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  1. Set theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: The history of set theory is rather different from the history of most other areas of mathematics. ... I Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Selected essays on the history of set theory and logics (1906-1918) by Philip E B Jourdain (Bologna, 1991).

  2. Gibson History 9 - Colin Maclaurin - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_9/

    7 Mar 2023: In what I have to say of Maclaurin I borrow freely from Mr Tweedie's articles, but I hope that all interested in the history of mathematics will have the good ... In estimating Maclaurin's place in the history of mathematics we should, I think, interpret

  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. ... U Dudley, History of a formula for primes, Amer. Math. Monthly 76 (1969), 23-28.

  4. Group theory - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: show). B Chandler and W Magnus, The history of combinatorial group theory : A case study in the history of ideas (New York-Berlin, 1982). ... B M Kiernan, The development of Galois theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 8

  5. History Topics Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/OtherIndexes/histtopics/

    7 Jun 2023:

  6. Infinity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: An article on infinity in a History of Mathematics Archive presents special problems. ... The questions above are very fundamental and must have troubled thinkers long before recorded history.

  7. Weil family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: It is a cold winter day and two children are riding on a Paris bus. The boy is the elder of the two and his little girl sister looks desperately thin and undernourished. Both have bare feet and their teeth are chattering with cold. They turn to the

  8. Mathematics and Architecture - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The ten books are as follows:. Principles of architectural. History of architecture, and architectural materials. ... Later in the 17th Century lived the English architect Wren, in many ways the best known architect in English history.

  9. Forgery 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Forgery_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Vrain-Lucas was trained as a law clerk and, like Chasles, he was interested in history. ... He was a patriotic French man with a passionate interest in the history of science.

  10. Hirst's diary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below are quotations from Thomas Hirst's journals concerning mathematicians whose biographies are given in this archive. The dates given refer to the date of his journal entry (where known). Joseph Bertrand:. (1858) With respect to Bertrand I am