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Hirst's diary - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Hirst_comments/7 Mar 2023: Below are quotations from Thomas Hirst's journals concerning mathematicians whose biographies are given in this archive. ... scientific and mathematical circles.
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Donald Davies (1924 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Davies_Donald/11 Jan 2024: I felt rather bad for the other exhibitors with real scientific achievements to show. ... D M Yates, Davies, Donald Watts, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (24 May 2008).
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Jonathan Borwein (1951 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Borwein_Jonathan/27 Mar 2024: Astonishingly, among his many projects then was a 'Dictionary of Mathematics', and indeed I felt a kind of prosaic Boswell to his dizzying Samuel Johnson. ... N Lord, Review: A dictionary of real numbers, by Jonathan Borwein and Peter Borwein, The
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Juan Manuel Cajigal (1803 - 1856) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cajigal/11 Jan 2024: The Dictionary of the History of Venezuela gives information about some other of Cajigal's activities [13]:-. ... And those ideas were slowly isolating such a luminous intelligence from the scientific and social world.
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Pierre Laurent (1813 - 1854) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laurent_Pierre/7 Mar 2023: J Itard, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Roger Godement (1921 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Godement/7 Mar 2023: It will be up to them to discover by themselves, possibly years after graduating, that which "has no place" in scientific books or lectures and was not told them by older
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Mary Byrd (1849 - 1934) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Byrd/11 Jan 2024: was well known for his conviction that women should receive support and recognition in the scientific world. ... Mary E Byrd, in J McKeen Cattell (ed.), American Men of Science: A Bibliographic Dictionary (Science Press, New York, 1910-1933),.
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Enoch Beery Seitz (1846 - 1883) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Seitz/7 Mar 2023: A star has fallen. in the early prime of manhood, and the scientific world is called to mourn the untimely loss of one of the brightest mathematical intellects ever imprisoned in
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Francesco Maurolico (1494 - 1575) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maurolico/7 Mar 2023: Maurolico completed this work in 1534. A Masotti, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W Burke-Gaffney, Celestial Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century, The Scientific Monthly 44 (2) (1937), 150-156.
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Harlow Shapley (1885 - 1972) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Shapley_Harlow/21 Apr 2023: O J Gingerich, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... C Payne-Gaposchkin, Harlow Shapley, The Scientific Monthly 64 (3) (1947), 189-191.