References for Rudolf Wolf

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  1. J J Burckhardt, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830904710.html
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/646500/Rudolf-Wolf

Books:

  1. D V Hoyt and K H Schatten,, The Role of the Sun in Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Articles:

  1. H Balmer, Rudolf Wolf und seine Briefsammlung, Librarium 8 (1965), 95-105.
  2. A J Izenman, J R Wolf and the Zurich Sunspot Relative Numbers, The Mathematical Intelligencer 7 (1985), 27-33.
  3. H Riedwyl, Rudolf Wolf's contribution to the Buffon needle problem (an early Monte Carlo experiment) and application of least squares, Amer. Statist. 44 (2) (1990), 138-139.
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