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Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Johann Heinrich Lambert was born at Mülhausen on August 28, 1728, and died at…
Ueber die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse. By Bernhard Riemann The paper Ueber die Anzahl der Primzahlen unter einer gegebenen Grösse by Bernhard Riemann, first published in Monatsberichte der…
An Account of the Life of George Berkeley, D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland By Joseph Stock Published 1776 INTRODUCTION. There seems to be an odd fatality attending upon some of the first characters in the…
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short…
Course 311 - Abstract Algebra Lecture Notes for the Academic Year 2007-08 Draft Lecture notes for course 311 ( Abstract algebra ), taught at Trinity College, Dublin, in the academic year 2007-08, are available here.…
Getting Started with LaTeX By David R. Wilkins 2nd Edition Copyright David R. Wilkins 1995 In addition to the HTML pages listed below, the primer Getting Started with LaTeX is also available in the form of a LaTeX2e…
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but…
Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. While Descartes was laying the foundations of analytical geometry, the same subject was…
