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  2. Claude Gaspar Bachet (1581 - 1638) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    9 Oct 2023: 47 (1) (1896), 105-112. C G Collet and J Itard, Un mathematician humaniste : Claude-Gaspar Bachet de Meziriac, 1581-1638, Revue d'histoire des sciences 1 (1947), 26-50.

  3. Børge Jessen (1907 - 1993) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: During this time he played a major role in planning the H C Ørsted Institute which opened in 1963 to house mathematics, physics and chemistry. ... C Berg, Børge Jessen, 19.6.1907-20.3.1993, Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics 5

  4. Anderson McKendrick (1876 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Sep 2023: F C Hoppensteadt wrote Some influences of population biology on mathematics and in this work mentioned the contributions made by McKendrick:-. ... In this latter post, he worked closely with the chemist W O Kermack and the mathematicians E T Whittaker

  5. Douglas Northcott (1916 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: The mathematics master C J A Trimble was a fine teacher and this combined with Northcott's outstanding abilities saw him win, in 1935, a Bayliss Scholarship to enter St ... and create the necessary tools by ad hoc constructions. T W Hungerford, himself

  6. Athanase Dupré (1808 - 1869) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Nov 2023: Journal of the Franklin Institute 81 (1866), 354. A Sauzay, Athanase Dupré, in Wonders of glass-making in all ages (C Scribner & Company, 1870), 285.

  7. John Kelley (1916 - 1999) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He wrote (see [9] or [10]):-. The Regents' problem with us non-signers wasn't communism; it was insubordination. ... promoted. Kelley retired in 1985 but he did not give up mathematical research, continuing to collaborate with T P Srinivasan.

  8. Anders Celsius (1701 - 1744) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: H C Stempels, Anders Celsius' contributions to meridian arc measurements and the establishment of an astronomical observatory in Uppsala, Baltic Astronomy 20 (2011), 179-85. ... Written by I J Falconer, J G Mena, J J O'Connor, T S C Peres, E F Robertson,

  9. Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: W K C Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy 4 (1975), 5 (1978). ... C J Rowe, Plato (Bristol Classical Press, London, 1984). E S Stamatis,The mathematicians of Plato's Academy (Greek) (Athens, 1982).

  10. William Oughtred (1574 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: L C Karpinski, Review: William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics, by F Cajori, Amer. ... Math. Monthly 24 (1) (1917), 29-30. T F Nikonova, The life and work of the English mathematician William Oughtred (Russian), Moskov.

  11. Annie Fitch MacKinnon (1868 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    11 Jan 2024: W C Eells, American doctoral dissertations on mathematics and astronomy written by women in the nineteenth century, The Mathematics Teacher 50 (5) (1957), 374-376. ... W T Hewett, Cornell University: A History (University Publishing Society, New York,