The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

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Name Index


Abel, Niels Henrik, 84, 90, 446, 451, 455,
474, 486, 492, 503
Absolon, Karel, 6
Abu Kamil, 434
Abu'l-Wafa, 57, 143
Abu-Kamil, 57, 179, 412, 428
Achilles, 283
Adalbold of Liege, 329
Adrain, Robert, 63
Aesop, 50
Agargiin, Ahmet, 180
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 82-83, 87, 474
Akbar the Lion, 22, 26
al-Jayyani, 331
Alberti, Leon Battista, 61, 358
Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich, 547
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, 441,477,486, 496
Alexander Polyhistor, 271
Alexander the Great, 293, 296
Alhazen (ibn al-Haytham), 335, 336
Allman, George Johnston, 242, 280
Althoff, Friedrich, 94
Amenemhet III, 35
Amir-Moez, Ali R., 336, 425
Ampere, Andre-Marie, 496, 504
Anatolius, 409
Anaxagoras, 269, 275
Ang Tian-Se, 31, 135, 246
Angell, James, 64
Anne (British queen), 525
Antiphon, 290
Apepi I, 35
Apollodorus, 271
Apollonius, 41, 46, 249, 270, 296, 314, 317,
323, 335, 351
Arbuthnott, John, 525, 529
Archimedes, 33, 42, 43, 46, 52, 59, 84, 120,
249, 250, 269, 276, 290, 313, 317, 320,
324, 335, 353
Archytas, 269, 276
Argand, Jean, 209
Aristaeus, 304, 314
Aristarchus, 121
Aristotle, 42, 43, 179, 201, 269, 271, 275,
283, 290, 297, 319, 511
Arjuna, 421


Artin, Emil, 98
Aryabhata I, 45, 118, 126, 198, 267, 420
Ascher, Marcia, 9, 10
Athelhard of Bath, 329
Avogadro, Amadeo, 532
Ayoub, Raymond, 446
Azulai, Abraham, 180

Babbage, Charles, 150
Bagheri, Mohammad, 55
Baigozhina, G. O., 179
Baire, Rene, 506, 535, 550
Baker, J. N. L., 86
Ball, W. W. Rouse, 94
Baltzer, R., 368
Banach, Stefan, 551
Banneker, Benjamin, 64-65
Baron, George, 63
Barrow, Isaac, 467, 473
Bartels, Johann, 345
Barzin, M., 556
Bashmakova, I. G., 412
Bayes, Thomas, 524
Bell, Eric Temple (John Taine), 452
Beltrami, Eugenio, 346, 384
Belyi, Andrei, 506
Beman, W. W., 283
Bendixson, Ivar, 547
Benedict XIV, 83
Bentham, Jeremy, 536
Berggren, J. L., 55, 335
Berkeley, George, 473, 474, 484, 488
Bernal, Martin, 42
Bernays, Paul, 348, 557
Berndt, Bruce, 27
Bernoulli, Daniel, 477, 496, 519, 532
Bernoulli, Jakob, 472, 517, 519, 523, 524
Bernoulli, Johann, 472, 473, 476, 479, 548
Bernoulli, Niklaus I, 440
Bernoulli, Niklaus II, 519
Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 342, 344
de Bessy, Bernard Frinicle, 189
Betti, Enrico, 194, 384, 449
Bozout, Etienne, 394, 442
Bhaskara II, 45, 198, 211, 428
Bhau Daji, 24
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The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course, Second Edition

by Roger Cooke

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