5 great mathematicians and their biography books

Mathematics is a field that some people shy away from, but there are some famous mathematicians who had a passion for numbers throughout our history books. They looked for ways to understand the world as it relates to mathematics and their contributions have been very important for their generation and beyond. We compiled a list of famous mathematicians and their discoveries over the years.

Brahmagupta ( CE) 

Brahmagupta&#;s work comprised of the rules to compute with zero. It was traditionally used as a place holder. He also wrote some important works on astronomy alongside mathematics. The seventh-century Indian mathematician showcased examples such as how to find the cube and cube-root of an integer and gave rules regarding squares and square roots. Read more.

Isaac Newton ( )

Isaac Newton is perhaps most well-known for his legend on developing the universal laws of gravity. It is known that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was struck on the head by a fruit. This lead to his crucible moment, to develop some of the most important principles of modern physics. He is also renowned for his discovery of calculus, and binomial theorem. This in large has been used to work out the probability of things through statistics. Read more.

Diophantus (AD and )

Diophantus is sometimes called “the father of algebra&#; and developed theories on numbers and solving equations. &#;Arithmetica’ is a major work of Diophantus, and inspired some of the world’s greatest mathematicians including Leonhard Euler and Pierre de Fermat to make significant new discoveries. Read more.

Ada Lovelace ()

English mathematician, Ada Lovelace is recognised as the world&#;s first computer programmer. Her mathematical skills were evident at an early age. She introduced many computer concepts. Read more.

Blaise Pascal ( – )

Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. He contributed to several areas of mathematics, but he is wid

15 Famous Mathematicians and Their Contributions

 

Introduction

Being a mathematician is hard. Only a few people have mastered this subject and achieved fame. Of those, there have been some famous Indian mathematicians. In this article, we will discuss some of the famous mathematicians and their contributions to Mathematics.

 

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15 Famous Mathematicians and Their Contributions

 

1. Euclid

Euclid was one among the famous mathematicians, and he was known as the ‘Father of Geometry.’ His famous Geometry contribution is referred to as the Euclidean geometry, which is there in the Geometry chapter of class IX. He spent all his life working for mathematics and set a revolutionary contribution to Geometry. 

 

2. Pythagoras

‘Pythagoras theorem’ is very popular and an important mathematical formula to solve mathematical problems. Since childhood, all of us have struggled to solve mathematical problems applying the Pythagoras theorem. Pythagoras discovered this prominent theorem and he became the father of ‘Pythagoras theorem.’ Pythagoras was from Greece, but he fled off to India in the latter part of his life.

 

3. Archimedes

Archimedes was a Greek Scientist, a great mathematician, and a Physician. He also worked his entire life in search of discovering mathematical formulas that are related to Physics. The best contribution of Archimedes in mathematics is known as the invention of compound pulleys, antiquity, and screw pump. Students of class X have to study these chapters of compound pulleys and antiquity.

 

4. Thales of Miletus

Thales of Miletus was one of the most famous mathematicians from Greece. He was very skilled in Ge

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Hundred Greatest Mathematicians of the Past

This is the long page, with list and biographies. (Click here for just the List, with links to the biographies. Or Click here for a List of the Greatest of All Time.)
 
 


 

The Greatest Mathematicians of the Past
ranked in approximate order of "greatness."
To qualify, the mathematician must be born before and his work must have
breadth, depth, and historical importance.
 

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Archimedes
  3. Carl F. Gauss
  4. Leonhard Euler
  5. Bernhard Riemann
 
  1. David Hilbert
  2. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  3. Euclid of Alexandria
  4. Alexandre Grothendieck
  5. Gottfried W. Leibniz
 
  1. John von Neumann
  2. Henri Poincaré
  3. Évariste Galois
  4. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  5. Pierre de Fermat
  1. Hermann K. H. Weyl
  2. Karl W. T. Weierstrass
  3. Brahmagupta
  4. Niels Abel
  5. René Descartes
 
  1. Georg Cantor
  2. Emmy Noether
  3. Peter G. L. Dirichlet
  4. Pythagoras of Samos
  5. Muhammed al-Khowârizmi
 
  1. Carl Ludwig Siegel
  2. Augustin Cauchy
  3. Arthur Cayley
  4. William R. Hamilton
  5. Apollonius of Perga

At some point a longer list will become a List of Great Mathematicians rather than a List of Greatest Mathematicians. I've expanded my original List of Thirty to an even Hundred, but you may prefer to reduce it to a Top Seventy, Top Sixty, Top Fifty, Top Forty or Top Thirty list, or even Top Twenty, Top Fifteen or Top Ten List.

  1. Charles Hermite
  2. Leonardo `Fibonacci'
  3. Carl G. J. Jacobi
  4. Diophantus of Alexandria
  5. Pierre-Simon Laplace
 
  1. Élie Cartan
  2. Aryabhata
  3. Johannes Kepler
  4. Andrey N. Kolmogorov
  5. Giuseppe Peano
 
  1. F.E.J. Émile Borel
  2. Felix Christian Klein
  3. Richard Dedekind
  4. Bháscara (II) Áchárya
  5. Kurt Gödel
  1. Archytas of Tarentum
  2. Godfrey H. Hardy
  3. Hipparchus of Nicaea
  4. Alhazen ibn al-Haytham
  5. Marius Sophus Lie
 
  1. Blaise Pascal
  2. Julius Plücker
  3. Panini of Shalatula
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    Pythagoras (circa BC)

    Vegetarian mystical leader and number-obsessive, he owes his standing as the most famous name in maths due to a theorem about right-angled triangles, although it now appears it probably predated him. He lived in a community where numbers were venerated as much for their spiritual qualities as for their mathematical ones. His elevation of numbers as the essence of the world made him the towering primogenitor of Greek mathematics, essentially the beginning of mathematics as we know it now. And, famously, he didn't eat beans.

    Hypatia (cAD)

    Women are under-represented in mathematics, yet the history of the subject is not exclusively male. Hypatia was a scholar at the library in Alexandria in the 4th century CE. Her most valuable scientific legacy was her edited version of Euclid's The Elements, the most important Greek mathematical text, and one of the standard versions for centuries after her particularly horrific death: she was murdered by a Christian mob who stripped her naked, peeled away her flesh with broken pottery and ripped apart her limbs.

    Girolamo Cardano ( )

    Italian polymath for whom the term Renaissance man could have been invented. A doctor by profession, he was the author of books. He was also a compulsive gambler. It was this last habit that led him to the first scientific analysis of probability. He realised he could win more on the dicing table if he expressed the likelihood of chance events using numbers. This was a revolutionary idea, and it led to probability theory, which in turn led to the birth of statistics, marketing, the insurance industry and the weather forecast.

    Leonhard Euler ( )

    The most prolific mathematician of all time, publishing close to books. When he went blind in his late 50s his productivity in many areas increased. His famous formula eiπ + 1 = 0, where e is the mathematical constant sometimes known as Euler's number and i is the square root of minu

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