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Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hobbes/30 Dec 2023: S I Mintz, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Histoire Sci. 46 (2-3) (1993), 153-193. W R de Jong, Hobbes's logic : language and scientific method, Hist.
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Georg Frobenius (1849 - 1917) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frobenius/4 Jan 2024: H Wussing, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846 - 1927) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mittag-Leffler/24 May 2024: A Robinson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... D I Mangeron, The scientific work of Gustav Magnus Mittag-Leffler (Romanian), Revista Mat.
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Giuseppe Peano (1858 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Peano/18 Jan 2024: it appears to be an act of sheer romanticism, perhaps the unique romantic act in his scientific career. ... H C Kennedy, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermi/5 Dec 2023: This time, despite being very young for such a position, Fermi was appointed by the committee which recognised the exceptional quality of his scientific work. ... Fermi was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pascal/30 Dec 2023: However, despite his health problems, he worked intensely on scientific and mathematical questions until October 1654. ... R Taton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William of Ockham (1288 - 1348) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ockham/27 Aug 2023: E A Moody, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Felix Klein (1849 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Klein/28 Apr 2024: In him were] two souls. one longing for the tranquil scholar's life, the other for the active life of an editor, teacher, and scientific organiser. ... His favourite maxim was, "Never be dull". W Burau, B Schoeneberg, K von Meyenn, Biography in
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Bernard de Fontenelle (1657 - 1757) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fontenelle/23 Nov 2023: Approaching the subject in a scientific way, he suggested that oracles did not produce supernatural effects but were usually the result of priestly fraud. ... S Delorme, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Arthur Cayley (1821 - 1895) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cayley/30 Dec 2023: J D North, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A J Crilly, Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895), in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).