Paul A. Samuelson book Foundations of Economic Analysis
Source: 1940s, Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947, Ch. 2 : The Theory of Maximizing Behavior
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Paul A. Samuelson book Foundations of Economic Analysis
Source: 1940s, Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947, Ch. 2 : The Theory of Maximizing Behavior
James Tobin (1918–2002) American economist
Tobin, James. " Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/P/cp/p01a/p0117.pdf." Econometrica: journal of the Econometric Society (1958): 24-36. <br class="br">1950s-60s
William Feller (1906–1970) Croatian-American mathematician
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter IX, Random Variables; Expectation, p. 212.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) astronomer
Periods of 25 Variable Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1912HarCi.173....1L (1912)
“Daddy says that, in a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 5
Georg Cantor (1845–1918) mathematician, inventor of set theory
"Über die verschiedenen Ansichten in Bezug auf die actualunendlichen Zahlen" ["Over the different views with regard to the actual infinite numbers"] - Bihand Till Koniglen Svenska Vetenskaps Akademiens Handigar (1886)
Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)
Source: The Ape that Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2013), p. 251
J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker
Quote from Turner's lectures, 1811; as cited in Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Andrew Wilton; London: Academy Editions, 1979; as quoted in 'A brief history of weather in European landscape art', John E. Thornes, in Weather Volume 55, Issue 10 Oct. 2000, p. 367-368
In 1811 already Turner gave his first lectures as Professor of Perspective; in one of his lectures he spoke of the advantages of the British climate for landscape artists
1795 - 1820
Leonard B. Meyer (1918–2007) American composer and philosopher
"Universalism and Relativism in the Study of Ethnic music", Ethnomusicology 4, no. 2:49-54 (1960); reprinted in Reading in Ethnomusicology, p. 270-71.