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Sophus Lie (1842 - 1899) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lie/4 Jan 2024: H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... R Hermann (ed.), Lie Groups : History, Frontiers and Applications (Brookline, Mass., 1975 - ). E M Polishchuk, Sophus Lie (1842 - 1899) (Russian),
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David van Dantzig (1900 - 1959) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dantzig/29 Sep 2023: and time' which he gave at the 1938 Cambridge Congress on 'Scientific Language'. ... IV. Free oscillations of a rotating rectangular sea (1960). H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Napier (1550 - 1617) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Napier/30 Dec 2023: He approached agriculture in a scientific way and he experimented with:-. ... M E Baron, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Paolo Ruffini (1765 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ruffini/23 Nov 2023: However, he soon left this position and, in early 1798, he returned to his scientific work at the University of Modena. ... E Carruccio, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 - 1920) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ramanujan/18 Jan 2024: O Ore, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J M Borwein and P B Borwein, Ramanujan and pi, Scientific American 258 (2) (1988), 66-73.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dodgson/25 Jan 2024: N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Jean Richer (1630 - 1696) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Richer/7 Mar 2023: had discerned with remarkable insight the great scientific possibilities of such a voyage. ... E Rosen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hamilton/30 Dec 2023: writes:-. at a dinner of a scientific society in Dublin he lost control of himself, and was so mortified that, on the advice of friends he resolved to abstain totally. ... T L Hankins, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Augusta Ada Byron (1815 - 1852) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lovelace/30 Dec 2023: Ada Byron enjoyed attending mathematics and scientific demonstrations with Mary Somerville, but she also enjoyed her company on other occasions. ... At one point she considered writing a scientific study of the effects of opium and wine gained from her
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Archytas (428 BC - 350 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archytas/2 May 2023: In these Eutocius claims to quote the description given in History of geometry by Eudemus of Rhodes but the accuracy of the quotation is doubted by the authors of [10]. ... K von Fritz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).