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51. Benjamin Banneker (1731 - 1806) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: He spent his last days alone in the farmhouse studying and continuing to carry out scientific experiments. ... C A Elliott, Biographical dictionary of American science. The seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries (Westport, Conn., 1979).

52. Nicolas Bourbaki (1935 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The founding members of the organisation were:. R P Boas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Intelligencer 7 (2) (1985), 18-22. P R Halmos, 'Nicolas Bourbaki', Scientific American, 1957 (May, 1957), 88-99.

53. J Willard Gibbs (1839 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: You can see a list of the lecturers and their titles atM J Klein, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... H A Bumstead and R G Van Name (eds.), The scientific papers of J Willard Gibbs (2 volumes) (New York, 1961),

54. G H Hardy (1877 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Jan 2024: The following quotation from A mathematicians apology ([5]) gives a clear idea of Hardy's thoughts on mathematics:-. ... J C Burkill, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

55. Ramon Llull (1235 - 1316) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: Died. 1316. (probably) Tunis, Tunisia. Summary. Ramon Llull was a Majorcan philosopher whose logical methods influenced Leibniz. . View three larger pictures. Ramon Llull was brought up at the royal court of Majorca. There he learnt Arabic from the

56. Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    25 Jan 2024: As he indicates in these quotations, his studies at Cambridge were unusually broad. ... He was also elected a fellow of theC Eisenhart, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

57. Thomas Digges (1546 - 1595) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    6 Sep 2023: Thomas Digges's father was Leonard Digges who was himself a fine mathematician who wrote on various scientific topics including surveying. ... J B Easton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

58. Hermann Hankel (1839 - 1873) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: M J Crowe, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

59. John Herschel (1792 - 1871) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Among the many important scientific advances made by Herschel in South Africa was his observations of Halley's comet on its 1835 return. ... D S Evans, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

60. George Airy (1801 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Airy has been unfairly relegated to the scientific sidelines. His son summed up Airy's life as follows [4]:-. ... O J Eggen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).