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William Cochran (1909 - 1980) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cochran/7 Mar 2023: Oliver recalls that throughout his life, Willie would walk or sit around reciting poems, speeches, advertisements, music hall songs, and in later life oratorios and choral works he was learning.
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Víctor Neumann-Lara (1933 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Neumann-Lara/16 Dec 2023: In 1986 Neumann-Lara published a collection of 18 poems written between 1980 and 1985 under the title Lineas en el Agua.
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Giordano Bruno (1548 - 1600) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bruno_Giordano/27 Aug 2023: He remained in Helmstedt where he wrote a number of texts and poems on what can best be described as mathematical magic but, like so much of his work, they contain
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Theodoros Varopoulos (1894 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Varopoulos/7 Mar 2023: He knew many French poets, especially Paul Verlaine, and he would often recite his poems by heart.
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Wilhelm Fiedler (1832 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fiedler_Wilhelm/7 Mar 2023: Perhaps even more surprising, he became expert in the Low German poems of Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, and the investigation of myths made by
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Lancelot Hogben (1895 - 1975) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hogben/7 Mar 2023: Anon, Review: Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems, by Lancelot Hogben, The Egoist 5 (5) (1918), 75.
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Hermann of Reichenau (1013 - 1054) - Biography - MacTutor History of …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hermann_of_Reichenau/7 Mar 2023: A poem about the eight deadly sins, written for the nuns at Buchau, shows that Hermann had an excellent sense of humour.