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	Dundee - LoveToKnow 1911
		James Chalmers (1782-1853), the inventor of the adhesive postage stamp (1834), was a bookseller in Castle Street.
		Robert Nicoll (1814-1837), the poet, kept a circulating library in Castle Street; and William Thom (1798-1848), the writer of The Rhymes of a Handloom Weaver, was buried in the Western Cemetery.
		Close to the municipal boundaries on the N.W. lies Benvie, where John Playfair (1748-1819), the mathematician, was born, and which has a mineral well that once enjoyed considerable repute.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dundee (2776 words)

	Significant Scots - James Ivory
		How this last occupation, of which he was chief superintendent, coincided either with his previous studies as a theologian, or his predilections as a mathematician, does not distinctly appear; but the result was a failure; for, after fifteen years of trial, the company was dissolved in 1804, and the factory closed.
		Ivory underwent was of a more congenial character, for it was to a professorship of mathematics in the Royal Military College, instituted a few years previous at Marlow, in Buckinghamshire.
		In consequence of a recommendation of Lord Brougham to William IV., Mr Ivory, in 1831, was honoured with the Hanoverian Guelphic order of knighthood, and a pension of 300 pounds per annum; and in 1839, he received the diploma of Doctor of Laws from the university of St.
	www.electricscotland.com /History/other/ivory_james.htm (748 words)

	Overview of Sir James Ivory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ivory was born in Dundee, the son of a watchmaker, and educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, where he studied mathematics and theology, with the intention of joining the church.
		Ivory was honoured by many foreign scientific societies and was knighted in 1831.
		Ivory worked in applied mathematics, notably the gravitational attraction of ellipsoids, the shape of self-gravitating rotating fluid bodies, atmospheric refraction and the orbits of comets.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst834.html (253 words)

	Sir James Ivory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James Ivory was born on 17 February, 1765, the first son of a well known Dundee clockmaker, also James Ivory.
		Ivory was the most poorly paid of the three teachers, but this did not reflect his ability.
		Ivory's premature retiral was brought about by ill health: it seems he was an early sufferer from stress, pressured by the long hours and vast effort he spent on higher mathematical research, in addition to his teaching.
	www.dundeecity.gov.uk /centlib/ivory/ivorybio.htm (562 words)

	James
		James can't resist deliciously morbid humor in his description of the dead kept at the hospice of St. Bernard: "At a little distance from the hospice is the house where the corpses of those found in the snow are placed.
		James would start his letters to Clifford with "Beloved girl" or some such, and once even signed off as "Ever your Lambkin." This is probably just fanciful wordplay on Lamb House, but it still sets some kind of record for Jamesian epistolary sugariness.
		James was sixty-one when The Golden Bowl was published, so simple age might have had a lot to do with his failure to complete another long novel.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/caseyabell/james.htm (15037 words)

	BSHM: Abstracts -- C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		James Bradley (1693-1762), Savilian professor of astronomy from 1721 to 1762, was the greatest practical observer of the age and an inspiring teacher.
		The belated introduction of ‘continental’ analysis to Britain was led by the Scottish mathematicians James Ivory and William Wallace in the early C19, some years before its adoption at Cambridge.
		James Ivory (1765-1842) was one of the finest British mathematicians of his time, admired on the continent, yet his career was largely unsuccessful and unhappy.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/abstracts/C.html (4232 words)

	21 Sep History: This Date
		1842 James Ivory, Scottish mathematical astronomer born in 1765.
		Scott was entangled with the printing firm of James Ballantyne and the publishing house of Archibald Constable, which both failed in the economic crisis of 1826.
		James Fenimore Cooper in America, Honoré de Balzac in France, and Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray in England were among the many who learned from Scott's panoramic studies of the interplay between social trends and individual character.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4sep/h4sep21.html (8957 words)

	dgreenlaw1660timeline
		1692 James Stirling born - Mathematician and surveyor
		1717 John Campbell (1st Earl of Breadalbane) died - Descended from the Campbells of Glenorchy, Breadalbane was a supporter of William of Orange and the expulsion of King James VII (1633 - 1701)
		1766 James Sandy born - Inventor of the invisible hinge
	www.justice101us.com /greenlaw/jgreenlaw1689timeline.htm (1853 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - June 7
		1998 - James Byrd, Jr is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
		1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d.
		1927 - Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=June_7 (1654 words)

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		His publications on history of mathematics focus mainly on the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
		Most of his current research is on the history of mathematics and mathematicians.
		'James Ivory’s last papers on the ‘Figure of the Earth’ (with biographical additions.)'.
	www-maths.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /~addc (768 words)

