Johann Christoph Heilbronner

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Johann Christoph Heilbronner (March 13, 1706, Ulm - January 17, 1745 (or c.1747), Leipzig) was a German mathematical historian (Mathematikhistoriker) and theologian.

[edit] Literary works

  • Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik (), 1739
  • Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI (or Historia matheseos universae; ), 1742

These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "mathematical history (German: Geschichte der Mathematik, Latin: Historia matheseos)".

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