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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. 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.

125. 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

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:.