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Gaspard Monge (1746 - 1818)
A short biography of the great French mathematician who invented the descriptive geometry. [eng]
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Women Index
Mathematical biographies: Women index. [eng]
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Bateman, Harry (1882-1944)
British-American mathematician who
has made numerous contributions to applied mathematics, including in the fields of aerodynamic, fluid mechanics, electromagnetic theory, thermodynamics, and geophysics. [eng]
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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
Swiss mathematician. His main works are dedicated to vibrating strings, fluid flow and kinetic theory of gases. [eng]
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John Wallis (1616 - 1703)
A short online biography of the English mathematician with describing of his works. [eng]
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Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens
Online publication
from `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. [eng]
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Biography of Carle Runge (1856-1927)
German mathematician and physicist who worked on spectroscopy. He developed the Runge-Kutta method for numerically solving differential equations. [eng]
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Adrian Marie Legendre (1752 - 1833)
Biography of the French mathematician. He published a classic work on geometry, Élements de géométrie and also made significant contributions in differential equations, calculus, function theory, number theory . [eng]
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Bernoulli, Johann (1667-1748)
Swiss mathematician who with his brother Jakob, Johann Bernoulli is considered the most important founder of calculus (with the exception of Newton and Leibniz). [eng]
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Biography of Hermann Weyl (1885-1955)
German mathematician who was a member of the intuitionist school. He applied group theory to quantum mechanics. [eng]
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Kovalevskaya
Biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), the outstanding Russian mathematician. [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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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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Agnesi, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
Biography of Maria Agnesi (1718-1799), an Italian mathematician.
[eng]
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Bernoulli, Jakob (1654-1705) -- from Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
Swiss mathematician . He has been done good results in analysis and probability. [eng]
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Shannon's Work
Discription of works of American mathematician who is the father of information theory . [eng]
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Brook Taylor (1685 - 1731)
The British mathematician who invented the famous series. [eng]
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Biography of Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963)
French mathematician who proved the prime number theorem independently of Vallee Poussin. He also developed Hadamard matrices and did work on the calculus of variations. [eng]
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Pearson, Karl (1857-1936)
Biography of the Englsh
Statistician who popularized the chi-squared test and derived many important results in mathematical probability.
[eng]
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Zeilberger, Doron (1950-)
Israeli-American mathematician who has made important contributions to the fields of hypergeometric summation and q-Series. [eng]
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