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		The first of Muir's 321 mathematical publications appeared in 1872 while he was Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics (Hugh Blackburn) at the University of Glasgow.
		In 1892, Muir was offered the post of Superintendent General of Education (SGE) in the Cape Colony by Cecil John Rhodes, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony at the time.
		Muir will be remembered as one of the greatest organisers and reformers in the history of Cape education.
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		MUIR; MOIR; MAOR; MORE and MOORE: Though phonetically similar, there is more than one possible origin for these names; (a) from a residence on or near a moor or heath; (b) a descriptive name derived from the Gaelic 'Mor' = Big.
		In 1291 Thomas More of Galloway was executor to the will of Dervorguilla, the mother of King John Balliol, and several others of the name rendered homage to Edward I in 1296.
		Contrary to popular belief, Muirs and Moirs are not accepted as septs of the House of Gordon, though such were dominant in Aberdeenshire and the South-West.
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	THOMAS MUIR OF HUNTERSHILL
		I have traced our Muir line back to a George Muir who was the right age to be a possible cousin of Thomas Muir.
		Over the years I have come in contact with a number of people all believing that Thomas Muir might be among their ancestors.
		I have come to the conclusion that a lot of Victorian Muirs began to claim association with him in the middle of the Nineteenth Century when his memory provoked a small revival and he was 'in fashion' for a while.
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	List of mathematicians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Grades 4-6: Was a mathematician born on your birthday?(Brief Article)
		On your worksheet, list the mathematicians that were born (or died...
		The famous mathematicians are listed below in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surname).
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		During this period he took up a correspondence with nearly all the major scientists and mathematicians of his day, and was well-respected at the observatory.
		In 1810 he published the results of his research in a massive tome, which he advocated as a new foundation for all of science and mathematics.
		His criticisms of Lagrange were for the most part unfounded, but the coefficients in Wronski's new series were after his death found to be important, forming the determinants now known as the Wronskians (the name was given them by Thomas Muir in 1882).
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	BSHM: Abstracts -- C
		Thomas Hornsby (1733-1810), Bradley’s energetic successor as Savilian professor of astronomy, established the Radcliffe Observatory in the 1770s as the first in Europe to combine teaching and original research in astronomy with high quality instruments.
		Muir and Ellis proposed ‘radian’, as contraction of ‘radial angle’, in 1874.
		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.
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	Reference
		set includes a general survey of mathematics; historical and biographical information on prominent mathematicians throughout history; material on arithmetic, numbers and the art of counting, and the mathematics of space and motion.
		A distinguished mathematician considers problems in several fields of mathematics, including set theory, algebra, metric and topological spaces, topological groups, analysis, physical systems, and the use of computers as a heuristic aid.
		Appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of scientific and engineering fields, this text introduces linear and nonlinear problems and their associated models.
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	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (R)
		In a letter appearing in the April 7, 1910, Nature, Thomas Muir wrote: "I wrote to him [i.e., to Alexander J. Ellis, in 1874], and he agreed at once for the form 'radian,' on the ground that it could be viewed as a contraction for 'radial angle'..."
		A post on the Internet indicated that Thomas Muir (1844-1934) claimed to have coined the term in 1869, and that Muir and Ellis proposed the term as a contraction of "radial angle" in 1874.
		Thomas Simpson (1710-1761) wrote, "An equation between the radius of curvature.
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	Gazetteer for Scotland: Scottish History Timeline: Early 19th Century; 1800-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thomas Guthrie born - Social reformer and founder of the Free Church
		Thomas Bruce (7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine) died - Diplomat
		Thomas Chalmers died - Founder of the Free Church of Scotland
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/timeline1849.html (2746 words)

	Chronology of Scottish History - 1600 to 1899
		Foundation stone of Hutchesons' Grammar School laid by Thomas Hutcheson as a residential school for the poor in Glasgow.
		Having visited the "second city of the Empire" she is reputed to have said that she did not wish to repeat the experience...
		Sir Thomas Lipton, founder of the Lipton's grocery chain who was a millionaire by the age of 30, was born in Glasgow.
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		As late as the mid-1800's French Mathematician Gabrielle Lame' proved that the number of n-digit Fibonacci numbers is at least 4 and at most 5; but Lame' did not use the name "Fibonacci numbers".
		Some mathematicians have suggested the name be changed to avoid the stigma that it seems to create in young students; "Why do we have to learn them if they aren't even real?", but the weight of unfortunate history seems too much to overcome.
		For example, a mathematician might say, "The locus of all points equidistant from a given point is a circle." The ancient Greek geometers would have used the word topos which was the Greek word for place.
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	Quotes
		Publishing a volume of poetry is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
		Thomas Spratt (1635-1713) The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, 1667.
		Isaac Barrow (1630-1677) [Barrow was a mathematician and theologian and versifier in Latin.
	www.lhup.edu /~dsimanek/muirbook.htm (751 words)

