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Louis de Broglie (1892 - 1987) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Broglie/23 Nov 2023: The French National Scientific Research Centre awarded him its gold medal in 1956. ... J L Heilbron, A R Weill-Brunschvicg, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/16 Apr 2024: In 1815 A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary by Hutton has, in the entry for transcendental, the following:. ... This quotation is taken from the 1968 edition of A History of Mathematics, pages 370-371.
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George Darwin (1845 - 1912) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Darwin/25 Jan 2024: Pritchard was about that time attracting the attention of thoughtful men by his pioneer work in scientific education. ... 51 (1916), 863-864. E W Brown, The scientific work of Sir George Darwin, in G H Darwin, Scientific papers 5 (Cambridge, 1916),
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Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (S) -…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/s/6 Jul 2023: and. YOUNG'S THEOREM. SCIENTIFIC NOTATION. In 1895 in Computation Rules and Logarithms Silas W. ... Each word had several meanings and the meanings by no means coincided: see dictionary entries.
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Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852 - 1939) - Biography - MacTutor History …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lindemann/12 Apr 2024: R V Jones, H Wussing, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Francesco Barozzi (1537 - 1604) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Barocius/12 Apr 2024: Venice, 1586). He died of apoplexy. M N Boyer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Peter Barlow (1776 - 1862) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Barlow/2 Nov 2023: H I Sharlin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... Peter Barlow, Dictionary of National Biography. SeeOther pages about Peter Barlow:.
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Robert Grosseteste (1168 - 1253) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grosseteste/20 Aug 2023: He wrote a commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics and Physics and many treatises on scientific subjects including De Generatione Stellarum, Theorica Planetarum. ... Roger Bacon was Grosseteste's student. A C Crombie, Biography in Dictionary of
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Leonardo/30 Dec 2023: See [28] for more details of this quotation and more of Leonardo's ideas about the Universe. ... M Clagett, K D Keele, A Marinoni, l Reti, C J Schneer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Andrew Forsyth (1858 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Forsyth/25 Jan 2024: Not everyone had such a high opinion of Forsyth, however. Read what Roth thought of him atG J Whitrow, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).