Biography Category
(b b´ j) (KEY) , 1792–1871, English mathematician and inventor. He devoted most of his life and expended much of his private fortune and a governme...
(y ´hän käs´pär bl nch´l ) (KEY) , 1808–81, Swiss jurist and political scientist. Trained at the Univ. of Berlin, he taught law at Zürich, Mu...
(b s´k r ) (KEY) , called Acarya ( chär´y ) (KEY) [Skt.,=learned], b. 1114, Indian mathematician and astronomer. According to the custom, he put h...
(b ´lyoi) (KEY) , family of Hungarian mathematicians. The father, Farkas, or Wolfgang, Bolyai, 1775–1856, b. Bolya, Transylvania, was educated in N...
(b v ´) (KEY) , 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, b. Switzerland, D.Sc. Univ. of Geneva, 1929. From 1929 to 1947 he was a researcher and then head o...
1884–1944, American mathematician, b. Overisel, Mich.; father of Garrett Birkhoff. The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A., 1905) a...