Names are listed alphetically or by date, from 1680 BC to the present.
Baron, mathematical physicist, French Revolution, a teacher, a secret policeman, a political prisoner, governor of Egypt, The Analytic Theory of Heat
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?, Works Cited List
Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by radicals.
(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
"... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series.
Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
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