WWW Sites
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MacTutor
History of Mathematics maintained by John J O'Connor and Edmund F Robertson
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History
of Mathematics maintained by David E. Joyce
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Earliest uses of
mathematical words maintained by Jeff Miller
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Mathematicians
of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries adapted from A Short
Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition,
1908). Maintained by David R. Wilkins
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A short history of MDS
is maintained by Forrest Young as part of his course on Multidimensional Scaling.
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Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
is maintained by Wolfgang R. Dick. Especially relevant for 18th - 19th century as most people were
involved in probability or statistics because they needed the results to continue their work in astronomy (eg Laplace, Legendre and Gauss)
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