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Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wren/5 Jan 2024: Whatever the reason, the work Wren carried out for Scarburgh was his first significant scientific contribution. ... him. J F Scott, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Georg Peurbach (1423 - 1461) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peurbach/30 May 2023: Much scientific work was funded for the wrong reasons, but some might say this still happens today. ... C D Hellman, N M Swerdlow, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Brook Taylor (1685 - 1731) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Taylor/18 Jan 2024: P S Jones, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Turing/26 Feb 2024: If he is to be solely a Scientific Specialist, he is wasting his time at a Public School. ... W Warwick, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Nicholas Kryffs (1401 - 1464) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cusa/23 Nov 2023: Volker Bialas writes [12]:-. In his philosophical and scientific writings, mainly devoted to metaphysical questions, Nicolas of Cues. ... J E Hofmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Henry Whitehead (1904 - 1960) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Whitehead_Henry/25 Jan 2024: J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838 - 1926) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abbott/4 Jan 2024: Biography by L R Farnell, rev. Rosemary Jann, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). ... R Jann, Abbott's Flatland : scientific imagination and 'natural Christianity'', Victorian Studies 28 (1985), 473-490.
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Étienne Montucla (1725 - 1799) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Montucla/7 Mar 2023: In 1756 Montucla published a work which shows the breadth of his scientific interests. ... K Vogel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Russell/30 Dec 2023: T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... 1931) The Scientific Outlook (London: George Allen and Unwin, New York: W.W.
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Abraham Robinson (1918 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Robinson/7 Mar 2023: He was sent to Germany in 1945, still in his role as Scientific Officer, and then in 1946 he was appointed as a senior lecturer at the College of Aeronautics at ... J W Dauben, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).