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  1. Joaquim Gomes de Souza (1829 - 1864) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    11 Jan 2024: The anthology contains poems in seventeen languages, each poem in its original language, German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Bohemian, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Modern Greek, Latin, and

  2. Paul Dienes (1882 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: Dienes retired in 1948 and turned to writing poetry. The book of his poems, The Maiden And The Unicorn: A Cycle Of Poems, was published in 1954, two years after his

  3. Valdivia aspects of maths - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: able to realize at all what a poem is. ... This theory was perfected in the eleventh century by the Persian poet and mathematician Omar Kayyam, author of the collection of poems the Rubaiyat.

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

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

    30 Dec 2023: 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 thirteen larger pictures.

  5. Forsyth Cambridge - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Forsyth_Cambridge_3/

    7 Mar 2023: Sir William Thomson, in one of his frequent fervid moods, had declared Fourier's Treatise to be a poem: we mathematical undergraduates did not pretend to be appreciative critics of poetry

  6. Archytas (428 BC - 350 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 May 2023: In fact this interest in applying mathematics is in contrast to the pure mathematical ideas of Plato and this contrast formed the basis for a poem written by the Polish author ... This fascinating poem is discussed and given in French translation by

  7. Centenary of John Leslie - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: scientific knowledge - as to the nature of phosphorescence, for a note in a poem which he is writing - The Lord of the Isles:-.

  8. Tartaglia (1500 - 1557) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    11 Jan 2024: This Cardan readily agreed to, and Tartaglia divulged his formula in the form of a poem, to help protect the secret, should the paper fall into the wrong hands.

  9. Hardy apology - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: Let us point out right at the beginning of this collection of extracts from reviews of G H Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology that Alan J Cain has recently (2019) produced An Annotated Mathematician's Apology. Alan Cain has annotated the Apology but,

  10. Joseph Saurin (1659 - 1737) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Oct 2023: He spent several months in jail for writing libellous poems about Rousseau.