Sci Hi blog links

The Sci Hi blog was a daily blog on science, technology and art in history which ran from 2014 to 2023. It has a good coverage of mathematics and astronomy.

We have linked more than 250 of our biographies to articles in this blog as you can see below.

Click on the name for the MacTutor biography and on the SH to see the Sci Hi blog entry.
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Abel, NielsSH
Abu'l-WafaSH
Adams, John CouchSH
Aiken, HowardSH
Airy, GeorgeSH
Al-BiruniSH
Ampère, André MarieSH
Arago, FrançoisSH
Arbuthnot, JohnSH
ArchytasSH
AristarchusSH
Artin, EmilSH
AryabhataSH
AvicennaSH
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Babbage, CharlesSH
Backus, JohnSH
Banach, StefanSH
Banneker, BenjaminSH
Bayes, ThomasSH
Beltrami, EugenioSH
Bernays, PaulSH
Bernoulli, DanielSH
Bernoulli, JacobSH
Bernoulli, JohannSH
Bessel, WilhelmSH
Birkhoff, GeorgeSH
Bohr, NielsSH
Boltzmann, LudwigSH
Bolyai, JánosSH
Bolzano, BernardSH
Boole, GeorgeSH
Borda, Jean-Charles deSH
Borel, ÉmileSH
Borelli, Giovanni AlfonsoSH
Born, MaxSH
Bose, SatyendanathSH
Bougainville, Louis-AntoineSH
Bouguer, PierreSH
Brahe, TychoSH
Brauer, RichardSH
Briggs, HenrySH
Broglie, Louis deSH
Brouncker, WilliamSH
Brunelleschi, FilippoSH
Bruno, GiordanoSH
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Cannon, Annie JumpSH
Cantor, GeorgSH
Cardano, GirolamoSH
Carnot, SadiSH
Cassini, GiovanniSH
Cauchy, Augustin-LouisSH
Cavalieri, BonaventuraSH
Cayley, ArthurSH
Champollion, Jean-FrançoisSH
Chandrasekhar, SubrahmanyanSH
Châtelet, Émilie duSH
Chebyshev, PafnutySH
Church, AlonzoSH
Clairaut, AlexisSH
Clausius, RudolphSH
Condorcet, Marquis deSH
Copernicus, NicolausSH
Cotes, RogerSH
Coulomb, AugustinSH
Cournot, AntoineSH
Crelle, AugustSH
Curry, HaskellSH
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d'Alembert, JeanSH
De l'Hôpital, Guillaume SH
De Moivre, AbrahamSH
De Morgan, AugustusSH
De Prony, GaspardSH
Dedekind, RichardSH
Dee, JohnSH
Desargues, GirardSH
Descartes, RenéSH
DiophantusSH
Dirac, PaulSH
Dirichlet, LejeuneSH
Dodgson, Charles LutwidgeSH
Dürer, AlbrechtSH
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Eddington, ArthurSH
Ehrenfest, PaulSH
Einstein, AlbertSH  SH2
EratosthenesSH
Erdős, PaulSH
Erlang, AgnerSH
Escher, MauritsSH
EuclidSH
EudoxusSH
Euler, LeonhardSH
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Faraday, MichaelSH
Fermat, PierreSH
Ferrari, LodovicoSH
Fields, John CharlesSH
Fizeau, HippolyteSH  SH2
Flamsteed, JohnSH
Fleming, MinaSH
Foucault, LéonSH  SH2
Fourier, JosephSH
Francesca, Piero dellaSH
Fréchet, MauriceSH
Frege, GottlobSH
Fresnel, AugustinSH
Frobenius, GeorgSH
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Galilei, GalileoSH  SH2  SH3
Galois, ÉvaristeSH
Gassendi, PierreSH
Gauss, Carl FriedrichSH
Gerbert of AurillacSH
Germain, SophieSH
Gödel, KurtSH
Goldbach, ChristianSH
Gregory, JamesSH
Gunter, EdmundSH
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Hadamard, JacquesSH
Halley, EdmondSH  SH2
Hamilton, William RowanSH
Hamming, RichardSH
Hardy, G HSH
Hausdorff, FelixSH
Heisenberg, WernerSH
Helmholtz, Hermann vonSH
Hermite, CharlesSH
Hero of AlexandriaSH
Herschel, JohnSH
Herschel, CarolineSH
Herschel, WilliamSH
