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31. Philipp Frank (1884 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: The group developed the philosophy of logical positivism, investigating scientific language and scientific methodology. ... G Holton, R S Cohen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

32. Thomas Hirst (1830 - 1892) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Sep 2023: Many quotations from this diary, in which he describes well-known mathematicians he had met, are given in this archive. ... Years of decline, Amer. Math. Monthly 100 (1993), 907-915. Thomas Archer Hirst, Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement II

33. Julian Coolidge (1873 - 1954) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    25 Jan 2024: D J Struik, G Wise, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

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

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

    11 Jul 2023: The influence of Alcuin on later generations can be illustrated by a poem by Siegried Sassoon atP D Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

35. Percy MacMahon (1854 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    6 Sep 2023: 1923). T A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

36. John Pell (1611 - 1685) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    25 Sep 2023: P J Wallis, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... J Stachel, and M W Wartofsky (eds.), For Dirk Struik : scientific, historical, and.

37. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Dec 2023: C W F Everitt, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... W D Niven (ed.), The scientific papers of James Clerk Maxwell (New York, 1952).

38. Henry Ernest Dudeney (1857 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

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

    25 Apr 2024: Born. 10 April 1857. Mayfield, Sussex, England. Died. 24 April 1930. Lewes, Sussex, England. Summary. Henry Dudeney is best known for his publications of mathematical problems and pastimes, some of which provoked serious mathematical research. .

39. Antiphon (480 BC - 411 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    3 Jul 2023: Antiphon published a number of works on philosophy which have been lost except for a small number of fragments which have been discovered together with some quotations from the works in ... G B Kerferd, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography

40. Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 Feb 2024: He died following the operation. An article about his death is atT A A Broadbent, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). ... D H Mellor, Frank Plumpton Ramsey, The Dictionary of National Biography : Missing Persons (Oxford,