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Liu Hui (220 - 280) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Liu_Hui/30 Dec 2023: J-C Martzloff, A history of Chinese mathematics (Berlin-Heidelberg, 1997). J-C Martzloff, Histoire des mathématiques chinoises (Paris, 1987). ... C Cullen, Learning from Liu Hui? A different way to do mathematics, Notices Amer.
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Patrick Du Val (1903 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Du_Val/2 Jun 2023: During this time (in 1938) he published a pamphlet of 26 pages written jointly with H S M Coxeter, H T Flather, and J F Petrie entitled The Fifty-nine Icosahedra. ... J C P Miller, Review: The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra by H S M Coxeter; P Du Val; H T Flather
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Enno Heeren Dirksen (1788 - 1850) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dirksen/2 Nov 2023: He spent three years there being taught by Gauss as well as by B F Thibaut, J T Mayer and G F Sartorius. ... M Folkerts, Enno Heeren Dirksen, Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland. M Folkerts, Der Mathematiker E H Dirksen und C F Gauss, in
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Hermann Grassmann (1809 - 1877) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grassmann/2 Nov 2023: W Burau, C J Scriba, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... A C Lewis, H Grassmann's 1844 'Ausdehnungslehre' and Schleiermacher's 'Dialektik', Ann.
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Bryce McLeod (1929 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/McLeod/1 May 2023: Let us end with some tributes to McLeod. First one from Carson C Chow [3]:-. ... C C Chow, J Bryce McLeod, Scientific Clearing House.
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Julius Plücker (1801 - 1868) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Plucker/2 Nov 2023: 7 (1952). 1-5. C Tibiletti, Sul problema di Apollonio: i cerchi orientati e le soluzioni di Vieta, Plücker e Newton, Period.
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History of Astronomy Index page - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Astronomy/7 Mar 2023: I J Falconer, J G Mena, T S C Peres, I R Shand, G M Talbot, University of St Andrews.
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Richard Askey (1933 - 2019) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Askey/2 Jun 2023: Bruce C Berndt, reviewing this important book, puts it in context:-. ... G Gasper, M E H Ismail, T Koornwinder, P Nevai and D Stanton, The mathematical contributions of Richard Askey, in q-series from a contemporary perspective, South Hadley, MA, 1998,
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Aristarchus (310 BC - 230 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Aristarchus/30 Dec 2023: T L Heath, Aristarchus of Samos (Oxford, 1913). T L Heath, Aristarchus of Samos. ... A C Bowen and B R Goldstein, Aristarchus, Thales, and Heraclitus on solar eclipses : an astronomical commentary on P Oxy 53.3710 cols.
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Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermi/5 Dec 2023: Eugene Wigner wrote:-. Ten days before Fermi died he told me, 'I hope it won't take long.' He had reconciled himself perfectly to his fate. ... G Battimelli, C Bernardini and E Amaldi, Enrico Fermi was born 100 years ago (Italian), Lett.