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{{Short description|18th-century argument in mathematics}} ...f the rules are no longer obviously valid. As a consequence, 18th century mathematicians believed that they could derive meaningful results by applying the usual ru ...

In 2006, he gave a Plenary Address at the 18th [[International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatori [[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]] ...

...ld a Global Digital Mathematics Library | publisher=IEEE | book-title=2016 18th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific C [[Category:20th-century American mathematicians]] ...

* 5th century BC – [[Hippocrates of Chios]] utilizes [[Lune (mathematics)|lunes]] in an a * 5th century BC – [[Apastamba]], author of the Apastamba [[Sulba Sutras|Sulba Sutra]], a ...

...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 ...

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* 5th century BC - The [[Zeno's paradoxes]], * 5th century BC - [[Antiphon (orator)|Antiphon]] attempts to [[Squaring the circle|squar ...

had been known from the times of [[Diophantus]]. At the end of the 17th century it explained why the [[norm (mathematics)|norm]] of the product of two [[co [[Category:19th-century Danish mathematicians]] ...

...21}} to describe (and criticize) a method of argument used by 18th century mathematicians like [[Leonhard Euler|Euler]] and [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange|Lagrange]] that w ...

...|2^''p'' − 1}} is a [[prime number]]. The theorem is named after mathematicians [[Euclid]] and [[Leonhard Euler]], who respectively proved the "if" and "on ...am|title=Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham}}</ref> It was not until the 18th century, over 2000 years after Euclid,<ref>{{citation ...

...i Analitiche''. Riccati's ''Institutiones analyticae'' is the fullest 18th-century Italian treatise on analytic methods in mathematics. [[Category:18th-century Italian mathematicians]] ...

[[Carl Benjamin Boyer]]'s lectures at the 1950 [[International Congress of Mathematicians]] compared the influence of Euler's ''Introductio'' to that of [[Euclid]]' [[Category:18th-century books in Latin]] ...

...[[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}} ...

...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]], ...

...tudy in [[Europe]] dates to the work of [[Leonardo Fibonacci]] in the 13th century AD, which introduced [[Arab world|Arabian]] and [[India|Indian]] ideas to t ...es comes from problem 79 of the [[Rhind papyrus]], which dates to the 16th century BC. The problem concerns a certain [[geometric series]], and has similarit ...

These infinite series stirred up great interest among Chinese mathematicians, as the calculation of {{pi}} with these "quick methods" involved only mult ...Mathematical Journal 34 volume 1, pp. 65-73</ref><ref>P Larcombe, The 18th Century Chinese Discovery of Catalan Numbers, Mathematical Spectrum, vol. 32, no. 1 ...

...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 ...

At the start of the 18th century the [[Reforms of Peter I of Russia|reforms of Peter the Great]] (founder of ...ding universe model in 1922 which greatly influenced cosmology in the 20th century. [[Georgiy Gamov]] proposed the theory of the [[alpha decay]] of a nucleus ...

...focused on the [[Ptolemy's table of chords|calculation of chords]], while mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric rati ...PA235 235–236]|loc="Appendix 1: Hipparchus's Table of Chords"}} In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer [[Ptolemy]] (from Alexandria, Egypt) cons ...