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Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eddington/4 Jan 2024: communicate the most difficult conceptions in the simplest and most fascinating language; and he was an able interpreter to philosophers of the significance of the latest scientific discoveries. ... A V Douglas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific
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Regiomontanus (1436 - 1476) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Regiomontanus/18 Jun 2024: It [1]:-. contributed to current scientific research rather than to improved understanding of the past. ... E Rosen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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J E Littlewood (1885 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Littlewood/25 Jan 2024: In the late 1930's the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research tried to interest pure mathematicians in nonlinear differential equations which were important for radio engineers and scientists because they ... A C Offord, Biography in Dictionary
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Kurt Gödel (1906 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Godel/14 May 2024: He also refused to accept the highest National Medal for scientific and artistic achievement that Austria offered him. ... Few mathematicians are granted this kind of immortality. G N Moore, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York
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Charles S Peirce (1839 - 1914) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peirce_Charles/23 Jan 2024: C Eisele, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Charles Sanders Peirce, Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods 13 (1916), 701-737.
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Edmond Halley (1656 - 1742) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Halley/30 Dec 2023: The lack of an academic post did not hold Halley back in his scientific work. ... C A Ronan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Robert Adrain (1775 - 1843) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Adrain/7 Mar 2023: D J Struik, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Salomon Bochner (1899 - 1982) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bochner/7 Mar 2023: in front of the scientific world if we put him off life here. ... R C Gunning, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boyle/30 Dec 2023: There he became a neighbour of Barrow but seemed to have more common scientific interests with another neighbour Thomas Sydenham, a physician. ... M B Hall, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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George Stokes (1819 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Stokes/30 Dec 2023: E M Parkinson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... P G Tait, Scientific Worthies. V - George Gabriel Stokes, Nature 12 (15 July, 1875), 201-202.