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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).
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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).
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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
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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.
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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),
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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.
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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).
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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).
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Boris G Galerkin (1871 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galerkin/7 Mar 2023: A T Grigorian, writing in [1], describes other work:-. Galerkin's scientific research in the theory of casing (1934-45) revealed its broad application in industrial construction. ... His results were used in planning the dam. Galerkin's important work on
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John Couch Adams (1819 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Adams/23 Nov 2023: M Grosser, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W G Adams (ed), The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams (2 vols.) (Cambridge, 1896-1900).