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  1. Stanley Jevons (1835 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jevons/

    25 Jan 2024: N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  2. Sridhara (870 - 930) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sridhara/

    30 Dec 2023: Unfortunately, as we indicated above, the original is lost and we have to rely on a quotation of Sridhara's rule from Bhaskara II:-. ... D Pingree, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  3. Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 - 1838) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bowditch/

    26 Mar 2024: Bowditch's scientific career was largely one of self-education; the United States of his day afforded very little opportunity for research in astronomy and mathematical physics. ... E Mendelsohn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York

  4. Ulugh Beg (1393 - 1449) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ulugh_Beg/

    4 Jan 2024: T N Kari-Niazov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... M Bagheri, A newly found letter of al-Kashi on scientific life in Samarkand, Historia Math.

  5. Anaxagoras (499 BC - 428 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Anaxagoras/

    28 Feb 2024: there in philosophy and the new found enthusiasm for a scientific study of the world. ... J Longrigg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  6. Edward Titchmarsh (1899 - 1963) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Titchmarsh/

    25 Jan 2024: R P Boas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  7. Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Somerville/

    25 Jan 2024: E C Patterson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Somerville, Mary, Dictionary of National Biography LI (London, 1897), 254-255. SeeOther pages about Mary Somerville:.

  8. Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894 - 1959) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Khinchin/

    7 Mar 2023: Among the many honours which Khinchin received for his work was election to the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939 and the award of a State Prize for scientific achievements in ... A A Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New

  9. Adolphe Quetelet (1796 - 1874) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Quetelet/

    23 Nov 2023: The following quotation from a 1848 publication shows that Quetelet understood quite well what he was measuring:-. ... To calculate your Quetelet index clickH Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. John Greaves (1602 - 1652) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Greaves_John/

    25 Sep 2023: His main scientific aim was the [5]:-. practical and sober project of standardising and synchronising the weights and measures of all ancient and modern nations. ... He was buried in St Benet Sherehog, London. Biography by F Maddison, in Dictionary of