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...d material, e.g., {{w|gematria}}, not discussed by contemporary historians of mathematics. === ''A Short History of Greek Mathematics'' (1884) === ...

...e history of mathematics in the United States and his 1928 –1929 ''History of Mathematical Notations'' has been described as "unsurpassed." :'''''See also: [[A History of Mathematics]]''''' ...

.... J. Whitrow''', was a British mathematician, cosmologist and historian of science. ...not] a mysterious illusion of the intellect. ..It is an essential feature of the universe. ...

...Perga|Apollonius of Perga]], [[Aristarchus of Samos]], and [[Archimedes]] of Syracuse into English. === ''Diophantos of Alexandria: A Study in the History of Greek Algebra'' (1885) === ...

...ourier.JPG|thumb|right|Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.]] ...n of [[w:Fourier series|Fourier series]] and their application to problems of [[w:heat flow|heat flow]]. The [[w:Fourier transform|Fourier transform]] is ...

...credited, independently of [[John Napier]], as a co-inventor of [[History of logarithms|logarithms]]. * [D]ue to a lack of languages, the door to... authors has not always been open to me, as... to ...

...rations and to set forth the general problem of the origin and development of these numerals." ...is difficult... to realize that '''their general acceptance... is a matter of only the last four centuries.'''<!--p. iii--> ...

...manual with the cerebral, and of practice, experimentation, and the growth of technology with theory. ...ng; ...Portuguese seamen had clarified many doubts and shown the existence of the [[wiktionary:antipodes#Noun|antipodes]] etc.. ...

...fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory which was still highly contr ...[''verhängnisvoll''] '''if one values one's life.''' The title [Principles of Natural Philosophy] doesn't tell us anything coherent .... [it is] essentia ...

...ow by Mary Beale.jpg|thumb|[[Virtue]] is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one [[night]] when we are [[asleep]], or regard it not; but a del ...alculus}}; in particular, for the discovery of the {{w|fundamental theorem of calculus}}. ...

...ories and proofs is the key difference between Greek mathematics and those of preceding civilizations. ...21) Vol. 1. ''From Thales to Euclid'']]<br />[[#Science Awakening (1954)|''Science Awakening'' (1954)]]<br />[[#See also|See also]]-[[#External links|External ...

...w|Babylonian mathematics}}. Trigonometry was also prevalent in [[w:Kingdom of Kush|Kushite]] mathematics. ...as part of {{w|Hellenistic astronomy}}. In [[Indian astronomy]], the study of trigonometric functions flourished in the {{w|Gupta period}}, especially du ...

...her for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as manifestations of the same phenomenon. ...tion]]'', ''[[The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell]]'', ''[[Theory of Heat]]'', ...

...entury Europe and was widely used to simplify calculation until the advent of the digital computer. ...enth century by the invention of {{w|logarithm}}s.<!--Ch. 6 Four Centuries of Transition, 1202-1603, p. 113--> ...

...mb|The [[symbol]] and the [[metaphor]] are as [[Necessity|necessary]] to [[science]] as to [[poetry]].]] ...1973 BBC television documentary series, ''[[w:The Ascent of Man|The Ascent of Man]]''. ...

...s, is now shown to be only approximately correct. The underlying structure of matter, however, is not mechanical. This means that the term "quantum mecha ...ntum technology]], and [[w:quantum information science|quantum information science]]. ...

...he so-called "[[w:Napier's bones|Napier's bones]]" and made common the use of the [[w:decimal point|decimal point]] in arithmetic and mathematics. ...himself by private meditations with his God?'''<!--"To the King" (James VI of Scotland)--> ...

...ife]] a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the [[grace]] of tragedy.]] ...lowers]] — not by [[logical]] deduction, but by something like a [[sense]] of smell.]] ...

...hematical measure of heredity is the correlation of these organs for pairs of parent and offspring... The word organ here must be taken to include any ch ...tion III: Regression, Heredity and Panmixia", ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A'', Vol. 187 (1896) p. 259. ...

...le:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|thumb|right|<center>Portrait of John Wallis<br />by Sir [[Godfrey Kneller]], 1st Baronet (1701)</center>]] ...on|Newton]] and one of the greatest intellectuals of the early renaissance of [[mathematics]]. ...