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  1. Pi history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: C Jami, Une histoire chinoise du 'nombre π', Archive for History of Exact Sciences 38 (1) (1988), 39-50. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. C Pereira da Silva, A brief history of the number π (Portuguese), Bol.

  2. Gibson History 7 - Robert Simson - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_7/

    7 Mar 2023: Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to the end of the 18th Century: Part II.

  3. Quantum mechanics history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Roy. Soc. South Africa 47 (1) (1989), 81-101. M Beller, The conceptual and the anecdotal history of quantum mechanics, Found. ... 2) 1 (1) (1991), 39-58. R M Nugayev, The history of quantum mechanics as a decisive argument favoring Einstein over Lorentz,

  4. London Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/LMS/

    7 Mar 2023: J W L Glaisher, Notes on the early history of the Society, J. ... London Math. Soc. 1 (1926), 51-64. A Rice, The London Mathematical Society : A brief history, European Mathematical Society Newsletter 37 (September, 2000), 28-29.

  5. 20th century time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Time_2/

    7 Mar 2023: The laws of science will hold at them. The history in real time, however, will look very different. ... S W Hawking, A brief history of time (London, 1988). P Yourgrau, P The disappearance of time: Kurt Gödel and the idealistic tradition in philosophy

  6. Gibson History 8 - James Stirling - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_8/

    7 Mar 2023: The connection with Italy is preserved by the epithet "The Venetian" which is applied to him in the Family History of the Stirlings.

  7. The number e - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: One of the first articles which we included in the "History Topics" section of our web archive was on the history of π. ... Now the reader might ask, not unreasonably, why we have not started our article on the history of.

  8. Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, William Trail -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_10/

    7 Mar 2023: On the death of Maclaurin it is stated by Sir Alexander Grant (Story of the Univ. of Edin. II., p. 301) that the patrons desired to appoint Stirling to the Chair but that "his Jacobite principles led him to reject the offered appointment." I am not

  9. Burnside problem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Some definitions. A Group. G. G. G is said to be periodic if for all. g. G. g in G. gG there exists. n. N. n in mathbb{N}. nN with. g. n. =. 1. g{n} = 1. gn=1. (Note that the number. n. n. n may depend on the element. g. g. g.). A Group. G. G. G is

  10. Classical time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Time_1/

    18 Jan 2024: Of course the very title of these articles: "A history of time" is confusing. ... In the article A history of time: 20th century time we examine this revolution.