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121. Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

     12 Jul 2023: Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems (1918). ... 2. Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems (1918), by Lancelot Hogben.

122. Hipparchus (190 BC - 120 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     30 Dec 2023: Aratus wrote a poem called Phaenomena which was based on the treatise by Eudoxus and proved to be a work of great popularity. ... This poem has survived and we have its text. Thirdly there was commentary on Aratus by Attalus of Rhodes, written shortly

123. U N Singh - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

     7 Mar 2023: U N Singh had a remarkable memory. He could recall with perfect clarity and ease events that had taken place years ago or any poem which he had read once at

124. Arthur Cayley (1821 - 1895) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     30 Dec 2023: Born. 16 August 1821. Richmond, Surrey, England. Died. 26 January 1895. Cambridge, England. Summary. Arthur Cayley's most important work was in developing the algebra of matrices and work in non-euclidean and n-dimensional geometry. . View twelve

125. Charles Shirra Dougall (1868 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

     7 Mar 2023: A noted Burns scholar, he published the Life and The Collected Poems of Burns. ... The second is Robert Burns poems, epistles, songs, epigrams & epitaphs, a collection of Burns' work edited by Dougall.

126. De Morgan Sophia 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

     https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/De_Morgan_Sophia_1/

     7 Mar 2023: One of the three asked Mr Parsons to lend them Scott's poems, at that time just published.

127. William Rankine (1820 - 1872) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     7 Mar 2023: in 1871, he penned quirky and humorous poems like 'The Mathematician in Love' and 'The Three-Foot Rule' (a protest against the metric system).

128. Science at St Andrews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

     7 Mar 2023: survives. William Wilkie, who succeeded Young, is one of the picturesque figures of his century: he is better known for his epic poem, the Epigoniad, than for his natural philosophy, but,

129. Magdalena Mouján (1926 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

     11 Jan 2024: Mouján wrote the article in 1968; it was inspired by a poem with the same name written by her grandfather Pedro María Otaño Barriola in 1899.

130. Lorch Painful Path - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

     7 Mar 2023: To prepare for this, I have chosen a few lines from the official poem read by its author, Maya Angelou, at the inauguration of President Clinton:.