Famous Mathematicians

Pythagoras

100

Pythagoras ( c. 570 – c. 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician. Because much of the information written down about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, very little reliable information is known about him. While Pythagoras made many contributions to philosophy and religion, he is best known for the Pythagorean Theorem.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbopLhP4kpo

Euclid

101

Euclid (of Alexandria, fl. 300 BCE) was a Greek mathematician. Euclid is known as the Father of Geometry. In his publication of the "Elements," Euclid deduced the principles of what is now called Euclidean Geometry.
An introductions to Euclidean Geometry:
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/tools-of-geometry/intro-euclid

Fibonacci

Jan 2, 1170

Fibonacci, also known as Leonard Bonacci or Leonard of Pisa, was an Italian mathematician and was born sometime around 1170 and died smetime between 1240 and 1250. He is most well known for the series of numbers known as the Fibonacci Sequence in which each new number in the sequence is found by adding the two previous numbers. What is the Fibonacci Sequence? http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html

Descartes

Mar 31, 1596

What is the Cartesian Plane?Rene Descartes (3/31/1596 - 2/11/1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist known as the Father of Western Philosophy. While Descartes was one of the key figures in the scientific revolution and had much influence in mathematics, his most easily recognized contribution is the the Cartesian Plane.

Fermat

Aug 17, 1601

What is Fermat's Last Theorem?Peirre de Fermat (8/16/1601 - 1/12/1665) was a French mathematician as well as a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France. Fermat devloped a method for determining maxima, minima and tangents to curves that was equivalent to differential calculus. Fermat is most well known for "Fermat's Last Theorem."

Pascal

Jun 19, 1623

Blaise Pascal (6/19/1623 - 8/19/1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, Christian philosopher and child prodigy who was educated by his father. His most well known mathematical contribution was Pascal's Triangle.
Visit this page for an interactive Pascal's Triangle. http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/pascal/mo.pascal.html

Newton

Dec 25, 1642

What is Gravity?Isaac Newton (12/25/1642 - 3/20/1726) is an Eglish Physicist/Mathematician who is widely recognized as one of the key figures in the scientific revolution. While his publication "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" the laws of motion, he is most well known for his incident with an apple, which inspired him to formulate his theory of gravity. He also shares credit for inventing calculus with Gottfired Leibinz.

Euler

Apr 15, 1707

Differential Equations - Euler's MethodLeonard Euler (4/15/1707 - 9/18/1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician and engineer who introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation. He is also considered to be the most prolific mathematician and is most widely known for his works in function notation.

Gauss

Apr 30, 1777

Carl Friedrich Gauss (4/30/1777 - 2/23/1855) was a German mathematician who is sometimes referred to as the "Princeps mathematicorum" or the "greatest mathematician since antiuqity." One of his important contributions was his work on normal distribution or the bell curve.
What is normal distribution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

Babbage

Dec 26, 1791

Charles Babbage (12/26/1791 - 10/18/1871) was an English mathematician, philospoher, mechanical engineer, and inventor. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer.
What did Charles Babbage's computer look like?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babbage_Difference_Engine_(1).jpg

Einstein

Mar 14, 1879

Albert Einstein (3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. While he made many contributions to mathematics, he is known as the Father of Physics, as he developed one of the two pillars of modern physics. His most famous in today's culture for his formula of mass-energy equivalence.

What is the formula for mass-energy equivalence?

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