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  1. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (T) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: VFE=2 for polyhedra and the. KÖNIGSBERG BRIDGE PROBLEM. When Euler wrote about the latter he began by referring to Leibniz:. ... Euler used transcendental in his 1733 article in Nova Acta Eruditorum titled "Constructio aequationum quarundam

  2. Christian Goldbach (1690 - 1764) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2023: Goldbach did important work in number theory, much of it in correspondence with Euler. ... L Euler and C Goldbach, Leonhard Euler und Christian Goldbach : Briefwechsel 1729-1764, Abh.

  3. Ring Theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: a,b are integers. However, Euler failed to grasp the difficulties of working in this ring and made certain assertions which, although true, would be hard to justify. ... I D Macdonald notes in his article [2] that algebra texts such as that ofin 1895

  4. Women mathematicians by Dubreil-Jacotin - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin contributed an article about women mathematicians to the original French text of the book translated into English as [F Le Lionnais, Great Currents of Mathematical Thought (London, ... Here is the part of the article in which

  5. Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten (1732 - 1787) - Biography -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: In 1765 Karsten was involved in the publication of Euler's Theoria motus corporum rigidorum. ... show). Other websites about Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten:. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

  6. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (G) -…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Nachrichten, 1896. Goldbach-Euler theorem appears in the title of an article "On the Goldbach-Euler theorem regarding prime numbers" by James Joseph Sylvester, which appeared in Nature in 1896/7. ... Biggs, Lloyd and Wilson (p. 206) reflect, "The year

  7. Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet English version PDF (663k)

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

    4 Mar 2021: on FERMAT’s conjecture. He also sent his article to GAUSS and asked him to provide a. ... GAUSS as well, seeking support for his plans. Obviously impressed by DIRICHLET’s article, GAUSS.

  8. Ferdinand Rudio (1856 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: One of his most important contributions to mathematics was editing the collected works of Euler. ... Rudio proposed the project in 1883 since this was the centenary of Euler's death.

  9. Classical light - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Light_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Little progress had been made between Newton's Opticks of 1704 and Euler's optical work. ... Beguelin compared the Newtonian emission theory of light and the wave theory of Leonhard Euler.

  10. Olds' teaching articles - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give extracts from three of these articles. Introduction to: A Fresh Start, National Mathematics Magazine (1938). ... Euler has called it the Queen of the Sciences; some of our students speak of it as the bane of their existence.