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- [[Category:19th-century English mathematicians]] [[Category:20th-century English mathematicians]] ...3 KB (341 words) - 09:56, 29 November 2022
- {{Use Indian English|date=September 2017}} [[Category:19th-century Indian mathematicians]] ...3 KB (370 words) - 02:40, 8 July 2024
- {{Short description|English mathematician}} '''George Osborn''' (1864–1932) was an English mathematician, known for Osborn’s rule that deals with [[Hyperbolic functio ...6 KB (775 words) - 11:32, 3 November 2023
- ...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 ...11 KB (1,524 words) - 13:22, 2 November 2024
- {{short description|English mathematician}} '''Homersham Cox''' (1857–1918) was an English mathematician.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Steed, H. E.|title=The register of To ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 04:48, 19 September 2024
- ...delle funzioni arbitrarie di variabili reali''".<ref>An [[English language|English]] translation reads as "On the Analytic Representation of Arbitrary Functio ...ytic representation of discontinuous real functions of a real variable''" (English translation of title) Severini extends the Weierstrass approximation theore ...14 KB (1,708 words) - 08:04, 6 May 2024
- ...rk of [[Hermann Hankel]]. In §14 (p 386) Scheffers reviews both German and English authors on hypercomplex numbers. In particular, he cites [[Eduard Study]]’s [[Category:19th-century German mathematicians]] ...10 KB (1,367 words) - 11:24, 18 November 2024
- [[Category:20th-century English mathematicians]] [[Category:20th-century English educators]] ...11 KB (1,465 words) - 17:11, 15 July 2024
- {{Short description|English mathematician, educator, and vicar}} ...years after Blissard's death, the church of Hampstead Norris, an eleventh-century Norman structure dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, underwent a substantial ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 07:24, 16 January 2025
- ...lhelm Franz Meyer]] were organizers of the encyclopedia. Its full title in English is '''''Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences Including Their Applications' ...l development of mathematical methods from the beginning of the nineteenth century. ...15 KB (2,105 words) - 08:32, 7 January 2025
- ...[[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}} ...19 KB (2,510 words) - 19:07, 24 September 2024
- ...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 ...33 KB (4,856 words) - 16:42, 24 February 2025
- ...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 ...24 KB (3,242 words) - 06:59, 18 February 2025
- {{Use American English|date = March 2019}} ...le system|integrable systems]], etc.), and [[number theory]]. Some of the mathematicians who have worked on orthogonal polynomials include [[Gábor Szegő]], [[Sergei ...14 KB (2,042 words) - 09:55, 3 February 2025
- ...ity]], which keep their own archives). Most of the material dates from the 19th and 20th centuries, with few photographs and no sound or video recordings. ...]]), 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 ...37 KB (5,335 words) - 15:15, 6 June 2024
- ...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]], ...31 KB (4,568 words) - 12:09, 12 February 2025
- ...dely used in Europe from the late fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century. The common [[London dial|horizontal sundial]] is a geometric [[Graphical p ...own to the Moorish astronomer [[Abdul Hassan Ali]] in the early thirteenth century<ref>{{cite web ...28 KB (4,526 words) - 21:16, 30 September 2024
- ...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]] ...61 KB (9,152 words) - 16:12, 11 February 2025
- ...) 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. ...76 KB (11,831 words) - 03:44, 15 June 2024
- ...her had both been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English nor Scottish nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached," using the technical term ...6 as a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge; Catholics, Jews, and [[English dissenters|dissenters]] could enter as students and hold positions. Prior t ...59 KB (8,384 words) - 03:41, 25 February 2025