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History of Mathematics

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
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http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/

Author: 
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
Excerpt: 

This collection consists of the mathematical papers of Sir William Rowan Hamilton published during his lifetime, transcribed and edited by David R. Wilkins. With one exception, these papers are available here in an edition based on the original published text. (The exception is the paper Remarques de M. Hamilton, Directeur de l'Observatoire de Dublin, sur un Mémoire de M. Plana inséré dans le Tome VII de la Correspondance Math.)

Annotation: 

This site offers a large body of work by Sir William Rowan Hamilton and Georg Friedrich Bernhard Rieman, a series of articles on "The controversy generated by the publcation of The Analyst", and large group of biographies of mathematicians from the seventeenth and eighteenth century. There is also a smaller amount of material relating to Sir Isaac Newton, Geogre Boole, and Georg Cantor.

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