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2. James Booth (1806 - 1878) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   2 Jun 2023: Nor is this to be wondered at. Mathematical researches, and, indeed, I might add, scientific pursuits in general, command but small attention in this country, unless they promise to pay. ... C W Sutton, Booth, James (1806-1878), rev. Frank Foden, Oxford

3. Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1854 - 1914) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

   7 Mar 2023: For a fairly complete list of Peirce's publications, seeC Eisele, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

4. Alexander Macfarlane (1851 - 1913) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

   11 Jan 2024: Macfarlane received widespread recognition for his contributions. In addition to his election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he was elected to the Scientific Society of Mexico in 1893, to the ... Macfarlane, Alexander, The Biographical Dictionary of

5. Peter Borwein (1953 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   27 Mar 2024: This is reported in the January 1983 'Scientific American' and the February 1983 'Discover Magazine'. ... N Lord, Review: A dictionary of real numbers, by Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein, The Mathematical Gazette 74 (470) (1990), 395.

6. Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave (1874 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor …

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cave-Browne-Cave_Beatrice/

   26 Jan 2024: A E L Davis, Cave, Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne- (1874-1947), applied mathematician, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). ... T M Porter, Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (Princeton University Press, 2010).

7. John Cruickshank (1787 - 1875) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: John Ogilvie is, however, famed as a lexicographer publishing The Imperial Dictionary (1850-51), one of the most popular dictionaries of its day. ... From the end of his College days till near the end of his long life his time was mostly spent in

8. William Morgan (1750 - 1833) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   21 Dec 2023: It is clear that Price recognised that an excellent mathematical knowledge of life contingencies was essential to the proper running of a life insurance company on scientific principles. ... As well as being the Actuary of the Society, the first

9. New Zealand Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/RS_of_New_Zealand/

   7 Mar 2023: This report led to the New Zealand Institute electing 20 fellows based on their scientific research achievements. ... Being a fellow of the Institute soon became the highest scientific honour in New Zealand.

10. Ernest Corominas (1913 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2023: Joan (in English John) became a famous Catalan linguist and the author of the etymological dictionary of the Spanish language Diccionario crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana. ... His students and all who knew him well, remember his quiet

11. George Jeffery (1891 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: mathematics or physics into which my work has led me, and the subject which, as far as one may venture to prophesy as to the future course of scientific thought, seems