432 Index <strong>of</strong> names Frobenius, Georg Ferdinand (1849–1917), 280 Galilei, Galileo (1564–1642), 24 Galois, Evariste (1811–1832), 5, 10, 49, 52, 54, 55, 66, 67, 75, 82, 84, 97, 125, 137, 138, 161, 180–187, 390, 395 Garnier, Jean Guillaume (1766–1840), 21, 22 Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777–1855), 3, 6, 10, 21, 23, 27, 32, 34, 49, 51–54, 58, 72– 80, 82–84, 90, 95–97, 124, 126, 139, 142, 150–154, 157–160, 174, 175, 198– 201, 296, 297, 300, 307, 308, 316– 319, 349, 356, 367, 383 Gergonne, Joseph Diaz (1771–1859), 29, 348, 372, 393 Girard, Albert (1595–1632), 57, 59 Goldbach, Christian (1690–1764), 290 Grabiner, Judith V., 197, 393, 397 Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, 42, 222, 279 Gregory, James (1638–1675), 61, 287 Gruson, Johann Philipp (1768–1857), 32 Gårding, Lars, 171 Göpel, Adolph (1812–1847), 377 Hamilton, William Rowan (1805–1865), 104, 130, 131, 133–136, 138 Hansteen, Cathrine Andrea Borch (1787–1840), 17 Hansteen, Christopher (1784–1873), 22–24, 26–28, 33–36, 40, 97, 125, 224, 225, 246, 250, 297, 331, 339, 348 Heegaard, Poul (1871–1948), 375 Heine, Heinrich Eduard (1821–1881), 280 Hilbert, David (1862–1943), 54 Hindenburg, Carl Friedrich (1741–1808), 218 Hirsche, Meier (1765–1851), 98 Holmboe, Bernt Michael (1795–1850), xviii, 4, 14, 17–22, 31, 34–36, 40, 42, 97, 117, 127, 128, 132–134, 138, 160, 161, 163, 175, 179, 221, 222, 225, 226, 260, 297, 298, 306, 375 Holst, Elling Bolt (1849–1915), 26 Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859), 32, 34 Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767–1835), 32, 41 Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695), 24 Ivory, James (1765–1842), 42 Jacobi, Carl Gustav Jacob (1804–1851), 6, 17, 36, 42, 44, 45, 49, 55, 97, 155, 157, 290, 294, 298, 300, 302, 307, 309, 310, 331–333, 337, 346, 375, 377, 380, 382, 383 Jahnke, Hans <strong>Niels</strong> (⋆1948), 391 Jerrard, George Birch (1804–1863), 129–132, 134, 138, 179 Johnsen, Karsten, 76 Kemp, Christine (1804–1862), 17 Klein, Christian Felix (1849–1925), 391 Kline, Morris (⋆1908), 95 Kronecker, Leopold (1823–1891), 51, 136–138, 149, 152, 171, 181 Kuhn, Thomas S. (1922–1996), 11, 13, 400 Königsberger, Leo (1837–1921), 104, 131, 133, 134, 138, 332 Külp, Edmund Jacob (⋆1801), 22, 115–117, 128, 129, 134, 138, 166 l’Hospital, Guillaume-François-Antoine de (1661–1704), 358 Lacroix, Sylvestre François (1765–1843), 21, 186, 198 Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736–1813), xi, 3, 5, 7, 10, 21, 22, 32, 43, 44, 49–51, 53, 58, 61, 64–73, 75, 81–86, 88, 92, 101, 104, 107, 108, 110, 113, 114, 116, 118, 119, 124, 126, 132, 133, 139, 170, 171, 181, 183, 185, 186, 191, 193, 197, 198, 207, 219, 294, 372, 376, 397 Lakatos, Imre (1922–1974), 11–13, 128, 278, 393, 400 Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de (1749– 1827), 20 Laugwitz, Detlef (1932–2000), 248, 391 Legendre, Adrien-Marie (1752–1833), xiv, 3, 6, 24, 26, 27, 35, 36, 44, 75, 126, 127, 153, 