History
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- History of Mathematics
- Online texts of historic mathematical people, including Hamilton, Riemann, Newton, Boole, and Cantor. Also, has biographical backgrounds for key figures during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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- Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
- Article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson giving biographical details of the great mathematician, with a number of photographs.
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- Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind
- Provides biographical details of this German mathematician who lived from 1831 to 1916.
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- Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987)
- Worked on trigonometric series, set theory, integration analysis, constructive logic, topology, approximation methods, probability, statistics, random processes, information theory, dynamical systems, algorithms, celestial mechanics, Hilbert's 13th problem, and ballistics. Also, studied and applications of mathematics to problems of biology, geology, linguistics and the crystallization of metals. Born and lived in Russia.
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- Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
- In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
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- Pell, John (1611-1685)
- Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up to 100000 in 1668. Pell's equation is y^2 = ax^2 + 1, where a is a non-square integer.
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- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
- "... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
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- Schmidt, Erhard (1876-1959)
- Main research was functional analysis, doctorate was obtained under Hilbert's supervision, main interest was in integral equations and Hilbert space, best remembered for the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process.
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- Sheynin, Oscar
- Freelance researcher specializes in the history of probability, statistics and error theory. Page includes list of publications and outside reviews.
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- The History of Mathematics
- Collection of original papers of Berkeley, Hamilton, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, and Newton. Includes background and notes. Maintained by David R. Wilkins from Trinity College, Dublin
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- Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953)
- Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory
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- d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
- Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
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- Euler Foundation
- This organization was formed by Saint-Petersburg mathematicians including A.M. Vershik, S.V. Vostokov, I.A. Ibragimov and L.D. Faddeev, with the goal of giving support to scientists, namely young mathematicians.
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- Leonard Euler and Modern Combinatories
- This International Conference was held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia from June 1 to June 7, 2007.
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- Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)
- Biography and Works of the Basel born mathematician, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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- Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler) 1707-1783
- Describes the mathematician's early upbringing, schooling, first published materials, visual impairments, and his work with series functions.