Newton, Sir Isaac.
Sir J. J. Thomson, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. President of the British Association, 1909–1910. Author of A Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings; Application of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry:
Matter; and several articles on Electrical Science.
J. Walker, Christ Church, Oxford. Demonstrator in the Clarendon laboratory. Formerly Vice-President of the Physical Society. Author of The Analytical Theory of Light, etc.:
Polarization of Light; Refraction, Double Refraction.
A. N. Whitehead, Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics, Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of A Treatise on Universal Algebra, etc.:
Geometry VI. Non-Euclidean Geometry (in part); Geometry VII. Axioms on Geometry; Mathematics.
These are the men who are responsible for the mathematical sections of the Britannica. A fuller list of articles on mathematical subjects is given below.
- Abel, Niels Henrik
- Abscissa
- Acceleration
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
- Aguillon, F. D.
- Algebra
- Algebraic Forms
- Aliquot
- Allen, or Alleyn T.
- Amicable Numbers
- Anderson, Alexander
- Angle
- Anthemius
- Apollonius of Perga
- Archimedes
- Argument
- Arithmetic
- Autolycus of Pitane
- Axis
- Babbage, Charles
- Baldi, Bernardino
- Ballistics
- Barlow, Peter
- Barrow, Isaac
- Bernoulli (family)
- Bessel Function
- Binomial
- Biquadratic
- Bisectrix
- Boole, George
- Borda, Jean Charles
- Boscovich, Roger J.
- Bouguer, Pierre
- Bowditch, Nathaniel
- Brachistochrone
- Briggs, Henry
- Buxton, Jedediah
- Calculating Machines
- Camus, Charles E. L.
- Cardan, Girolamo
- Cardioid
- Castel, Louis Bertrand
- Catenary
- Cauchy, A. L., baron
- Cayley, Arthur
- Charles, J. A. C.
- Chebichev, P. L.
- Circle
- Cissoid
- Clairault, A. C.
- Clifford, William K.
- Cocker, Edward
- Colburn, Z.
- Combinatorial Analysis
- Conchoid
- Cone
- Conic Section
- Conoid
- Continued Fractions
- Cotes, Roger
- Cremona, Luigi
- Cube
- Curve
- Cycloid
- Cylinder
- Demoivre, Abraham
- De Morgan, Augustus
- Determinant
- Diagonal
- Diagram
- Diameter
- Differences, Calculus of
- Differential Equation
- Dimension
- Diophantus of Alexandria
- Ditton, Humphry
- Dodecahedron
- Dynamics
- Earth, Figure of the
- Elasticity
- Ellipse
- Ellipsoid
- Emerson, William
- Energetics
- Energy
- Epicycloid
- Equation
- Euclid
- Euler, Leonhard
- Fermat, Pierre de
- Figurate Numbers
- Focus
- Folium
- Fourier, J. B. J.
- Fourier’s Series
- Frisi, Paolo
- Frustum
- Function
- Galloway, Thomas
- Galois, Evariste
- Gauss, Karl Friedrich
- Geodesy
- Geometrical Continuity
- Geometry
- Gnomon
- Graphical Methods
- Gravitation
- Greaves, John
- Gregory (family)
- Gregory, Olinthus G.
- Groups, Theory of
- Gunter, Edmund
- Gyroscope and Gyrostat
- Hachette, J. N. P.
- Hamilton, Sir W. R.
- Harmonic
- Harmonic Analysis
- Harriot, T.
- Hero of Alexandria
- Hodograph
- Hutton, Charles
- Huygens, Christiaan
- Hydrodynamics
- Hydromechanics
- Hydrostatics
- Hyperbola
- Icosahedron
- Inaudi, Jacques
- Infinite
- Infinitesimal Calculus
- Interpolation
- Inversion
- Involution
- Ivory, Sir James
- Jacobi, Karl G. J.
- Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st baron
- Kinematics
- Kinetics
- Kircher, Athanasius
- Knot
- Kovalevsky, Sophie
- Lagrange, Joseph L.
- Landen, John
- Laplace, P. S., de
- Lardner, Dionysius
- Legendre, Adrien Marie
- Lemniscate
- Leonardo of Pisa
- Leslie, Sir John
- Lever
- Lie, Marius Sophus
- Limaçon
- Line
- Lobachevskiy, N. I.
- Locus
- Logarithm
- Logocyclic Curve, Strophoid or Foliate
- MacCullagh, James
- Maclaurin, Colin
- Magic Square
- Map
- Mascheroni, Lorenzo
- Mathematics
- Matter
- Maupertuis, Pierre de
- Maxima and Minima
- Maxwell, J. Clerk
- Mechanics
- Mensuration
- Mersenne, Marin
- Monge, Gaspard
- Montucia, Jean-Étienne
- Motion, Laws of
- Murphy, Robert
- Napier, John
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Number
- Numbers, Partition of
- Numeral
- Octahedron
- Ordinate
- Oughtred, William
- Oval
- Pantograph
- Pappus of Alexandria
- Parabola
- Peacock, George
- Peirce, Benjamin
- Pell, John
- Perpetual Motion
- Perspective
- Pfaff, J. F.
- Playfair, John
- Plücker, Julius
- Poinsot, Louis
- Poisson, Siméon Denis
- Polygon
- Polygonal Numbers
- Polyhedral Numbers
- Polyhedron
- Poncelet, Jean Victor
- Porism
- Price, Bartholomew
- Prism
- Probability
- Projection
- Quadratrix
- Quaternions
- Recorde, Robert
- Riccati, J. F., count
- Riemann, G. F. B.
- Roberval, G. P. de
- Robins, Benjamin
- Roulette
- Routh, Edward John
- Russell, John Scott
- Salmon, George
- Saunderson, N.
- Serenus of Antissa
- Series
- Serpentine
- Simpson, Thomas
- Simson, Robert
- Smith, H. J. S.
- Smith, Robert
- Snell, Willebrord
- Sphere
- Spherical Harmonics
- Spheroid
- Spiral
- Spottiswoode, W.
- Statics
- Steiner, Jakob
- Stevinus, Simon
- Stirling, James
- Stokes, Sir George G.
- Strength of Materials
- Sturm, J. C. F.
- Surface
- Sylvester, J. J.
- Table, Mathematical
- Tait, Peter G.
- Tartaglia, Niccolo
- Taylor, Brook
- Tetrahedron
- Theodosius of Tripolis
- Thompson, T. P.
- Tide
- Todhunter, Isaac
- Triangle
- Trigonometry
- Trisectrix
- Units, Dimensions of
- Units, Physical
- Variations, Calculus of
- Vector Analysis
- Vernier, Pierre
- Vieta (or Viète), F.
- Wallace, William
- Wallis, John
- Wave
- Witch of Agnesi
- Zero