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  1. William Thomson (1824 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null method for the inverse square law of electrostatics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science A 65-66 suppl.C (2017), 74-86.

  2. Georgy Voronoy (1868 - 1908) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: Today they have wide applications to the analysis of spatially distributed data, so have become important in topics such as geophysics and meteorology. ... There he met Minkowski and they discovered that they were each working on similar topics.

  3. Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: A quote from these writings is particularly relevant to this archive on the history of mathematics. ... In 1908 he wrote:-. The true method of foreseeing the future of mathematics is to study its history and its actual state.

  4. P G Tait (1831 - 1901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Jan 2024: these. It would be quite impossible in an article of this length to cover all the topics which Tait worked on. ... Tait wrote a highly prejudiced account of the history of thermodynamics which was stupidly pro-British and Tyndall was right to be offended.

  5. Andrey Kolmogorov (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: He studied a number of subjects, for example in addition to mathematics he studied metallurgy and Russian history. ... his ideas in set-theoretic topology, approximation theory, the theory of turbulent flow, functional analysis, the foundations of

  6. Hendrik Lorentz (1853 - 1928) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: J A Kox, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, the Ether and the General Theory of Relativity, Archive for History of Exact Science 38 (1988), 67-78.

  7. William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: History Exact Sci. 19 (2) (1978/79), 177-200. A J McConnell, Hamilton's work in applied mathematics, Bull. ... Inst. Math. Appl. 13 (9-10) (1977), 228-233. N D McMillan, History of mathematics : J MacCullagh and W R Hamilton - the triumph of Irish

  8. Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: and Malebranche, discussing with Arnauld a variety of topics but particularly church reunification. ... Mag. 63 (5) (1990), 291-306. B Russell, History of Western Philosophy (London, 1961), 563-576.

  9. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: The volume entitled 'The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish' was published in 1879, and is unequalled as a chapter in the history of electricity. ... Falconer, I. J. No actual measurement. was required: Maxwell and Cavendish's null

  10. Stan Ulam (1909 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    1 May 2024: Soon after I met him, I was made to understand that, as far as our conversations went, his drama would be one of the Forbidden Topics.