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Lev Landau (1908 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Landau_Lev/23 Nov 2023: Born. 22 January 1908. Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire. Died. 1 April 1968. Moscow, USSR. Summary. Lev Landau was an Azerbaijan-born mathematician who made fundamental discoveries in theoretical physics. He won the Nobel prize for his theory of
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Susan Cunningham (1842 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cunningham_Susan/11 Jan 2024: J Russell Hayes read a touching poem which also dealt with her love for Swarthmore.
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Manuel Valdivia (1928 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Valdivia/7 Mar 2023: He read, at about the same time, the collection of poems Sombra del Paraiso.
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Oswald Teichmüller (1913 - 1943) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Teichmuller/7 Mar 2023: When his father returned in 1918, young Oswald read to him fluently and recited a poem previously unknown to his mother.
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Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ladyzhenskaya/31 Mar 2023: Anna Akhmatova a famous Russian poet, knew Ladyzhenskaya so well that she devoted a poem to her.
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René Eugène Gateaux (1889 - 1914) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gateaux/8 May 2023: Homo fugit velut umbra, Anonymous Italian poem, ca 1600. H P McKean, Geometry of differential space, Ann.
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Michael Stifel (1487 - 1567) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Stifel/7 Mar 2023: He then set himself the task of writing a poem of 22 lines, each line of which had a sum of letters (taking the corresponding triangular numbers) making 2300.
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Tommaso Ceva (1648 - 1737) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Ceva_Tommaso/7 Mar 2023: He was a noted poet, his Latin poem Jesus Puer, dedicated to the Holy Roman emperor Joseph I, being translated into many languages including German and Italian.
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Gustav Elfving (1908 - 1984) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Elfving/7 Mar 2023: Elfving wrote poems and enjoyed philosophical discussions. Elfving died at his home in Helsinki and was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
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Hendrik Kloosterman (1900 - 1968) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kloosterman/7 Mar 2023: L Kronecker claimed that mathematicians are poets who also provide proofs for their poems.