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by E. T. Bell


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  Index

  Abel, Niels Henrik, 3, 164, 167, 223, 229–30, 260, 270–2, 295, chap. 17, 328–9, 335–7, 362, 364, 366, 368, 377, 381, 407–8, 412, 415, 418, 437, 448, 452–3, 457, 460, 473, 476–8, 541

  Abelian integral, 338, 419

  Adams, John Couch, 350

  Airy, G. B., 198, 345, 351, 353

  Alexander, J. W., 268

  Alexander the Great, 537

  algebra, 13, 21, 40, 52–4, 61–2, 64–5, 97, 123, 140, 149, 163–6, 168, 199, 208, 211, 213, 222–3, 225, 227, 231–6, 238, 253–4, 260–1, 272, 282–4, 287, 309–14, 317, 321–2, 324, 328, 330, 334–5, 337–8, 347–9, 354–60, 364, 368, 372, 376, 386, 388–91, 394–5, 398–404, 408, 437–9, 442–5, 448, 450–1, 453, 456–7, 459–61, 463–4, 470, 472–9, 482, 489, 493, 511, 517–8, 527–29, 540–1, 564–5, 568–9

  algebraic forms, 394, 458

  algebraic integers, 470–2, 514, 518, 522, 524

  algebraic numbers, 462, 464, 469–71, 474, 477–8, 482, 523–4, 562, 564–5, 567–9

  algebraic number field, 470–4, 513, 522–4

  algorithm, 140

  Ampère, A. M., 318

  analysis, 13, 16, 22–3, 54, 64, 70, 87, 117–8, 139–40, 144, 150–2, 154–5, 161–3, 166, 168–9, 171, 174, 176, 183, 187, 198, 201–2, 207, 213, 222–4, 236–7, 248–52, 268, 270–2, 275, 286, 311–2, 316, 319, 322, 327, 334–5, 338–9, 346, 364, 377, 400, 406–8, 413–4, 416–7, 419, 421–3, 429, 446, 451, 456–7, 460–1, 469, 474–5, 477–81, 488–90, 494, 510, 513, 519, 521–2, 526–7, 537–8, 541–2, 544, 547, 556–7, 561, 567, 571, 575, 579

  analysis situs, 263, 267, 492, 545

  Antoinette, Marie, 166, 170

  Apollonius, 7, 27, 78, 317, 400

  Appell, Paul, 454

  Arago, F. J. D., 139, 150, 190, 193, 205

  Archimedes, 7, 19–20, 28–34, 59, 102, 114, 120, 147, 153, 162, 218, 220, 230, 237, 240–1, 255–6, 400, 459, 533

  Archytas, 25

  Aristotle, 20, 25, 78, 240, 278, 569, 575, 577–8

  arithmetic, 21, 64, 118, 152, 161–2, 168, 185, 208, 221, 223, 225–6, 227–9, 231–2, 234–8, 240–1, 248, 252–4, 256, 260–3, 267, 271–2, 276, 284, 356, 368, 408, 419, 438, 446, 451, 455–8, 470–4, 477–8, 481, 485, 488, 500, 510, 513, 517–8, 522–5, 527–9, 541, 551, 561, 574–5, 577

