 - 1757) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1737 König returned to Bern, having begun to publish mathematical articles two years earlier. ... König's article was to have other repercussions as Voltaire, d'Alembert and Euler all ended at the centre of the dispute.

  10. Christodoulou books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Feb 2024: which are supposed to lie within the domain of validity of the Euler equations. ... Sideris considered the compressible Euler equations in the case of a classical ideal gas with adiabatic index.