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On the history of nested intervals: from Archimedes to Cantor
Galina Sinkevich
The idea of the principle of nested intervals or the concept of convergent sequences which is equivalent to this idea dates back to the ancient world. Archimedes calculated the unk…
Karl Weierstrass Bicentenary
Galina Sinkevich
Academic biography of Karl Weierstrass, his basic works, influence of his doctrine on the development of mathematics.
Rolle Theorem and Bolzano-Cauchy Theorem from the end of the 17th century to K. Weierstrass epoch
Galina Sinkevich
A history of two Rolle Theorems, about the root of derivative and about root interval from 1690 till the end of XIX century.
On the History of Number Line
Galina Sinkevich
The notion of number line was formed in XX c. We consider the generation of this conception in works by M. Stiefel (1544), Galilei (1633), Euler (1748), Lambert (1766), Bolzano (18…
The Fate of Russian Translations of Cantor
Galina Sinkevich
This is the history of translating Cantor's works into Russian from 1892 to 1985 in Odessa, Moscow, Tomsk, Kazan, S.-Petersburg, Leningrad. Mathematicians and philosophers in Russi…
Georg Cantor from St. Petersburg. Childhood and history of the family. Archival research
G. I. Sinkevich
Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was born, and spent the first 11 years of his life in St. Petersburg. The present lecture is devoted to his childhood and his family. Most of these documen…