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71. Zoltan Dienes books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Zoltan Paul Dienes has written a large number of books on learning mathematics. We give below only a sample of these and for each we list we present more information, usually in the form of extracts from reviews. Click on a link below to go to

72. Gian-Carlo Rota (1932 - 1999) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    24 May 2024: I also like to think of him as a poet - not in the formal sense, since to the best of my knowledge he never wrote a poem - but in the larger

73. Michael Scot (1175 - 1235) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    20 Aug 2023: inferno in Dante Alighieri's epic poem, The Divine Comedy only to be "rescued" much later on in Sir Walter Scott's poem Lay of the Last Minstrel.

74. 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.

75. al Tusi PDF (855k)

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

    29 Apr 2022: length. AL-TUSI not only dealt with astronomical and mathematical topics, but he wrote poems and theological treatises, compiled a survey of minerals and formulated the principle that matter can be

76. Conon (280 BC - 220 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Conon is remembered particularly for Callimachus's poem Berenice's Lock about the constellation Coma Berenices. ... It may be as a result of this poem that Conon is well known to Virgil and Propertius.

77. 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.

78. Eustachio Manfredi (1674 - 1739) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    29 Sep 2023: He composed poems on a wide range of topics - public events, religious festivals, love poems, and poems which expressed his traditional Catholic religious beliefs.

79. Dingle books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: 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

80. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 - 1898) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    25 Jan 2024: the longest and best sustained nonsense poem in the English language. ... Several words from his nonsense poems have entered standard English language usage.