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41. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

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    16 Apr 2024: Lagrange used the term method of variations in a letter to Euler in August 1755 (Kline). ... See Kline chapter 27 and the Encyclopaedia of Mathematics article Cauchy-Riemann conditions.

42. Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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    30 Dec 2023: These results generalised results which Euler had himself obtained and Euler consulted Maupertuis, the president of the Berlin Academy, about this remarkable young mathematician. ... show). Other pages about Joseph-Louis Lagrange:. Other websites about

43. Fermat's last theorem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: n. >. 4. n > 4. n>4. was somewhat hopeful. [Wantzel is correct about. ... Yutaka Taniyama asked some questions about elliptic curves, i.e. curves of the form.

44. Otto Toeplitz PDF (755k)

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    7 Aug 2023: father EMIL had worked as mathematics teachers at grammar schools in Breslau and Lissa (Posen district) respectively and both had also published articles on mathematics teaching. ... In chapter 16, straight line guidance by joint mechanisms is examined,

45. Grunbaum books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Problems added to the various sections contain further information mostly about recent results. ... As extensive as this book is, it obviously cannot present every result ever obtained about tiling.

46. Wilhelm Ahrens (1872 - 1927) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    7 Mar 2023: article about mathematical games for Felix Klein's encyclopaedia Enzyklopädie der Mathematischen Wissenschaften. ; ... he contributed the 14-page article Mathematische Spiele which was published in 1902.

47. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (P) -…

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    7 Mar 2023: Cf. volume 47, pp 512-513. In a footnote to this article, Robinson states:. ... A. Weiss [DSB, article: "Reye"]. POINT-SET. The term was introduced in German by Georg Cantor.

48. Perfect numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: 4n1)4k1b2. where. 4. n. 1. 4n1. 4n1 is prime. However, as with most others whose contribution we have examined, Euler made predictions about perfect numbers which turned out to be ... If you wonder why we have not included the number in decimal form,

49. Georgy Voronoy (1868 - 1908) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    28 Apr 2024: In his article 'De relatione inter ternas pluresve quantitates instituenda' Euler gave the first generalisation of the continued fraction algorithm. ... show). Other websites about Georgy Voronoy:. Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson.

50. Enciclopedia delle Matematiche - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: The most conspicuous of the missing ones is the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which now contains a large number of mathematical articles. ... The present part comprises seven independent articles together with indices etc., namely : I.