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James Hutton (1726 - 1797) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hutton_James/7 Mar 2023: The second was a literal interpretation of the six days God took to create the world as described in the Book of Genesis together with the quotation that to God one ... V A Eyles, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Zhu Shijie (1260 - 1320) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zhu_Shijie/7 Mar 2023: What little we know of Zhu is contained in the following quotation from the preface to the second, and most famous, of his texts. ... n. n. n days]. H Peng-Yoke, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Karl Weierstrass (1815 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weierstrass/30 Dec 2023: he had neither a colleague for mathematical discussions nor access to a mathematical library, and that the exchange of scientific letters was a luxury that he could not afford. ... lectures. K R Biermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Al-Khwarizmi (790 - 850) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi/30 Dec 2023: G J Toomer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A F Faizullaev, The scientific heritage of Muhammad al-Khwarizmi (Russian) (Tashkent, 1983).
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Adriaan van Roomen (1561 - 1615) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Roomen/7 Mar 2023: His work in this area is discussed in detail in [H L L Busard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Georg Cantor (1845 - 1918) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cantor/30 Dec 2023: He wrote to Mittag-Leffler at the end of June [3]:-. I don't know when I shall return to the continuation of my scientific work. ... H Meschkowski, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Plato/30 Dec 2023: that the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable. ... D J Allan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New
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Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale/12 May 2024: M Keele, Florence Nightingale in Rome (New York, 1981). I B Cohen, Florence Nightingale, Scientific American 250 (March 1984), 128-137.
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Chris Zeeman (1925 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zeeman/27 Aug 2023: I wanted to get my hands dirty, and make predictions, and get the experimentalists to test them, because I knew that the scientific community would never take a theory seriously unless ... He created HoDoMS - the committee that represents mathematics
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Johann Bernoulli (1667 - 1748) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernoulli_Johann/30 Dec 2023: E A Fellmann, J O Fleckenstein, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).