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  1. Li Chunfeng (602 - 670) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The rather strange name came from the final poem in the book which says:-.

  2. Susan Cunningham (1842 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: J Russell Hayes read a touching poem which also dealt with her love for Swarthmore.

  3. Oswald Teichmüller (1913 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: When his father returned in 1918, young Oswald read to him fluently and recited a poem previously unknown to his mother.

  4. Manuel Valdivia (1928 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He read, at about the same time, the collection of poems Sombra del Paraiso.

  5. Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor …

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

    31 Mar 2023: Anna Akhmatova a famous Russian poet, knew Ladyzhenskaya so well that she devoted a poem to her.

  6. René Eugène Gateaux (1889 - 1914) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 May 2023: Homo fugit velut umbra, Anonymous Italian poem, ca 1600. H P McKean, Geometry of differential space, Ann.

  7. Michael Stifel (1487 - 1567) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He then set himself the task of writing a poem of 22 lines, each line of which had a sum of letters (taking the corresponding triangular numbers) making 2300.

  8. Tommaso Ceva (1648 - 1737) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was a noted poet, his Latin poem Jesus Puer, dedicated to the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I, being translated into many languages including German and Italian.

  9. Gustav Elfving (1908 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: Elfving wrote poems and enjoyed philosophical discussions. Elfving died at his home in Helsinki and was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.

  10. Hendrik Kloosterman (1900 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: L Kronecker claimed that mathematicians are poets who also provide proofs for their poems.