{"id":187,"date":"2023-11-07T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2023-12-19T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:04:40","slug":"some-famous-university-of-edinburgh-mathematicians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=187","title":{"rendered":"Famous University of Edinburgh\u00a0Mathematicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The list of famous mathematicians associated to the University of Edinburgh includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Maclaurin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colin Maclaurin<\/a>\u00a0(1698-1746)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Bayes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Bayes<\/a>\u00a0(1702-1761)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mary_Somerville\">Mary Somerville<\/a> (1780-1872)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Tait.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Guthrie Tait<\/a>\u00a0(1831-1901)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flora_Philip\">Flora Philip<\/a> (1865-1943)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=197\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"197\">Sir Edmund Whittaker<\/a>&nbsp;(1873-1956)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Aitken.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alexander Aitken<\/a>&nbsp;(1895-1967)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=182\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"182\">Sir William Hodge<\/a>&nbsp;(1903-1973)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Edge_(mathematician)\">William Edge<\/a>\u00a0(1904-1997)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/?page_id=202\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"202\">Ian Porteous<\/a>&nbsp;(1931-2011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.ed.ac.uk\/~aar\/atiyah80.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sir Michael Atiyah<\/a>\u00a0(1929-2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dusa_McDuff\">Dusa McDuff<\/a> (1945-)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of famous mathematicians associated to the University of Edinburgh includes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}