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- Ptolemy - Ptolemy's Ptools - History of Ptolemy (c. 87-150) Who was Ptolemy? Claudius (Ptolemaues) Ptolemy, born in Egypt in about 85 A.D., one of the most infuential Greek astronomers, geographers and mathematicians.
- Cauchy - Catholic Encyclopedia: AUGUSTIN-LOUIS CAUCHY (1789-1857) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
- Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) His names, Mathematical Contributions, Introducing the Decimal Number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series
- Pascal - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Time Line: 1623 June 19, born in Claremont the son of Etienne Pascal a minor noble and government official. 1626 Mother dies ..., French mathematician, thinker, and scientist, religious and philosophical writings.
- Laplace - Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) Proved the stability of the solar system, introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients, put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing.
- Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?, Works Cited List
- d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
- Zeno - Zeno or Zenon of Elea (495?-435? B.C.) was the first great doubter in mathematics, His paradoxes stumped mathematicians for millennia and provided enough aggravation to lead to numerous discoveries in the attempt to solve them.
- Archimedes - Encyclopedia.com - Results for Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.) Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor, His reputation in antiquity was based on several mechanical contrivances, e.g., ARCHIMEDES' SCREW; which he is alleged to have invented
- Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
- Leibniz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) Invented the differential and integral calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton),
- Conway, John H. - Games that interest John Conway His favorite subjects: theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, Game of Life.
- Fourier - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Baron, mathematical physicist, French Revolution, a teacher, a secret policeman, a political prisoner, governor of Egypt, The Analytic Theory of Heat
- Plato (427-347 B.C.) "... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
- Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) transformations of elliptic integrals, algebraic solution of equations, which equations were soluble by radicals, theory of elliptic functions
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