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  2. 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).

  3. 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).

  4. 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

  5. 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).

  6. 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),

  7. 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.

  8. John Collins (1624 - 1683) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    31 Mar 2023: D T Whiteside, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... H S Allen, James Gregory, John Collins, and Some Early Scientific Instruments, Nature 121 (1928), 456.

  9. 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).

  10. 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

  11. George Atwood (1745 - 1807) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: E M Cole, W Back, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by Simon Schaffer, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).