  arithmetical theory of forms, 356

  Arnauld, A., 83, 128–9

  associative, associativity, 278–9, 280, 356

  Ausonius, 39

  Austen, Jane, 380

  axioms, 20–1, 305–6, 333, 419, 503, 576

  Ayscough, Rev. Wm., 91–2

  Babbage, Charles, 438

  Bachet de Méziriac, 71

  Baillet, A., 39

  Balzac, Honoré de, 548

  Barrow, I., 96, 106–7, 118

  Bartels, Johann Martin, 222–4

  Bauer, Heinrich, 328

  Beethoven, L. v., 405

  Berkeley, Bishop, 90, 345

  Bernoullis, 115, 126, 132, chap. 8, 143–5, 155–6

  Berthollet, Count Claude-Louis, 183–4, 189–90, 193–4, 196, 273

  Bertrand, J. L. F., 453

  Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, 245, 248, 250–1, 331

  Biot, J. B., 181

  Birkhoff, George David, 553

  Bismarck, O. E. L., Prince von, 467

  Blake, William, 10

  Bliss, G. A., 133–4

  Boeckh, P. A., 328–9

  Bohr, N., 19

  Bolyai, Johann, 231

  Bolyai, Wolfgang, 220, 231, 243, 474, 505

  Boole, George, 118, 121, 124, 213, 354, 389, 390, 406, chap. 23, 448, 486

  Boole, Mary, 446–7

  Borchardt, C. W., 332, 421, 426, 464, 501

  Borel, Émile, 454, 566

  boundary values, 339

  Boutroux, Émile, 532

  Brahe, Tycho, 110

  branches, branch points, 493–5

  Brewster, Sir David, 112, 269, 500

  Brianchon, C. J., 216

  Briggs, Henry, 426

  Brinkley, John, 343–5

  Brochard, Jeanne, 36

  Brooke, Rupert, 398

  Brouwer, L. E. J., 19, 24, 278, 569, 576–9

  Bruno, Giordano, 46

  Bunsen, R. W., 424–5

  Burali-Forti, C., 575, 577

  Burnet, John, 25

  Butler, Samuel, 340

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 257, 380

  calculus, 5–7, 13, 23, 32–3, 56–7, 59, 61, 64, 95, 97–107, 109, 113–4, 117–8, 121, 125–6, 132–7, 139–40, 147, 149, 151, 154–6, 162, 169, 186, 208, 251, 270, 284, 286, 322, 324, 328, 330, 334, 348, 361, 364, 407, 442, 448, 488–9, 507, 517

  calculus of variations, 437

  calculus, tensor, 213, 256, 448, 528

  Campanella, Tammaso, 46

  Cantor, Georg F. L. P., 354, 406–8, 446, 482, 519–20, 522, chap. 29

  Cantor, Marie Bohm, 558

  Cantor, Moritz, 17, 19, 25

  Cantor, Vally Guttman, 563

  Cantor, Waldemar Georg, 558

  Cardan, H., 323

  Carnot, Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite, 207, 285

  Catherine the Great, 141, 145–7, 149–50

  Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, 152, 164–5, 167, 169, 223, 250–1, 260, chap. 15, 317–8, 320, 335, 351, 368–9, 376–8, 407, 416, 457, 473, 482, 488–90, 518, 527, 541

  causality, 306

  Cavalieri, B., 118

  Cayley, Arthur, 3–4, 213–4, 271, 282, 359, 368, chap. 21, 437, 448, 459, 474, 515, 534, 546

  Chanute (French ambassador), 50–1

  characteristic, 349

  Charles I, 92

  Charlet, Father, 36–7, 50

  Chasles, Michel, 139

  Chevalier, Auguste, 374, 377

  Christ, Jesus, 573

  Christine, Queen of Sweden, 49, 51, 82

  Christoffel, E. B., 256, 391, 480

  Cicero, 55, 363

  class, 567–9, 570, 572–5, 577–8

  Clifford, Wm. K., 294, 490, 503–4

  Colburn, Zerah, 66, 342–3

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 344–5, 484

  Columbus, Christopher, 338

  combination, 280

  commutative, 356, 360, 402

  complex number, variable, 233–4, 248–50, 253, 260, 263, 267, 284, 293, 333–5, 356–60, 407, 457–9 487–93, 495, 510, 514, 529, 541

  complex units, 474

  Condorcet, N. C. de, 152, 180, 187–8

  congruence, 225–7, 235–6, 252–3, 293

  conjugates, 459

  Conon, 30

  continuity, continuous, 13, 22–3, 27, 59, 117, 140, 162, 200, 208–9, 211, 216, 234, 237, 268, 283, 286, 407, 430, 456, 488, 491, 504–5, 510, 520–1, 555, 557, 562, 569, 574–6, 579

  convergence, 151, 222–3, 274, 286 7, 430–2, 487, 535, 541, 543, 561, 562

  Copernicus, Nicolas, 46, 294, 306

  Corneille, Pierre, 76

  corpus, 355

  correlation, 289

  Cotes, R., 503

  Couturat, L., 121, 565–7

  covariant, 395

  Crelle, August Leopold, 314, 316–7, 319–20, 326, 413, 416, 418–9, 421, 432, 562

  Cromwell, Oliver, 93

  curvature, 264–5, 500, 504–5, 507–9

  cuts, 494–5, 519–21, 557

  cyclotomy, 513

  D’Alembert, Jean le Rond, 148–9, 155–62, 173, 187, 489, 544

  Darboux, Gaston, 454, 531, 533, 536, 544

  Darwin, Charles, 16, 137

  Darwin, G. H., 529

/>   Dedekind, Julie, 518

  Dedekind, Richard, 19, 25, 223, 238, 253, 406–8, 468, 470, 472, 474, 489, 500, 502, chap. 27, 557, 563, 575–7, 579

