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Horner, William (1786-1837)
English school teacher who discovered Horner's method . [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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Pappus of Alexandria (290-350)
Biography and scientific works of the scientist. [eng]
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Poncelet, Jean-Victor (1788-1867)
French mathematician who was the founder of projective geometry. [eng]
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Frege
Biography of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925). [eng]
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Weierstrass, Karl (1815-1897)
German mathematician who is considered the father of modern analysis. [eng]
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Cartan, Élie (1869-1951)
He has developed the calculus of exterior differential forms which can be applied to differential geometry. [eng]
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Dodgson
Biography of Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), the English professor of mathematics who wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, sighned by L. Carroll. [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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Carnot, Lazare (1753-1823)
French philosopher and successful military leader. [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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Euclid
Biography of the great Greek geometer who wrote the Elements. [eng]
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Klein, Felix (1849-1925)
German mathematician who systemized non-Euclidean geometry . He also is known in topology for the one-sided Klein bottle. [eng]
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Bachet, Claude-Gaspar (1581-1638)
Scientific Biography of the French mathematician . [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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Legendre
Biography of Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833), the French mathematician . [eng]
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Tschirnhausen, Ehrenfried (1651-1708)
German mathematician . [eng]
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Bolyai, Janos (1802-1860)
Hungarian mathematician . [eng]
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Cramer, Gabriel (1704-1752)
Cramer, Swiss mathematician . [eng]
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de Donder, Théophile Ernest (1872-1957)
Belgian mathematician and physicist . [eng]
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