Ten British Mathematicians
by Alexander Macfarlane
1916
ISBN/ASIN: B004I6D59K
Number of pages: 108
Description:
Ten lectures on ten British mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century: George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(PDF/TeX)
Similar books
A Brief History of Mathematicsby Karl Fink - Open Court Publishing Company
The book is intended to give students of mathematics an historical survey of the elementary parts of this science and to furnish the teacher of the elements opportunity to review connectedly points for the most part long familiar to him.
(4164 views)
Men of Mathematicsby E.T. Bell - Archive.org
Nature Professor E. T. Bell has written a fascinating book. The amount of biographical details and of mathematics that he has compressed into a volume of 600 pages is extraordinary ... he carries the reader along; he whets the appetite.
(12325 views)
History of Modern Mathematicsby David Eugene Smith - Columbia University
This is an outline of the prominent movements in mathematics, presenting a few of the leading names, and calling attention to some of the bibliography of the subject. In these pages the term Mathematics will be limited to the domain of pure science.
(12777 views)
A History Of The Mathematical Theory Of Probabilityby I. Todhunter - Kessinger Publishing, LLC
History of the probability theory from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace (1865). Todhunter gave a close account of the difficulties involved and the solutions offered by each investigator. His studies were thorough and fully documented.
(14679 views)