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81. William Herschel music - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In his honour, Burney wrote a long didactic poem entitled Poetical History of Astronomy, of which only a few lines have survived.

82. Adelina Gutiérrez Moreno (1925 - 2015) - Biography - MacTutor…

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

    11 Jan 2024: These last two were poets and Gutiérrez was keen to write poems herself. ... Her daughter Carmen recalled (see [3]):-. I remember reading some poems that my mother wrote to the Virgin Mary.

83. Rose's Greek mathematical literature - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: It is very significant of the relative importance of literature and science for the succeeding generations that what we have left of Alexandrian astronomy concerns itself largely with Aratos' poem. ... A few more fragments belong to poems on various

84. Alcuin (735 - 804) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    11 Jul 2023: He wrote a long poem describing the men associated with York's history before he left for the continent. ... The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon atP D Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

85. William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1865) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    30 Dec 2023: He met the poet Wordsworth and they became friends. One of Hamilton's sisters Eliza wrote poetry too and when Wordsworth came to Dunsink to visit, it was her poems that ... This episode inspired another interval of misery and poem writing. In July 1830

86. Galois family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: In an attempt to discredit the mayor, the priest forged the mayor's signature on a malicious poem directed against the mayor's relatives.

87. Benjamin Peirce (1809 - 1880) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jun 2024: Born. 4 April 1809. Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Died. 6 October 1880. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Summary. Benjamin Peirce was an early American mathematician who worked on celestial mechanics and geodesy on the applied side and linear

88. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 - 1749) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    11 Apr 2024: Let the reader ponder why, at no time in the course of so many centuries, a good tragedy, a good poem, a respected tale, a fine painting, a good book on

89. Edinburgh's tribute to A C Aitken - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: He is moreover a creative artist, though only a few intimate friends have been privileged to know his compositions, occasional poems, and the eloquent calligraphy of his manuscript copies of Bach.

90. Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1131) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: He wrote in his poem the Rubaiyat :-. Indeed, the Idols I have loved so long. ... Outside the world of mathematics, Khayyam is best known as a result of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation in 1859 of nearly 600 short four line poems the Rubaiyat.