  Delambre, J. B. J., 154

  De Long, Claire, 57

  De Long, Louise, 58

  De Morgan, A., 147, 354, 384, 387, 434, 438, 440–1

  denumerable infinity, 539–40, 569, 572

  Desargues, G., 74, 77, 79, 183, 208, 213, 285, 398

  Descartes, René, 7, 14–5, 20, 32, chap. 3, 56–9, 62–4, 73–4, 80, 82, 93, 111, 121–2, 129, 140, 147, 211–2, 233, 245, 265–6, 347, 349, 376, 443, 457–8, 481, 505, 512

  determinants, 338, 388

  Dickens, Charles, 380, 436

  Dickson, L. E., 261, 355

  Diderot, Denis, 146–7

  Diophantus, 70–1, 152

  Dirac, P. A. M., 19, 515

  Dirichlet, P. G. Lejeune, 236–7, 318, 332, 405, 458, 468–9, 473, 489, 496, 499, 500, 512, 517, 518

  discrete, 13–4, 21, 24, 117, 140, 162, 283, 505

  discriminant, 389–90, 401

  distance, 505–9

  distributive law, 356

  divergent, 287

  Dositheus, 30

  duality, 214, 216–7

  Dumas, Alexandre, 373

  Dürer, Albert, 17

  Eddington, Sir Arthur S., 484, 515

  Edgeworth, Maria, 344

  Edison, Thomas A., 548

  Einstein, Albert, 5, 7, 15, 19, 138, 154, 213, 255–6, 305, 320, 350, 391, 448, 490–1, 546–7, 556

  Eisenstein, F. M. G., 68, 237, 253, 390, 455–6, 468, 489

  Elijah, 69

  Elisabeth, Princess, 41, 49, 51, 129

  elliptic functions, see functions, elliptic

  elliptic integrals, 317, 322, 324, 336

  equations, 52, 65, 68, 70, 136, 150, 155, 157, 162–5, 179, 186, 192, 198–9, 201, 211, 225, 232–5, 252, 265–6, 270–2, 282–3, 309–14, 317–8, 322, 328, 334–6, 338, 347, 354–6, 364, 368, 372, 376, 389–90, 404, 408, 416, 430, 438, 445, 450–3, 456–7, 459–64, 470, 472 4, 476–8, 482, 489–90, 492–3, 499, 514–5, 518, 528, 536, 538 40, 543–4, 561, 564–5, 568–9

  Eratosthenes, 30–1

  Essenbeck, Nees von, 240

  Euclid, 7, 14, 19–20, 27, 75, 127, 153, 165, 176, 215–6, 223, 266, 299–303, 305–6, 314, 351, 358, 379, 399–400, 443, 454, 474, 514

  Eudoxus, 19, 25–7, 407, 480, 483, 519, 522, 575

  Euler, Albert, 149

  Euler, Catharina Gsell, 145

  Euler, Léonard, 69, 115, 132–3, 135–7, chap. 9, 155–6, 158–60, 175, 223–6, 242, 245, 263, 271, 277, 284, 308–9, 328–9, 354, 368, 378, 443, 450, 488–9, 492, 517, 532, 534, 541, 543

  Euler, Marguerite Brucker, 143

  Euler, Paul, 143

  existence, 482

  extrema, 304

  factorials, 417, 462

  factorization, 334, 569

  factorization, unique, 514, 522

  factors, prime, 522

  Ferdinand II, 39

  Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, 224, 231–2, 241, 243–6, 248

