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Jacques Herbrand (1908 - 1931) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Herbrand/7 Mar 2023: For more information about Chevalley writings on Herbrand's thought see the articleJ van Heijenoort, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Alexis Bouvard (1767 - 1843) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bouvard/7 Mar 2023: A F O'F Alexander, Alexis Bouvard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography 2 (New York 1970-1990), 359-360.
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Albert Wangerin (1844 - 1933) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wangerin/7 Mar 2023: W Burau, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Ernst Abbe (1840 - 1905) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abbe/23 Nov 2023: S L Greitzer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Ernst Karl Abbe, in Carl W Hall, A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering.
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Ulam books - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Ulam_books/28 Jun 2024: 1.4. Review by: C P Snow. Scientific American 203 (3) (1960), 256. ... Can one describe its development and its role in the history of scientific thinking and can one predict its future?
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Pierre Méchain (1744 - 1804) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mechain/2 Nov 2023: He was too honest a scientist to pretend discrepancies were not there, so he treated Méchain's results as important scientific discoveries rather than as errors. ... O Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Claude-Louis Navier (1785 - 1836) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Navier/7 Mar 2023: R M McKeon, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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William Brouncker (1620 - 1684) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brouncker/25 Sep 2023: J M Dubbey, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Albert Girard (1595 - 1632) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Girard_Albert/18 Jan 2024: Certainly by 1616 the two were engaging in mathematical discussions and there is surviving correspondence from that time in which they are discussing scientific matters. ... J Itard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Muhyi l'din al-Maghribi (1220 - 1280) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Maghribi/7 Mar 2023: S Tekeli, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Dictionary of Scientific Biography.