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GREAT WORLD MATHS WIZARDS
PYTHAGORAS
570–495 BCPythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher famous for ‘Pythagoras theory’ believed music is mathematics, medicine and harmony.
EUCLID
325-265 BCEuclid, the ancient Greek mathematician, whose ‘Elements’ is one of the most influential works in mathematics history, is called ‘father of Geometry’.
ARCHIMEDES
287–212 BCArchimedes, famous for ‘Archimedes principle’ is the ancient Greek mathematician who discovered the principles of lever and buoyancy.
BLAISE PASCAL
1623–1662Blaise Pascal, known for Pascal’s Law was a mathematician and philosopher who had rich contributions in probability, fluid mechanics and projective geometry.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
1646–1716Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the great German mathematician, scientist and philosopher had invented calculus, binary arithmetic and statistics.
LEONHARD EULER
1707–1783Leonhard Euler, the Swiss mathematician and physicist who had introduced Euler’s Totient function, laid the foundation in graph theory and topology.
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE
1749–1827Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French mathematician, physicist and astronomer had refined the hypothesis of solar system’s formation.
JOSEPH FOURIER
1768–1830Joseph Fourier, the French mathematician and physicist known for ‘Fourier Series’ and ‘Fourier Transform’ improved heat transfer and vibrations.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
1777–1855Carl Friedrich Gauss, the German mathematician and astronomer known for Gauss's Law contributed to mathematics, magnetism and electricity.
NIELS HENRIK ABEL
1802–1829Neils Henrik Abel, the Norwegian mathematician in a short life of 27 years had made crucial advances in elliptic functions and solved integral equations.
EVARISTE GALOIS
1811–1832Evariste Galois, the French mathematician in his short life of 20 years laid the foundation of modern algebra with his work on group theory and field theory .
BERNHARD RIEMANN
1826–1866Bernhard Riemann, the 19th century German mathematician is famous for ‘Riemann Hypothesis’, ‘Riemann Surface’ and ‘Riemann Geometry’.
HENRI POINCARE
1854–1912Henry Poincare, the French mathematician had made pioneering advances in topology, celestial mechanics and dynamical systems.
DAVID HILBERT
1862–1943David Hilbert, the German mathematician’s 'Hilbert’s Problems' and 'Hilbert’s Space' greatly influenced mathematics and quantum mechanics.
MARY CARTWRIGHT
1900–1998Mary Cartwright, the British mathematician had significant contribution to non-linear differential equations and chaos theory.
JOHN VON NEUMANN
1903–1957John Von Neumann, the Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist is famous for ‘Neumann architecture’ or stored-program architecture.
KURT GODEL
1906–1978Kurt Godel, the Austrian mathematician and philosopher’s two ‘Incompleteness Theorems’ has a great influence on logic, computer science and mathematics.
PAUL ERDOS
1913–1996Paul Erdos, the Hungarian mathematician has great contribution on number, probabilistic number, approximation and proof of prime number theories.
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