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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Paris/
Paris Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Académie des Sciences, founded in 1666
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/calculus/
Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Limacon/
Limacon of Pascal - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/BEA/
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/
Sci Hi blog links - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Recorde/
Robert Recorde (1510 - 1558) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Recorde was a Welsh doctor and mathematician who invented the
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euler/
Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician who made enormous contributions to a wide range of mathematics and physics including analytic geometry, trigonometry,...
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Mersenne_publications/
Mersenne's Publications - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Mersenne's Publications
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/DAlembert/
Jean d'Alembert (1717 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Jean d'Alembert was a a French mathematician who was a pioneer in the study of differential equations and their use of in physics. He studied the equilibrium...
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Cycloid/
Cycloid - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/
MacTutor Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Neptune_and_Pluto/
Neptune and Pluto - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/Linda_Hall_links/
Linda Hall Library links - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tukey/
John Tukey (1915 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
John Tukey introduced the Fast Fourier Transform and worked in other areas of Statistics.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/copyright/
Copyright Information - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Burnside_problem/
Burnside problem - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermat/
Pierre Fermat (1601 - 1665) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and government official most remembered for his work in number theory; in particular for Fermat's Last Theorem. He is also...
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Descartes/
René Descartes (1596 - 1650) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
René Descartes was a French philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry....
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/
Famous Curves Index - MacTutor History of Mathematics
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Biot/
Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774 - 1862) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French mathematician who worked in astronomy, elasticity, electricity and magnetism, heat, optics and geometry.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bergman/
Stefan Bergman (1895 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Stefan Bergman was a Polish-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kasner/
Edward Kasner (1878 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Edward Kasner was an American mathematician who worked on differential geometry.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Good/
Irving John Good (1916 - 2009) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Irving John Good was an English mathematician who worked at Bletchley Park and at GCHQ and later went on to work with computers and statistics.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Airy/
George Airy (1801 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
George Airy was Lucasian professor at Cambridge and Astronomer Royal. He made many major contributions to mathematics and astronomy.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Watson_Henry/
Henry Watson (1827 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Henry Watson was an English mathematician who wrote some influential text-books on electricity and magnetism.
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gassendi/
Pierre Gassendi (1592 - 1655) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Pierre Gassendi was a French astronomer who was the first to observe a transit of Venus. He wrote on astronomy, his own astronomical observations and on...
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Torricelli/
Evangelista Torricelli (1608 - 1647) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Evangelista Torricelli was an Italian scientist who was the first man to create a sustained vacuum and to discover the principle of a barometer. He also...
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https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Roberval/
Gilles Roberval (1602 - 1675) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Gilles Roberval was a French scientist who developed powerful methods in the early study of integration.
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