Florian J. Ries [SEP] position held
Florian J. Ries
Florian J. Ries was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography.
Ries was born on April 30, 1843 in Baden. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Wisconsin State Militia. Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he enlisted with the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. He later re-enlisted with the 17th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. Ries was chief of the Milwaukee Police Department from 1885 to 1888.
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- John Lane Bell: "A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis", Cambridge University Press, 1998. . Uses synthetic differential geometry and nilpotent infinitesimals.
- Florian Cajori, "The History of Notations of the Calculus." "Annals of Mathematics", 2nd Ser., Vol. 25, No. 1 (Sep. 1923), pp. 1–46.
- Leonid P. Lebedev and Michael J. Cloud