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Newton and Leibniz | history of math
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A Math History blog. The Development of the Calculus. Swiss Mathematicians of the 18th Century →. October 20, 2011. Isaac Newton was born in 1642/3 in Woolsthorpe, England. The doubled year of birth is related to the gradual adoption of the Gregorian calendar. 8216; work on algebra. In 1665, Cambridge University shut down due to an outbreak of plague in England. Newton returned to his family home in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire. The lengths of curves and the maxima and minima of functions. Newton’s. Newton&...
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The History of Algebra | history of math
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A Math History blog. Applications from the Ancient World. Italian Mathematics of the 16th Century →. The History of Algebra. February 8, 2011. I wrote a few posts back in October of 2008 about the history of algebra and the transmission of Hindu and Arab knowledge to Europe. October 24, 2008 by richbeveridge. Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi was an Arab mathematician who lived and worked in Baghdad during the 8. The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Or, in English,.
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Applied Mathematics and the Heavenly Bodies | history of math
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A Math History blog. Italian Mathematics of the 16th Century. French Mathematics of the 17th century →. Applied Mathematics and the Heavenly Bodies. February 22, 2011. Before we leave the time period of the early 16th century, I think it would be helpful to recognize three very important astronomer/mathematicians of that time –. In 1543, as Copernicus was dying, his ideas were published as the book. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Although Copernicus was correct in his assertion that the earth revol...
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Representing Numbers | history of math
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A Math History blog. The Pythagoreans →. January 20, 2011. The way different cultures have chosen to represent numbers can be a very interesting topic. Many people forget that, like our English language, the base-ten place value system is a somewhat arbitrary cultural choice that we have made as a system to represent quantity. Other cultures use a variety of strategies to represent quantity. Our system is a Base 10 place value system which was also used by the ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures. You can ...
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richbeveridge2 | history of math
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A Math History blog. Mathematics in the Late 19th Century. November 16, 2011. The Rise of Engineering and Applied Mathematics The 19th century saw an explosion of applied mathematics as the industrial revolution took hold throughout Europe. An example of this is the development of the École Polytechnique in Paris. Galois had actually … Continue reading →. Mathematics in the Early 19th Century. November 15, 2011. Swiss Mathematicians of the 18th Century. November 3, 2011. Mathematics of the Enlightenment.
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September | 2011 | history of math
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A Math History blog. Monthly Archives: September 2011. The Development of the Calculus. September 29, 2011. After the advent of Descartes’ analytic geometry, mathematicians had a lot of algebraic representations of geometric curves to analyze. Victor Katz, in his textbook A History of Mathematics, lays out the quantities that interested mathematicians in relation to curves in … Continue reading →. Mathematics of the Enlightenment. Mathematics in the Late 19th Century. Mathematics in the Early 19th Century.
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Mathematics in the Early 19th Century | history of math
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A Math History blog. Swiss Mathematicians of the 18th Century. Mathematics in the Late 19th Century →. Mathematics in the Early 19th Century. November 15, 2011. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician whose talents were comparable to those of Euler. Much of Gauss’ reputation was based on his monumental 1801 work called. Which controls most of the computer security systems in the world. Gauss became interested in astronomy. The Italian astronomer Piazzi had discovered a small plane...
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history of math | A Math History blog | Page 2
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A Math History blog. Newer posts →. Italian Mathematics of the 16th Century. February 11, 2011. To connect the last post to this one, I will quote a passage from Victor Katz’s. A History of Mathematics. In November of 2008 I wrote about some of the history of algebraic symbols. Most of which was taken directly from Jeff Miller’s website Earliest Uses of Various Mathematical Symbols. The story of the Italian mathematicians of the 16th century and their efforts to solve cubic and quartic equations is fasci...
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The Development of the Calculus | history of math
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A Math History blog. French Mathematics of the 17th century. Newton and Leibniz →. The Development of the Calculus. September 29, 2011. After the advent of Descartes’ analytic geometry, mathematicians had a lot of algebraic representations of geometric curves to analyze. Victor Katz, in his textbook. A History of Mathematics. Lays out the quantities that interested mathematicians in relation to curves in the plane – arc length, the tangent line (and subtangent. The normal line (and subnormal. Finding the...
