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Pappus of Alexandria
He states Pappus's theorem and derived the theorem that the centers of the circles in a Pappus chain of an arbelos lie on an ellipse.
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Biography of James J Sylvester (1814-1897)
English mathematician. He was also an accomplished poet and musician. [eng]
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Tartaglia, Niccolò (1499-1557)
The first mathematician to solve the general cubic equation. [eng]
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Lambert, Johann (1728-1777)
German mathematician who proved pi to be an irrational number and introduced hyperbolic functions. [eng]
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Simpson, Thomas (1710-1761)
English mathematician . [eng]
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Biography of Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557)
Italian mathematician, who solved the general cubic equation. [eng]
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Cantor, Georg (1845-1918)
German mathematician who built a hierarchy of infinite sets according to their cardinal number. [eng]
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Markov
Biography of Andrei A Markov (1856-1922), Russian mathematician who studied knots.
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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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Fubini
Biography of Guido Fubini (1879-1943). [eng]
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Hamilton
Biography of William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), the Irish mathematician. [eng]
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Biography of Jakob Steiner (1796-1863)
German geometer. He investigated the Steiner points and proved the Poncelet-Steiner theorem, which states that all Euclidean constructions can be performed with a straightedge alone, provided one is given a single fixed circle. [eng]
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Verhulst, P. (1804-1849)
Belgian mathematician . [eng]
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Boole, George (1815-1864)
English mathematician who was the author of several classic works on mathematical logic. [eng]
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Goldbach, Christian (1690-1764)
German-Russian mathematician . [eng]
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Guldin
Biography of Paul Guldin (1577-1643). Swiss mathematician .
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Hausdorff
Biography of Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942), the German mathematician . [eng]
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Jacobi
Biography of Carl Jacobi (1804-1851), German mathematician .
Jacobi wrote the classic treatise on elliptic functions. [eng]
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Klein
Biography of Felix Klein (1849-1925), German mathematician . [eng]
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Kronecker
Biography of Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891), the German mathematician and logician . [eng]
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