Mathematics

Mathematics#




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  • [ w ] c240-0190 BCE Apollonius of Perga Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος

    • recognized as the individual who developed the conics

    • his 8-volume series on the subject described the “double-cone cutting” approach

  • [ w ] c315-0240 BCE Aratus of Soli ἄρατος ὁ σολεύς

  • [ w ] c287-0212 BCE Archimedes of Syracuse ἀρχιμήδης

  • [ w ] c310-0230 BCE Aristarchus of Samos Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος

    • [ w ] Heliocentrism

  • [ w ] c370-0300 BCE Callipus κάλλιππος

  • [ w ] Chrysippus of Soli

  • [ w ] c276-0194 BCE Eratosthenes of Cyrene Ἐρατοσθένης

  • [ w ] c300-0200 BCE Euclid of Alexandria Εὐκλείδης ὁ ἀλεξανδρεύς

    • [ w ] Elements στοιχεῖα

  • [ w ] c390-0340 BCE Eudoxus of Cnidus Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος

  • [ w ] c190-0120 BCE Hipparchus Ἵππαρχος

  • [ w ] c470-0421 BCE Hippocrates of Chios Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος

  • [ w ] c490-0570 _CE John Philoponus ἰωάννης ὁ φιλόπονος

  • [ w ] c380-0320 BCE Menaechmus Μέναιχμος

    • a contemporary of Plato, who produced the first publications describing the concept of the conics

  • [ w ] c500-0400 BCE Meton of Athens μέτων ὁ ἀθηναῖος

  • [ w ] 0490-0450 BCE Oenopides of Chios Οἰνοπίδης ὁ Χῖος

  • [ w ] c290-0350 _CE Pappus of Alexandria Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς

  • [ w ] c100-0170 _CE Ptolemy, Claudius Πτολεμαῖος

  • [ w ] 0626-0545 BCE Thales of Miletus Θαλῆς

  • [ w ] c417-0369 BCE Theaetetus of Athens Θεαίτητος

  • [ w ] c169-0100 BCE Theodosius of Bithynia θεοδόσιος

    • [ w ] Sphaerics σφαιρικά


  • [ w ] 1888-1977 (88) Bernays, Paul

  • [ w ] 1700-1782 (82) Bernoulli, Daniel

  • [ w ] 1655-1705 (50) Bernoulli, Jacob

  • [ w ] 1667-1748 (80) Bernoulli, Johann

  • [ w ] 1687-1759 (72) Bernoulli, Nicolaus I

  • [ w ] 1781-1848 (67) Bolzano, Bernard

  • [ w ] 1815-1864 (49) Boole, George [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1881-1966 (85) Brouwer, L. E. J.

  • [ w ] 1301-1362 (61) Buridan, Jean/John (Johannes Buridanus) [ SEP ]

    • [ w ] Buridan’s Ass

  • [ w ] 1845-1918 (72) Cantor, Georg

    • [ w ] Cantor’s First Set Theory Article

  • [ w ] 1501-1576 (74) Cardano, Gerolamo

  • [ w ] 1789-1857 (67) Cauchy, Augustin-Louis

  • [ w ] 1713-1765 (52) Clairaut, Alexis

  • [ w ] 1868-1914 (46) Couturat, Louis

  • [ w ] 1900-1982 (81) Curry, Haskell Brooks

  • [ w ] 1452-1519 (67) Da Vinci, Leonardo

  • [ w ] 1914-2005 (90) Dantzig, Goerge

  • [ w ] 1884-1956 (72) Dantzig, Tobias

  • [ w ] 1806-1871 (64) De Morgan, Augustus

  • [ w ] 1831-1916 (84) Dedekind, Richard

    • [ SEP ] Dedekind’s Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics

  • [ w ] 1906-1992 (86) Dieudonné, Jean

  • [ w ] 1805-1859 (54) Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune

  • [ w ] 1707-1783 (76) Euler, Leonhard

  • [ w ] 1768-1830 (62) Fourier, Joseph

  • [ w ] 1891-1965 (74) Fraenkel, Abraham

  • [ w ] 1848-1925 (76) Frege, Gottlob [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1849-1917 (67) Frobenius, Ferdinand Georg

  • [ w ] 1879-1943 (64) Fubini, Guido

  • [ w ] 1564-1642 (77) Galilei, Galileo [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1811-1832 (20) Galois, Évariste

  • [ w ] 1777-1855 (77) Gauss, Carl Friedrich

    • [ w ] Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (number theory)

  • [ w ] 1909-1945 (35) Gentzen, Gerhard

  • [ w ] 1906-1978 (71) Gödel, Kurt [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1811-1874 (63) Hesse, Ludwig

