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  1. Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: He died at Merry Hall in Ashtead, Surrey. J F Scott, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  2. Horace Lamb (1849 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: the passing of the scientific memoir, which in the hands of a Lagrange or a Poisson had a completeness and austerity of a great work of art. ... He received honorary doctorates from seven universities. K E Bullen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

  3. Francis Maseres (1731 - 1824) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Oct 2023: W L Schaaf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W P Courtney, Francis Maseres, Dictionary of National Biography XXXVI (London, 1893), 407-409.

  4. George FitzGerald (1851 - 1901) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: A M Bork, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J Larmor (ed.), The Scientific Writings of the Late George Francis FitzGerald (Dublin, 1902).

  5. Charles Glover Barkla (1877 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    23 Nov 2023: He always preferred living in rural surroundings. A staunch Methodist, he saw scientific investigation as 'a part of the quest for God, the Creator'. ... Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK.

  6. Joseph Fourier (1768 - 1830) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Jun 2024: I Grattan-Guinness, J R Ravetz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... F Arago, Joseph Fourier, Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (London, 1957), 242-286.

  7. Rabbi Ben Ezra (1092 - 1167) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: M Levey, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... G B Sarfatti, Mathematical terminology in Hebrew scientific literature of the Middle Ages (Jerusalem 1968).

  8. Takakazu Seki (1642 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: A Kobori, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  9. George Salmon (1819 - 1904) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: In [6] Gow gives many interesting quotations byand several others of Salmon's contemporaries and successors. ... A J McConnell, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. John Farey (1766 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The quotation we gave above shows that Farey explicitly states he has no proof. ... J M Eyles, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).