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91. William Herschel music - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In his honour, Burney wrote a long didactic poem entitled Poetical History of Astronomy, of which only a few lines have survived.

92. Stanisława Nikodym (1897 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 Jun 2025: She became a history teacher in a school for Jewish girls, and was the author of many books and articles on Jewish culture as well as translating Jewish poems into Polish. ... Mathematics was not Stanisława's only passion, for she also loved painting,

93. Krygowska publications - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Nov 2024: It was the same with Latin, for example. In our class there was a group of girls (the class was coeducational) who had ambitions to translate Latin poems into Polish with ... For example, during a lesson, when the snow-covered Giewont could be seen from

94. Abraham Robinson (1918 - 1974) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    20 Mar 2025: containing poems and plays, suggesting a sensitive observant child with an ambition to write.

95. Rose's Greek mathematical literature - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: It is very significant of the relative importance of literature and science for the succeeding generations that what we have left of Alexandrian astronomy concerns itself largely with Aratos' poem. ... A few more fragments belong to poems on various

96. Stephen C Kleene (1909 - 1994) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    22 Jan 2025: Before marrying she published poems such as The lawsuit published in The Youth's Companion (1892), The dead bee published in The Century (1899), The lost spell published in Atlantic Monthly

97. Galois family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: In an attempt to discredit the mayor, the priest forged the mayor's signature on a malicious poem directed against the mayor's relatives.

98. William Clifford (1845 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 May 2025: There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to

99. Derrick Norman Lehmer (1867 - 1938) - Biography - MacTutor History…

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

    13 Mar 2025: his love of belles lettres, his creative work in the fields of music and poetry, the songs and operas he composed and the poems he wrote. ... He also wrote Fightery Dick and other poems. Lehmer received many honours for his mathematical work in number

100. Mitchell Europe - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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     5 Aug 2024: 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