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Noether, Emmy (1882-1935)
German-American mathematician. [eng]
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Biography of Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
German-American mathematician who showed that symmetry was intimately connected to integrals of motion. [eng]
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Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882-1969)
Polish mathematician . [eng]
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Biography of Vito Volterra (1860-1940)
Italian mathematician who studied integral equations and functional analysis. He extended the Lotka-Volterra equation describing the interaction of predator and prey. [eng]
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Ferrari
Biography of Lodovico Ferrari (1522-1565). [eng]
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Mersenne
French mathematician. [eng]
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Biography of Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)
Outstanding German mathematician. [eng]
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Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammed ibn Musa
Scientific Biography of the
Arab mathematician who wrote a treatise about algebraic methods whose Arabic title was distorted into the word algebra. [eng]
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Clairaut, Alexis (1713-1765)
French mathematician who wrote Théorie de la Figure de la terra (1743), a treatise dealing with the shape of rotating solid bodies, far surpassing Newton in his analysis. [eng]
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Clifford, William (1845-1879) -- from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
English mathematician who invented the Clifford algebras. [eng]
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Fibonacci, Leonardo da Pisa
Italian mathematician . [eng]
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Lucas, Eduoard (1842-1891)
Biography of the French mathematician .
Lucas is best known for his results in number theory. In particular, he studied the Fibonacci sequence. [eng]
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Pochhammer, Leo August (1841-1920)
Biography of Prussian mathematician .
In mathematics, Pochhammer introduced the generalized hypergeometric function. [eng]
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Taylor, Brook (1685-1731)
English mathematician . He invented the method for expanding functions in terms of polynomials about an arbitrary point known as Taylor series. [eng]
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Brook Taylor (1685 - 1731)
The British mathematician who invented the famous series. [eng]
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Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois (1822-1900)
French mathematician . [eng]
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Jean Gaston Darboux
Biography of Gaston Darboux (1842-1917). One of the leading geometers of the turn of the century and a biographer of Poincaré. [eng]
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Euclid
Biography of the great Greek geometer who wrote the Elements. [eng]
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Guldin
Biography of Paul Guldin (1577-1643). Swiss mathematician .
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Horner, William (1786-1837)
English school teacher who discovered Horner's method . [eng]
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