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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

Lagrange, Marie-Thérèse Gros,
153

Lamarck, J. B. A. F.,
181

Lamb, Horace,
14

Landau, Edmund,
516

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis,
104
–5,
111
,
156
,
163
,
169
–70, chap.
11
,
184
,
197
,
209
,
223
,
225
,
238
,
240
–2,
246
–8,
270
,
273
–5,
286
,
318
,
329
,
338
,
343
,
381
,
412
,
437
,
450
,
541
,
544

Lavoisier, A. L.,
166
–7,
169
,
184

least squares, theory of,
259
,
260
,
263

Lefschetz, S.,
268

Legendre, Adrien-Marie,
174
,
197
,
225
–7,
236
–7,
259
–60,
270
,
277
,
284
,
312
,
317
–8,
320
–4,
335
–7,
364
,
452
,
487
,
488

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
7
,
13
,
15
–6,
18
,
32
,
56
,
59
,
68
,
76
,
78
,
87
,
98
,
103
,
113
–6, chap.
7
,
133
–5,
140
–1,
169
,
223
,
231
,
434
,
443

Lemâitre, Father,
527

Lemonnier, P. C.,
169

Leverrier, U. J. J.,
290
,
350
,
367

Levi-Civita, T.,
256
,
391
,
544

Liapounoff, A.,
529

Libri, G.,
321

Lichtenstein, Leon,
529

Lie, S.,
391

Lilly, Wm.,
526

limits,
430

Lincoln, Abraham,
434

Lindemann, F.,
314
,
464
–5,
568

Linus (of Liège),
107

Liouville, Joseph,
335
–6,
451
,
463
,
476

Listing, J. B.,
491

Littrow, J. J. von,
295
,
333

Lloyd, Humphrey,
351

Lobatchewsky, Nikolas Ivanovitch, chap.
16
,
359
,
377
,
379
,
474
,
503

Lobatchewsky, Praskovia Ivanovna,
294

Locke, John,
111
–2

logic, symbolic,
6
,
13
,
121
,
124
,
439
,
440
–6

Lotze, R. H,
439

Lucas (of Liège),
107
–8

MacLaurin, C.,
528

MacMahon, P. A.,
378

Macaulay, Thos. B.,
257
,
381

magnitude,
565

Malus, Étienne-Louis,
277
–8,
348
,
351

manifold,
265
,
504
–7

mapping, conformal,
266
–7

Marcellus,
28
,
33
–4

Marie, Abbé,
158
,
163

Marr, John,
526

matrices,
379
,
398
,
400
–2

Maurice, Prince of Orange,
38

Maxwell, James Clerk,
267
,
350
,
433
,
500
,
546

Menaechmus,
537

Mendelssohn, Felix,
468

Mercator, N.,
107
,
125

Méré, Gombaud Antoine, Chevalier de,
86
–7,
89

Mersenne, P.,
37
,
45
,
62
,
76
,
80

Mill, John Stuart,
35

Milton, John,
36

Minkowski, H.,
7

Mittag-Leffler, G. M.,
316
,
324
,
419
,
422
,
428
,
543
,
570
,
571

modulus,
225
–7,
235
–6,
252
,
293

Monge, Gaspard,
171
, chap.
12
,
207
,
263
,
285
,
366

Monge, Jacques,
184
,
287

monogenic,
249
,
250
–1

Montagu, Charles,
112

More, L. T.,
64

Morgan, John Pierpont,
466

Moritz, R. E.,
557

Mozart, W. A. C.,
405

multiformity,
492

Napier, John,
526

Napoleon Bonaparte,
124
,
153
,
168
,
170
,
179
–82,
184
,
187
,
190
–6,
202
–7,
209
,
224
,
243
,
246
–7,
251
,
258
,
271
,
274
–5,
277
,
285
,
348
,
362
,
422
,
511
,
531

Newton, Hannah Ayscough,
90

Newton, Isaac,
5
,
7
,
13
,
18
–20,
26
,
28
–9,
32
,
36
,
56
,
58
–60,
64
,
73
, chap.
6
,
118
–21,
123
,
125
–6,
129
–30,
133
,
135
,
138
–40,
142
–3,
147
,
153
–5,
157
–8,
166
–75,
179
–80,
198
,
201
,
213
,
218
,
220
,
223
,
225
,
230
,
237
–8,
240
–1,
248
,
25
–46,
263
,
267
,
270
,
289
,
308
–9,
338
,
343
–4,
349
–50,
354
,
361
,
400
,
404
,
416
,
433
,
443
,
478
,
490
–1,
500
,
503
–4,
533
,
538
,
541
–2

Nightingale, Florence,
387
–8

Noether, Emmy,
261

non-denumerable,
569
,
571

normal,
264
–5

number,
6
,
13
–6,
21
–7,
87
–8,
125
,
140
,
169
,
208
,
222
,
225
–9,
231
–7,
250
,
252
–4,
256
,
265
–6,
271
,
284
,
318
,
334
,
337
–8,
347
,
354
,
356
–7,
364
,
376
,
386
,
405
,
419
,
431
,
438
,
446
,
450
,
456
,
458
–9,
462
–4,
470
–2,
474
,
478
,
481
–2,
505
–6,
510
,
513
–4,
519
–21,
523
–4,
556
,
564
–9,
573
,
575
–6,
578

number, cardinal,
565
–7,
515
,
511

numbers, ideal,
473
–4,
513
–4

numbers, irrational,
22
,
27
,
407
,
431
–2,
456
,
460
,
463
–4,
480
,
482
,
519
–22,
568
,
576
–9

numbers, negative,
356
–1,
482

numbers, prime,
471
–2,
487
–8,
510
,
513
–4,
573
,
578
–9

numbers, theory of,
13
,
57
–8,
64
–72,
98
,
140
,
161
–2,
176
,
225
–9,
23
–18,
241
,
248
,
252
–4,
260
–3,
267
,
271
–2,
284
,
299
,
318
,
328
,
331
,
334
,
337
–8,
372
,
386
,
405
–6,
408
,
438
,
455
–9,
469
–74,
476
,
478
–9,
482
,
487
–9,
510
–1,
513
–4,
517
–24,
539
,
541
,
561
,
578

numbers, transcendental,
459
,
46
–24,
567
–9,
572

numbers, transfinite,
566
–7,
514
,
578

Nurmi, Paavo,
543

Olbers, H. W. M.,
238
,
246
,
259
,
262

Oldenburg, H.,
108

order,
281
,
574

Oscar II, King of Sweden,
543

Painlevé, Paul,
454
,
544
,
554

parameter,
266
,
540
,
541

parametric representation,
265
,
515

partitions, theory of,
386
,
405

Pascal, Antoinette Bégone,
73

Pascal, Blaise,
3
,
9
,
36
,
57
, chap.
5
,
115
,
119
,
125
,
128
,
183
,
208
,
212
,
216
,
285
,
398

Pascal, Étienne,
73

Pascal, Gilberte (Madame Périer),
57
,
73
,
75
,
80
–2

Pascal, Jacqueline,
73
–5,
80
–3

Pastoret, M. de,
180

Paul, Jean,
see
Richter, J. P. F.

Peacock, G.,
438

Peel, Sir Robert,
354

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