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Laura Bassi (1711 - 1778) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bassi/4 Jan 2024: Stegani wrote the preface [53] to the collection of poems published in honour of Laura Bassi in 1732, addressing it "To the most learned and erudite young lady Laura M C
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Paul Kelly (1915 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kelly/7 Mar 2023: Paul Kelly was born in Riverside, California. At high school his interests were certainly not directed only towards mathematics for he also had a fascination with language, writing poems and humorous
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Douglas Munn (1929 - 2008) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Munn/1 May 2023: You can read a poem by Lesley Duncan about her brother Douglas at THIS LINK.
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Tom Apostol (1923 - 2016) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Apostol/7 Mar 2023: She loved poetry and had memorized many poems, some of them quite lengthy. ... She also composed long poems of her own, most of them with a touch of humour.
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Shisong Mao (1936 - 2023) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mao_Shisong/11 Jan 2024: Y Li, The life of poem, the spirit of pinales. To Memorise Professor Shisong Mao.
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Ernst Specker (1920 - 2011) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Specker/7 Mar 2023: It is easy to see how he could read poems and then write his own poetry, but trying to produce his own mathematics was of a different order of difficulty.
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Henry Sheffer (1882 - 1964) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sheffer/7 Mar 2023: to his mother, he wrote poems in Hebrew before he was ten years old), made a solid foundation for the acquisition of modern languages, French, German and Italian as well as ... Many a philosopher might as well have called his work a work of art, a lyric
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Lazare Carnot (1753 - 1823) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Carnot/23 Nov 2023: of all that is beautiful and great in the world." In a poem called "Ode to Enthusiasm," Carnot writes:.
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Felix Hausdorff (1868 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hausdorff/8 Nov 2023: His next major literary work was a book of poem Ekstases.
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Henry Perigal (1801 - 1898) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Perigal/11 Jan 2024: To this end he made diagrams, constructed models, and wrote poems; bearing with heroic cheerfulness the continued disappointment of finding none of them of any avail.