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| Women Mathematicians [102] | ||
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| Archimedes [11] |
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| | Gauss, Karl [3] |
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| Boole, George [14] |
| Hilbert, David [7] |
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| | Khayyam, Omar [16] |
| Ptolemy, Claudius [10] | |
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| Euclid [14] |
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| Euler, Leonhard [5] |
| Lobachevsky, Nicolai [15] |
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Diophantus
Greek mathematician who developed his own algebraic notation. [eng] |
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Feuerbach, Karl (1800-1834)
German geometer . [eng] |
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Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933)
French mathematician and politician . [eng] |
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Weyl, Hermann (1885-1955)
German mathematician . [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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Hermite, Charles (1822-1901)
French mathematician who did brilliant work in many branches of mathematics. [eng] |
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Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895)
Brilliant English mathematician who primarily worked in algebra. [eng] |
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Condorcet, M.-J. (1743-1794)
French philosopher, encyclopedist, and mathematician. [eng] |
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Ferrari (1522-1565)
Italian mathematician who derived a formula solving the quartic equation. [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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Liouville, Joseph (1809-1882)
French mathematician who, with Sturm developed many properties of boundary value problems. [eng] |
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Von Neumann
Biography of John von Neumann (1903-1957), Hungarian-American mathematician . He developed game theory in The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior . [eng] |
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Plücker, Julius (1801-1868)
German mathematician and physicist who specialized in analytic geometry. [eng] |
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Meijer, C.S.
Russian mathematician. [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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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who accepted Plato's notion of the rotation of the planets around the Earth on crystalline spheres, but noticed discrepancies with observations. [eng] |
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Waring, Edward (1734-1798)
English mathematician . [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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Maclaurin
Biography of Colin Maclaurin (1698-1746), the Scottish mathematician who published the first systematic formulation of Newton's methods in A Treatise of Fluxions . [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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