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2. Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   26 May 2023: William Fox writes in [7]:-. Her work is remarkable in a literary as well as in a scientific way. ... T E Heath, In memoriam - Agnes Mary Clerke, Knowledge and scientific news 4 (1907), 32.

3. Harry Reuter (1921 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: After leaving Cambridge, Reuter joined the Royal Naval Scientific Service as a Scientific Officer. ... Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he took up his first appointment, in the Scientific Civil Service, in 1941.

4. Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854 - 1919) - Biography - MacTutor History …

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

   7 Mar 2023: C L Maier, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

5. Wilhelm Fiedler (1832 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Not only did Fiedler do a great deal of self-study but with his friends, the geologist Adolf Knop and the chemist Alexander Müller, he led an organised series of scientific ... According to Fiedler, the main scope of the teaching of descriptive geometry

6. Karl Gräffe (1799 - 1873) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

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

7. Piero della Francesca (1420 - 1492) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

   23 Nov 2023: W P D Wightman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

8. Jean Picard (1620 - 1682) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   13 May 2023: The use of these techniques meant that Picard was one of the first to apply scientific methods to the making of maps. ... J Taton and R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

9. Hugh Blackburn (1823 - 1909) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Hugh was a serious boy, interested in mathematics and science, who loved conducting scientific experiments. ... Biography by A J Crilly, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

10. Irving John Good (1916 - 2009) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    3 Apr 2024: This book is concerned with the foundations of the theory of probability and an analysis of scientific inductive reasoning.

11. George Forsythe (1917 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: he introduced what may have been the first use of automatic computing in that company: inspired by W J Eckert's book, 'Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation' he had a ... Next we look at some quotations from Forsythe to give us a deeper