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  2. John Backus (1924 - 2007) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: I hated it. They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. ... You don't by trying to find the laws of physics. J W Backus, The History of Fortran I, II and III, History of Programming Languages (New York, 1981

  3. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: A C Lynch, The sources for a biography of Oliver Heaviside, History of technology 13 (1991), 145-149. ... E T Whittaker, Oliver Heaviside, Bull. Calcutta Math. Soc. 20 (1928-29), 216-220.

  4. Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: K C Brown (ed.), Hobbes studies (Oxford, 1965). C H Hinnant, Thomas Hobbes: A Reference Guide (1980). ... R Ross, H Schneider and T Waldman (eds.), Thomas Hobbes in his Time (Minneapolis, 1974).

  5. László Filep (1941 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Jan 2024: He also published biographies of many mathematicians including Janos Bolyai, John C Harsanyi, John von Neumann, and Paul Erdős.

  6. Alice Everett (1865 - 1949) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    17 May 2024: M T Brück, Alice Everett and Annie Russell Maunder: torch-bearing women astronomers, Irish Astronomical Journal 21 (1994), 280-291. ... M T Brück, Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites (Springer Science & Business Media, 2009)

  7. Charles de la Vallée Poussin (1866 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: J C Burkill, Vallée Poussin, J. London Math. Soc. 39 (1964), 165-175. ... Issled. 27 (1983), 301-312. P Montel, Notice nécrologique sur Ch.-J de La Vallée Poussin, C.

  8. Edmund Landau (1877 - 1938) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: Wouldn't you like to free Göttingen from Landau? Despite having friends who were well informed as to what the Nazis might do if they came to power, Landau failed to ... N Schappacher, Das Mathematische Institut der Universität Göttingen, in H Becker, H

  9. Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (1927 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    21 Dec 2023: I didn't want to do that. I really wanted to be a research mathematician. ... C Henrion, Joan Birman, in Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference (Indiana University Press, 1997), 121-140.

  10. Jonathan Borwein (1951 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: S T Chapman, A letter from the editor: Jonathan M Borwein (1951-2016), Amer. ... T R Marchant and G A Willis, Editorial. Professor Jonathan M Borwein, J.

  11. Leopoldo Franca (1959 - 2012) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: Franca's first papers include: (i) T J R Hughes, L P Franca and M Balestra, A New Finite Element Formulation for Computational Fluid Dynamics: V. ... L P Franca, T E Tezduyar and A Masud, Finite Element Methods: 1970's and Beyond (CIMNE, Barcelona, 2004).