History of Mathematics

In General
* 1600's: The great French mathematicians were P de Fermat, R Descartes and B Pascal.
* 1900's: A Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem.

Specific Areas > s.a. calculus of variations; differential equations; differential geometry; geometry; knot theory.
@ Mathematical physics: Netz PT(00)jun [Archimedes]; Warwick 03 [Cambridge]; Knox & Noakes ed-03 [Lucasian Professors].

References
@ Books: Van Heijenoort 67 [logic]; Struik 67; Kline 80; Burton 85; Newman ed-88; Motz & Weaver 93 [science-motivated]; Rudman 07 [popularization, r PT(08)jul].
@ Books, special emphasis: Coolidge 90 [amateurs]; Anglin 94 [and philosophy].
@ And culture: Ascher 91; Ascher 02 [other cultures].
@ Mathematicians: Halmos 87 [pictures]; Monastirsky 98; Peterson 98; Sinai ed-03 [Russian, XX century].
@ Personal accounts: Ulam 76; Halmos 85; Quine 85; Kac 87; Bollobás 06.
@ Selected writings: Hawking ed-05.
@ Related topics: Fiske BAMS(1905) [in America]; Pierpont BAMS(1904) [XIX cy]; McLarty BJPS(90) [topos theory]; Parshall BAMS(00) [in America]; Christianidis ed-04 [Greek mathematics]; Graham & Kantor Isis(06) [approaches, France and Russia].
# Mathematicians: Brauer, Cantor, Chevalley, Courant, Gauss, Hilbert, Klein, Lie, Noether, Riemann.

Online Resources > see St-Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics archive; Internet Encyclopedia of Science pages.

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