  Fermat, Clément-Samuel, 58

  Fermat, Dominique, 57

  Fermat, Pierre, 7, 35, chap. 4, 73–4, 86, 102, 118–9, 133–4, 140, 152, 161–2, 228, 236–8, 253, 261, 284, 311, 337, 465, 472–3, 488, 510, 513–4

  field, 355, 357, 469–70, 473, 514, 522

  Fleming, Admiral, 50

  Foncenex, D. le, 154

  formalism, 287

  Forsyth, A. R., 402

  Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 105, 176, 178, chap. 12, 318, 338–9, 496, 538–9, 561

  fractions, continued, 368

  Franklin, Fabian, 397

  Frederick the Great, 141, 148, 153, 159–60, 165, 244

  Frege, Gottlob, 567, 575–7, 579

  Fresnel, A. J., 351

  Fricke, Robert, 516

  Fuchs, Lazarus, 540

  functions, 98–9, 101–4, 140, 169, 179, 201, 223, 232, 248–50, 252, 260, 263, 265, 275–7, 284, 318–20, 322–4, 329, 333–5, 338, 348–9, 364, 377, 407, 413, 430, 455, 457, 460–2, 480, 487–95, 508, 515, 529, 540–1, 550–1, 578

  functions, Abelian, 338, 398, 408, 416, 419–20, 451, 455, 492, 495, 499–500

  functions, automorphic, 530, 540–1

  functions, elliptic, 127, 202, 228–9, 247, 253, 259–60, 282, 320, 322, 324, 329, 331, 333, 335–8, 372, 382, 386, 408, 413–4, 430, 453, 455, 461, 469, 477–9, 517, 539–41, 550

  functions, multiple periodic, 408, 452–3, 455, 515, 539

  Galileo, 16, 20, 26, 36, 41, 45–6, 80, 84, 93, 121, 129, 291, 566

  Galois, Adélaïde-Marie Demante, 362

  Galois, Evariste, 3, 164–5, 167, 270, 312, 362, chap. 20, 381, 408, 437, 449, 450, 476–7, 518, 536

  Galois, Nicolas-Gabriel, 362, 369–70

  Galton, Francis, 137, 202, 323

  Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 3–4, 20, 28, 64, 67, 69, 72, 105, 108, 120, 146, 151, 161–2, 167, 186, chap. 14, 271, 284, 286, 297, 308, 313–4, 328, 331, 333, 335, 337, 354, 356, 359, 377, 380, 389, 405–7, 443, 448, 450, 455–8, 472–4, 478, 486, 488–89, 491–3, 495–8, 501, 507–8, 510, 512–8, 525, 527, 533, 535, 537, 539, 541, 547, 556–7, 561, 569

  Gauss, Dorothea Benz, 219–20, 224

  Gauss, Friederich, 219

  Gauss, Johanne Osthof, 243

  Gauss, Minna Waldeck, 243

  Gelfond, Alexis, 463–4

  Gelon, 29

  geodesic, 302, 305–6, 507

  geometry, 13–4, 20–2, 27, 31, 33, 40, 52–5, 59–62, 66–7, 74–8, 84–5, 96, 109, 123, 127, 140, 147, 154, 183–4, 186–7, 207–17, 223, 227–8, 233, 236, 242, 254, 256, 260, 263–8, 272, 277, 282, 284, 286, 294, 299–306, 317, 322, 324, 346–9, 355, 358, 364, 367–9, 381–2, 398–400, 403, 443, 448, 451, 458, 464, 469, 474, 478–81, 485, 489–91, 493, 498, 500, 503–4, 506, 508, 510, 513–7, 522, 527, 531, 535, 537, 541, 569, 577

  geometry, analytic, 5–7, 32, 40–1, 52–7, 59–64, 93, 123, 133, 139, 147, 154, 199–200, 211–2, 233, 248, 399, 517

  geometry, descriptive, 183, 185 −6, 207, 240, 452

  geometry, foundations, 497–8, 502–3

  geometry, n-dimensional, 399–400

  geometry, non-Euclidean, 6, 108, 127, 186, 214, 223, 230–1, 240, 256, 260, 264, 266, 294, 297, 300–6, 358–60, 379, 398–9, 439, 473–4, 493–5, 503–5, 507–9, 513, 550–1

  geometry, projective, 78, 206–10, 212–7, 398–9

  Germain, Sophie, 253, 261–3

  Gibbon, Edward, 257

  Gilbert, Wm., 36

  Gilman, Arthur, 394

  Goethe, J. W. von, 257

  Goldbach, C., 405

  Gounod, Charles François, 386

  Grassmann, Hermann, 123

  Gregory, D. F., 438

  Gregory, James, 125

  Grote, Geo., 381

  groups, 6, 68, 165, 268, 271–2, 278–81, 283, 451, 495, 515, 518, 540, 551

  groups, abstract, 282, 375–6

  groups, continuous, 268, 529

  Gudermann, Christof, 412–3, 424

  Hachette, J. N. P., 318, 320

  Hadamard, Jacques, 54, 212

  Halley, Edmund, 105, 108–10, 153

  Halphen, Georges, 403

  Hamilton, Eliza, 345

  Hamilton, James, 340–1

  Hamilton, Sarah Hutton, 340

  Hamilton, Sir Wm., 438–9, 440–1

  Hamilton, William Rowan, 16, 29, 66, 123, 133–4, 155, 260–1, 270, 331, 334, 338, chap. 19, 514

