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ABC of Mathematicians: Kowalewski and Laplace
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1973
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians: G. H. Hardy
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1973
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians: William Rowan Hamilton
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1973
Descriptors: Algebra, Biographies, History, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians: E for Einstein & Euler
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1972
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1972
The work of Cantor and Cauchy is summarized. (MM)
Descriptors: History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians, Galois and Galileo
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1973
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians: Karl Wilhelm Weierstrass
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1976
This article, one in a series of brief biographies of outstanding mathematicians reviews the life and accomplishments of Karl W. Weierstrass. (SD)
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics
ABC of Mathematicians
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1972
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ABC of Mathematicians
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1976
The life and work of J. J. Sylvester, a mathematician who developed the theory of determinants, are briefly described. (SD)
Descriptors: Algebra, Biographies, History, Mathematicians
ABC of Mathematicians: Isaac Newton
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1974
Descriptors: Biographies, History, Mathematicians, Mathematics Education
ABC of Mathematicians: D for Descartes
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1972
Descriptors: Analytic Geometry, Biographies, History, Mathematicians
ABC of Mathematicians
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1975
This brief biography of Riemann is one of a series of biographical sketches in this journal. Riemann was born in Germany in 1826 and studied with Gauss among others. His numerous contributions to mathematics include the invention of a non-euclidean geometry and the founding of topology. (SD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Geometry, History, Mathematical Enrichment
ABC of Mathematicians, David Hilbert
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Holt, Michael – Mathematics in School, 1973
Descriptors: Biographies, Geometric Concepts, History, Mathematicians