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41. Weil family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Weil_family/

    9 May 2024: Meghaduta which is a poem by Kalidasa, one of the greatest poets from ancient Indian times.

42. Professor Bill Parry - Independent obituary - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Parry_Independent/

    7 Mar 2023: Before and after retirement he immersed himself in poetry and latterly wrote poems himself, some of which have been published.

43. James Clerk Maxwell - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Maxwell/

    28 May 2025: copious extracts from his letters; the second part consists of a summary of his contributions to science while the third contains his poems.

44. William Rowan Hamilton English version PDF (681k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/Hamilton.pdf

    5 May 2020: poetry himself. He showed his poems to a friend, the poet WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, who had. ... difficulty in convincing HAMILTON that the poems were less successful than his mathematical and.

45. William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 Mar 2025: I have enjoyed very good health since I left Lancaster. His mother had been a poet who had published poems in local papers and Whewell must have inherited his mother's ... poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he

46. Irish Math. Soc. Bulletin Number 87, Summer 2021, 51–85ISSN ... PDF (4287k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/perigal_stewart.pdf

    14 Jun 2021: Further prose and poems of his defending the absence inrotation of the moon can be found in [72, p. ... 9], [27], [151]. The Astronomical Register was only in its second year of publication when Cyclops’poem appeared.

47. Longitude2 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Longitude2/

    7 Mar 2023: A poem written in 1661 described the work going on at Gresham College (see [6]):-.

48. Zacharias Dase (1824 - 1861) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Nov 2024: Archibald tells us it contains:-. 69 stanzas or poems in a variety of different forms by as many different authors. ... As far as I am aware this is the largest number of so-called poems on any single mathematician.

49. Thomas Carlyle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Carlyle/

    29 May 2025: The bulk of readers did not hail it as the great prose poem of the century. ... He sings rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical Poem, with regular cadences and generally catching up near the beginning some singular

50. H W Turnbull F.R.S. - EMS obituary - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Turnbull_EMS_obituary/

    7 Mar 2023: Some lines extracted from the poem by Robert Fergusson on the death of Turnbull's predecessor, David Gregory, are remarkably apposite:.