  Hansteen, Christoph, 319

  Hardy, G. H., 488

  Hegel, G. W. F., 239–41, 439, 469

  Heiberg, J. L., 31

  Heisenberg, W., 19, 402

  Helmholtz, H. von, 424

  Henry, C., 86

  Herbart, J. F., 491

  Hermite, Charles, 4, 164, 183, 273, 307, 320, 368, 422, chap. 24, 476–7, 501, 515, 535–6, 543, 568, 571

  Hermitian forms, 458–9

  Herschel, Sir William, 239, 438

  Hertz, H
einrich, 16

  Hieron II, 29, 33

  Hilbert, David, 63, 239, 443, 463, 566, 576–8

  Hipparchus, 109, 361

  Hitler, Adolf, 516

  Holmboë, Bernt Michael, 308–9, 312, 315, 318, 325, 329

  Hooke, Robert, 107–8

  Horace, 307, 320, 397

  Humbert, Georges, 540

  Humboldt, Alexander von, 204, 242, 245, 259, 333

  Hume, David, 146

  Huntington, E. V., 444

  Huygens, Christian, 84, 107, 123–5, 129, 134, 350–1

  ideals, 408, 510, 513, 522–4

  ideal, prime, 524

  identical operation, identity, 279–80

  imaginaries, 356, 372, 399, 493

  infinite, 6, 22–5, 27, 69–71, 75, 89, 123, 151, 168–9, 199, 201, 211–2, 216, 222–4, 236–7, 250, 274, 283, 286–7, 309, 351, 355, 394, 400, 407–8, 446, 448, 462–3, 480, 487–8, 492, 514, 520–3, 539–41, 543, 549, 553, 555–8, 561–2, 564–71, 573–9

  invariance, invariants, 6, 78, 165, 230, 283, 378–9, 382–3, 386, 388, 390–2, 395, 398, 401, 403, 437, 448, 459, 509, 540, 545

  irreducibles, 472, 515, 569

  Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob, 16, 21, 52, 140, 229–30, 259–60, 270, 320–4, chap. 18, 346–77, 408, 418, 420, 448, 452–6, 463, 468–9, 489, 512, 515, 517, 528, 541, 544

  Jacobi, M. H., 327

  James II, 111

  Jansen, Cornelius, 79

  Jeans, Sir James H., 17, 21, 177, 529

  Jeffreys, George, 111

  Jerrard, G. B., 460

  Joachim, Joseph, 559

  Jourdain, P. E. B., 185

  Kant, I., 177, 240, 345, 358–9

  Kelvin, Lord (William Thomson), 16, 183, 293, 452

  Kepler, J., 28, 93, 105, 109, 121

  Kingsley, Chas., 385

  Kipling, Rudyard, 324

  Kirchoff, G. R., 424

  Klein, Felix, 206, 214, 282, 379, 398, 419, 540, 548

  Kneser, Adolf, 467

  Königsberger, L., 424–5

  Kowalewski, Sonja, 261, chap. 22

  Kronecker, Leopold, 19, 164, 218, 234, 238, 293, 406–8, 419, 422, 431, chap. 25, 501, 512–3, 521, 529, 556, 559–63, 568–71, 573, 577–9

  Kummer, Ernst Eduard, 238, 253, 467–70, 473–4, 476, 478–9, 486, 501, chap. 27, 510, 535, 561

  Lacroix, S. F., 318

  Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, 5, 9, 62, 115, 133, 142, 148–9, chap. 10, 174, 177–8, 180–1, 185–6, 197, 223–6, 237, 247, 262–3, 270–1, 274–7, 284, 308, 311, 328–9, 338, 346, 364, 381, 389, 400, 437, 450, 541, 543–4

 

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