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1. Thomas Harriot - Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae · Theatre

   https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/theatreoftheworld/americas/harriot

   Written by Thomas Harriot , a scientist and mathematician who accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1585 Roanoke expedition, the book (...)

2. The (Legislative) Life of Pi

   https://dukelawref.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-legislative-life-of-pi.html

   To read more about this odd intersection between the laws of mathematics and man, visit Purdue University's "Indiana Pi Bill" website for the (...)

3. To the Bookbinder. - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2024/03/15/to-the-bookbinder/

   March 15, 2024 Henry Hebert The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid is widely known as the father of geometry, and his 13 book treatise, (...)

4. Types of Maps · Mapping the City: A Stranger's Guide · Duke University Library Exhibits

   https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/mappingthecity/maptypes

   Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer and mathematician, created what is now known as the Mercator projection in 1569.

5. Medical Neuroscience Session 2: Who Enrolled and Why? - Duke Learning Innovation & Lifetime Educatio

   https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2014/01/medical-neuroscience-session-2-enrolled/

   I am an administrative judge in the US doing cases involving a lot of health law. I am a mathematician and an economist. I’m currently (...)

6. Newly Rediscovered Papers of a Game Theory Pioneer - The Devil's Tale

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2013/04/26/newly-rediscovered-papers-of-a-game-theory-pioneer/

   A project on the history of Mathematica Policy Research recently unearthed a historical treasure — a cache of personal papers, professional (...)

7. The Future is Female and So Was the Past: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke · Five Hundred Ye

   https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/essays/the-future-is-female

   Scientific works in the collection are wide-ranging, from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (London, 1858) by Mary Somerville, the first (...)

8. Biographies of Models · The Power of Refined Beauty: Photographing Society Women for Pond's, 1920s-1

   https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/ponds/models

   She married George Louis Mountbatten, the 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, a cousin of the royal family and an accomplished (...)

9. What to Read this Month: December 2018 - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2018/12/04/what-to-read-this-month-december-2018/

   Clever and funny, with an air of mystery and melancholia, Ana is a performance artist, a mathematician, and a self-proclaimed time (...)

10. 5 Titles: Pioneering Women in STEM - Duke University Libraries Blogs

    https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2022/01/21/5-titles-pioneering-women-in-stem/

    Her story — rising from anonymity and discrimination to become a research mathematician whose precise calculations helped many vital (...)