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432. Persi Diaconis (1945 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     23 Jun 2024: Scientific American. ... In addition, Diaconis has acted as a consultant to Scientific American (1972-80), the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (1974), the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey (1974-), the Stanford Linear Accelerator

433. Thomas Hakon Grönwall (1877 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

     18 Jan 2024: His non-scientific interests were chiefly intellectual, his acquaintance with general literature was both thorough and wide. ... His life shows that his unruly spirit found expression, joy, and satisfaction in scientific thinking and creation.

434. Chaim Samuel Hönig (1926 - 2018) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     27 Jun 2024: talented young people into a scientific career, and the need to increase exchanges between Brazilian and foreign researchers. ... In 1998 he was honoured with the award of the National Order of Scientific Merit.

435. Francisco José Duarte (1883 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

     7 Mar 2023: He died on 1 October, 1972, in Caracas. We use here Michalup's quotation ([4] or [10], p. ... Personally, and as a scientific colleague of the Venezuelan Academy, I lost a sincere friend, who always was available when I needed him.

436. Julius Schauder (1899 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     8 Apr 2024: Schauder was there, as wereand some dozen other topologists. I sent this photograph toW Forster, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

437. Johann Segner (1704 - 1777) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     23 Nov 2023: A T Grigorian, A P Youschkevitch, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

438. Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovskii (1847 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

     18 Jan 2024: A T Grigorian, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... N M Merkulova, N E Zhukovskii -founder of the scientific school of aerodynamics (Russian), Investigations in the history of mechanics, 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1981), 268-292

439. Jim Wilkinson (1919 - 1986) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     19 Apr 2024: He died at home from a heart attack. Biography by Charles Clenshaw, rev., in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). ... B N Parlett, The contribution of J H Wilkinson to numerical analysis, A history of scientific computing (New York, 1990),

440. George Birkhoff (1884 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     24 May 2024: M Morse, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Math. Anal. Appl. 7 (1963), 271-283. H S White, Professor George D Birkhoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Scientific Mo.

441. Hypatia (370 - 415) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

     30 Dec 2023: Hypatia taught these philosophical ideas with a greater scientific emphasis than earlier followers of Neoplatonism. ... E A Kramer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).