Biography Category
(j sh -j ) (KEY) , fl. 1280–1303, Chinese mathematician. He contributed to the study of arithmetic and geometric series and to that of finite diffe...
1758–1828, Austrian anatomist and founder of phrenology. He devoted most of his life to a minute study of the nervous system, especially the brain. ...
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...
( m´r m, sh sh´nä) (KEY) or Amram Gaon (gä´ n) (KEY) , d. c.875, Hebrew scholar, head of the Jewish academy at Sura in Persia. He is chiefly kno...
(kôrn ´y h ´mäns) (KEY) , 1892–1968, Belgian physiologist. His contributions to the physiology of circulation include a study of the sensory me...
1822–92, American lawyer, b. Catskill, N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1840. He studied at Yale law school and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He was...