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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).
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/index/7 Mar 2023: The links below will take you to individual articles or to index pages for articles on these topics.
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Science in the 17th century - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Science_17C/10 Jul 2023: This period in the history of Europe is known as the Scientific Revolution. ... L Jardine, Britain and the rise of science, BBC History (17 February 2011).
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Statistics index - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Statistics/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.
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History Topics Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/OtherIndexes/histtopics/7 Jun 2023:
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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.