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  1. Gianfranco Cimmino (1908 - 1989) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He translated Indian poems and dramas, published his own poems, and wrote the music for two libretti.

  2. Smith's Teaching Books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The goal of the authors is so clear, the progress towards it so undeviating, the style of presentation so smooth, that one seems to be reading a poem.

  3. Oliver Heaviside (1850 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: Perhaps Heaviside has become more widely known due to the Andrew Lloyd Webber song Journey to the Heaviside Layer in the musical Cats , based on the poems of T S Eliot:-.

  4. Langlands early years - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    19 Nov 2023: I also verified between classes the meaning of every unfamiliar word in every poem assigned.

  5. George Boole (1815 - 1864) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: He translated a poem by the Greek poet Meleager which his father was so proud of that he had it published.

  6. Germain Stupuy obit - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: A distinguished Hellenist, d'Ansse de Villoison, had echoed the admiration she inspired in a few superior men, and, in a poem intended to celebrate the day of the birth of ... much into their works as Homer and Ariosto have shown in their poems." Both

  7. Nikolaos Hatzidakis (1872 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2023: He also wrote poems which he signed as the "Warrior". He took an academic approach to translating poetry from foreign languages and explained the problems in a 1925 publication entitled "The ... His poems dealt with love, the childish soul, Crete, Greece,

  8. George Temple's Inaugural Lecture II - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: They sink under the weight of those monumental tomes, and would fain exclaim, in the metre of Herrick's poem on 'The Poetry of Dress', the sentiments of the following imitation,

  9. Henry Forder (1889 - 1981) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He also won many prizes from the school and he chose himself the books Lay Sermons by Thomas Henry Huxley, The Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb, Poems by Henry Wadsworth ... Longfellow, Poems by John Milton, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, and

  10. Kurt Reidemeister (1893 - 1971) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Reidemeister gave a lecture on Spengler's book but he also wrote short stories and poems, publishing regularly in the leading Hamburg newspaper. ... 1947). He translated poems by the French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé which he published in 1948