Wallace Lindsay, a renowned Latinist and Classical scholar, was not your typical university professor. Though he certainly did not lack in scholarly achievements, he had a general dislike for traditional education and preferred to spend his time out…
Born in Berlin in 1911, Walter Ledermann was a German mathematician. Being Jewish, Ledermann received a scholarship from the International Student Services to study in St Andrews in 1934, effectively fleeing the rising Nazism and antisemitism in…
Images of mathematician Walter Ledermann. Found on the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, who don't own the rights to these images but have stated that these images are recognized to be in the Public Domain.
So'gait port (South Street), now called West Port, is one of few surviving town "Ports" in Scotland (the Lowland Scots word for a town gate) and is a scheduled monument. It was built by Thomas Robertson at around 1859 but was completely refurbished…