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{{Short description|English mathematician}} '''George Osborn''' (1864–1932) was an English mathematician, known for Osborn’s rule that deals with [[Hyperbolic functio ...

{{Use Indian English|date=April 2023}} ...athematics and astronomy as well. The list is an adaptation of the list of mathematicians and astronomers compiled by [[K. V. Sarma]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=K. V. ...

...rded as one of the three most important works on [[mechanics]] in the 17th century, the other two being [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]]’s ''[[Discourses and Mathe ...ths.com/contents/huygenscontents.html | title=Horologium Oscillatorium (An English translation by Ian Bruce)| date = August 2013 | access-date=14 November 20 ...

...n using [[blackboard bold]], {{tmath|\R}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |edition=3rd |year=2008| chapter=real |at='real', ''n.2'', B.4 The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...

...]]), prepared an index of the collection that was still used into the 20th century. He was succeeded by [[Simon Bailey (archivist)|Simon Bailey]], who was the ..., and remained in chaos until [[Brian Twyne]] attended to them in the 17th century.<ref name=History/> As part of his work as a member of the committee prepar ...

| year_start = Before 12th century CE In the 17th century, the Queen of [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] adopted some Vettathunadu prince ...

...peared throughout history, including the work of [[Desargues]] in the 17th century, all the way back to the implicit use of [[spherical geometry]] to understa ...the theory of [[manifold]]s and [[Riemannian geometry]]. Later in the 19th century, it appeared that geometries without the [[parallel postulate]] ([[non-Eucl ...

...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 ...

...eb.archive.org/web/20131006101640/http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/natural-logarithm natural logarithm]</ref> and is the [[Limit of a sequence ...| isbn=978-0-321-58876-0}}</ref> [[Pierre de Fermat]] was one of the first mathematicians to propose a general technique, [[adequality]], for finding the maxima and ...

...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 ...conomists for some time, even though Petty's works were largely ignored by English scholars.<ref>Schumpeter (1954) p. 212-215</ref> ...

...of the [[Sun]], [[Moon]], [[planet]]s, and visible [[star]]s. In the 20th century, understanding the [[dynamics (physics)|dynamics]] of [[globular cluster]] ...the awareness and rise of the {{mvar|n}}-body "problem" in the early 17th century. These gravitational attractive forces do conform to Newton's laws of motio ...

{{Short description|English mathematical physicist (1900–1977)}} {{Use British English|date=November 2020}} ...

...ultural water to nearly 40,000&nbsp;people.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Ward English |first= Paul |title= The Origin and Spread of Qanats in the Old World |jour ...or [[panemone windmill]] first appeared in [[Greater Iran]] during the 9th century.<ref>Glick, Thomas F., Steven Livesey, and Faith Wallis. Medieval science, ...

...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...