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George Peacock (1791 - 1858) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peacock/18 Jan 2024: Thompson had been one of Peacock's students at Trinity College. E Koppelmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... 7 (4) (1980), 389-400. H W Becher, Peacock, George (1791-1858), Oxford Dictionary of National
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Nikolai Dmetrievich Brashman (1796 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brashman/2 May 2023: A T Grigorian, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A Davidov, Biographical dictionary of Professors and Teachers at Moscow University (Moscow, 1855).
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Walter Shewhart (1891 - 1967) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shewhart/12 Jul 2023: control.". Mr Edwards had observed the birth of the modern scientific study of process control. ... C B Eisenhart, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Gilbert Walker (1868 - 1958) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Walker_Gilbert/11 Jan 2024: P A Sheppard (rev. Isobel Falconer), Walker, Gilbert Thomas, applied mathematician and meteorologist, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004). ... S Yalda, Walker, Gilbert Thomas, Complete Dictionary of Scientific
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Jean Dieudonné (1906 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dieudonne/30 Dec 2023: As a young child Jean was irresistibly attracted to dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and universal histories.
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Sergei Alekseevich Chaplygin (1869 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chaplygin/23 Nov 2023: He was Executive Director of the Institute from 1928 to 1931, then he became head of the scientific work of the Institute. ... A T Grigorian, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Conway (1937 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway/30 Dec 2023: Conway showed the game to his friend Martin Gardner who described it in the October 1970 column which he wrote in Scientific American.
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Aleksei Krylov (1863 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Krylov_Aleksei/23 Nov 2023: A T Grigorian, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Scientific description (Izdat. 'Nauka', Leningrad. Otdel, Leningrad, 1969). S Ya Straih, Aleksei Nikolaevic Krylov, his life and works (Russian), Gosudarstv.
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Hans Rademacher (1892 - 1969) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Rademacher/10 Mar 2024: H Behnke, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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David Gregory (1659 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gregory_David/25 Sep 2023: The paper [8] by Friesen explains the background to Gregory's move which was linked to political, religious and scientific causes. ... D T Whiteside, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).