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2. Christian Goldbach (1690 - 1764) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   14 May 2023: M S Mahoney, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

3. Andrew Gray (1847 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   1 May 2023: He published The Scientific Work of Lord Kelvin in 1908, the year following Kelvin's death, which was expanded from an oration he delivered in 1907 on the death of Kelvin. ... Biography by R R Whitehead, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

4. Eugen Netto (1846 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: K R Biermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

5. Ernst Steinitz (1871 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: You will get on well with him. From a purely scientific point of view I consider him to be the most successful researcher among the persons mentioned. ... n. n. n linearly independent elements. B Schoeneberg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

6. Francis Bashforth (1819 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   11 Jan 2024: are subjoined, for the scrutiny of scientific men, and I have great pleasure in associating my name with Mr Bashforth's in this work. ... G Greenhill (rev. A McConnell), Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).

7. Benoit Mandelbrot (1924 - 2010) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   30 Dec 2023: of Bourbaki not to his scientific tastes and in 1958 he left for the United States permanently and began his long standing and most fruitful collaboration with IBM as an IBM

8. Barnabé Brisson (1777 - 1828) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: He died at the Hôtel de France in Nevers. R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

9. Mark Kac (1914 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: When asked what pleased him most about the scientific work he had done, Kac replied ([I was always interested in problems rather than in theories.

10. Béla Kerékjártó (1898 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: We provide a fairly free translation. His most important scientific results were in the area of "classical" topology founded by Poincaré and Brouwer and in the theory of continuous groups. ... H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

11. Louis Melville Milne-Thomson (1891 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Milne-Thomson/

    27 Aug 2023: Biography by Mary Croarken, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).