15th Novembertagung on the History of Mathematics

15. Novembertagung zur Geschichte der Mathematik

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Tobias Mayer's use of conflicting data

Steven Wepster

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract. The German geographer, astronomer, and mathematician Tobias Mayer (1723--1762) had an extraordinary proficiency in handling what we would call ''overdetermined systems of equations''. I will show some examples of his work.

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