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William Clifford (1845 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clifford/27 Jun 2024: J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J R Newman, William Kingdon Clifford, Scientific American 188 (2) (1953), 78-84.
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Abraham bar Hiyya (1070 - 1136) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abraham/4 Jan 2024: works into Latin. M Levey, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... F Baer, Die Judem im Christlichen Spanien (Berlin, 1929). G B Sarfatti, Mathematical terminology in Hebrew scientific literature of the Middle Ages
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Thomas Heath (1861 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Heath/25 Jan 2024: He died at Merry Hall in Ashtead, Surrey. J F Scott, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Horace Lamb (1849 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lamb/25 Jan 2024: the passing of the scientific memoir, which in the hands of a Lagrange or a Poisson had a completeness and austerity of a great work of art. ... He received honorary doctorates from seven universities. K E Bullen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific
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Francis Maseres (1731 - 1824) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maseres/22 Oct 2023: W L Schaaf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W P Courtney, Francis Maseres, Dictionary of National Biography XXXVI (London, 1893), 407-409.
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George FitzGerald (1851 - 1901) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/FitzGerald/25 Jan 2024: A M Bork, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J Larmor (ed.), The Scientific Writings of the Late George Francis FitzGerald (Dublin, 1902).
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Charles Glover Barkla (1877 - 1944) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Barkla/23 Nov 2023: He always preferred living in rural surroundings. A staunch Methodist, he saw scientific investigation as 'a part of the quest for God, the Creator'. ... Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK.
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Rabbi Ben Ezra (1092 - 1167) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ezra/7 Mar 2023: M Levey, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... G B Sarfatti, Mathematical terminology in Hebrew scientific literature of the Middle Ages (Jerusalem 1968).
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Takakazu Seki (1642 - 1708) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Seki/23 Nov 2023: A Kobori, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Farey (1766 - 1826) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Farey/7 Mar 2023: The quotation we gave above shows that Farey explicitly states he has no proof. ... J M Eyles, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).