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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. Maurice Fréchet (1878 - 1973) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     4 Jun 2024: an autonomous scientific discipline. ... A E Tayler, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

234. 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).

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. 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.

237. 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).

238. 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

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

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

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