Men of Mathematics (116 page)

Peirce, Benjamin,
354

Pepys, Samuel,
112

periodicity,
199
–202,
229
,
335
–6,
461
,
519
,
539
,
545
,
553

permanence of form,
355

permutation,
279
,
282

Peter the Great,
129
,
141
,
145

Pfaff, Johann Friedrich,
231
,
242

Pheidias,
29

Phidias,
322

Philip, Apostle,
573

Philippe, Louis,
372
–3

Piazzi, Giuseppe,
239

Picard, Émile,
454

Picard, Jean,
335

Pindar,
329

Planck, M.,
546
–7

Plato,
4
,
16
,
20
–1,
24
–7,
31
–2,
240

Plücker, J.,
399
,
412
,
474

Plutarch,
28
,
33

Poincaré, Henri,
9
,
17
,
158
,
270
,
378
,
428
,
447
–8,
454
,
461
,
483
, chap.
28
,
558

Poincaré, Raymond,
527
,
531
,
535

Poinsot, L.,
277

Poisson, S. D.,
318

Poncelet, Jean-Victor,
191
, chap. 13,
285
,
398

Pope, Alexander,
549

postulate,
20
–1,
23
,
279
–80,
282
,
299
,
301
,
303
,
305
,
354
–7,
438
,
443
–5,
474
,
477
,
518
,
574
,
576
–7

power series,
429
–30,
561

probability, mathematical theory of,
6
,
73
,
83
,
86
–9,
133
–4,
136
,
155
,
172
,
176
–7,
318
,
441
–2,
451

problem of
n
bodies,
542
–3

progression,
355
,
359
,
535

pseudo-sphere,
304
–6

Ptolemy,
109
,
176
,
361

Pythagoras,
16
–7,
20
–22,
266
,
398
,
407
,
457
,
474
,
480
,
506
–7,
555
,
576
–7,
579

quadratic forms,
335
,
388
,
456
,
478
,
502
,
541
,
551

quantics,
394
–5,
398

quantum theory,
63
,
88
,
107
,
350
,
459
,
506
,
515
,
547

quaternions,
260
,
352
,
354
–5,
357
,
359
–61

radicals,
372
,
376
–7,
453
,
460
,
477

Ramanujan, Srinivasa,
328

ratio, anharmonic or cross,
213
–4

ratios,
27
,
348
,
522

rays, systems of,
346
–51

reciprocants,
403

reciprocity,
226
,
235
,
252
–3,
513
–4

relativity,
6
–7,
54
,
63
,
154
,
186
,
263
,
305
–6,
350
,
360
,
378
,
391
,
399
,
437
,
448
,
480
,
500
,
502
,
506
–7,
509
,
528
,
547

Ricci, G.,
256
,
391

Richard, Loùis-Paul-Émile,
367
–8,
450

Richelieu, Cardinal,
42
,
52
,
76

Richelot, F. J.,
421

Richter, J. P. F. (Jean Paul),
257

Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard,
4
,
186
,
256
,
264
,
266
,
300
,
306
,
324
,
379
,
391
–2,
406
,
408
,
474
, chap.
26
,
518
,
532
,
545

roots of unity,
514

Rosenhain, J. G.,
324

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,
528

Rostand, Edmond,
59

Rousseau, J. J.,
258

Russell, Bertrand A. W.,
14
,
17
,
118
–9,
121
,
239
,
433 −4
,
446
,
527
,
557
,
567
,
572
,
575
–7

Savoy, Duke of,
42

Schaeffer, Theodor,
560

Schelling, F. W. J. von,
240

Scherk, H. F.,
511

Schiller, J. C. F. von,
257
,
362

Schumacher, H. C.,
239
,
260

Scott, Sir Walter,
257
,
380

Seneca,
363

sequence,
13
,
431
–2,
480

series,
149
,
151
,
201
,
221
–3,
237
,
251
–2,
274
,
286
–7,
413
–4,
430
,
487
,
496
,
499
,
541
,
543
,
550
,
561
,
568

series, hypergeometric,
514
,
550
–1

Serret, J. A.,
368

sets,
555
,
562
–7,
569
–78

Shakespeare, Wm.,
36
,
230
,
257
,
381

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
548
,
564

Sierpinski, Waclaw,
566

Smith, Rev. Barnabas,
91

Smith, H. J. S.,
68
,
403

Snellius, W.,
351

Sophie of Brandenburg,
129

Southey, Robert,
344

space,
15
,
54
,
63
,
99
,
150
,
154
,
185
,
208
,
217
,
240
,
264
,
347
,
358
–60,
379
,
391
,
398
–400,
491
,
500
,
503
–4,
506
–9,
515
,
533
,
571

Spinoza, Benedict de,
126
,
486

squares, least,
517

Steiner, J.,
27
,
317
,
468
–9,
489
,
517

Stern, M. A.,
489
,
491
,
517

Storey, Miss,
92

Sturm, C.,
453

subgroups,
281

substitutions,
278
,
280
,
282
–3,
495
,
518
,
540

Sundman, Karl Frithiof,
544

Swinburne, Algernon Charles,
353

Sylvester, James Joseph,
76
,
213
, chap.
21
,
437
,
448
,
459
,
490
,
526
–7

symbolic reasoning,
6

Tait, P. G.,
183

Tannery, P.,
86

Tchebycheff, P.,
426

tensor analysis,
360

Terquem, O.,
367

Thackeray, Wm. M.,
380

Thomson, James,
17
,
580

Thomson, William,
see
Kelvin, Lord

time,
15
,
54
,
63
,
99
–100,
264
,
347
,
349
,
359
,
391
,
399
,
500

topology,
491
–2,
495

Torricelli, E.,
80

tractrix,
304

transposition,
283

trigonometry,
140
,
201
,
252
,
322
–4,
430
,
453
,
455
,
461
,
541
,
561

Tuscany, Duke of,
46

uniformity,
249
,
250
–1

unique operation,
279

Vanini, L.,
46

Veblen, O.,
268

vector,
358
–60

vector analysis,
360
,
528

Vere, Aubrey de,
344

Vernier, P.,
366

Virgil,
149

Voltaire,
129
,
148

Volterra, V.,
406
,
428

Wakeford, E. K.,
398

Wallis, J.,
118

Waltershausen, Sartorius von,
245
,
258

Weber, Heinrich,
467

Weber, Wilhelm,
255
,
267
,
490
–1,
496
–8,
517

Weierstrass, Karl W. T.,
19
,
25
,
30
,
223
,
250
,
270
,
273
,
316
,
324
,
332
, chap.
22
,
474
–5,
477
–83,
500
–1,
512
,
543
,
556
–7,
561
,
575
,
579

Westaway, F. W.,
555

Weyl, H.,
578
–9

Whitehead, A. N.,
34
,
118
–9,
239
,
446
,
557

Wilson, John,
162

Wilson, Woodrow,
485

Wolfskehl, Paul,
72

Wordsworth, William,
344
–5,
402

world-lines,
391

Wren, Sir Christopher,
84
,
105

Young, John Wesley,
215

Zeno,
19
,
24
–5,
49
,
119
,
407
,
555
–8,
575

Zermelo, E.,
573
–4

Zolotareff, G.,
162

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MEN OF MATHEMATICS.

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1. MATHEMATICIANS. 2. MATHEMATICS-HISTORY.

I. TITLE.

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