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Hippocrates (470 BC - 410 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hippocrates/4 Jan 2024: A,B,C and. D. D. D, and the circle with centre. D. ... D. D through. A. A. A and. C. C. C. Notice first that the segment marked 1 on.
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Julián Adem (1924 - 2015) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Adem_Julian/11 Jan 2024: The secondary and high school had been founded by Professor Manuel C Tello in 1938. ... He invited Adem to spend some time at the National Meteorology Center in Washington D.C.
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Henryk Zygalski (1908 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Zygalski/23 Nov 2023: On 20 October 1939, the three Polish mathematicians began decoding German ciphers from station P.C. ... C Christensen, Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages, Mathematics Magazine 80 (4) (2007), 247-273.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.