Linda Hall Library links

The Linda Hall library is situated in Kansas City, Missouri and has an important collection of history of mathematics books. We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to their Scientist of the day feature curated by W B Ashworth Jr, as shown below.

Click on the name for the MacTutor biography and on the LH to see the Linda Hall entry.


Aepinus, Franz	LH
Agnesi, Maria	LH
Airy, George	LH
Al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din	LH
Albert of Saxony	LH
Alberti, Leone Battista	LH
Ampère, André-Marie	LH
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae	LH


Anaximander of Miletus	LH
Angeli, Stephano degli	LH
Apianus, Petrus	LH
Apollonius of Perga	LH
Arago, François	LH
Arbuthnot, John	LH
Archimedes of Syracuse	LH


Babbage, Charles	LH
Bartik, Jean	LH
Bell, John	LH
Bernoulli, Jacob	LH
Bessel, Wilhelm	LH
Bethe, Hans	LH
Biot, Jean-Baptiste	LH LH2
Bohr, Niels	LH
Bondi, Hermann	LH
Boole, George	LH
Borelli, Giovanni	LH
Born, Max	LH
Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe	LH


Boulliau, Ismael	LH
Bouvard, Alexis	LH
Bowditch, Nathaniel	LH
Boyle, Robert	LH LH2
Boys, Charles	LH
Brahe, Tycho	LH LH2 LH3
Briggs, Henry	LH
Broglie, Louis de	LH
Brouncker, William	LH
Brunelleschi, Filippo	LH
Bruno, Giordano	LH
Buffon, Georges	LH
Byrne, Oliver	LH


Cardano, Girolamo	LH LH2
Carnot, Sadi	LH
Cassini, Giovanni	LH LH2
Cassini, Jacques	LH
Cassini, César-François de Thury	LH
Castelli, Benedetto	LH
Cavalieri, Bonaventura	LH
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan	LH


Chasles, Michel	LH
Clairaut, Alexis	LH
Clausius, Rudolf	LH
Clavius, Christopher	LH
Commandino, Frederico	LH
Copernicus, Nicolaus	LH
Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave de	LH
Cotes, Roger	LH


D'Alembert, Jean	LH
Darwin, George	LH
De Morgan, Augustus	LH
Democritus	LH
Descartes, René	LH LH2
Digges, Thomas	LH


Dirac, Paul	LH
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel	LH
Doppler, Christian	LH
Dürer, Albrecht	LH LH2
Dyson, Freeman	LH


Eckert, J Presper	LH
Eddington, Arthur	LH
Ehrenfest, Paul	LH
Einstein, Albert	LH LH2 LH3


Empedocles	LH
Eratosthenes	LH
Escher, Maurits	LH
Euler, Leonhard	LH


Faraday, Michael	LH
Fermi, Enrico	LH
Feynman, Richard	LH
Fine, Oronce	LH
Fisher, R A	LH
FitzGerald, George	LH
Flamsteed, John	LH
Fleming, Williamina	LH


Fontenelle, Bernard de	LH
Foucault, Léon	LH
Francesca, Piero della	LH
Franklin, Benjamin	LH
Fresnel, Augustin	LH
Friedmann, Alexander	LH
Fuller, R Buckminster	LH


Galois, Évariste	LH
Galton, Francis	LH
Gassendi, Pierre	LH
Gauss, Carl Friedrich	LH
Gemma Frisius	LH
Germain, Sophie	LH


Gibbs, J Willard	LH
Girard, Pierre-Simon	LH
Gregory, David	LH
Grosseteste, Robert	LH
Guarini, Guarino	LH
Guldin, Paul	LH


Halley, Edmond	LH
Hamilton, William Rowan	LH
Hardy, G H	LH
Harriot, Thomas	LH
Hawking, Stephen	LH
Heaviside, Oliver	LH
Heisenberg, Werner	LH LH2
Helmholtz, Hermann von	LH
Heron of Alexandria	LH
Herschel, Caroline	LH
Herschel, William	LH