  • [ w ] 1862-1943 (81) Hilbert, David

  • [ w ] 1947----- (78) Huet, Gérard

  • [ w ] 1823-1891 (68) Kronecker, Leopold

  • [ w ] 1661-1704 (42) L’Hôpital, Guillaume de

  • [ w ] 1736-1813 (77) Lagrange, Joseph-Louis

  • [ w ] 1749-1827 (77) Laplace, Pierre-Simon

    • [ w ] Traité de mécanique céleste

  • [ w ] 1875-1941 (66) Lebesgue, Henri

  • [ w ] 1646-1716 (70) Leibniz, G. W. [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1698-1746 (48) Maclaurin, Colin

  • [ w ] 1790-1868 (77) Möbius, August Ferdinand

  • [ w ] 1930-1971 (40) Montague, Richard

  • [ w ] 1785-1836 (51) Navier, Claude-Louis

  • [ w ] 1642-1727 (84) Newton, Isaac [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1863-1953 (89) Padé, Henri

  • [ w ] 1858-1932 (73) Peano, Giuseppe

    • [ w ] (1889). Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita.

  • [ w ] 1839-1914 (74) Peirce, Charles Sanders [ SEP ]

  • [ w ] 1854-1912 (58) Poincaré, Henri

  • [ w ] 1781-1840 (58) Poisson, Siméon Denis

  • [ w ] 1897-1954 (57) Post, Emil

  • [ w ] 1826-1866 (39) Riemann, Bernhard

  • [ w ] 1652-1719 (67) Rolle, Michel

  • [ w ] 1872-1970 (97) Russell, Bertrand

    • [ w ] (1905). “On Denoting”.

  • [ w ] 1888-1942 (53) Schonfinkel, Moses

  • [ w ] 1819-1903 (83) Stokes, George

  • [ w ] 1901-1983 (82) Tarski, Alfred [ SEP ]

    • [ SEP ] Tarski’s Truth Definitions

  • [ w ] 1685-1731 (46) Taylor, Brook

  • [ w ] 1912-1954 (41) Turing, Alan

  • [ w ] 1834-1923 (88) Venn, John

  • [ w ] 1903-1957 (53) Von Neumann, John

  • [ w ] 1815-1897 (81) Weierstrass, Karl

  • [ w ] 1885-1955 (70) Weyl, Hermann

  • [ w ] 1871-1953 (81) Zermelo, Ernst

    • [ SEP ] Zermelo’s Axiomatization of Set Theory

1560      1570      1580      1590      1600      1610      1620      1630      1640      1650      1660      1670      1680      1690      1700      1710      1720      1730      1740      1750
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

                                                                                                                                            +---------+---------+---------+---------+--------> Daniel B
                                                                                               -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Jacob B
                                                                                                           ---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Johann B
                                                                                                                                                         -------+---------+---------+--------> Caliraut
                                                                                                                                                   ---+---------+---------+---------+--------> Euler
    ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Galilei
                                                                                                     ---------+---------+---------+---------+---- L'Hôpital
                                                                                      ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Leibniz
                                                                                                                                          --+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Maclaurin
                                                                                  --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Newton
                                                                                            --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------- Rolle
                                                                                                                             -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Taylor
1700      1710      1720      1730      1740      1750      1760      1770      1780      1790      1800      1810      1820      1830      1840      1850      1860      1870      1880      1890
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Daniel B
                                                                                 ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Bolzano
                                                                                                                   -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Boole
                                                                                         -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Cauchy
             -------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Clairaut
       ---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Euler
                                                                                                               ---------+---------+-- Galois
                                                                             ---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Gauss
                                    ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Lagrange
                                                 -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Laplace
                                                                                     -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Navier
                                                                                 ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Poisson
                                                                                                                              ----+---------+---------+---------+------ Riemann
1800      1810      1820      1830      1840      1850      1860      1870      1880      1890      1900      1910      1920      1930      1940      1950      1960      1970      1980      1990
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

               -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Boole
                                                                                 ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Brouwer
                                             -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Cantor
                                                                    --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Couturat
                                                                                                                  ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------> G Dantzig
                                                                                    ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ T Dantzig
      ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- De Morgan
                               ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Dedekind
                                                                                                          ----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Dieudonné
                                                --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Frege
                                                 -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Frobenius
                                                                               -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Fubini
           ---------+---------+-- Galois
           ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Hesse
                                                              --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Hilbert
                                                                           -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Lebesgue
                                                               -------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Padé
                                                          --+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Peano
                                       -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Peirce
                                                      ------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Poincaré
                          ----+---------+---------+---------+------ Riemann
                                                                        --------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Russell
                   -+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Stokes
                                                                                                                --------+---------+---------+---------+---- Turing
               -----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Weierstrass



Texts#

2011 Boyer, Carl B. A History of Mathematics. 3e. Wiley.

2008 Gowers, Timothy; June Barrow-Green; & Imre Leader (eds.). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press.

2015 Higham, Nicholas J. (ed.). The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. Princeton University Press.

2014 Mazur, Joseph. Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation. Princeton University Press.