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231. Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     4 Jan 2024: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A N Bogolyubov, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) (Russian), Scientific-Biographical Literature Series 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1978).

232. James Jeans (1877 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     25 Jan 2024: There was a long running scientific argument between Jeans and Eddington over the mechanism by which energy was created in stars. ... Jeans, therefore, had a second organ installed in his Dorking home and, using his scientific skills, he designed the

233. Jacob Bernoulli (1655 - 1705) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     11 Jan 2024: SeeJ E Hofmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

234. Hermann Weyl (1885 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     4 Jan 2024: although half a joke, sums up his personality. J Dieudonne, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... a general introduction to his scientific work, Schloss Reisensburg, 1992 (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2001), 11-155.

235. Lewis Fry Richardson (1881 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

     14 Oct 2023: E Gold, Lewis Fry Richardson, Dictionary of National Biography Supp (1951-60) (London, 1971), 837-839.

236. Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) - Biography -…

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

     23 Nov 2023: B Glass, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Rev. Rose Illus.) 80 (1942), 51-59. J Fee, Maupertuis and the principle of least action, Scientific monthly 52 (1941).

237. Girolamo Cardano (1501 - 1576) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     30 Dec 2023: Cardan was at the height of his fame and, as a consequence, his journey to Scotland was remarkable in that everywhere he went scientific communities treated him as a celebrity and ... M Gliozzi, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York

238. Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     23 Apr 2024: M Katetov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

239. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/

     16 Apr 2024: In 1815 A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary by Hutton has, in the entry for transcendental, the following:. ... This quotation is taken from the 1968 edition of A History of Mathematics, pages 370-371.

240. Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781 - 1840) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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     30 Dec 2023: The persons to whom he used to communicate his scientific ideas know that as soon as he had finished one memoir, he passed without interruption to another subject, and that he ... P Costabel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York