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INDEX.
411
Euler, 248254; ref. to, 77, 96, 179, 180, 239, 241, 246, 250, 258, 259, 261, 262, 264, 265, 267, 268, 273, 278, 279, 280, 287, 314, 317, 334, 364, 365, 367, 374, 386, 387, 401.
Eulerian integrals, 280.
Eutocius, 61; ref. to, 45, 46, 54, 65.
Evolutes, 49, 191.
Exhaustion, method of, 26, 28, 33, 36, 42, 169.
Exponents, 134, 152, 160, 162, 187, 202, 241.
Factor-tables, 368.
Fagnano, 241.
Fahri des Al Karhi, 111.
Falsa positio, 92, 147.
Faraday, 398.
Favaro, XII.
Faye, 377.
Fermat, 173, 179182; ref. to, 172, 173, 177, 198, 252, 264, 265, 367.
Fermat's theorem, 180, 252.
Ferrari. 145; ref. to, 144, 264.
Ferrel, 384; ref. to, 376.
Ferro, Scipio, 142.
Fibonacci. See Leonardo of Pisa.
Fiedler, 300, 312, 328.
Figure of the earth, 257, 292.
Finæus, 159.
Fine, XII.
Finger-reckoning, 63, 118.
Finite differences, 240, 242, 251, 270, 278, 343.
Fink, XII.
Fitzgerald, 394.
Flächenabbildung, 313.
Flamsteed, 218.
Floridas, 142, 144.
Flexure, theory of, 389.
Fluents, 205, 206.
Fluxional controversy, 227233.
Fluxions, 200, 202213, 333.
Focus, 49, 60, 169, 170.
Fontaine, 252, 254.
Forbes, 397.
Force-function, 395. See Potential.
Forsyth, XII., 327, 344, 362.
Four-point problem, 341.
Fourier, 281284; ref. to, 174, 255, 351, 356, 367.

Fourier's series, 283, 338, 339, 367, 386.
Fourier's theorem, 282.
Fractions, Babylonian, 7; Egyptian, 13; Greek, 26, 64, 65; Roman, 78; Hindoo, 94; Middle Ages, 120, 124; decimal, 159, 160; sexagesimal, 7, 57, 65, 67, 126; duodecimal, 124, 126; continued, 159, 197, 252, 270. See Arithmetic.
Franklin, 327, 372.
Frantz, XIII.
Fresnel, 392.
Fresnel's wave-surface, 209, 314.
Frézier, 286.
Fricke, 354.
Friction, theory of, 382.
Frobenius, 325, 344, 345.
Frost, 315.
Froude, 381, 384.
Fuchs, 343; ref. to, 344, 345.
Fuchsian functions, 345, 360.
Fuchsian groups, 345.
Funicular polygons, 299.
Gabir ben Aflah, 115; ref. to, 127.
Galileo, 182; ref. to, 43, 139, 161, 168, 170, 171, 188.
Galois, 329.
Gamma function, 249.
Garbieri, 324.
Gases, Kinetic theory of, 401403.
Gauss, 363367; ref. to, 77, 158, 247, 248, 251, 264, 276, 291, 294, 302, 303, 304, 313, 314, 315, 317, 320, 324, 325, 239, 330, 333, 335, 343, 348, 350, 351, 357, 362, 373, 398.
Gauss' Analogies, 366.
Geber. See Gabir ben Aflah.
Geber's theorem, 116.
Geminus, 53; ref. to, 46, 50, 57.
Gellibrand, 165.
Genocchi, 365.