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 200 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, FranzLH
Agnesi, MariaLH
Airy, GeorgeLH
Al-Tusi, Nasir al-DinLH
Albert of SaxonyLH
Alberti, Leone BattistaLH
Ampère, André-MarieLH
Anaxagoras of ClazomenaeLH
Anaximander of MiletusLH
Angeli, Stephano degliLH
Apianus, PetrusLH
Arago, FrançoisLH
Arbuthnot, JohnLH
Archimedes of SyracuseLH
Babbage, CharlesLH
Bartik, JeanLH
Bell, JohnLH
Bernoulli, JacobLH
Bessel, WilhelmLH
Bethe, HansLH
Biot, Jean-BaptisteLH      LH2
Bohr, NielsLH
Bondi, HermannLH
Boole, GeorgeLH
Borelli, GiovanniLH
Born, MaxLH
Boscovich, Ruggero GiuseppeLH
Boulliau, IsmaelLH
Bouvard, AlexisLH
Bowditch, NathanielLH
Boyle, RobertLH      LH2
Boys, CharlesLH
Brahe, TychoLH      LH2      LH3
Briggs, HenryLH
Broglie, Louis deLH
Brouncker, WilliamLH
Brunelleschi, FilippoLH
Bruno, GiordanoLH
Buffon, GeorgesLH
Byrne, OliverLH
Cardano, GirolamoLH      LH2
Carnot, SadiLH
Cassini, GiovanniLH      LH2
Cassini, César-François de ThuryLH
Castelli, BenedettoLH
Cavalieri, BonaventuraLH
Chandrasekhar, SubrahmanyanLH
Chasles, MichelLH
Clairaut, AlexisLH
Clausius, RudolfLH
Clavius, ChristopherLH
Commandino, FredericoLH
Copernicus, NicolausLH
Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave deLH
Cotes, RogerLH
D'Alembert, JeanLH
Darwin, GeorgeLH
De Morgan, AugustusLH
DemocritusLH
Descartes, RenéLH
Digges, ThomasLH
Dirac, PaulLH
Doppelmayr, Johann GabrielLH
Doppler, ChristianLH
Dürer, AlbrechtLH      LH2
Dyson, FreemanLH
Eddington, ArthurLH
Ehrenfest, PaulLH
Einstein, AlbertLH      LH2
EmpedoclesLH
EratosthenesLH
Escher, MauritsLH
Euler, LeonhardLH
Faraday, MichaelLH
Fermi, EnricoLH
Feynman, RichardLH
Fine, OronceLH
Fisher, R ALH
FitzGerald, GeorgeLH
Flamsteed, JohnLH
Fleming, WilliaminaLH
Fontenelle, Bernard deLH
Foucault, LéonLH
Francesca, Piero dellaLH
Franklin, BenjaminLH
Fresnel, AugustinLH
Friedmann, AlexanderLH
Fuller, R BuckminsterLH
Galois, ÉvaristeLH
Galton, FrancisLH
Gassendi, PierreLH
Gauss, Carl FriedrichLH
Gemma FrisiusLH
Germain, SophieLH
Gibbs, J WillardLH
Girard, Pierre-SimonLH
Gregory, DavidLH
Grosseteste, RobertLH
Guarini, GuarinoLH
Guldin, PaulLH
Halley, EdmondLH
Hamilton, William RowanLH
Hardy, G HLH
Harriot, ThomasLH
Hawking, StephenLH
Heaviside, OliverLH
Heisenberg, WernerLH      LH2
Helmholtz, Hermann vonLH
Herschel, CarolineLH
Herschel, WilliamLH
Hertz, HeinrichLH
Hevelius, JohannesLH      LH2
Hevelius, Elisabetha KoopmanLH
Hilbert, DavidLH
Hobbes, ThomasLH
Hooke, RobertLH      LH2
Hopper, GraceLH
Hoyle, FredLH
Hubble, EdwinLH      LH2
Hutton, JamesLH
Huygens, ChristiaanLH
Jeans, JamesLH
Jeffreys, HaroldLH
Kármán, Theodore vonLH
Kepler, JohannesLH      LH2      LH3      LH4
Khayyam, OmarLH
Kirchhoff, GustavLH
Klein, FelixLH
La Faille, Jean-Charles dellaLH
La Hire, Philippe deLH
Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis deLH
Lambert, Johann HeinrichLH
Landau, LevLH
Lansberge, Philip vanLH
Laplace, Pierre-SimonLH
Le Verrier, UrbainLH
Leavitt, HenriettaLH
Leibniz, GottfriedLH      LH2
Lemaître, GeorgesLH
Leonardo da VinciLH      LH2
Lissajous, JulesLH
Lorenz, EdwardLH
Lorenz, HendrikLH
Lovelace, AdaLH
Loyd, SamuelLH
Lucas, ÉdouardLH
Maclaurin, ColinLH
Mandelbrot, BenoitLH
Manfredi, EustachioLH
Maskelyne, NevilLH
Maunder, Annie Scott DillLH
Maurolico, FrancescoLH
Maxwell, James ClerkLH
Mayer, TobiasLH      LH2
Méchain, PierreLH
Mersenne, MarinLH
Minkowski, HermannLH
Mitchell, MariaLH
Möbius, AugustLH
Molyneux, SamuelLH
Molyneux, WilliamLH
Monge, GaspardLH
Monte, Guidobaldo delLH
Morin, Jean-BaptisteLH
Newton, IsaacLH      LH2
Ohm, Georg SimonLH
Oresme, NicholasLH
Oughtred, WilliamLH
Papin, DenisLH
Pascal, BlaiseLH
Pauli, WolfgangLH
Peacock, GeorgeLH
Peirce, BenjaminLH
Piazzi, GiuseppeLH
Picard, JeanLH
Pitiscus, BartholomeoLH
Planck, MaxLH
Porta, Giambattista dellaLH
Puiseux, PierreLH
Pythagoras of SamosLH
Ramanujan, SrinivasaLH
Strutt, John WilliamLH
Regiomontanus, JohannesLH
Rheticus, Georg JoachimLH
Ricci, MichelangeloLH
Riccioli, Giovanni BattistaLH      LH2
Roberval, GillesLH
Russell, John ScottLH
Sacrobosco, JohnLH
Saint-Vincent, Gregory ofLH
Santacilia, JorgeLH
Saunderson, NicholasLH
Schrödinger, ErwinLH
Schwarzschild, KarlLH
Shapley, HarlowLH
Simson, RobertLH
Sitter, Willem deLH
Snell, WillebrordLH      LH2
Somerville, MaryLH
Spottiswoode, WilliamLH
Steinhaus, HugoLH
Stevin, SimonLH
Stifel, MichaelLH
Stokes, GeorgeLH
Tacquet, AndreaLH
Talbot, Henry FoxLH
Taylor, BrookLH
Thales of MiletusLH
Thompson, D'ArcyLH
Thomson, WilliamLH
Torricelli, EvangelistaLH
Troughton, EdwardLH
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried vonLH
Turing, AlanLH
Ulam, StanLH
Ulugh BegLH
Van Ceulen, LudolphLH
Varignon, PierreLH
Venn, JohnLH
Vernier, PierreLH
Viviani, VincenzoLH
Von Neumann, JohnLH
Wallis, JohnLH
Ward, SethLH
Whewell, WilliamLH
Whiston, WilliamLH
Whitney, MaryLH
Wiener, NorbertLH
Wilkins, JohnLH
Wren, ChristopherLH
Wright, Sewall GreenLH
Young, ThomasLH
Zeno of EleaLH