Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by radicals. |
Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.)
(Encyclopedia.com) Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor. |
Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler. |
Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)
Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. He is probably best known for his important contributions to real and complex analysis. |
Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)
Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3. |
Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752)
Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves. |
Dedekind, Richard (1831-1916)
study of CONTINUITY and definition of the real numbers in terms of Dedekind "cuts", the nature of number and mathematical induction, definition of finite and infinite sets; algebraic number fields, concept of RINGS. |
Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 )
Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations. |
Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859)
Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a function. |
Eratosthenes Hub
Links to information and resources for Eratosthenes. |
Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250)
His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series. |
Fibonacci Mathematics
Life and work of Leonardo of Pisa, by Dr. Peter Reimers. |
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 |
Galois, Évariste (1811-1832)
Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many long-standing unanswered questions. |
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
One of the all-time greats, Gauss began to show his mathematical brilliance at the early age of seven. He is usually credited with the first proof of The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. |
Kelvin - William Thomson (1824-1907)
Life, works, thoughts, special features, achievements, quotations, chronology of Scottish engineer, mathematician and physicist Sir William Thomson. |
Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable. |
Leibniz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
Invented the differential and integral calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton), |
Oughtred, William (1574-1660)
Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule. |
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. |
Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh. |
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." |
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. |
Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953)
Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory |
