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...tion with this he published various books with his colleague Charles Henry French, who was the head of mathematics at [[The Leys School]], Cambridge.<ref nam [[Category:20th-century English mathematicians]] ...

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...is an important historical memoir giving brief biographies of the Italian mathematicians who worked and lived between 1861 and 1961. Its content is available from t | language = French ...

...modeled;<ref group="lower-alpha">This approach is often favoured by (pure) mathematicians and mathematical physicists.</ref> e.g., the notion, due to [[Bernhard Riem ...al beauty]]), a notion sometimes called "[[Occam's razor]]" after the 13th-century English philosopher [[William of Ockham|William of Occam]] (or Ockham), in ...

The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...

...) from these. Although many of Euclid's results had been stated by earlier mathematicians,<ref name="Eves 1963 loc=p. 19">{{harvnb|Eves|1963|loc=p. 19}}</ref> Euclid ...clidean are known, the first ones having been discovered in the early 19th century. ...

...pear in any of the classical books on the theory of equations (of the 20th century), except for [[J. V. Uspensky|Uspensky]]'s book. Two variants of this theor ...ensky+theory+of+equations&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks}}</ref> p.&nbsp;136, a century later. ...

.... The problem is indeterminate, but it is made strictly determinate by the century of its utterance and the limit to a man's life. Those born in 1722 (1764–42 ...''The Elements of Algebra'' (1828),{{sfn|Bourdon|1828}} a translation of a French textbook by {{interlanguage link|Louis Bourdon|fr}}, followed by ''Elements ...

...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

{{Short description|17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994}} ...wn as a [[conjecture]] rather than a theorem. After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|the first successful proof]] was ...

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...teseerx=10.1.1.58.8477 |s2cid=13387519 }}</ref> by [[Paolo Uccello]]. 15th century]] ...List of mathematical artists|Artists have used mathematics]] since the 4th century BC when the Greek [[sculpture|sculptor]] [[Polykleitos]] wrote [[Polykleito ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

...me more mathematical as a discipline throughout the first half of the 20th century, but introduction of new and generalized techniques in the period around th ...tics in the service of social and economic analysis dates back to the 17th century. Then, mainly in [[Holy Roman Empire|German]] universities, a style of ins ...

...[[Poisson distribution]]. The process and the distribution are named after French mathematician [[Siméon Denis Poisson]]. The process itself was discovered i <ref name="Stirzaker2000" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] studied the distribution, citing Poisson, using ...

...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W * [[Catapult]] — A Catapult dating to the 19th century B.C was found on the walls of the fortress of [[Buhen]].<ref name="wac">{{C ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...st 1915"}} She then joined the [[sixth form]] and won the school prize for French in December 1916.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 16 December 1916"}}{{Efn|Dent's siste ...

...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, The 9th century mathematician [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]] founded algebra and expand ...