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Thabit (836 - 901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thabit/30 Dec 2023: The author of [20] writes:-. When we consider this body of work in the context of the beginnings of the scientific movement in ninth-century Baghdad, we see that Thabit played ... Neither, however, reached the mathematical heights of Thabit. Y
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Jacques Ozanam (1640 - 1718) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ozanam/9 Oct 2023: the work might continue to be to the present generation a useful manual of scientific recreation, as its predecessors have been to the generation which has passed. ... W L Schaaf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Letitia Chitty (1897 - 1982) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chitty/11 Jan 2024: Yet she would attend the evening soirées at the Royal Institution and be fully engaged with the scientific discourse given at the meeting. ... A Barrett, Women At Imperial College; Past, Present And Future (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017).
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Paul Appell (1855 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Appell/7 Mar 2023: May, writing in [1], emphasises this point:-. his scientific work consists of a series of brilliant solutions of particular problems, some of the greatest difficulty. ... K O May, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917 - 1971) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Savage/18 Jan 2024: Thus, orthodoxy of neoradicalism developed: if one were not in substantial agreement with him, one was inimical, or stupid, or at the least inattentive to an important scientific development. ... B M Hill, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Geoffrey Taylor (1886 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Taylor_Geoffrey/25 Jan 2024: He had the rare honour of seeing his scientific papers, some previously unpublished, gathered together and published in four thick volumes during his lifetime. ... G K Batchelor, Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram, Dictionary of National Biography 1971-1980
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John Synge (1897 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Synge/1 May 2023: During his long scientific career, Synge published over 200 papers and 11 books. ... Once, upon opening a public lecture he posed the question, if I recall correctly, as to whether a scientific lecture is to be compared with a theatrical performance, a
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Ahmad Banu Musa (805 - 873) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Banu_Musa_Ahmad/7 Mar 2023: Al-Dabbagh, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). See THIS LINK. ... Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
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Charles Coulson (1910 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Coulson/28 Oct 2023: He received a dozen honorary degrees. However, one must not think that, because Coulson undertook such a massive amount of scientific work, he would have no time for other activities. ... Biography by Walter Bird, rev. N H March, in Dictionary of
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Adam Günther (1848 - 1923) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Guenther/7 Mar 2023: J E Hofmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).