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The book "A Beautiful Soul: Mathematician of the God" allows us to look at the past for a moment and, at least, brings us closer to the relationship between science and faith. The book describes the figure of Maria Gaetana Agnesi. She is commonly known as the author of one of the first integral calculus textbooks."Analytical Institutions for the Use of Italian Youth". Her name...
The article discusses circumstances under which arithmetic and algebra textbooks were written by A. Smetona, future president of Lithuania and a member of the Textbook Publishing Commission under the Lithuanian Scholarly Assembly. The main features of publications for developing Lithuanian gymnasiums of that time and their importance in the history of Lithuanian education.
This article presents the subject of the Applied Mathematics Seminar, conducted in 1948-1960 by Professor Hugon Steinhaus in Wrocław and is an important supplement to the analysis presented in the work of Szczotka (2018). This topic is illustrated by a more detailed discussion of some of the works on this subject and some of the results obtained by the participants of the Seminar. The results are...
In the years 1933--2013 at the University of Poznań was awarded nine honorary doctorates for mathematicians, while two other candidates did not obtain the approval of a higher authority. Mathematicians from Poland and abroad received them. The purpose of this work is to provide information on nine mathematicians who were given the title and two persons who were refused. An important part of this description...
Tadeusz Posament was born in 1905 in Lvov. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and graduated from the General Faculty of the Lvov Polytechnic in 1931 with a master's degree in mathematics. Mathe-matical supervisor of his diploma work was Kazimierz Kuratowski, who highly appreciated his mathematical skills. Soon, two publications appeared, discussing...
This work is a continuation of the author's presentation of the history of mathematics in Russia as a research area within the history of science (v. Lokot (2018)). The elements of the history of mathematics began to intensively emerge in the epoch of Peter the Great and have undergone several stages of development. There are five stages that Russian scientists have gone through, shaping the elements...
The article introduces the figure of Jerzy Jan Battek (January 14, 1927 - August 12, 1991), who belonged to this generation of youth who managed to survive the period of World War II, without interrupting school education altogether. During the occupation, he studied in secret sets of the Second Science Center and obtained a small high school diploma in 1945. He graduated in 1947 at the State Secondary...
When projecting the globe on a plane surface it is not possible to satisfy more than one of the following three criteria: conformity of angles, equidistance and equivalence of areas. Mercator's solution for the use in navigation was to use a cylindrical projection with increasing distances between parallels so that the rhumb lines became straight lines. We present the derivation of the meridional...
This note reviews how the contemporary concept of the Poisson process (sometimes called the Poisson random measure or Poisson point process) evolved through out the time up to recent times. That is from F. Lundberg and W. Feller up to A. Renyi (1967) paper and finally, a construction of Poisson processes by binomial (or Bernoulli) processes, which can be found in J.E. Moyal (1962), J. Mecke (1967)...
In the years 1869--1937, there were 15 Conventions of Polish Naturalists and Physicians. Since 1875, naturalists who have discussed in their several sections participated in the conventions. Mathematical conventions started in 1881 and finished in 1933. Three pre-war conventions: 1,900 in Krakow, 1907 in Lviv and 1911 in Krakow, gathered for over 1000 participants. At eight Congresses, starting from...
19th-century real analysis received a major impetus from Cauchy's work. Cauchy mentions variable quantities, limits, and infinitesimals, but the meaning he attached to these terms is not identical to their modern meaning. Some Cauchy historians work in a conceptual scheme dominated by an assumption of a teleological nature of the evolution of real analysis toward a preordained outcome. Thus, Gilain...
This work is a continuation of the author's presentation of the history of mathematics in Russia as a research area within the history of science (v. Lokot (2018)). The elements of the history of mathematics began to intensively emerge in the epoch of Peter the Great and have undergone several stages of development. There are five stages that Russian scientists have gone through, shaping the elements...
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