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Known as the first philosopher of Greek tradition, he was called the founder of abstract geometry.
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Pythagoras was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. He worked primarily with right triangles, and became known as the father of numbers.
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Euclid was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "father of geometry". His book "Element"s is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics. It was the main textbook for teaching mathematics from the time of its publication until the late 19th or early 20th century.
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Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. He was considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. Primarily worked in integration, volume, and physics.
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Apollonius was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections. His innovative methodology and terminology, especially in the field of conics, influenced many later scholars.
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Liu Hui was a mathematician from China. He edited and published a book with solutions to mathematical problems presented in the famous Chinese book of mathematics known as "The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art."
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Hypatia was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Byzantine Empire. She was head of a school in Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy
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Brahmagupta was the father of Algebra. Originally from India, he was the first to give rules to compute with zero
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Bhāskara and his works represent a significant contribution to mathematical and astronomical knowledge in the 12th century. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India.[
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Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician, considered to be the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages. Fibonacci popularized the Hindu–Arabic numeral system to the western world.
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Yang Hui was a Chinese mathematician. Yang worked on magic squares, magic circles and the binomial theorem, and is best known for his contribution of presenting Yang Hui's Triangle.
