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Hogben books - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Hogben_books/5 Aug 2024: Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems (1918). ... 2. Exiles of the Snow, and Other Poems (1918), by Lancelot Hogben.
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Agner Erlang (1878 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Erlang/17 Mar 2025: Astronomy was his favourite subject, encouraged by his maternal grandfather who also loved it, but Agner combined that interest with another passion by writing poems about astronomical objects.
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Zoltán Dienes (1916 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dienes_Zoltan/5 Jan 2025: The second aspect of Dienes's life was his enthusiasm for writing poetry, a book of his poems Calls from the past being published in 2000. ... However, the 'poems' are worth reading for their contents. You will learn much about Dienes's life from these
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Germain Stupuy obit - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Germain_Stupuy_obit/7 Mar 2023: A distinguished Hellenist, d'Ansse de Villoison, had echoed the admiration she inspired in a few superior men, and, in a poem intended to celebrate the day of the birth of ... much into their works as Homer and Ariosto have shown in their poems." Both
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Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889 - 1957) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ginsburg/5 Jan 2025: A poet and critic, Simon Ginsburg had published his first poem in 1910 in the Hebrew literary, social, and scientific monthly Ha-Shillo'ah before he emigrated to the United States. ... In studying some unpublished manuscripts of Rabbi Ben Ezra (the
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Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Germain/12 May 2025: Another who offended her was the Hellenist, Anase de Villoisson. He did this by praising her in a poem he had written and we know how displeased she was from
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George Temple's Inaugural Lecture II - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Temple_Inaugural_II/12 Jul 2023: They sink under the weight of those monumental tomes, and would fain exclaim, in the metre of Herrick's poem on 'The Poetry of Dress', the sentiments of the following imitation,
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Joaquim Gomes de Souza (1829 - 1864) - Biography - MacTutor History…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Souza_Gomes/5 Jan 2025: The anthology contains poems in seventeen languages, each poem in its original language, German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Bohemian, Hungarian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Modern Greek, Latin, and
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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
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Paul Dienes (1882 - 1952) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dienes_Paul/5 Jan 2025: Dienes retired in 1948 and turned to writing poetry. The book of his poems, The Maiden And The Unicorn: A Cycle Of Poems, was published in 1954, two years after his