Hertz, HeinrichSH
Hevelius, JohannesSH
Hilbert, DavidSH
HipparchusSH
Hollerith, HermanSH
Hooke, RobertSH
Hopper, GraceSH  SH2
Horrocks, JeremiahSH
Hubble, EdwinSH
Huygens, ChristiaanSH  SH2
HypatiaSH
J
Jacobi, CarlSH
Jeans, JamesSH
Jordan, CamilleSH
Jordan, PascualSH
K
Kantorovich, LeonidSH
Kasner, EdwardSH
Kepler, JohannesSH  SH2
Khayyam, OmarSH
Kirchhoff, GustavSH
Klein, FelixSH
Knuth, DonaldSH
Kolmogorov, AndreySH
Kovalevskaya, SofiaSH
Kronecker, LeopoldSH
Kummer, EduardSH
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La Hire, Philippe deSH
Lagrange, Joseph-LouisSH
Lalande, JérômeSH
Lambert, Johann HeinrichSH
Landau, LevSH
Laplace, Pierre-SimonSH
Le Verrier, UrbainSH
Leavitt, Henrietta SwanSH
Lebesgue, HenriSH
Legendre, Adrien-MarieSH
Leibniz, GottfriedSH   SH2
Leonardo da VinciSH
Lexell, AndersSH
Lie, SophusSH
Llull, RamonSH
Lobachevsky, NikolaiSH
Lovelace, AdaSH
Łukasiewicz, JanSH
M
Mahalanobis, PrasantaSH
Mandelbrot, BenoitSH
Markov, Andrei AndreyevichSH
Mauchly, JohnSH
Maunder, Annie Scott DillSH
Maupertuis, Pierre-LouisSH
Maxwell, James ClerkSH
Méchain, PierreSH
Mercator, GerardSH
Mersenne, MarinSH
Minkowski, HermannSH
Mitchell, MariaSH
Mittag-Leffler, GöstaSH
Möbius, AugustSH
Monge, GaspardSH
Morgenstern, OskarSH
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Napier, JohnSH
Nash, John FSH
Newton, IsaacSH
Neyman, JerzySH
Nicollet, JosephSH
Nightingale, FlorenceSH
Noether, EmmySH
O
Ohm, SimonSH
Oresme, NicholasSH
Oughtred, WilliamSH
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Pascal, BlaiseSH
Pauli, WolfgangSH
Payne-Gaposchkin, CeciliaSH
Peano, GiuseppeSH
Pearson, KarlSH
Peirce, Charles SSH
Pell, JohnSH
Penney, BillSH
Peurbach, GeorgSH  SH2
Piazzi, GiuseppeSH
Picard, JeanSH
Planck, MaxSH
Poincaré, HenriSH
Poisson, Siméon-DenisSH
Poncelet, Jean-VictorSH
Porta, Giambattista dellaSH
PythagorasSH
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Ramanujan, SrinivasaSH
Ramsey, FrankSH
RegiomontanusSH
Rheticus, Georg JoachimSH
Riccioli, Giovanni BattistaSH
Richardson, Lewis FrySH
Riemann, BernhardSH
Runge, CarlSH
Russell, BertrandSH
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Saccheri, GiovanniSH
Schickard, WilhelmSH
Schrödinger, ErwinSH
Schwarzschild, KarlSH
Schwinger, JulianSH
Selten, ReinhardSH
Shannon, Claude ESH
Shapley, HarlowSH
Sierpiński, WacławSH
Somerville, MarySH
Sommerfeld, ArnoldSH
Steiner, JakobSH
Stokes, GeorgeSH
Størmer, CarlSH
Sylvester, James JosephSH
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Tarski, AlfredSH
TartagliaSH
Taylor, BrookSH
Thales of MiletusSH
Thomson, WilliamSH
Torricelli, EvangelistaSH
Tschirnhaus, Ehrenfried vonSH
Turing, AlanSH
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Uhlenbeck, GeorgeSH
Ulam, StanSH
Ulugh BegSH
V
Veblen, OswaldSH
Venn, JohnSH
Vernier, PierreSH
Viète, FrançoisSH
Vinogradov, IvanSH
Volterra, VitoSH
Von Neumann, JohnSH
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Weaver, WarrenSH
Weierstrass, KarlSH
Weyl, HermannSH
Wiener, NorbertSH
Wigner, EugeneSH
Wolf, RudolfSH
Wren, ChristopherSH  SH2
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Young, ThomasSH
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Zermelo, ErnstSH