A Guide to Mathematicians and Their Contributions
Mathematicians and Their Contributions
Mathematicians have been around since the beginning of time. From the first person who first counted days or added items, to those who have had a hand in the creation of new medications and inventions of the newest forms of technology today. They have always been vital to the development of society and their mathematical minds have contributed in all levels of science, philosophical thinking and engineering.
The major roots of mathematics were in the Egypt and Babylonia of old and later made more logical in Greece where it quickly grew. In fact, the word mathematics is from the Greek word ‘mathematika’, which means learning. India was also growing in mathematic discovery and soon some of the works from both areas were translated into Arabic and then Latin. Thus, western mathematics was created and eventually was accepted around the globe.
Great mathematicians began to emerge from that time on, people who devoted much of their lives to this way of thinking and that continued through time.
Isaac Barrow
Biography and Works of Isaac Barrow
Barrow’s Proof of the Fundamental Theorem
Lenore Blum
Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Biography of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Ada Byron; Founder of Scientific Computing
Susan J. Cunningham
Biography of Susan Jane Cunningham
Rene Descartes
Biography and Timeline of Rene Descartes
Descartes and His Accomplishments
Christian Andreas Doppler
Biography of Christian Doppler
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Biography of Agnes Meyer Driscoll
Driscoll’s Work as a Navy Crytanalyst
Albert Einstein
A Look at the Theory of Relativity
Eukleides
Biography of Euclid of Alexandria
Leonhard Euler
Euler’s Mathematical Contributions
Pierre de Fermat
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Biography of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
A Look at Fourier and the Theory of Heat
Johann Karl Fredrich Gauss
Biography of Johann Carl Fredrich Gauss
Kurt Godel
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem
James Gregory
Gregory and the Pappus-Guldin Theorem
A Look at Gregory’s Life and Contributions
David Hilbert
A Look at Hilbert’s Twenty-Three Problems in Mathematics
Christian Huygens
Biography of Christian Huygens
Huygens Horologium Oscillatorium
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Biography of Joseph Louis Lagrange
A Look at Lagrange’s Four-Square Theorem
Adrian Marie Legendre
Biography of Adrien-Marie Legendre
Colin Maclaurin
Sir Isaac Newton
A Look at Newton’s Laws of Motion
Blaise Pascal
Simeon Poisson
Explanation of Poisson Distribution
Pythagoras of Samos
Pythagoras and His Contributions
Bernhard Riemann