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31. Ptolemy Manuscript - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The evidence of this lies mainly with a poem found in one of the manuscripts describing Planudes' discovery of Ptolemy. ... As used in the poem and text of the Geography, "geögraphia" means "map", not the work as a whole.

32. Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Jun 2024: A poet and critic, Simon Ginsburg had published his first poem in 1910 in the Hebrew literary, social, and scientific monthly Ha-Shillo'ah before he emigrated to the United States. ... In studying some unpublished manuscripts of Rabbi Ben Ezra (the

33. On the origin of the Fibonacci Sequence T.C. Scotta, ... PDF (2194k)

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

    4 Nov 2017: Although well viewed by the papal author-ities around 1227, he would acquire the sinister reputation of a wizard andwould be condemned in the inferno in Dante Alighieri’s epic poem, ... The Di-vine Comedy (albeit “rescued” much later on in Sir

34. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier PDF (893k)

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

    12 Feb 2024: He meditated on the biblical prophecies, wrote a long poem on his theory of the cause of gravity (in the style of LUCRETIUS's De rerum natura), which he submitted (unsuccessfully)

35. Donald Solitar poem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Donald Solitar enjoyed writing poetry. We have included one of Donald's own poems in his biography. ... The poem below, written by Benjamin Baumslag, is about Donald Solitar and written in a similar style to the poems Donald wrote:.

36. 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.

37. Maxwell's House - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    4 Aug 2023: Maxwell also wrote mathematical poetry. While in his final year of study for the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge he wrote a poem A Problem in Dynamics [1] which begins:-. ... OX and the tension;. In the Display Cabinet one book of poems is open at the

38. William Clifford (1845 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Jun 2024: There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to

39. Thomas Hobbes - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: 1659. In 1659, his lord was and some years before -- at Little Salisbury House (now turned to the Middle Exchange), where he wrote, among other things, a poem in Latin hexameter ... I remember he did read Cluverius's Historia universalis, and made up his

40. James Joseph Sylvester English version PDF (284k)

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

    5 Mar 2021: Club. He immersed himself in the laws of verse and translated poems from French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek, but he was less successful with his own poems.