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  1. Munn poem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The following poem was written by Lesley Duncan, the younger sister of Douglas Munn.

  2. Greeks poetry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greeks_poetry/

    7 Mar 2023: This verse is the final verse of the poem:. Thus bold, independent, unconquer'd, and free,. ... Von Schiller was a German poet and dramatist. The poem was originally written in German and translated into English:.

  3. Archytas (428 BC - 350 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    2 May 2023: In fact this interest in applying mathematics is in contrast to the pure mathematical ideas of Plato and this contrast formed the basis for a poem written by the Polish author ... Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Last Update April 1999.

  4. P.G. Tait’s poem on Bismark [sic.] ELIZABETH F LEWIS ... PDF (68k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Tait/Bismarck_poem.pdf

    22 Apr 2012: April 22, 2012. An introductory note. The following poem, written by Tait in October 1870, finds its context in the heightof the Franco–Prussian War (July 1870 to May 1871). ... of the poem on to a correspondent andtherefore the poem may be published

  5. Donald Solitar poem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: The poem below, written by Benjamin Baumslag, is about Donald Solitar and written in a similar style to the poems Donald wrote:.

  6. Newton poetry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Newton_poetry/

    7 Mar 2023: Originally Halley's poem was written in Latin for The Principia, and was published as a Preface to the first edition. ... We quote from several below. A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton was written within weeks of Newton's death while

  7. Magdalena Mouján (1926 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    11 Jan 2024: Mouján wrote the article in 1968; it was inspired by a poem with the same name written by her grandfather Pedro María Otaño Barriola in 1899. ... Written by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Last Update November 2022.

  8. Tait's poem - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: This is a transcription of an unpublished poem by Tait, which has been sourced from his pocket notebook. ... Written in October 1870, the untitled poem finds its context in the height of the Franco-Prussian War (July 1870 - May 1871) when Otto von

  9. Sophie Germain (1776 - 1831) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: Another who offended her was the Hellenist, Anase de Villoisson. He did this by praising her in a poem he had written and we know how displeased she was from ... s letter of apology written to her on 14 July 1802 (see [35]):-.

  10. John Collins by Wood - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: See in the 'Astronomical Appendix to the Sphere of Marcus Manilius made an English Poem', London 1675, fol. ... pag. 116, written by Edward Sherbourne esq; afterwards a knight. (2) 'Mariner's plain Scale new plained'.