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  1. John William Strutt (1842 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: However Stokes does not appear to have directly encouraged Rayleigh to undertake a scientific career. ... T J Trenn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  2. Emil Artin (1898 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Apr 2024: Perhaps his views on teaching and writing texts are best illustrated by a quotation from a review he wrote in 1953:-. ... candidates (eleven in Hamburg, two in Bloomington, eighteen in Princeton). B Schoeneberg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

  3. Stanley Jevons (1835 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  4. Sridhara (870 - 930) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: Unfortunately, as we indicated above, the original is lost and we have to rely on a quotation of Sridhara's rule from Bhaskara II:-. ... D Pingree, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  5. Ulugh Beg (1393 - 1449) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 Jan 2024: T N Kari-Niazov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... M Bagheri, A newly found letter of al-Kashi on scientific life in Samarkand, Historia Math.

  6. Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 - 1838) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 Mar 2024: Bowditch's scientific career was largely one of self-education; the United States of his day afforded very little opportunity for research in astronomy and mathematical physics. ... E Mendelsohn, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York

  7. Anaxagoras (499 BC - 428 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Feb 2024: there in philosophy and the new found enthusiasm for a scientific study of the world. ... J Longrigg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  8. Edward Titchmarsh (1899 - 1963) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: R P Boas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  9. Mary Somerville (1780 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: E C Patterson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Somerville, Mary, Dictionary of National Biography LI (London, 1897), 254-255. SeeOther pages about Mary Somerville:.

  10. Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin (1894 - 1959) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Among the many honours which Khinchin received for his work was election to the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1939 and the award of a State Prize for scientific achievements in ... A A Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New