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2. Takebe Katahiro (1664 - 1739) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Encouraged by Takebe, Yoshimune relaxed the edict forbidding the introduction of foreign books, including scientific books, which led to the growth of interest in Western science in Japan. ... Let us give two quotations dealing with this part of his

3. Hirst's diary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Hirst_comments/

   7 Mar 2023: Below are quotations from Thomas Hirst's journals concerning mathematicians whose biographies are given in this archive. ... scientific and mathematical circles.

4. Jonathan Borwein (1951 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   27 Mar 2024: Astonishingly, among his many projects then was a 'Dictionary of Mathematics', and indeed I felt a kind of prosaic Boswell to his dizzying Samuel Johnson. ... N Lord, Review: A dictionary of real numbers, by Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein, The

5. Juan Manuel Cajigal (1803 - 1856) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   11 Jan 2024: The Dictionary of the History of Venezuela gives information about some other of Cajigal's activities [13]:-. ... And those ideas were slowly isolating such a luminous intelligence from the scientific and social world.

6. Pierre Laurent (1813 - 1854) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

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

7. Mary Byrd (1849 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   11 Jan 2024: was well known for his conviction that women should receive support and recognition in the scientific world. ... Mary E Byrd, in J McKeen Cattell (ed.), American Men of Science: A Bibliographic Dictionary (Science Press, New York, 1910-1933),.

8. Roger Godement (1921 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: It will be up to them to discover by themselves, possibly years after graduating, that which "has no place" in scientific books or lectures and was not told them by older

9. Enoch Beery Seitz (1846 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: A star has fallen. in the early prime of manhood, and the scientific world is called to mourn the untimely loss of one of the brightest mathematical intellects ever imprisoned in

10. Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Aug 2023: It was probably Bruno's attitude rather than his scientific beliefs which were found unacceptable by the scholars of Oxford University and Bruno had little option but to return to London. ... In his writings Bruno also argues that Christianity is a

11. Francesco Maurolico (1494 - 1575) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Maurolico completed this work in 1534. A Masotti, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W Burke-Gaffney, Celestial Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century, The Scientific Monthly 44 (2) (1937), 150-156.