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Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Monge/4 Jan 2024: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A N Bogolyubov, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) (Russian), Scientific-Biographical Literature Series 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1978).
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James Jeans (1877 - 1946) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jeans/25 Jan 2024: There was a long running scientific argument between Jeans and Eddington over the mechanism by which energy was created in stars. ... Jeans, therefore, had a second organ installed in his Dorking home and, using his scientific skills, he designed the
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Jacob Bernoulli (1655 - 1705) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Jacob/11 Jan 2024: SeeJ E Hofmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Lewis Fry Richardson (1881 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richardson/14 Oct 2023: E Gold, Lewis Fry Richardson, Dictionary of National Biography Supp (1951-60) (London, 1971), 837-839.
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Hermann Weyl (1885 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weyl/4 Jan 2024: although half a joke, sums up his personality. J Dieudonne, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... a general introduction to his scientific work, Schloss Reisensburg, 1992 (Birkhäuser, Basel, 2001), 11-155.
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) - Biography -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maupertuis/23 Nov 2023: B Glass, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Rev. Rose Illus.) 80 (1942), 51-59. J Fee, Maupertuis and the principle of least action, Scientific monthly 52 (1941).
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Girolamo Cardano (1501 - 1576) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cardan/30 Dec 2023: Cardan was at the height of his fame and, as a consequence, his journey to Scotland was remarkable in that everywhere he went scientific communities treated him as a celebrity and ... M Gliozzi, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York
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Alfred Clebsch (1833 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clebsch/7 Mar 2023: W Burau, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/16 Apr 2024: In 1815 A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary by Hutton has, in the entry for transcendental, the following:. ... This quotation is taken from the 1968 edition of A History of Mathematics, pages 370-371.
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Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Banach/23 Apr 2024: M Katetov, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).