Adrien-Marie Legendre
Brief biography and summary of his works. |
Andrea Perosino
Personal page in Italian with curriculum vitae et studiorum in English. |
Charles Hermite
Includes a biography comparing him with other contemporaries of his, references and quotations. |
Charles-Francois Sturm
A biography of the Mathematican who worked on differential equations and created the form now call Sturm-Liouville equations. |
David Feinstein
Applications of mathematics to physics problems drawn from a career in industry. |
Edmond Laguerre
Includes a brief biography and bibliography. |
Elie Cartan
Includes a brief biography and a reference list. |
Elie Cartan
A brief biography of Cartan and exposition of his work in applied topology. |
George Green
A biography including quotations from his writings and contemporary articles. |
Gustav Jacobi
The mathematician whose work with coordinate transformations is still common in mathematical physics |
Hermann Hankel
The mathematician who developed Hankel functions and the Hankel transform. |
Jacobi and Dirichlet
A biography of these two mathematical physicists. |
Jean Delambre
The mathematician who analysed the orbit of Uranus and predicted a possible extra planet. |
Jean Fourier
A short biography on the man who invented the Fourier series and transforms. |
John F. Shalman
Professor of Theoretical Physics in the New Delhi Institute of Technology. He is interested in a new concept of space-time in physics: his preferred approach is Bumpter Theory. |
Joseph Liouville
The mathematician who developed Sturm-Liouville differential equations. |
Sophus Lie
A short history of the life and work of Sophus Lie, whose work, Lie groups, has applications in quantum mechanics in relativity. |
Steven Duplij
Research in mathematical aspects of supersymmetry; also personal interests. |
Vito Volterra
A short biography on Volterra and his work in differential equations and mathematical physics. |
