The Princeton companion to mathematics

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The Princeton companion to mathematics

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The Encyclopedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish…”
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Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 by Grattan-Guinness, I.

Table of Contents: “…Colin MacLaurin, A treatise of fluxionsA treatise of fluxions (1742) -- 11 Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Trait ̌de dynamique (1743, 1758) -- 12. …”
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Correspondance générale d'Helvétius : 1761-1774 by Smith, David

Table of Contents: “…Friedrich Melchior Grimm à Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d'Argental -- 593. Voltaire à Jean Le Rond d'Alembert -- 594. Helvétius à Charles Augustin Feriol, comte d'Argental -- 595. …”
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