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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.,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Anzelm Iwanik (1946 - 1998) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Iwanik/7 Mar 2023: These are transformations. T. T. T on a 2-torus satisfying. T. (. ... m. x. f. (. x. ). ). T(x, y) = (x a, y mx f (x)).
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Morris Kline (1908 - 1992) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kline/7 Mar 2023: C B Boyer, Review: Mathematics in Western Culture by Morris Kline, Isis 45 (4) (1954), 385-387. ... T Drucker, Morris Kline (1908-1992), Modern Logic 3 (2) (1993), 156-158.
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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.
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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.