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1. Cesari "Residues of Ideals" - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: Here is an example of a poem she wrote. It appears in I Cesari, Residues of Ideals, The American Mathematical Monthly 64 (6) (1957), 420. ... Residues of Ideals. (after a mathematicians' party). The room is filled with emptiness and smoke.

2. Alcuin (735 - 804) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   11 Jul 2023: He wrote a long poem describing the men associated with York's history before he left for the continent. ... The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon atP D Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific

3. Weil family - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   9 May 2024: She had, as André later wrote [2]:-. a dread of germs that [she] would carry to an extreme. ... Meghaduta which is a poem by Kalidasa, one of the greatest poets from ancient Indian times.

4. Nicolas Fatio de Duillier PDF (893k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/fatio.pdf

   12 Feb 2024: He meditated on the biblical prophecies, wrote a long poem on his theory of the cause of gravity (in the style of LUCRETIUS's De rerum natura), which he submitted (unsuccessfully) ... After NEWTON's death in 1727, he wrote a hymn in Latin to the genius

5. Thomas Hobbes - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Hobbes_Aubrey/

   7 Mar 2023: my lord would many times have a hard task to make sense of what they wrote. ... 1659. In 1659, his lord was and some years before -- at Little Salisbury House (now turned to the Middle Exchange), where he wrote, among other things, a poem in Latin

6. 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. ... a useful pedagogical tool in our efforts to recapture something of the musical aesthetic of his time.

7. Gian-Carlo Rota (1932 - 1999) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   1 May 2023: As we have indicated above, Rota worked on functional analysis for his doctorate and, up to about 1960, he wrote a series of papers on operator theory. ... I also like to think of him as a poet - not in the formal sense, since to the best of my knowledge

8. Dov Jarden Born 17 January 1911 (17 Tevet, Taf ... PDF (4653k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/dovjarden.pdf

   9 Jul 2018: process began when a poet wrote a fair copy of a new poem out by hand. ... Hebrew literature into their poetry. A researcher trying to read a poem found.

9. Maxwell's House - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   4 Aug 2023: Maxwell also wrote mathematical poetry. While in his final year of study for the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge he wrote a poem A Problem in Dynamics [1] which begins:-. ... OX and the tension;. In the Display Cabinet one book of poems is open at the

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

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

    11 Jan 2024: and she was awarded the degree in 1950. She then taught mathematics, did some research in mathematics, and wrote some popular articles for the magazine Mundo Atómico. ... Mouján wrote the article in 1968; it was inspired by a poem with the same name