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History 7-6

May 20, 2024July 13, 2015 by elaine

This is one of the best all around sites that I have found. It is titled “The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.”
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history

This is an award-winning site that links to all sorts of mathematics information.
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/History_overview

Here are the biographical sites related to this section:

Euclid: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Euclid.html

Proclus: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Proclus.html

Legendre:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Legendre.html

Bolyai:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bolyai.html

Playfair:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Playfair.html

Lambert:https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lambert.html

Gauss:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss.html

Lobachevski:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lobachevsky.html

Riemann:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Riemann.html

Categories Chapter 07, History Tags Bolyai, Euclid, Gauss, Lambert, Legendre, Lobachevski, Playfair, Proclus, Riemann
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