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John Pratt (1809 - 1871) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pratt/7 Mar 2023: John's father, Josiah, was secretary of the Church Missionary Society and John left university with two strong drives inside him, one coming from his exceptional scientific ability, the other from ... J H Manheim, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific
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Edward Routh (1831 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Routh/25 Jan 2024: I N Sneddon, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Venn (1834 - 1923) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Venn/25 Jan 2024: T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J A Venn, John Venn, Dictionary of National Biography 1922-1930, 869-870.
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Adolf Kneser (1862 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kneser/23 Mar 2024: One of his godparents was the physicist, and well-known scientific historian, Johann Christian Poggendorff. ... 1928). H Boerner, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Georg Landsberg (1865 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Landsberg/26 Jun 2024: B Schoeneberg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Joseph Larmor (1857 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Larmor/25 Jan 2024: Indeed, none of the recent scholarly studies of Larmor's scientific work even mention the now famous formulae and theorem. ... A E Woodruff, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Andrew Wiles (1953 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles/28 Jun 2024: In 2017 Wiles was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. ... Why has this theorem been so difficult to prove?, Scientific American (21 October 1999).
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John Sacrobosco (1195 - 1256) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sacrobosco/7 Mar 2023: J F Daly, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... John of Holywood, Dictionary of National Biography XXVII (London, 1897), 217.
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George McVittie (1904 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/McVittie/28 Jun 2024: He wrote [20]:-. During the years September 1939 to September 1945 I was seconded from King's College, London, to the Scientific Civil Service and worked at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) ... S K Runcorn, George McVittie: his breadth of
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Thomas Bromwich (1875 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bromwich/25 Jan 2024: M J Crowe, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).