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Laws of Laplace, 273.

Laws of motion, 183, 188, 213.

Least action, 253, 266, 401.

Least squares, 276, 281, 285, 363.

Lebesgue, 325, 333, 365.

Legendre, 278–281; ref. to, 247, 252, 259, 266, 276, 301, 349, 350, 351, 353, 365, 367.

Legendre's function, 280.

Leibniz, 219–235; ref. to, 4, 158, 176, 200, 208, 209, 210, 237, 241, 250, 251, 252, 268, 315, 334, 356.

Lemoine, 341.

Lemonnier, 267.

Leodamas, 33.

Leon, 33.

Leonardo of Pisa, 128; ref. to, 133, 137.

Leslie, X.

Le Verrier, 375; ref. to, 376.

Levy, 300, 391.

Lewis, 382.

Lexis, 340.

Leyden jar, 396.

L'Hospital, 239, 240; ref. to, 229, 234.

Lie, 346; ref. to, 341, 350.

Light, theory of, 218, 390.

Limits, method of, 212, 268.

Lindelöf, 334.

Lindemann, 315; ref. to, 2, 306, 356.

Linear associative algebra, 323.

Lintearia, 237.

Liouville, 369; ref. to, 314, 356, 365, 370, 379.

Lipschitz, 306; ref. to, 338, 375, 382.

Listing, 315.

Lloyd, 393.

Lobatchewsky, 301; ref. to, 291, 303.

Local probability, 340.

Logarithmic criteria of convergence, 337.

Logarithmic series, 197.

Logarithms, 158, 161–165, 168, 197, 242, 250.

Logic, 37, 316, 323, 343.

Lommel, 375, 393.

Long wave, 383.

Loomis, 384.

Lorenz, 393.

Loria, XI.

Loud, 298.

Lucas de Burgo. See Pacioli.

Ludolph, 154.

Ludolph's number, 154.

Lune, squaring of, 25.

Lüroth, 358; ref. to, 362.

 

MacCullagh, 311; ref. to, 393.

Macfarlane, 319.

Machine, arithmetical, 220, 284.

Maclaurin, 243; ref. to, 236, 244, 280, 285, 290.

Macmahon, 327.

Magic squares, 92, 135, 241.

Magister matheseos, 136.

Main, 377.

Mainardi, 334.

Malfatti, 296, 328.

Malfatti's problem, 296, 312.

Mansion, 341.

Marie, Abbé, 279.

Marie, C. F. M., 298.

Marie, M., X., 52, 172.

Mathieu, 391; ref. to, 353, 377, 392, 398.

Matrices, 321, 324.

Matthiessen, X.

Maudith, 135; ref. to, 141.

Maupertius, 253, 257, 401.

Maurolycus, 153; ref. to, 155.

Maxima and minima, 49, 174, 186, 189, 208, 244, 333, 334, 339, 342.

Maxwell, 387; ref. to, 300, 376, 382, 390, 394, 396, 398, 400, 401, 402, 403.

Mayer, 398; ref. to, 376.

McClintock, 328.

McColl, 341.

McCowan, 383.

McCullagh, 311, 393.

McMahon, 328.

Mechanics: Greek, 23, 34, 43; Stevin and Galileo, 158, 182; Descartes, Wallis Wren, Huygens, Newton, 188, 191, 192, 212–216; Leibniz, 227; Bernoullis, 237, 238; Taylor, 243; Euler, 253; Lagrange, 266; Laplace, 274; more recent work, 290, 328, 346, 377–381, 401. See Dynamics, Hydrodynamics, Hydrostatics, Graphic statics, Laws of motion, Astronomy, D'Alembert's principle.

Meissel, 353.

Menæchmus, 32; ref. to, 31, 34, 46, 113.