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351. Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     17 May 2023: The better salary did not compensate for the fact that now he was no longer involved in scientific work. ... I B Cohen, Howard H Aiken and the computer, A history of scientific computing (New York, 1990), 41-52.

352. Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     25 Jan 2024: H Kragh, Dirac : A Scientific Biography (Cambridge, 1991). B N Kursunoglu and E P Wigner (eds.), Reminiscences about a great physicist: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (Cambridge, 1987).

353. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (K) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: Annalen 105. The OED gives the following quotation from Pontrjagin's Topological Groups i. ... NULL SPACE. [John Aldrich, Jan Peter Schäfermeyer]. KITE. Deltoid appears in 1879 in Dictionary of Scientific Terms: "Deltoid, a four-sided figure formed of

354. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (D) -…

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     23 Jan 2024: The OED has a nice quotation from Joseph Raphson's Mathematical Dictionary of 1702: "A different way.passes.in France under the Name of Leibnitz's Differential Calculus, or Calculus of ... Diophantine analysis is found in English 1795 in A Mathematical

355. Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     30 Dec 2023: S Drake, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... 38 (3) (1981), 339-342. S Drake, Ptolemy, Galileo, and scientific method, Stud.

356. Hermann Grassmann (1809 - 1877) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     2 Nov 2023: W Burau, C J Scriba, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... M Kozianka, Grassmann's ''Wörterbuch des Rig-Veda'' (Dictionary of Rig-Veda): a milestone in the study of Vedic Sanskrit, in From Past to Future: Grassmann's

357. Max Dehn (1878 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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     1 Jun 2023: C S Fisher, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

358. Kurt Reidemeister (1893 - 1971) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     7 Mar 2023: The first chapter, on the origin of geometrical thought, contains a set of axioms for the affine plane, a description of some theorems of closure, and a well-chosen quotation from ... 1971). C J Scriba, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography

359. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (E) -…

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     7 Mar 2023: This citation was provided by William C. Waterhouse.]. Elliptic curve is found in Webster's New International Dictionary (1909), defined as "one of the genus 1.". ... The earliest quotation in the OED is from Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe (about

360. Herta Freitag (1908 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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     9 May 2024: During the sixth century B.C., the world's earliest scientific society was holding meetings in Greece. ... C Morrow and T Perl, Herta Taussig Freitag, in Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1998), 56-61.