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400 biographies of scientists. On the series “Scientific-biographical literature”. 1959–1986. Biobibliographical handbook. Ed. by A. L. Yanshin. (400 биографий ученых. О серии “Научно-биографическая литература”. 1959–1986. Биобиблиографический справочник.) (Russian) Zbl 0652.01035

Nauchno-Biograficheskaya Literatura. Moskva: Nauka. 511 p. R. 1.70 (1988).
This book deals with the Russian series “Scientific-biographical literature” on the occasion of its 400th volume. There are five sections. The first describes the history of the series.
The second section enumerates the hitherto published volumes, translations and reviews included. It gives a short summary of the content of each volume and describes their appendices. The following 39 mathematicians are among the scientists who are taken into account: Aryabhata, Ch. Babbage, D. Bernoulli, E. Borel, P. L. Chebychev, R. Descartes, A. Dürer, V. P. Ermakov, N. I. Fuss, Chr. Goldbach, D. A. Grave, O. Heaviside, Ch. Hermite, Chr. Huygens, J. Kepler, O. Khayyam, al-Khwarizmi, N. E. Kochin, A. N. Korkin, A. P. Kotelnikov, S. O. Kovalevskaya, J. L. Lagrange, H. Lebesgue, G. W. Leibniz, S. Lie, F. Minding, F. E. Molin, G. Monge, J. Neper, M. V. Ostrogradskii, P. de la Ramée, B. Pascal, J. Regiomontan, Y. D. Sokolov, O. J. Somov, N. J. Sonin, V. A. Steklov, V. Volterra, K. Weierstraß.
The third section enumerates projected biographies, the fourth collects the illustrations of the volumes under systematical headings like portraits, institutions, facsimiles, diplomas etc. The last section enumerates the editors and authors. The three appendices contain lists of the scientists according to their professions or life dates. There is finally a name index.

MSC:

01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
01-00 General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to history and biography
00A15 Bibliographies for mathematics in general
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