	The Introduction of Analysis into England
		Almost the only English mathematician at the beginning of this century who used analytical methods, and whose work requires mention here, is Ivory, to whom the celebrated theorem in attractions is due.
		Sir James Ivory was born in Dundee in 1765, and died on September 21, 1842.
		Although Peacock's influence on English mathematicians was considerable, he has left but few memorials of his work; but I may note that his report on progress in analysis, 1833, commenced those valuable summaries of current scientific progress which enrich many of the annual volumes of the
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/19thCentury/RouseBall/RB_Engl19C.html (1250 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While studying at Harvard he was introduced to philosophy by William James and Josiah Royce.
		He believed that man is the unintended product of a dynamic flux, and his books include The Life of Reason and Realms of Being.
		Born in 1601, mathematics was only a hobby for this lawyer and government official of Toulouse whose best work was done with the properties of prime numbers.
	www.stanford.edu /group/CollegeBowl/archive/ACFreg92/acf_gt_I.txt (2375 words)

	References for Ivory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A D D Craik, James Ivory's last papers on the 'Figure of the Earth' (with biographical additions), Notes and Records Roy.
		A D D Craik, James Ivory, F.R.S., mathematician: 'the most unlucky person that ever existed', Notes and Records Roy.
		O Sheynin, Ivory's treatment of pendulum observations, Historia Math.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/References/Ivory.html (94 words)

	NPR : Remembrances
		In conjunction with James Ivory, he produced A Room With a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and other films.
		Merchant, the man who raised the money to get Merchant-Ivory films made, worked with director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to create gorgeous-looking literary adaptations made on a shoestring.
		May 21, 2005 · The death of mathematician George Dantzig is a scientific watershed.
	npr.org /templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=1062&date=05-22-2005 (778 words)

	Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
		Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from
		The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological.
		These biographies constitute part of the collection of online material relating to the history of mathematics at the School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin.
	www.maths.tcd.ie /pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html (131 words)

	Fall Movie Preview - The Boston Globe
		James Mangold (''Cop Land") directs, and, unlike ''Ray," the stars do their own singing.
		Before producer Ismail Merchant died this past May, he and longtime partner-director James Ivory had completed filming this Kazuo Ishiguro script about a blind diplomat (Ralph Fiennes) in 1930s Shanghai who gets involved with a bunch of Redgraves.
		Jim Carrey steps into George Segal's wingtips as an upper-middle-class Everyguy who turns to bank robbery and Tea Leoni takes on Jane Fonda's role as his wife.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2005/09/09/fall_movie_preview_tough_stuff (3701 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Anthony Hopkins - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After his performance as Pablo Picasso in James Ivory's Surviving Picasso (1996), Hopkins garnered another Oscar nomination -- this time for Best Supporting Actor -- the following year for his work in Steven Spielberg's slavery epic Amistad.
		Following this honor, Hopkins chose roles that cast him as a father figure, first in the ploddingly long Meet Joe Black and then in the have-mask-will-travel swashbuckler Mask of Zorro with Antonio Banderas and fellow countrywoman Catherine Zeta-Jones.
		In this Miramax release, Hopkins plays Robert, a genius mathematician who - amid a long descent into madness - devises a formula of earth-shaking proportions.
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/83729/bio.jhtml (1545 words)

	Transitions passings \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		For four decades, the trio was bound by a respect for worldliness and taste.
		GEORGE B. DANTZIG, 90: A mathematician who devised a formula that revolutionized planning, scheduling, network design and other complex functions integral to modern-day business, industry and government, Dr. Dantzig died May 13 at his home in Palo Alto.
		He was known as the father of linear programming and as the inventor of the "simplex method," an algorithm for solving linear programming problems.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050529/news_mz1m30transi.html (777 words)

	Can't Buy a Thrill
		Most of all, the film resembles Straw Dogs, the controversial 1971 Sam Peckinpah film with Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who moves into a new home with his wife only to have his life destroyed by the local townsfolk who are incensed by his arrival.
		Like many films by the producer/director team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, it amuses by presenting contrasts - in politics, fashion, food, lifestyles, and sex.
		It’s obvious that writer/director James Ivory should have taken notes from Jill Sprecher's recent Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, a film that was able to handle multiple story lines and yet stay on track with its main theme -- a quest to find and comprehend the meaning of happiness.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/coldcreek.htm (1974 words)

