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  1. Wave versus matrix - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: superstition (which is as old as the history of thought) that the destiny of men could be read from the stars.

  2. Gravitation - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: One of the most obvious properties of the world is that if you hold a stone in your hand and release it, then the stone falls. Although we now know that the Moon orbits the Earth and the planets orbit the Sun because of the same force that makes the

  3. 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).

  4. 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

  5. Weil on history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Below we give four examples of extracts from André Weil's writings on the history of mathematics. ... 1976). 1. Early history of number theory. Our first extract is from the first chapter of Number theory.

  6. Advice on organising a BMC - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BMC/2008/Advice2008/

    7 Mar 2023: Special Lecture. A lecture on history or relevant current events (mathematical finance?).

  7. 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

  8. Water-clocks - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2001. xxxii(108): p. 189-222. J Fermor, Timing the sun in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

  9. Real numbers 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Real_numbers_1/

    10 Jul 2023: H N Jahnke (ed.), A history of analysis (American Mathematical Society, Providence, R.I., 2003). ... M Lopez Pellicer, Constructions of real numbers (Spanish), in History of mathematics in the XIXth century, Part 2 (Spanish), Madrid, 1993, Real Acad.

  10. History of the LMS - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LMShistory/

    7 Mar 2023: The London Mathematical Society dates back to 1864. Augustus De Morgan's wife, writing after his death described how the London Mathematical Society was founded:-. It was in the year 1864 that Mr Arthur Cowper Ranyard and George [George De Morgan,