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  2. John Hammersley (1920 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2023: as a graduate assistant at Oxford in the Lectureship in the Design and Analysis of Scientific Experiment. ... He had the rare ability to identify the basic mathematics of a scientific problem, and to develop an applicable theory.

  3. Nicholas Saunderson (1682 - 1739) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Sep 2023: Whiston was a deeply religious man and had produced many theories attempting to integrate scientific theories into the Christian religion. ... H F Baker, Nicholas Saunderson or Sanderson, in Dictionary of National Biography Vol L (London, 1897), 332-333.

  4. Mary Whitney (1847 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: Assisting her were other women members of the faculty, among them Professor Maria Mitchell, the astronomer and most distinguished scientific woman of her time. ... K H Schwerin, The Scientific Whitneys Descended from John & Elinor Whitney (Albuquerque, NM

  5. Germinal Dandelin (1794 - 1847) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

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

  6. Johann Heinrich Graf (1852 - 1918) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    7 Mar 2023: or in the pursuit of their scientific research. ... E Neuenschwander, Biography in Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (2010).

  7. Victor Puiseux (1820 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 May 2023: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  8. Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Feb 2024: Herman Hollerith, Dictionary of American Biography Supp 1, 415-416. Herman Hollerith, The New York Times (19 November, 1929). ... K S Reid-Green, The history of census tabulation, Scientific American 260 (1989), 78-83.

  9. Henry Fine (1858 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: L P Eisenhart, Henry Burchard Fine and the Fine Memorial Hall, Scientific Mo.

  10. Giovanni Saccheri (1667 - 1733) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 Jun 2023: Neither seems to have ever heard of him. D J Struik, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  11. Daniel O'Connell (1896 - 1982) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: O'Connell was close to the Pope but he was a leading scientist who approached his research in a purely scientific way. ... N Lomb, O'Connell, Daniel Joseph Kelly (1896-1982), Australian Dictionary of Biography 18 (Melbourne University Press, 21012).