History
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- HPM - International Study Group on the Relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics
- By combining the history of mathematics with the teaching of mathematics HPM is the link between the past and the future of math. Includes newsletters, meeting schedule and announcements.
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- University of St. Andrews: Biography Index
- Names are listed alphabetically or by date, from 1680 BC to the present.
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- Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
- Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by radicals.
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- Archimedes Palimpsest
- Provides information on a project at the Walters Art Museum to study and conserve the ancient texts in this 13th century book.
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- Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
- Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
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- Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
- (Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
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- Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)
- Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. He is probably best known for his important contributions to real and complex analysis.
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- Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)
- Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
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- Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752)
- Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
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- Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 )
- Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.
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- Eratosthenes of Cyrene
- Biography of the mathematician, geographer and astronomer born 276 BC in Cyrene, North Africa. From The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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- Eratosthenes: The Measurement of the Earth's Circumference
- Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and reconstructed map of the world.
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- Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
- From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
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- Fibonacci Mathematics by Dr. Peter Reimers
- Describes the rabbit problem and the Fibonacci sequence and some generalized rules.
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- Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive
- Includes personal biography, explanation of his theory and related links.
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- Galois, Évariste (1811-1832)
- Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many long-standing unanswered questions.