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Evan James Williams (1903 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Williams_Evan/26 Mar 2024: He composed poems and was a regular competitor at the local eisteddfodau, where he frequently won a prize.
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Francesco Severi (1879 - 1961) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Severi/23 Nov 2023: Francesco Severi's father, Cosimo Severi, was a notary but he had a literary bent and loved writing poems and hymns which he published.
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Hemchandra (1089 - 1173) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hemchandra/7 Mar 2023: A prodigious writer, [Hemchandra] produced Sanskrit and Prakrit grammars, textbooks on science and practically every branch of Indian philosophy, and several poems, including the Trishashtishalakapurusha-carita (Deeds of the 63 Illustrious
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Abraham Robinson (1918 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Robinson/7 Mar 2023: containing poems and plays, suggesting a sensitive observant child with an ambition to write.
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Platon Sergeevich Poretsky (1846 - 1907) - Biography - MacTutor…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poretsky/7 Mar 2023: edited a liberal newspaper, 'Kazansky telegraf', sometimes publishing in it his translations of Pierre Béranger's poems.
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Hippias (460 BC - 400 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hippias/7 Mar 2023: of expensive type; he also took poems, epics, tragedies, dithyrambs, and all sorts of prose works.
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Lamberto Cesari (1910 - 1990) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cesari/7 Mar 2023: Perhaps Isotta Cesari's poem which was published in the American Mathematical Monthly gives an idea of part of their home life.
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Eratosthenes (276 BC - 194 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eratosthenes/30 Dec 2023: Eratosthenes writings include the poem Hermes, inspired by astronomy, as well as literary works on the theatre and on ethics which was a favourite topic of the Greeks.
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Gonzalo Pérez Iribarren (1936 - 1998) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Iribarren/11 Jan 2024: He also continued his hobbies of painting, and writing short stories and poems.
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Jules Tannery (1848 - 1910) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tannery_Jules/7 Mar 2023: the pure and elegant style of the poems he composed in his free hours clearly bears the stamp of a classic sensibility.