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  2. Irving John Good (1916 - 2009) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Good/

    3 Apr 2024: This book is concerned with the foundations of the theory of probability and an analysis of scientific inductive reasoning.

  3. Louis Karpinski (1878 - 1956) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Karpinski/

    7 Mar 2023: placed all the works on the history of mathematics and astronomy, a fairly complete collection, the bibliographies, the dictionaries of mathematics and astronomy, the mathematical tables, and all mathematical and astronomical ... P S Jones, Biography in

  4. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brunelleschi/

    30 Dec 2023: Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 9 (1946), 96-121. G Chelazzi, Filippo Brunelleschi, in International Dictionary of Architects (1991), 117-121.

  5. Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Feynman/

    30 Dec 2023: For Feynman the essence of scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. ... Scientific creativity, he said, is imagination in a straitjacket. The rules of harmonic progression made for Mozart a cage as unyielding as the sonnet did for

  6. Bhaskara I (600 - 680) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bhaskara_I/

    7 Mar 2023: D Pingree, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  7. Kenneth May (1915 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/May/

    2 Jun 2023: and biographies ofand Émile Borel in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. ... His most important work on the history of mathematics is his article on Carl Friedrich Gauss for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1972).

  8. George Pólya (1887 - 1985) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Polya/

    30 Dec 2023: Born. 13 December 1887. Died. 7 September 1985. Palo Alto, California, USA. Summary. Pólya worked in probability, analysis, number theory, geometry, combinatorics and mathematical physics. . View nine larger pictures. George Pólya's parents were

  9. César-François Cassini de Thury (1714 - 1784) - Biography - MacTutor …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cassini_de_Thury/

    25 Sep 2023: R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Guillaume Bigourdan (1851 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bigourdan/

    7 Mar 2023: He was also a member of multiple scientific societies, and held many important roles: he became a member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1903 and worked to enrich their Annuaire ... J R Lévy, Bigourdan, Camille Guillaume, in Dictionary of Scientific

  11. Jean Delsarte (1903 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Delsarte/

    7 Mar 2023: His involvement in both teaching and research led him to write three artices which were published in 1939 giving constructive criticism of the way scientific research and higher education were organised ... 1964. J Dieudonne, Biography in Dictionary of