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Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maclaurin/22 Jun 2024: J F Scott, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Colin Maclaurin, Dictionary of National Biography XXXV (London, 1893), 196-198. See THIS LINK.
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John Greaves (1602 - 1652) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Greaves_John/25 Sep 2023: His main scientific aim was the [5]:-. practical and sober project of standardising and synchronising the weights and measures of all ancient and modern nations. ... He was buried in St Benet Sherehog, London. Biography by F Maddison, in Dictionary of
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John Arbuthnot (1667 - 1735) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Arbuthnot/3 Jul 2023: H Freudenthal, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... John Arbuthnot, Dictionary of National Biography II (London, 1887), 62-65. See THIS LINK.
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Christopher Clavius (1538 - 1612) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Clavius/23 Nov 2023: When Galileo published Sidereus Nuncius in 1610, Clavius was an old man and it must have been extremely difficult to grasp these new discoveries both from a scientific and religious point ... H L L Busard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Arnold Sommerfeld (1868 - 1951) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sommerfeld/4 Jan 2024: He had the rare ability to have time to spare for his pupils, in spite of his duties and scientific work. ... P Forman, A Hermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Max Born (1882 - 1970) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Born/23 Nov 2023: A Hermann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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John Leslie (1766 - 1832) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leslie/7 Mar 2023: This was the opportunity that Leslie needed to allow him to concentrate on his mathematical and scientific researches. ... R G Olson, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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R A Fisher (1890 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fisher/25 Jan 2024: He was capable of tremendous charm, and warmth in friendship. But he also was the victim, as he himself recognised, of an uncontrollable temper; and his devotion to scientific truth as ... N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Nicomachus (60 - 120) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nicomachus/7 Mar 2023: by Nicomachus; for among the authors from whom it gives extracts is Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicaea (270 AD); but it contains quotations from Nicomachus which appear to come from the genuine ... L Taran, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Luigi Menabrea (1809 - 1896) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Menabrea/2 Nov 2023: This scientific work by Menabrea took place at a time when he was still more heavily involved in politics and military work. ... B A Boley, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).