HIT: Mathematicians

["Kathryn L. Stirk" <stirkk@JUNO.COM>]

I asked for Mathematicians.... and here they are!

Charles Babbage
Sofia Kovalevskaia
Julia Bowman Robinson
John H. Conway

MODERN--Howard H. Aiken, Benjamin Banneker, Josiah W. Gibbs, John von
Neumann, Alfred North Whitehead, Paul Erdos (just recently died so obits
should be easy to locate), George Cantor, Henri Poincare, Ernst Kummer

CLASSICAL--Zeno, Eudoxus, Archimedes, Descartes, Fermat, Blaise Pascal,
Isaac Newton, Gottfried Leibniz, Johannes Bernoulli, Jacob Bernoulli,
Leonard Euler, Joseph-Louis La Grange, Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Gaspard
Monge, Joseph Fourier


  A History of Greek Mathematics. Dover Publications - Good for
      Thales, Euclid, Pythagoras, etc.
   History of Mathematics. Dover Publications - Good for Pascal,
      Descartes, Fibonacci
   Biographical Dictionay of Scientiest(sp): Mathematicians. This
      covers EVERYONE who is important but especially modern ones.
   The Man Who Knew Infinity; A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. This
      Is a LONG biography of an Indian mathematician.
   Women in Mathematics. By Lynn Olsen. MIT Press, 1974.
   Men of Mathematics. By E. T. Bell. Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Mathematicians  which is part of the
Biographical Dictionary of Scientists servies  edited by David Abbott and
Women
in Mathematics by Lynn M. Osen

Thank you! This will be a great help.

-Kate Stirk
stirkk@juno.com
Winter Park, FL