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31. 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

32. Richard von Mises (1883 - 1953) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    8 Apr 2024: von Mises chose the topics according to a very definite view-point, determined by his ideas about the essence and method of every thoroughly scientific research. ... N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

33. 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).

34. 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).

35. 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).

36. 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).

37. 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.

38. 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).

39. Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus (1651 - 1708) - Biography -…

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

    11 Apr 2024: Tschirnhaus's wife took over managing the estate to allow him the time to continue his scientific researches. ... ofJ E Hofmann, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

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

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    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