	History of the Clan Muir
		1526‑PATRICK MUIR OF CLONCARD, FOLLOWER OF THE EARL OF CASSILIS, WAS RESPITED FOR MURDER.
		ANDREW MOORE OF AYRSHIRE ELECTED CHIEF OF THE HOUSE OF MUIR
		MUIR, SHELBY SMITH, AMANDA ROWLANDS, HEATHER ROWLANDS, KIMBERLY MOORE, JAMES H. John Muir of Annapolis and Dorchester County, Maryland
	www.theclanmuir.org /Clan_HIstory.html (852 words)

	Pantheist Association for Nature - Pantheist Panorama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Author Thomas Casey refers to Eckhart’s “emphatically pantheistic writings.” Eckhart declared “God is the innermost part of each and every thing.
		Eloquent and outspoken, Tyndall employed "pantheistic pyrotechnics," according to a biographer, to promulgate evolutionary theory in the face of strong clerical opposition to Darwinism "The universe is the blood and bones of Jehovah," proclaimed Tyndall.
		According to writer Thomas W. Casey, “There are constant references to pantheism” in his taped lectures.
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	19th-century Scotland (from Scotland) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Several advocates of universal suffrage, including a young Glasgow lawyer, Thomas Muir of Huntershill, were sentenced to transportation (exile) in 1793.
		Mathematicians Who were Born or Died on 12th June
		Daily updates, by the Scotland-based School of Mathematics and Statistics, on mathematicians of the past who took birth or died on the particular day.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-44607 (736 words)

	Saku bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Limey is a is a highly acclaimed revenge crime drama, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Terence Stamp as Wilson, an Englishman straight out of prison who seeks to revenge the death of
		Thomas Muir (often known as Thomas Muir of Huntershill) was born on August 25, 1765.
		The son of a hop merchant he was educated at Glasgow Grammar School, before attending the University of Glasgow
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	Gazetteer for Scotland: Scottish History Timeline: Early 20th Century; 1900-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thomas Faed died - Painter, noted for his scenes of domestic life
		Sir Thomas (Tam) Dalyell of the Binns born - Politician
		Thomas (Tom) Leonard born - Poet, dramatist and essayist
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/timeline1949.html (3432 words)

	All about Scotland - Over 350 pages on Scotland past and present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the official opening on 27 July a hogshead of water from the River Forth in the east was transported along the canal and poured into the river Clyde at Bowling.
		Thomas Muir, lawyer and political activist, arrested and charged with sedition.
		Essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle, best known for his "French Revolution" born in Ecclefechan.
	scotland.niceguy.org.uk /1700.htm (1149 words)

	Amazon.com: Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This book has entertained, educated and intrigued two generations of young aspiring mathematicians, as well as people who would never grow up to do research mathematics, but who could see the beauty of number.
		This book is a wonderfully detailed account of all the men who made mathematics - from their personal biographies to the math they invented or took a step further.
		Definitely a classic, Bell elegantly explores the lives from birth to death of each mathematician paralleled by their proofs and conjectures.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671628186?v=glance (2349 words)

	Overview of Sir Thomas Muir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Muir became a tutor at St Andrews University, taking the opportunity to travel in Europe.
		Muir became Superintendent General of Education in South Africa (1892), where he introduce many educational reforms and was knighted in 1910.
		His main work was a History of Determinants, the sixth volume of which he was still completing at the time of his death.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst837.html (131 words)