288, 292–297, 299, 307, 309, 310, 321, 325, 327, 331, 333, 336, 337, 339, 375 Lehmus, Daniel Christian Ludolf (1780–1863), 32 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716), 58, 61, 62, 287 Libri, Guglielmo (1803–1869), 348, 361, 375 Lie, Marius Sophus (1842–1899), 244, 245, 252, 325, 328, 329, 375 Liouville, Joseph (1809–1882), 52, 181, 185, 236, 340, 374, 382 Littrow, Karl Ludwig von (1811–1877), 35, 123 Lubbe, Samuel Ferdinand (1786–1846), 32 Lubbock, John William (1803–1865), 130
Index <strong>of</strong> names 433 Lützen, Jesper, xix, 340 MacCullagh, James (1809–1847), 134 Malfatti, Gian Francesco (1731–1807), 88, 125 Malmsten, Carl Johann (1814–1886), 171 Maurice, Jean Frédéric Théodor, 127 Mertens, Franz (1840–1927), 247 Mittag-Leffler, Magnus Gustav (1846–1927), 379 Newton, Isaac (1642–1727), 24, 59, 70–72, 195, 203, 286, 287 Ohm, Georg Simon (1789–1854), 31 Ohm, Martin (1792–1872), 31–33, 206, 218 Olivier, Louis, 126, 206, 265–272, 393, 396, 399, 400 Ore, Øystein (1899–1968), 14, 261 Poisson, Siméon-Denis (1781–1840), 21, 186, 206, 226 Popper, Karl Raimund (1902–1994), 12 Rasmussen, Søren (1768–1850), 20, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36, 40, 339 Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826– 1866), xiv, 219, 236, 247, 250, 369, 373, 388, 391 Rosenhain, Johann Georg (1816–1887), 377 Rudio, Ferdinand (1856–1929), 390, 391 Ruffini, Paolo (1765–1822), 5, 10, 50, 53, 54, 83–92, 97, 100, 101, 107, 108, 110, 112, 119–125, 128, 135, 137, 139 Saigey, Jacques Frédéric (1797–1871), 123 Schlesinger, 296 Schmidten, <strong>Henrik</strong> Gerner v. (1799–1831), 29 Schneider, 200 Schumacher, Heinrich Christian (1784–1873), 24, 28, 297, 331, 346 Seidel, Philipp Ludwig von (1821–1896), 217, 279, 280 Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819–1885), 133 Simonsen, Anne Marie (1781–1846), 18 Skau, Christian, 106, 171 Spalt, Detlef, 280 Stokes, George Gabriel (1819–1903), 217, 279, 280 Stubhaug, Arild (⋆1948), xix, 14, 17, 18, 24 Sylow, Peter Ludvig Mejdell (1832–1918), 14, 26, 32, 42, 122, 155, 167, 169, 171, 175, 176, 180, 243, 245, 252, 253, 306, 307, 351, 355, 357, 358, 361, 362, 365, 366, 373 Tartaglia, Niccolò (1499/1500–1557), 59 Taylor, Brook (1685–1731), 202, 222 Thune, Erasmus Georg Fog (1785–1829), 25 Tralles, Johann Georg (1763–1822), 32 Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried Walter (1651–1708), 61, 80 Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile (1735– 1796), 49, 64, 66, 99 Viète, François (1540–1603), 59, 71 Volkert, Klaus, 398 Wallace, William (1768–1843), 196 Wantzel, Pierre Laurent (1814–1848), 89, 135, 247 Waring, Edward (∼1736–1798), 51, 59, 70– 72, 80, 82, 88, 133, 143 Weber, Heinrich (1842–1913), 185 Weierstrass, Karl <strong>The</strong>odor Wilhelm (1815– 1897), 44, 45, 219, 223, 228, 246, 248, 250, 280, 327, 382, 388 Wessel, Caspar (1745–1818), 261 Wussing, Hans, 64, 186 Young, Thomas (1773–1829), 42
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