By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: July 1999; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.
Cited passages: Quick Info, approximate life dates about 780 and about 850; six standard forms and verbal algebra; geometric completion with squares and rectangles; footer byline and Last Update.
Diocles by John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
This MacTutor biography gives approximate dates and discusses the surviving evidence for Diocles' work on the cissoid of Diocles and the parabola. The footer identifies John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson as authors and April 1999 as its revision date.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Their full names are established by their own MacTutor profile headings.
Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: March 2024; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.
Cited passages: Quick Info: born 1 June 1943; Mathematical training/group theory research, MacTutor archive co-originator; Footer byline and Last Update March 2024.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Their full names are established by their own MacTutor profile headings.
Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: January 2000; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.
Cited passages: Byline: Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson; Last Update January 2000; Quick Info: born 1540 died 13 December 1603; Paragraphs describing the 1591 In artem analyticam isagoge notation, known/unknown symbols, dimensional homogeneity and connection of positive roots to coefficients.
John Joseph O'Connor 2026-10-18
John Joseph O'Connor is a mathematician and a creator of the MacTutor history archive.[ref]
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By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Their full names are established by their own MacTutor profile headings.
Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: March 2024; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.
Cited passages: Quick Info: born 31 July 1945; Summary: mathematician and MacTutor creator; Footer byline and Last Update March 2024.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, in the University of St Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Last updated October 2013.
Cited passages: heading, Quick Info and Summary, identifying Joseph Bernard Kruskal and his mathematical work.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Last Update: January 2014; this is an online revision date, not a publication date.
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Cited passages: Quick Info and biography heading; footer byline and Last Update.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, printed as J J O’Connor and E F Robertson. Hosted by the University of St Andrews in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Last Update: March 2001; this is an online revision date.
Cited passages: QuickInfo full name born1838 died1922; Analysis textbook discussion, originatedboundedvariation andcurvelength; Final byline JJOConnor EFRobertson and March2001update.
By John Joseph O'Connor and Edmund Frederick Robertson, credited as J J O’Connor and E F Robertson, in the University of St Andrews MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Last Update: October 2003; this is an online revision date. William Sealy Gosset is the subject, not the author.
Inspected locators: Quick Info; opening employment paragraph; discussion of the Student pseudonym; Written by and Last Update footer.