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81. Bernstein on teaching - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In fact, we see that the proofs of theorems and formulae can be completely learnt by heart just as the rules of grammar and poems in an unfamiliar language.

82. Paul Kelly (1915 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    13 Mar 2025: Paul Kelly was born in Riverside, California. At high school his interests were certainly not directed only towards mathematics for he also had a fascination with language, writing poems and humorous

83. Adelina Gutiérrez Moreno (1925 - 2015) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    5 Jan 2025: These last two were poets and Gutiérrez was keen to write poems herself. ... Her daughter Carmen recalled (see [3]):-. I remember reading some poems that my mother wrote to the Virgin Mary.

84. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    8 Aug 2024: His conclusion is that the critic's business is not with any psychological analysis of the writer, made in the belief that it will throw light on poems or plays - nor ... His job is simply with the material. The facts at the disposal of the critic are

85. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 May 2025: Born. 13 June 1831. Died. 5 November 1879. Cambridge, England. Summary. James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician who did revolutionary work on electricity, magnetism, optics and on the kinetic theory of gases. . View fifteen larger pictures.

86. Kochina: "Biography of Kovalevskaya" Preface - MacTutor…

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

    7 Mar 2023: write Kovalevskaya's biography is to create a poem about her.

87. Antoine Meyer (1801 - 1857) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    3 Jun 2025: a second pamphlet of eighteen pages of new poems also written in Luxembourgish. ... Although his works on Luxembourgish poems are now considered important, at the time they received little attention with Meyer complaining that only 37 people had ordered

88. John Collins by Wood - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: See in the 'Astronomical Appendix to the Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English Poem', London 1675, fol.

89. P G Tait (1831 - 1901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Apr 2025: Born. 28 April 1831. Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. Died. 4 July 1901. Edinburgh, Scotland. Summary. P G Tait collaborated with Maxwell, Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and Hamilton to make important contributions in both mathematics and physics. He wrote

90. Stanisława Nikodym (1897 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2025: She became a history teacher in a school for Jewish girls, and was the author of many books and articles on Jewish culture as well as translating Jewish poems into Polish. ... Mathematics was not Stanisława's only passion, for she also loved painting,