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Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras

William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of...

Many people have heard of the Möbius band, a one-sided...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important...

In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack...

In his Principia Isaac Newton used his law of universal...

Alan Turing (1912-1954) and John von Neumann (1903-1957) had an...

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was one of the greatest mathematicians...

Joseph Fourier was interested in the mathematical study of the...

In 1905, his 'year of wonders', Einstein published four papers...

For 100 years up to the end of the 19th...