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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 - 1759) - Biography -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maupertuis/23 Nov 2023: C Grau, Maupertuis in Berlin (German), in H Hecht (ed.), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis : Eine Bilanz nach 300 Jahren (Baden-Baden, 1999), 35-55. ... T B Jones, The French expedition to Lapland, 1736-1737, Terrae incognitae 2 (1970).
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Mark Kac (1914 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kac/7 Mar 2023: I am fascinated, also, with mathematical problems, and particularly. the role of dimensionality: why certain things happen in 'from three dimensions on' and some others don't. ... M Kac, Enigmas of chance : an autobiography (California, 1987). L R
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Frank Morley (1860 - 1937) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Morley/11 Sep 2023: It wasn't hard to gather that my father was working at geometry, and I knew pretty well what geometry was, because for a long time I had been drawing triangles ... R C Archibald, A semicentennial history of the American Mathematical Society 1888-1938
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Cyril Offord (1906 - 2000) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Offord/1 May 2023: He was proposed by Sir Edmund T Whittaker, John W Heslop Harrison, Alexander C Aitken, and Alfred D Hobson. ... Retirements: A C Offord, LSE Magazine No 46 (November 1973), 8.
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Anna Johnson Wheeler (1883 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wheeler/7 Mar 2023: P L Duren, R Askey and U C Merzbach, A Century of Mathematics in America, Part 3 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1989). ... T K Wayne, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, in American Women of Science Since 1900 (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 965.
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Davis archive - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/Biblio2/7 Mar 2023: Bradbrook, M.C. 'That Infidel Place': A Short History of Girton College 1869-1969. ... Butler, K.T. and McMorran, H. I. (eds). Girton College Register 1869-1946.
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Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Democritus/30 Dec 2023: T Cole, Democritus and the Sources of Greek Anthropology, Amer. Philos. ... W K C Guthrie, A history of Greek philosophy (six vols.) (Cambridge, 1962-81).
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Kathleen Booth (1922 - 2022) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Booth_Kathleen/11 Jan 2024: C Putnam, Remembering a USask computing pioneer, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan (6 December 2022). ... C B T, Review: Programming for an automatic digital calculator, by Kathleen H V Booth, Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to
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Wang Xiaotong (580 - 640) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Wang_Xiaotong/7 Mar 2023: 2. a{2} b{2} = c{2}. a2b2=c2 by the Gougu rule (Pythagoras). ... a. c - a. ca so the coefficients are known. Isn't that clever!
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Émile Picard (1856 - 1941) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Picard_Emile/22 May 2023: He also wrote many prefaces to mathematical books and participated in the publication of works of C Hermite and G H Halphen.