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  • ...pdf)(Page of 602 of Actual Document)}}</ref> where in 1887 he received the 17th [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Wrangler]] award for achieving a first ...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 ...
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  • ...s Xavier in Bologna, under the guidance of Luigi Marchenti, a pupil of the French mathematician [[Pierre Varignon]]. He entered the [[Society of Jesus]] on D ...i Analitiche''. Riccati's ''Institutiones analyticae'' is the fullest 18th-century Italian treatise on analytic methods in mathematics. ...
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  • ...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 After 1673, during his stay in the ''[[French Academy of Sciences|Academie des Sciences]]'', Huygens studied [[Harmonic o ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • ...y a special symbol (e.g., an [[Letter (alphabet)|alphabet letter]]), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple [[mathematical problem]]s.<re ...mvar|e}}, discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with [[French people|French]] mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort]], is in the problem of [[dera ...
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  • | year_start = Before 12th century CE In the 17th century, the Queen of [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] adopted some Vettathunadu prince ...
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  • ...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 ...
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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 ...
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  • {{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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  • ...| 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 ...or prove the formula. In 1800, more than 50 years before Faà di Bruno, the French mathematician [[Louis François Antoine Arbogast]] stated the formula in a c ...
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  • ...|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] ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...designed by [[Mario Calderara]] and financed by [[Ambroise Goupy]] at the French firm [[Blériot Aéronautique]].<ref>Mario Calderara, Commander Calderara Gla ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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  • ...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 ...
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