Hertz, Heinrich	LH

Hevelius, Johannes	LH LH2
Hevelius, Elisabetha Koopman	LH
Hilbert, David	LH
Hobbes, Thomas	LH
Hooke, Robert	LH LH2
Hopper, Grace	LH
Hoyle, Fred	LH
Hubble, Edwin	LH LH2
Hutton, James	LH
Huygens, Christiaan	LH


Jeans, James	LH


Jeffreys, Harold	LH


Kármán, Theodore von	LH
Kepler, Johannes	LH LH2 LH3 LH4
Khayyam, Omar	LH


Kirchhoff, Gustav	LH
Klein, Felix	LH


La Faille, Jean-Charles della	LH
La Hire, Philippe de	LH
Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis de	LH
Lambert, Johann Heinrich	LH
Landau, Lev	LH
Lansberge, Philip van	LH
Laplace, Pierre-Simon	LH
Le Verrier, Urbain	LH
Leavitt, Henrietta	LH


Leibniz, Gottfried	LH LH2
Lemaître, Georges	LH
Leonardo da Vinci	LH LH2
Lissajous, Jules	LH
Lorenz, Edward	LH
Lorenz, Hendrik	LH
Lovelace, Ada	LH
Loyd, Samuel	LH
Lucas, Édouard	LH


Maclaurin, Colin	LH
Mandelbrot, Benoit	LH
Manfredi, Eustachio	LH
Maskelyne, Nevil	LH
Maunder, Annie Scott Dill	LH
Maurolico, Francesco	LH
Maxwell, James Clerk	LH
Mayer, Tobias	LH LH2
Méchain, Pierre	LH
Mersenne, Marin	LH


Milne, E A	LH
Minkowski, Hermann	LH
Mitchell, Maria	LH
Möbius, August	LH
Molyneux, Samuel	LH
Molyneux, William	LH
Monge, Gaspard	LH
Monte, Guidobaldo del	LH
Morin, Jean-Baptiste	LH


Newton, Isaac	LH LH2


Ohm, Georg Simon	LH
Oresme, Nicholas	LH


Oughtred, William	LH


Papin, Denis	LH
Pascal, Blaise	LH
Pauli, Wolfgang	LH
Peacock, George	LH
Peirce, Benjamin	LH
Piazzi, Giuseppe	LH


Picard, Jean	LH
Pitiscus, Bartholomeo	LH
Planck, Max	LH
Porta, Giambattista della	LH
Puiseux, Pierre	LH
Pythagoras of Samos	LH


Ramanujan, Srinivasa	LH
Strutt, John William	LH
Regiomontanus, Johannes	LH
Rheticus, Georg Joachim	LH


Ricci, Michelangelo	LH
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista	LH LH2
Roberval, Gilles	LH
Russell, John Scott	LH


Sacrobosco, John	LH
Saint-Vincent, Gregory of	LH
Santacilia, Jorge	LH
Saunderson, Nicholas	LH
Schrödinger, Erwin	LH
Schwarzschild, Karl	LH
Shannon, Claude	LH
Shapley, Harlow	LH
Simson, Robert	LH


Sitter, Willem de	LH
Snell, Willebrord	LH LH2
Somerville, Mary	LH
Spottiswoode, William	LH
Steinhaus, Hugo	LH LH2
Stevin, Simon	LH
Stifel, Michael	LH
Stokes, George	LH


Tacquet, Andrea	LH
Talbot, Henry Fox	LH
Taylor, Brook	LH
Thales of Miletus	LH
Thompson, D'Arcy	LH


Thomson, William	LH
Torricelli, Evangelista	LH
Troughton, Edward	LH
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried von	LH
Turing, Alan	LH


Ulam, Stan	LH


Ulugh Beg	LH


Van Ceulen, Ludolph	LH
Varignon, Pierre	LH
Venn, John	LH


Vernier, Pierre	LH
Viviani, Vincenzo	LH
Von Neumann, John	LH


Wallis, John	LH
Ward, Seth	LH
Whewell, William	LH
Whiston, William	LH
Whitney, Mary	LH


Wiener, Norbert	LH
Wilkins, John	LH
Wren, Christopher	LH
Wright, Sewall Green	LH


Young, Thomas	LH


Zeno of Elea	LH