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  1. Giovanni Frattini (1852 - 1925) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was a great admirer of the poems of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, a Roman poet who wrote around 2,000 sonnets in the Roman dialect.

  2. Paul Kelly (1915 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Paul Kelly was born in Riverside, California. At high school his interests were certainly not directed only towards mathematics for he also had a fascination with language, writing poems and humorous

  3. Shisong Mao (1936 - 2023) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: Y Li, The life of poem, the spirit of pinales. To Memorise Professor Shisong Mao.

  4. Douglas Munn (1929 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2023: You can read a poem by Lesley Duncan about her brother Douglas at THIS LINK.

  5. Tom Apostol (1923 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: She loved poetry and had memorized many poems, some of them quite lengthy. ... She also composed long poems of her own, most of them with a touch of humour.

  6. Ernst Specker (1920 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: It is easy to see how he could read poems and then write his own poetry, but trying to produce his own mathematics was of a different order of difficulty.

  7. Henry Sheffer (1882 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: to his mother, he wrote poems in Hebrew before he was ten years old), made a solid foundation for the acquisition of modern languages, French, German and Italian as well as ... Many a philosopher might as well have called his work a work of art, a lyric

  8. Lazare Carnot (1753 - 1823) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: of all that is beautiful and great in the world." In a poem called "Ode to Enthusiasm," Carnot writes:.

  9. Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Nov 2023: His next major literary work was a book of poem Ekstases.

  10. Henry Perigal (1801 - 1898) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: To this end he made diagrams, constructed models, and wrote poems; bearing with heroic cheerfulness the continued disappointment of finding none of them of any avail.