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Joseph Pérès (1890 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peres/7 Mar 2023: Costabel writes in [1]:-. To his scientific colleagues [Pérès] remained a circumspect theorist, animator, and promoter. ... This eloge was published as [P Costabel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Al-Baghdadi (980 - 1037) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Baghdadi/7 Mar 2023: b. b. b is deficient. S Pines, A S Saidan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Christian Wiener (1826 - 1896) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiener_Christian/7 Mar 2023: As one might expect from an eminent scientist, Wiener defended scientific research against the opinions of many at that time who saw it as being a danger to morality. ... H G Korber, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Marcel Grossmann (1878 - 1936) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grossmann/7 Mar 2023: They emphasise mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests. J J Burckhardt, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Jules Tannery (1848 - 1910) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tannery_Jules/7 Mar 2023: P Speziali, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Martin Gardner (1914 - 2010) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gardner/7 Mar 2023: In December 1956 he had his first article, which was on hexaflexagons, published by Scientific American. ... The columns he wrote for Scientific American have been published as fifteen books.
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Al-Quhi (940 - 1000) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Quhi/7 Mar 2023: Y Dold-Samplonius, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Pierre Varignon (1654 - 1722) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Varignon/7 Mar 2023: P Costabel, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... V N Chinenova, On a scientific biography of P Varignon (Russian), in Achievements in the development of the mathematical sciences (Natsional.
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Johann (II) Bernoulli (1710 - 1790) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Johann(II)/7 Mar 2023: His shyness and frail constitution did not, however, prevent him from engaging in extensive scientific correspondence (about 900 items) and from furthering the publication, in four volumes, of his father's ... J O Fleckenstein, Biography in Dictionary of
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Guido Castelnuovo (1865 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Castelnuovo/7 Mar 2023: In all Castelnuovo produced over 100 publications if one counts his books, articles and scientific memoirs. ... efforts. E Carruccio, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).