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  1. 1904 ICM - Heidelberg - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/ICM/ICM_Heidelberg_1904/

    15 Dec 2023: Congress, and also entitles the holder to Königsberger's biography of Jacobi published by B G Teubner at a significantly reduced price (at about. ... two pages; this title is framed by the name of the author of the German article and by that of the

  2. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi English version PDF (461k)

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

    5 Mar 2021: friend the Königsberg astronomer FRIEDRICH. WILHELM BESSEL in order to learn more about. ... EULER, but just think what might still have been expected from JACOBI were he.

  3. Prime numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: You can see more about these numbers in the History topics article Perfect numbers at THIS LINK. ... The number. M. 19. M_{19}. M19 was proved to be prime by Cataldi in 1588 and this was the largest known prime for about 200 years until Euler proved that.

  4. Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750 - 1800) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: The article [3] gives an idea of the content of Mascheroni's book. ... Other websites about Lorenzo Mascheroni:. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

  5. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (Q) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Petrop. I [1783], 1747 47-74. This paper is cited in Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, article 151, page 104. ... The term QUASI-PERIODIC FUNCTION was introduced by Ernest Esclangon (1876-1954) (DSB, article: Bohl).

  6. Mathematicians and Music 3 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Archibald_music_3/

    7 Mar 2023: D'Alembert wrote also a long essay on the liberty of music and articles of musical interest in the great Encyclopédie Methodique. ... Euler immediately raised the question of the generality of the solution and set forth his interpretation.

  7. Gabriel Cramer (1704 - 1752) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The articles cover a wide range of subjects including the study of geometric problems, the history of mathematics, philosophy, and the date of Easter. ... He also comments that had he known of Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum.

  8. Grattan-Guinness books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Grattan-Guinness_books/

    7 Mar 2023: The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann (1970). ... This is a minor defect. However, the level of the articles does seem questionable.

  9. Orbits - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Euler, however, found a particular solution with all three bodies in a straight line. ... show). Other pages about Orbits:. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

  10. Pafnuty Chebyshev English version PDF (597k)

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

    3 Mar 2021: E(X), while with probability at least about 89%, it will lie in a 3σ interval. ... of EULER), and the design of a calculational machine that in the 1870s was actually constructed.