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  2. Deane Montgomery (1909 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: There were some good mathematicians there, certainly, but there wasn't an overwhelming number. ... In a long series of papers written in the late 1960s and early 1970s, [Montgomery and C T Yang] used the study of group actions on homotopy 7-spheres to

  3. Ellice Horsburgh (1870 - 1935) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: An obituary, written by E T Whittaker, was published in the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society atE T Whittaker, Ellice Martin Horsburgh, M.A., D.Sc.,

  4. Fan Chung (1949 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    21 Dec 2023: f(k1)3f(k)f(k2). Also in 1973 Chung attended the Capital Conference at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. ... I didn't even take maternity leave; there was too much paperwork associated with that.

  5. Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: I always worried about being a sissy; I didn't want to be too delicate. ... These things are kind of fun and delightful. It doesn't do any harm to think them over again.

  6. Étienne Bobillier (1798 - 1840) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jan 2024: Bobillier then went on to pose the problem of how to determine the corresponding centre of curvature in the path of the third vertex, c, when given the centres of curvature

  7. Edmund Gunter (1581 - 1626) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: C J Sangwin writes [17]:-. A sector is a mathematical instrument which consists of two hinged rulers on which there are engraved scales. ... C H Cotter, Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), Journal of Navigation 34 (1981), 363-367.

  8. Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Med. 15 (4-5) (2010), 371-409. C B Boyer, Cavalieri, limits and discarded infinitesimals, Scripta Math. ... C R Wallner, Die Wandlungen des Indivisibilienbegriffs von Cavalieri bis Wallis, Bibliotheca Mathematica (3) 4 (1903), 28-47.

  9. William Greaves (1897 - 1955) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    20 Aug 2023: William Greaves' family came from the west of England but were living in Barbados where his father, Eustace C Greaves, was a doctor. ... A Baker, and Sir E T Whittaker.

  10. Louis Nirenberg (1925 - 2020) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 Feb 2024: That's the thing I try to get across to people who don't know anything about mathematics, what fun it is! ... Louis Nirenberg (French), C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. Gén. Vie Sci 6 (6) (1989), 509.

  11. Bernhard Riemann (1826 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: Born. 17 September 1826. Breselenz, Hanover (now Germany). Died. 20 July 1866. Selasca, Italy. Summary. Bernhard Riemann's ideas concerning geometry of space had a profound effect on the development of modern theoretical physics. He clarified the