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Évariste Galois (1811 - 1832) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Galois/30 Dec 2023: Tragedy was to strike Galois for on 2 July 1829 his father committed suicide. ... Histoire Sci. Appl. 21 (2) (1968), 157-160. B M Kiernan, The Development of Galois Theory from Lagrange to Artin, Archive for History of Exact Science 8 (1971), 40-154.
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Niels Abel (1802 - 1829) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abel/28 Feb 2024: Abel's theorem is a vast generalisation of Euler's relation for elliptic integrals. ... R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of Exact Science 23 (1980), 253-277.
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Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kepler/30 Dec 2023: J V Field, A Lutheran Astrologer : Johannes Kepler, Archive for History of Exact Science 31 (1984), 189-. ... J V Field, Rediscovering the Archimedean polyhedra: Piero della Francesca, Luca Pacioli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Daniele Barbaro,
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Robert Lee Moore (1882 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Moore_Robert/7 Mar 2023: I wouldn't for anything have let my children go to school with Moore! ... Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (3) (1977), 415. R L Wilder, The Mathematical Work of R L Moore: its background, nature and influence, Archive for History of Exact Science 26 (1) (1982),
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Guido Castelnuovo (1865 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Castelnuovo/7 Mar 2023: U Bottazzini, A Conte and P Gario, The report of Castelnuovo and Enriques : unpublished material for the Royal Prize in Mathematics of 1901 (Italian), in Studies in the history of modern ... P Gario, Singularities and geometry of surfaces in C Segre's
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Max Planck (1858 - 1947) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Planck/30 Dec 2023: A school report for 1872 reads:-. Justifiably favoured by both teachers and classmates. ... J Franck, Max Planck, Science 107 (1948), 534-537. M J Klein, Max Planck and the Beginnings of Quantum Theory, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1 (1962),
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Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Turing/26 Feb 2024: for Turing who later was to become a fine athlete of almost Olympic standard. ... The real difficulty arose in proving that for certain propositions no such algorithm existed.
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Paolo Ruffini (1765 - 1822) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ruffini/23 Nov 2023: G Barbensi, Paolo Ruffini nel suo tempo (Modena, 1955). R G Ayoub, Paolo Ruffini's Contributions to the Quintic, Archive for History of Exact Science 23 (1980), 253-277. ... R A Bryce, Ruffini and the quintic equation, in First Australian Conference on
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Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schrodinger/25 Jan 2024: P A Hanle, The Coming of Age of Erwin Schrödinger : His Quantum Statistics of Ideal Gases, Archive for History of Exact Science 17 (1977), 165-. ... H Kragh, On the history of early wave mechanics, Centaurus 26 (1982), 154-197.
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James Joseph Sylvester (1814 - 1897) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sylvester/30 Dec 2023: R C Archibald, Material concerning James Joseph Sylvester, in Studies and Essays in the History of Science and Learning Offered in Homage to George Sarton on the Occasion of his Sixtieth ... M Noether, James Joseph Sylvester, Mathematische Annalen 50