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41. Missing_Planet - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: C Peebles, Asteroids: A History (Smithsonian Institution, 2016). H Sack, Giuseppe Piazzi and the Discovery of Dwarf Planet Ceres, SciHi Blog (1 January 2019). ... L Weiss, Gauss and Ceres, History of Mathematics Term Paper (Rutgers, Spring 1999).

42. Decimal time - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The French Revolution marked a break with the traditions of the past and many proposed new beginnings. In particular those leading the Revolution wanted to do away with the existing calendar, which was based on Christian dates, and bring in a new

43. Gibson History 3 - Founding of the Universities - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Gibson_history_3/

    7 Mar 2023: is no name of any special note in the history of mathematics that is associated with the Universities in these years.

44. Bourbaki 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Bourbaki_1/

    7 Mar 2023: Arch. Contemp., Amsterdam, 1998), 75-123. L Baulieu, Dispelling a myth : questions and answers about Bourbaki's early work, 1934-1944, in The intersection of history and mathematics, (Birkhäuser, Basel, 1994), ... Intelligencer 20 (1) (1998), 22-28. K

45. Gibson: "History of Scottish Mathematics" - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The first paper in the new Series was by George Gibson and it was the first part of his two-part paper Sketch of the History of Mathematics in Scotland to ... Gibson History 10 - Matthew Stewart, John Stewart, William Trail.

46. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: The links below will take you to individual articles or to index pages for articles on these topics.

47. Coffee houses - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: But the most pathetic figure associated with its history is that of Abraham De Moivre, that French mathematician who became the friend of Newton and Leibniz. ... E F Robinson, The early history of coffee houses in England (London, 1893).

48. Size of the Universe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: I [EFR] am sitting at my desk in St Andrews beginning to write this article just after 10 am on Tuesday 8 June 2004. Why is this such a special time? Well a very rare event is happening as I write, namely a transit of Venus across the Sun. Sadly I

49. Statistics index - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Although at present this archive does not contain any specially written article on Statistics, nevertheless there is a wealth of information on the history of Statistics. ... R A Fisher's History of Statistics.

50. African American mathematicians - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    10 Jul 2023: During his long Delaware State University tenure, the institution would experience the greatest growth ever achieved under any presidential tenure in its history. ... He published around 30 research papers, mostly on algebra, and wrote a History of