	Talent Agencies To Invest In Film And TV Production Companies?
		Jim Broadbent, whose performance as Murdoch's husband has won universal plaudits, won best supporting actor for his less celebrated role as the idiosyncratic MC in Moulin Rouge.
		He was drafted to write one of two possible sequel scripts as Universal attempts to reunite director Rob Cohen and stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker for a second installment of the franchise.
		James Ivory ("The Golden Bowl") will direct the picture from a script based on Diane Johnson's best-selling novel, adapted by his longtime collaborators Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
	www.dealmemo.com /Content/Feb2002/News0225.htm (3683 words)

	History of Mathematics: Chronology of Mathematicians
		Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China, and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere, Europe, Greece, India, and Japan.
		MT: Mathematicians* noted *MT have biographies in the Mathematical MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematical and Compuational Sciences of the University of St Andrews.
		W: Mathematicians* noted *W have biographies compiled by Richard S. Westfall, Professor Emeritus in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, and appear in theCatalogue of the Scientific Community, a collection of 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html (693 words)

	Arms of Copernicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir James was the son of James Ivory, clockmaker, of Dundee by his
		Neither did his half-nephew James, Hon Lord Ivory (1792-1866) who was
		The first grant of arms to the family was to Basil Gerritsen Ivory of
	www.groupsrv.com /hobby/viewtopic.php?t=32677 (2342 words)

	Nothingandall: 2005/06/05 - 2005/06/11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		1657 - James Cragg the Elder, was born (d.
		1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart, was born (d.
		1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
	nothingandall.blogspot.com /2005_06_05_nothingandall_archive.html (4401 words)

	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (Y) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Axis of y appears in "On the Attractions of Homogeneous Ellipsoids" by James Ivory, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol.
		Y-axis is found in 1855 in The Gurley Manual of Surveying Instruments: "In place of the ordinary axis of the telescopoe represnted in our engraving, we sometimes make one resembling the Y axis of the English Theodolite." (Google print search)
		Walker, a Cambridge applied mathematician, became head of the Indian Meterological Service and is best remembered today for his early study of El Niño.
	hometown.aol.com /jeff570/y.html (510 words)

	News - Reading in the Dark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet if reality is the issue, no one seems to mind that the real Nash did not age fifty years in a span of two hours, nor is he a two-dimensional projection of light and shadow in the form of Russell Crowe.
		And adaptations can be bookish and still good, as Ismail Merchant and James Ivory very politely insist, or almost anti-bookish, as David Fincher's Fight Club insists less politely.
		But what Hallstrom finally filmed was written by Robert Nelson Jacobs (also of Chocolat), who later told the New York Times that he was afraid to meet Annie Proulx because he admired her so much.
	eastbayexpress.com /issues/2002-03-27/books_full.html (1297 words)

	IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765... - Online Information article about IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765...
		Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
		He was essentially a self-trained mathematician, and was not only deeply versed in See also:
		ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/IVORY_SIR_JAMES_1765_1842_.html (657 words)

	Film Titles: N-S
		The story is told through the eyes of 12-year-old James (William Eadie), who lives with his family on a grotty housing estate, an environment made even worse by a dustbin strike.
		While James' troubled parents (Tommy Flanagan and Mandy Matthews) wait to hear whether the council will give them a larger home with an indoor toilet, James and his sisters (Michelle Stewart and Lynne Ramsay Jr) play in the rubbish-strewn yards and along a dangerous canal.
		The movie was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, from a screenplay by their longtime collaborator, the novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
	www.colorado.edu /FilmStudies/ifs/archive/title/ns.html (9027 words)

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		In a council fairly selected, to judge of the merits of the various subjects likely to be brought under the consideration of the Society, anatomy, chemistry, and the different branches of natural history, will share with the numerous departments of physical science, in claiming to be represented by persons competently skilled in those subjects.
		Is there a single mathematician amongst them, if we except Mr Barlow, whose deservedly high reputation rests chiefly on his physical and experimental inquiries, and whom the President and the Admiralty have clearly shown they do not look upon as a mathematician, by not appointing him an adviser?
		Small as the number of those persons on the Council, who are conversant with the three subjects named in the Act of Parliament, must usually be, it may be still further diminished.
	modular.fas.harvard.edu /ebooks/babbage-decline_of_science.txt (15855 words)

	Math Links
		The birthplaces of famous mathematicians are shown at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
		At the History of Mathematics Links, you can find sites relating to individual mathematicians such as Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Sir James Ivory, or Mahler, the mathematician Kurt, not the musician Gustav.
		The man facing those steps was a friend of Blaise Pascal, who had a triangle and invented the first calculator for his father, and Pierre de Fermat, whose last theorem baffled every mathematician even after its resolution (maybe!?) in October 1994.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Mathlinks/Mathlinks.html (1141 words)

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