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  2. John Keill (1671 - 1721) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Keill/

    25 Sep 2023: D Kubrin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by John Henry, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  3. Cuthbert Tunstall (1474 - 1559) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tunstall/

    25 Sep 2023: J B Easton, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Biography by D G Newcombe, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

  4. Jérôme Lalande (1732 - 1807) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lalande/

    2 Nov 2023: T L Hankins, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... R Hahn, The anatomy of a scientific institution: the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 (berkeley, 1971).

  5. Marston Morse (1892 - 1977) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Morse/

    25 Jan 2024: Zund, writing in the Dictionary of American Biography, says this of his character:-.

  6. Andrew Wiles (1953 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wiles/

    28 Jun 2024: In 2017 Wiles was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal, the world's oldest scientific prize. ... Why has this theorem been so difficult to prove?, Scientific American (21 October 1999).

  7. George McVittie (1904 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/McVittie/

    28 Jun 2024: He wrote [20]:-. During the years September 1939 to September 1945 I was seconded from King's College, London, to the Scientific Civil Service and worked at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) ... S K Runcorn, George McVittie: his breadth of

  8. Francis Macaulay (1862 - 1937) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Macaulay/

    25 Jan 2024: T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  9. John Playfair (1748 - 1819) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Playfair/

    25 Jan 2024: They became lifelong friends and Maskelyne introduced him to the leading scientific men of the day. ... J Challinor, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  10. Joseph Tilly (1837 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tilly/

    7 Mar 2023: There were complaints that Tilly had unduly emphasised the scientific education of future officers at the École Militaire. ... J Pelseneer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

  11. Edmond Laguerre (1834 - 1886) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laguerre/

    11 Apr 2024: He was one of the most penetrating geometers of our age: his discoveries in geometry place him in the first rank among the successors of Chasles andM Bernkopf, Biography in Dictionary ... of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).