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41. Rabbi Ben Ezra (1092 - 1167) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The authors were called "paytanim" (from the Greek poietes, "poet"), their poems "piyyutim". ... Abraham ibn Ezra. attacked the language and style of the early paytanim; he [was] the first to use Arabic metres in religious poems.

42. 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.

43. Svetlana Jitomirskaya (1966 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Jun 2024: But after a critique of one of my poems, I became very shy about sharing my poetry. ... I kind of unlearned to write, but learned to read. I learned to see things in poems that others didn't.

44. 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]):-.

45. 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:.

46. A C Aitken the poet - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Aitken_poet/

    7 Mar 2023: The road to dusty death. The second poem by Aitken which we give concerns Jason in the ship the Argo, who went to fetch the Golden Fleece. ... Whirlpool and reef, and the Symplegades. The third of the poems by Aitken which we give has special meaning for

47. 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.

48. Empedocles (492 BC - 432 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    4 Jan 2024: It is not difficult to see the source of most of the legends about Empedocles for these are built on the poems that he wrote himself. ... Certainly his poems were much appreciated, for example Lucretius admired his hexametric poetry.

49. Measurement - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: George Airy and John Herschel argued strongly against it, as did William Rankine who composed the poem The Three-Foot Rule :-. Some talk of millimetres, and some of kilograms,. And some

50. Muirhead Carpenter - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Muirhead_Carpenter/

    7 Mar 2023: by the death of George Hukin, whose sweet nature inspired more than one of the poems in Towards Democracy. ... One of the later poems in Towards Democracy is recognisable as a poetic version of an episode of James M Brown's life.