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51. 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

52. George Boole English version PDF (324k)

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

    5 Mar 2021: Greek. When the father proudly published the translation of a poem by the Greek poet MELEAGER.

53. William Rankine (1820 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Apr 2025: in 1871, he penned quirky and humorous poems like 'The Mathematician in Love' and 'The Three-Foot Rule' (a protest against the metric system).

54. 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

55. 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.

56. William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    17 Mar 2025: He met the poet Wordsworth and they became friends. One of Hamilton's sisters Eliza wrote poetry too and when Wordsworth came to Dunsink to visit, it was her poems that ... This episode inspired another interval of misery and poem writing. In July 1830

57. Infinity - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In the first century BC Lucretius wrote his poem De Rerum Natura.

58. 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)

59. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

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

    1 Sep 2015: He wrote two poems for his goddaughter: Du bist nun in die Welt getreten (“Now you stepped into this world”) for her christening in 1879, and Ich han doch einen faulen ... Steiner’s work significantly influenced Geiser’s own. 8 These poems are

60. Alison Falconer (1920 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    5 Jan 2025: Since the magazine is hard to find nowadays I take this opportunity to rescue the poem from oblivion. ... Dyson then quotes the poem in the commentary in [2], although today the poem is not hard to find since the Eureka magazine is on the web.