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  1. Mitchell Europe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    17 Jun 2023: They do not seem to understand it, and I have no doubt today that Lowell's comic poems [] are taken seriously. ... Milton first planned the great poem, Paradise Lost, as a drama, and this manuscript, kept within a glass case, is opened to the page on

  2. Benjamin Peirce (1809 - 1880) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    18 Jun 2024: Born. 4 April 1809. Salem, Massachusetts, USA. Died. 6 October 1880. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Summary. Benjamin Peirce was an early American mathematician who worked on celestial mechanics and geodesy on the applied side and linear

  3. Scholar and the World - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: We should never dream of criticising a symphony or a poem because it had not been produced by a process of accurate measurement, or a discussion by the newest methods of

  4. Agner Erlang (1878 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    28 Apr 2024: 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.

  5. Pictures of Erwin Schrödinger - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schrodinger/pictdisplay/

    11 Jan 2024: Schrödinger as an artilleryman. Schrödinger's grave in Alpbach Austria. A poem by Schrödinger's grave.

  6. Senechal reviews - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Over the number of years mathematicians, scientists, and writers have gathered at creative writing workshops to write about their interests through a variety of genres: poems, plays, short stories, and biographies.

  7. William Whewell (1794 - 1866) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: I have enjoyed very good health since I left Lancaster. His mother had been a poet who had published poems in local papers and Whewell must have inherited his mother's ... poetic gifts since, in 1814, he won the Chancellor's prize for an epic poem he

  8. Graves on Hamilton - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: He was a successful competitor on two occasions for the Vice-Chancellor's Prizes, proposed for the authors of English poems; and his examiners placed on record a judgment indicating their

  9. Zoltán Dienes (1916 - 2014) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: 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

  10. Marczewski friend - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Mar 2023: Nor was philosophical reflection alien to him, as evidenced by his commentary on Norwid's poem "Plato and Archytas".