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(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.

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University of St. Andrews: Biography Index

- Names are listed alphetically or by date, from 1680 BC to the present.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC) - Discusses this early Grecian\\'s discoveries in finding a math good approximation of the circumference of the earth, math the tilt angle of our planet math and a tool for finding prime numbers. math Page includes biographical information.
Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) - From `A Short Account of the History of math Mathematics\\' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse math Ball.
Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) - (Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a math theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and math Euler.
Archimedes Palimpsest - Provides information on a project at the Walters people Art Museum to study and conserve the ancient people texts in this 13th century book.
Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880) - Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of history mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh.
Oughtred, William (1574-1660) - Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
Schmidt, Erhard (1876-1959) - Main research was functional analysis, doctorate was obtained math under Hilbert\\'s supervision, main interest was in integral math equations and Hilbert space, best remembered for the math Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process.
Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) - His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series.
Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 ) - Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on history the theory people of numbers, a collection of 130 history problems giving numerical solutions people of determinate equations.
d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) - Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics people over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving people Newton's definition of force.
The Eratosthenes Project - Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and reconstructed map of the world.
Fibonacci Mathematics by Dr. Peter Reimers - Describes the rabbit problem and the Fibonacci sequence math and some generalized rules.
Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind - Provides biographical details of this German mathematician who history lived from people 1831 to 1916.
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) - The most prominent twentieth-century mathematician.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians - On-going project by students in mathematics classes at people Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Galois, Évariste (1811-1832) - Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with history the general solution of equations, group theory, method history of determining when a general equation could be history solved by radicals, solved many long-standing unanswered questions.
Plato (427-347 B.C.) - "... the reality which scientific thought is seeking math must be people expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being math the most precise and people definite kind of thinking math of which we are capable."
Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) - Gauss\\' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss\\' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing people a report on Gauss?, Works Cited List
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) - One of the all-time greats, Gauss began to math show his math mathematical brilliance at the early age math of seven. He math is usually credited with math the first proof of The Fundamental math Theorem of math Algebra.
Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) - Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime history to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in history algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a history function.
Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) - In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes math he proved people that pi is incommensurable.
The Grothendieck Circle - Aims to make publicly available materials written by math and about Alexandre Grothendieck. Made contributions to math algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis. math Page includes list of mathematical,biographical publications and some math portrait
A Chonicle of Mathematical People - Robert A. Nowlan provides short biographical sketches of history mathematicians from many diverse fields.
Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) - Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and people integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by people radicals.
Pell, John (1611-1685) - Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a history table of factors of all integers up to history 100000 in 1668. Pell\\'s equation is y^2 = history ax^2 + 1, where a is a non-square history integer.
Galois, Evariste - Biography in the St Andres archive.
Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) - Work on prime numbers included the determination of math the number math of primes not exceeding a given math number, wrote an important math book on the theory math of congruences, proved that there was math always at math least one prime between n and 2n for math math n > 3.
The Grothendieck Biography Project - Links relating to Alexandre Groethendieck.
Archimedes - Provides a biography and cultural background, as well math as details history about his discoveries. Page includes math photos and a timeline.
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987) - Worked on trigonometric series, set theory, integration analysis, history constructive logic, topology, approximation methods, probability, statistics, random history processes, information theory, dynamical systems, algorithms, celestial mechanics, history Hilbert's 13th probl
The History of Mathematics - Collection of original papers of Berkeley, Hamilton, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, history and Newton. Includes background and notes. Maintained by David R. history Wilkins from Trinity College, Dublin
Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953) - Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt people an axiomatisation history of set theory
Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) - Most important work considered the basic properties of people fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave people their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
The Works of Archimedes - Provides the full text of this book translated math by T. math L. Heath.
Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) - Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler\\'s problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.
Shortest path to Gauss - This site is the quickest access to information people about C.F.Gauss, math although reduced to a single page.
Sheynin, Oscar - Freelance researcher specializes in the history of probability, math statistics and error theory. Page includes list math of publications and outside reviews.
Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani - Gives information on background and contributions to non-euclidean geometry, spherical trigonometry, number theory and the field of statics. Was an important translator of Greek materials, including Euclid\\'s Elements, during the Middle Ages.
Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752) - Best known for his work on determinants, made people contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857) - Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. math He math is probably best known for his math important contributions to real math and complex analysis.
Hermann Gunter Grassmann - Provides biographical details of this German mathematician who lived from 1809 to 1877, the inventor of what is now called exterior algebra.
Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive - Includes personal biography, explanation of his theory and people related links.
History of Mathematics - Online texts of historic mathematical people, including Hamilton, math Riemann, Newton, people Boole, and Cantor. Also, has math biographical backgrounds for key people figures during the 17th math and 18th centuries.

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