Differential Equations with Boundary Value Problems         by Selwyn Hollis

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Some Biographical References

The following are links to information on most of the mathematicians/scientists whose names appear in the book. Unless otherwise noted, each of these is a link to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Abel, Niels Henrik Airy, George Banach, Stefan Bendixson, Ivar Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Jacob Bernoulli, Johann Bessel, Wilhelm Borda, Jean Cauchy, Augustin Louis Cayley, Arthur Chebyshev, Pafnuty Coulomb, Charles de d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond DeMoivre, Abraham Dirac, Paul Dirichlet, Lejeune Edelstein-Keshet, Leah (U. BC) Euler, Leonhard Fourier, Joseph Frobenius, Georg Gauss, Carl Friedrich Gompertz, Benjamin Green, George	Hamilton, William R. Heaviside, Oliver Hermite, Charles Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf (Google search) Hodgkin, Alan (Nature) Hooke, Robert Huxley, Andrew (sfn.org) Jacobi, Carl Jordan, Camille Kirchhoff, Gustav Kutta, Martin Wilhelm L'Hôpital, Guillaume de Lagrange, Joseph-Louis Laplace, Pierre-Simon Legendre, Adrien-Marie Liouville, Joseph Lipschitz, Rudolf Lissajous, Jules Lorenz, Edward N. (xrefer.com) Lotka, Alfred (Google search) Lyapunov, Aleksandr Maclaurin, Colin Malthus, Thomas (Google search)	Menten, Maud (U. Toronto) Michaelis, Leonor (Google search) Neumann, Carl Newton, Isaac Noyes, Richard (NAS) Ohm, Georg Simon Picard, Emile Poincaré, Jules Henri Poisson, Siméon Prigogine, Ilya (Prigogine Center) Reynolds, Osborne Riccati, Jacopo Robin, Gustave (Google search) Runge, Carle Schnakenberg, Jürgen (RWTH-Aachen) Simpson, Thomas Sturm, Charles-François Taylor, Brook Torricelli, Evangelista van der Pol, Balthasar (Google search) Verhulst, Pierre Volterra, Vito Wronski, Hoëné

A wealth of historical information can also be found at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

Prize winners mentioned in the book:

Nobel Prize	Ilya Prigogine	Hodgkin and Huxley
	Paul Dirac	W.F. Libby (Carbon dating)

Kyoto Prize    E.N. Lorenz    

Lenin Prize    B.P. Belousov and A.M. Zhabotinskii