	21 March: This Date in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		French mathematician, known also as an Egyptologist and administrator, who exerted strong influence on mathematical physics through his Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822).
		He showed how the conduction of heat in solid bodies may be analyzed in terms of infinite mathematical series now called by his name, the Fourier series.
		Bach was one of the finest organists and ablest contrapuntists of his time and the noblest writer of fugues who ever lived.
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	KelmanonChomky
		There are obvious parallels here with what was happening in France, with the rise of discussion groups among tradesmen and craftsmen, inextricably bound in with the basic notion that if people can think for themselves they can also determine their own existence.
		In Paris around the turn of last century it was not uncommon for the great mathematicians of the time to lecture to as many as 1200 folk at a sitting.
		Another weaver by the name of Wilson was in communication with Thomas Muir, the radical lawyer, and involved in organising discussion groups with other workers.
	www.galloway.1to1.org /Kelmanessay.html (12455 words)

	Scottish Accommodation Index - Biggar, Scotland UK
		Biggar and the surrounding area have connections with a number of famous people.
		Thomas Muir, internationally recognised scientist and mathematician, grew up here in the mid 19th century.
		The highly influential Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, lived out his final 27 years in a cottage in Brownsbank, just outside Biggar.
	www.scottishaccommodationindex.com /biggarpics.htm (703 words)

	Dancing Saints -- God's Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Paul Erdos lived his life as an itinerant mathematical angel, travelling constantly and unexpectedly showing up on other mathematician's doorsteps when they found themselves stuck in developing exciting new theories.
		As Christian humanists, we honor Hypatia's learning and courage, holding her as a witness to intellectual curiosity and honest inquiry which are closer to God than the angry certainties of fundamentalism which incite people to kill for doctrinal "purity." Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, perceived her as a threat to the Church.
		Pioneering ecumenical leader, onetime chair of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, director of the Institute for the Study of Religion and Society in Bangalore, and in 1990, he became the governor of Nagaland.
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	Remarkable Delta '03 - Abstracts
		He was trained as a mathematician and his original research was in functional analysis.
		We then present some interview data and argue that, although individual women’s responses are distinctive, there are nonetheless a number of common threads in their narratives and these relate to a difficulty in acknowledging their successes.
		Another Scottish mathematician, Thomas Muir, was the Superintendent-General of Education in the Cape Colony during the years 1892 – 1915.
	www.maths.otago.ac.nz /delta03/abstracts.html (13310 words)

	Portland NORML News - Sunday, January 25, 1998
		Unlike Spheeris' first two ``Decline'' movies, which focused on the musicians in Los Angeles' punk and metal music scenes, this one explores the sad lives of young punk fans who tend to be alcoholic, homeless drug-users who had been abused by their parents.
		Thalidomide was a medicinal drug given to pregnant women in the 1960s as a remedy for morning sickness and nausea but was later found to be the agent responsible for widespread defects and abnormalities in babies.
		The interview was calm and cordial until Thomas challenged Mr Straw to say whether or not he was happy that people who were sick risked arrest and criminal conviction for taking a substance that relieved their symptoms.
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	A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory
		I keep having this image of a survey course in human physiology, in which the syllabus covers each body system in turn, and in the final week it is all put together into a whole person.
		But as soon as I revealed that in any living system there are more than two electrons, the physicists would not speak to me. With all their computers they could not say what the third electron might do.
		As Thomas Pynchon said in Gravity's Rainbow, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." That's the whole point of the Judo-like statement "the medium is the message" -- it's designed to shock you into realizing you were asking the wrong questions.
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	Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (W)
		In 1748, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799), in Istituzioni Analitiche, the first calculus book written by a woman, also called the curve la versiera, using the name twice.
		The British mathematician John Colson (1680-1760), translating Agnesi's work into English, translated the Italian word versiera as "the Witch." He wrote, "...and therefore [equation] or [equation] will be the equation of the curve to be described, which is vulgarly called the Witch." He also wrote, "Let the curve to be described be that of Prob.
		The term WRONSKIAN (for Höené Wronski) was coined by Thomas Muir (1844-1934) in 1881 (Cajori 1919, page 310).
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	Timeline 1855-1859
		He wrote in one editorial: "We believe the Caucasian variety of the human species superior to the Negro variety; and we would breed the best stock." In 2000 the Courant apologized for running ads for the sale of slaves up to 1823.
		In 1998 Donald Thomas published "The Victorian Underworld," on the emergence of the urban criminal class in Britain.
		He was one of the first to advocate Indian independence, albeit on the grounds of English commercial self interest.
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	1892 May 7 May 22 Nigeria John Muir Jose Rizal February 27 March 30 Stefan Banach Pops Foster September 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		» May 28 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
		» August 9 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
		» March 30 - Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d.
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