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...n a journal rarely read outside of Denmark, it went unnoticed for nearly a century.<ref name="Nahin98" /> The same results were independently rediscovered by ...h student wrote a doctoral dissertation on "Danish mathematics in the 18th century" that the universal significance of Wessel was brought up. While the studen ...

[[Carl Benjamin Boyer]]'s lectures at the 1950 [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] compared the influence of Euler's ''Introductio'' to that of [[Euclid]]' ==English translations== ...

...tance of this early work had a large impact on both contemporary and later mathematicians; for example, [[Abraham de Moivre]]. Bernoulli wrote the text between 1684 and 1689, including the work of mathematicians such as [[Christiaan Huygens]], [[Gerolamo Cardano]], [[Pierre de Fermat]], ...

...[[recreational mathematics]] literature in the late 19th century. Several mathematicians have formulated different generalizations of the puzzle to numbers other th ...d|wensmi}} A version with 17 horses circulated as [[folklore]] in mid-20th-century America.{{r|browne}} ...

...over a field]]. The term ''abstract algebra'' was coined in the early 20th century to distinguish it from older parts of algebra, and more specifically from [ ...et of concepts. This unification occurred in the early decades of the 20th century and resulted in the formal [[axiom]]atic definitions of various [[algebraic ...

...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 ...y]]), a notion sometimes called "[[Occam's razor]]" after the 13th-century English philosopher [[William of Ockham|William of Occam]] (or Ockham), in which th ...

...his is a simple idea, and it is likely that it was known by Old Babylonian mathematicians, although no cuneiform mathematical text has yet been found where this idea ...involves consistently translating Babylonian technical terms with existing English words or neologisms which match the original meanings as closely as possibl ...

...) 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. ...

...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]] ...

...gfried J. de |title=History of Humanity: From the seventh to the sixteenth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PvlthkbFU1UC|year=1994|publisher=UNES ...fourth/tenth century, or the Imamis, Nasir al-DIn Tusi (seventh/thirteenth century) and 'Allama Hilli (seventh-eighth/thirteenth-fourteenth centuries) and man ...

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

...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 ...

...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, ...

..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...thematics, ''n.'' |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |website=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |year=2012 |access-date=June 16, 2012 |quote=The science of sp ...