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Tschirnhausen, Ehrenfried (1651-1708)
German mathematician . [eng]
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British Contemporaries of Newton, Taylor, Maclaurin and Simpson
Online publication from `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. [eng]
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Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944)
The greatest American mathematician of the early 20th century. Birkhoff studied regularization and the three-body problem . In topology, Birkhoff proved Poincaré's last geometric theorem, and also did important work on the four-color theorem . [eng]
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Meijer, C.S.
Russian mathematician. [eng]
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Biography of Paul Painleve (1863-1933)
French mathematician and politician who built of Poincaré's work in investigating nonlinear second order differential equations . He discovered the Painlevé transcendents.
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Hermite, Charles (1822-1901)
French mathematician who did brilliant work in many branches of mathematics. [eng]
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Liouville
Biography of Joseph Liouville (1809-1882),
French mathematician . He studied analysis and differential equations, as well as developed many properties of boundary value problems. [eng]
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Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 1746)
English mathematician who is known how the author of the Maclaurin's series. [eng]
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Thomas Simpson (1710 - 1761)
Biography of tne English mathematician who is author of the Simpson formula for calculation of a figures' square. [eng]
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Kutta
Biography of Martin Kutta (1867-1944), the German mathematician and aerodynamist . [eng]
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Biography of Paolo Ruffini (1765-1822)
Italian mathematician who developed a method for finding roots of equations . [eng]
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Germain, Sophie (1776-1831)
French mathematician who did important work on fermat's last theorem, proving it for any primes less than 100 under certain assumptions (and, in particular, for Sophie Germain primes. She also contributed to acoustics, elasticity, and number theory. [eng]
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Hardy
Biography of G. H. Hardy (1877-1947), the British mathematician . [eng]
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Horner
Biography of William Horner (1786-1837), the Englishman who discovered Horner's method. [eng]
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Waring, Edward (1734-1798)
English mathematician . [eng]
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Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647)
Biography of the Italian mathematician. Online publication. [eng]
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Bachet, Claude-Gaspar (1581-1638)
Scientific Biography of the French mathematician . [eng]
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Bolzano, Bernhard (1781-1848)
Czechoslovakian priest and mathematician who made definitions of a limit, derivative, continuity, and convergence as had Cauchy. [eng]
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Lie, Sophus (1842-1899)
Norwegian mathematician who collaborated with Felix Klein in the investigation of continuous groups, now known as Lie groups. [eng]
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Peano, Giuseppe (1858-1932)
Italian mathematician whose work was based on Peano's axioms and who made the basis for rigorous algebra and analysis. [eng]
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