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31. James Joseph Sylvester (1814 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The answer is 63d. Can you prove this!]. J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A Cayley, Scientific Worthies XXV : James Joseph Sylvester, Nature 39 (1889), 217-219.

32. William Young (1863 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: J C Burkill, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J C Burkill, William Henry Young, Dictionary of National Biography 1941-1950 (Oxford, 1959), 984-985.

33. Henry Smith (1826 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: He was appointed to two royal commissions, the royal commission into scientific instruction and the royal commission into the universities. ... This Smith did but died before the prize was awarded. After his death the Academy awarded two full prizes, one

34. John Flamsteed (1646 - 1719) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: V E Thoren, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

35. Thomas Hirst (1830 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: Many quotations from this diary, in which he describes well-known mathematicians he had met, are given in this archive. ... Years of decline, Amer. Math. Monthly 100 (1993), 907-915. Thomas Archer Hirst, Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement II

36. Julian Coolidge (1873 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: D J Struik, G Wise, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

37. Alcuin (735 - 804) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    11 Jul 2023: The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon atP D Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

38. Percy MacMahon (1854 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: 1923). T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

39. John Pell (1611 - 1685) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Sep 2023: P J Wallis, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J Stachel, and M W Wartofsky (eds.), For Dirk Struik : scientific, historical, and.

40. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: C W F Everitt, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W D Niven (ed.), The scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell (New York, 1952).