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  1. John Evelyn (1904 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: As to poetry he published Poems (1937), Aena, and other poems (1938), The Wanderer. ... Poems (1950), Pandora. Poems (1954), A book of poems (1956). He also wrote Fortuna, and new lyrics (1936), The comedy of Faust (a verse play) (1959), The tragedy of

  2. Siegfried Sassoon on Alcuin - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The following poem by Siegfried Sassoon is particularly memorable to me [EFR] for it was read at my friend Donald Bullough's funeral in 2002.

  3. Buqing Su (1902 - 2003) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    16 Dec 2023: In 2019 asteroid 297161 Subuchin was named after him [15]. Su wrote more than 500 poems during his life. ... Scientists and poemspoems by mathematician Su Buqing. iNews. 2023.

  4. Tait's scrapbook - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Tait_scrapbook/

    7 Mar 2023: courses he gave, letters sent to him by Maxwell, Thomson and many others, articles about golf which mention his work in that area, poems by Tait, Maxwell and others etc.

  5. Ada Lovelace English version PDF (428k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/lovelace.pdf

    23 Mar 2021: He only remembers his daughter in a poem:. Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child!

  6. Michael Artin (1934 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    28 Jun 2024: One sure-fire way to get to the bottom of things is to whip out an example, and see the poem transformed into concrete reality.

  7. Bernstein on teaching - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In fact, we see that the proofs of theorems and formulae can be completely learnt by heart just as the rules of grammar and poems in an unfamiliar language.

  8. Ledermann interview - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Ledermann_interview/

    7 Mar 2023: pray in German." She remained very German and was well versed in German literature and used to recite long poems to us in German, Goethe etc, everything in German.

  9. Claude Gaspar Bachet (1581 - 1638) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    9 Oct 2023: He composed poems in French, Italian and Latin between 1614 and 1628, published religious works such as translations of the psalms, translated seven of Ovid's Epistulae heroidum. ... and published an anthology of French poems entitled Délices.

  10. Ruder Boskovic PDF (801k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/boscovich.pdf

    19 Jan 2022: He wrote poems in Latin on scientific subjects, including De solis et lunae defectibus (On Solar and Lunar Eclipses).