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History and philosophy of mathematics, biographies of mathematicians, mathematics education, recreational mathematics, communication of mathematics.
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Archive of the Work of J Sutherland Frame
Does anyone know of the existence of an archive of the work of J Sutherland Frame?
The Briscoe Center for American History maintains about 100 archives of American mathematics and I have found the …
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Jerome Franel's Chair at ETH
In a review of a book by Ferdinand Gonseth in the Spring-Summer 2006 (Volume XI, Issue 1) of the HOPOS Newsletter it is said that Gonseth was the
"successor on Jerome's (sic) Franel's chair for Math …
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Alexander John Thompson - Logarithmetica Britannica
Alexander John Thompson was the author/computer the nine-volume Logarithmetica Britannica published between 1924 and 1952. He was born in Plaistow, Essex, England, in 1885. He was still a member of …
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Biographical Information Concerning Henry Sherwin
Henry Sherwin's Mathematical Tables achieved some popularity. The first edition was published ~1706 and the fifth and last in 1771. Some editions were more erroneous than others and the error rate was …
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Query: Year of Death of Three Mathematicians
I need the year of death of the following mathematicians all of whom are written up in R.C.Archibald's book Mathematical Table Makers.
Carl Burrau, b. 1867, d. ???? - Danish, astronomer and actuary
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Mathematical Tables in Babbage's Library
DeMorgan authored the entry under TABLES in both the Penny and English Cyclopedias. Copies of a number of the tables DeMorgan discusses were in the library of Charles Babbage, a resource to which DeMo …
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Information about A. Aubry
A. Aubry published a paper entitled "Les Logarithmes avant Neper" in the 1906 edition of L'Enseignement Mathématique signed simply "A. Aubry (Beaugency, Loiret)". Does anyone know what the A. stood f …
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History of the Lagrange Inversion Theorem
I'm doing research on the history of the Lagrange inversion theorem. The earliest predecessor I've found is the one referenced by De Morgan; viz. Jo. H. Lambert's construction in Observationes Variae …
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John Fauvel video on de Prony's Tables du cadastre
Ivor Grattan-Guinness in his contribution to {\it The History of Mathematical Tables} titled
"The Computation Factory: de Prony's project for making tables in the 1790s" references a video made by Jo …
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Logarithms and Ratios
Napier's original conceptualization of the logarithm was as a relationship between an arithmetic progression and a geometric progression; a point moving with zero acceleration and a point moving with …
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Retracted Mathematics Papers [closed]
Can anyone cite an example of a mathematics paper that has been retracted?
It is said that on the order of 100,000 new theorems enter the mathematics literature every year. For a number of reasons in …
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Problem of Mouton
In "Suite des Lecons d'Analyse" de Prony says that Lans and Haros have had much success with the problem of Mouton.
What is the problem of Mouton?
Thanks for any insight.
Cheers, Scott
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Kummer and Fermat's Equation
In Report on the Theory of Numbers, H.J.S. Smith writes:
"The impossibility of solving [Fermat's] equation has been demonstrated by M. Kummer, first, for all values of $\lambda$ not included among th …
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L'Intermédiaire des mathématiciens
Does anybody know if the journal L'Intermédiaire des mathématiciens is on the web anywhere? Failing that, does anybody know of a library that has all or even some of the issues?
Thanks for any help. …
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Quote about errors in math writing
A resource might be
Maurice Lecat, Erreurs de mathématiciens des origines à nos jours, Bruxelles : Castaigne, 1935
Cheers, Scott
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