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  1. Charles Hughes Terrot (1790 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    1 Jun 2023: His poem Hezekiah and Sennacherib, Or the Destruction of Sennacherib's Host -- about the destruction of Sennacherib's army before Jerusalem -- won him the Seatonian Prize in 1816.

  2. Derrick Norman Lehmer (1867 - 1938) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    7 Mar 2023: his love of belles lettres, his creative work in the fields of music and poetry, the songs and operas he composed and the poems he wrote. ... He also wrote Fightery Dick and other poems. Lehmer received many honours for his mathematical work in number

  3. Thomas Bond Sprague (1830 - 1920) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: At the 1874 meeting of the British Association in Belfast (at which occasion Clerk Maxwell wrote his poems entitled 'Notes of the President's Address' and 'Molecular Evolution' [12]), Sprague gave

  4. Jack Warga (1922 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: I was travelling with them, in the same train compartment and I remember that Jack was reciting some Polish poems.

  5. Leopold Klug (1854 - 1945) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: She's learning her eighth language, namely Turkish, because she has been reading novels and epic poems in Spanish and Russian for a long time.

  6. Choi Seok-jeong (1646 - 1715) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Choi_Seok-jeong/

    11 Jan 2024: By the age of 9, Choi Seok-jeong had already memorised the Book of Songs, a Chinese Confucian classic collection of poems, and The Book of Records, a history chronicle. ... It is located near the present-day Incheon Grand Park. While he was there he

  7. Johann Castillon (1704 - 1791) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2023: He continued to live in Italy occupying himself with translating texts; for example he published his translation of Alexander Pope's poem 'An Essay on Man' in 1733 with an equal

  8. Gustave Choquet (1915 - 2006) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: She had a taste for music, flowers, and poetry, and herself wrote short poems.

  9. 'Mamphono Khaketla (1960 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Bennett Makalo Khaketla published two novels, three plays and a collection of poems between 1945 and 1954.

  10. Lev Landau (1908 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: Born. 22 January 1908. Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire. Died. 1 April 1968. Moscow, USSR. Summary. Lev Landau was an Azerbaijan-born mathematician who made fundamental discoveries in theoretical physics. He won the Nobel prize for his theory of