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1460
Johannes Widmann: (1460-1498)
He was a german mathematician who used for the first time negative and positive signs ( +, - ) in his works. -
1540
François Viète: (1540-1603)
Was a French mathematician, lawyer, and advisor to Kings Henry III and IV of France. He made significant advances in Algebra, and first introduced the use of letters to represent variables. -
1550
John Napier:(1550 – 1617)
Was a Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He invented logarithms, popularised the use of the decimal point, and created “Napier’s bones”, a manual calculating device that helped with multiplication and division. -
1564
Galileo Galilei: (1564-1642)
He became famous with a recognized method for discovering the facts of nature. His discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system and the parabola. -
1571
Johannes Kepler: (1571-1630)
He was a famous astronomer and mathematician, known for discovering the laws about the movement of planets and its orbit around the sun. He was the one to say that we orbit around the sun and that it is not perfect circles, but other figures and lines, that are like a circle but not exactly perfect circles. -
René Descartes: (1596-1650)
He imposed the geometrical calculus in the year of 1637. He offers algebraic techniques to analyze geometrical problems. -
Isaac Newton: (1643-1727)
Theorems such as differential and integral calculus. He laid the foundations of classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus. Also he discovered the laws of motion.
