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  1. René Descartes - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  2. Walter Feit (1930 - 2004) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    30 Oct 2023: He knew, in detail, the history of every country, ancient or modern, as far as I could tell. ... Math. Soc. 52 (7) 728-735. R Solomon, A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups, Bull.

  3. Robert Boyle - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  4. Zu Chongzhi (429 - 501) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    23 Nov 2023: Sadly Zu Chongzhi's book is lost. It is reported in the History of the Sui dynasty, compiled in the 7th century by Li Chunfeng and others, that (see [1] or ... D Li, Zhu Chongzhi, the Great Scientist (Chinese) (Shanghai, 1962). J-C Martzloff, A history

  5. Henry Briggs - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  6. Thomas Harriot - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of…

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

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  7. Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    23 Nov 2023: A M Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1902).

  8. Edmund Halley - Aubrey's Brief Lives - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: From John Aubrey's Brief Lives. (Edited by R Barber, Boydell Press, 1982).

  9. Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    26 Feb 2024: Born. 24 June 1915. Bingley, Yorkshire, England. Died. 20 August 2001. Bournemouth, England. Summary. Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer best known for his espousal of the "steady-state" theory of the universe and rejecting the "big bang" theory.

  10. Michael Aschbacher (1944 - ) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    27 Mar 2024: R Solomon, A Brief History of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 38 (3) (2001), 315-352.