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Hypatia is the first recorded female mathematician and she distinguishes herself with remarkable scholarship. She becomes head of the Neo-Platonist school at Alexandria.
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Bhaskara's work on calculus predates that of Newton and Leibniz
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Liber Abaci sets out the arithmetic and algebra Fibonacci had learned in Arab countries. It also introduces the famous sequence of numbers now called the "Fibonacci sequence".
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Della Pictura is the first general treatise on the laws of perspective.
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Although Tartaglia could solve cubic equations, he did not share his methods with anyone.
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(On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) This work gives a full account of the Copernican theory, namely that the Sun (not the Earth) is at rest in the center of the Universe.
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René Descartes developed analytic geometry.
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Pierre de Fermat was possibly the world's finest mathematical amateur.
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This "mechanical clock" was a wooden calculating machine that could add, subtract, and aid with multiplication and division. He wrote to Kepler suggesting the use of mechanical means to calculate ephemeredes.
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Fermat left no details of his proof since the margin in which he wrote it is too small. This theorem states that the equation xn + yn = zn has no non-zero solutions for x, y and z when n > 2.
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This calculating machine can multiply, divide and extract roots.
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Jacob Bernoulli was a member of the great Bernoulli family of mathematicians in Basel, Switzerland.
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Euler was a Swiss mathematician who made enormous contibutions to a wide range of mathematics and physics including analytic geometry, trigonometry, geometry, calculus and number theory.
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f(x) stands for "the function of x."
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"Elements of Algebra" was one of the first books to set out algebra in the modern form that we recognize today.
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His developments were published in Systematische Entwickelung der Abhängigkeit Geometrischer Gestalten von Einander.
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The Treaty of Meter set the standard units of measure as the meter and kilogram.
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This many digits, printed in a single line of ordinary newspaper type, would stretch from New York to Hollywood, California!
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A failed attempt in 1993 gave Wiles the crucial idea for circumventing rather than closing the gap in his previous attempt.
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Lambert was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer.
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His algebra treatise Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala gives us the word algebra and can be considered as the first book to be written on algebra.
