A Guide to Mathematicians and Their Contributions

Mathematicians and Their Contributions

Mathematicians have been around since the beginning of time. From the first person who first counted days or added items, to those who have had a hand in the creation of new medications and inventions of the newest forms of technology today. They have always been vital to the development of society and their mathematical minds have contributed in all levels of science, philosophical thinking and engineering. The major roots of mathematics were in the Egypt and Babylonia of old and later made more logical in Greece where it quickly grew. In fact, the word mathematics is from the Greek word ‘mathematika’, which means learning. India was also growing in mathematic discovery and soon some of the works from both areas were translated into Arabic and then Latin. Thus, western mathematics was created and eventually was accepted around the globe. Great mathematicians began to emerge from that time on, people who devoted much of their lives to this way of thinking and that continued through time. Isaac Barrow Biography and Works of Isaac Barrow Barrow's Proof of the Fundamental Theorem Lenore Blum Biography of Lenore Blum Lenore Blum's Homepage Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace Biography of Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace Ada Byron; Founder of Scientific Computing Susan J. Cunningham Biography of Susan Jane Cunningham Rene Descartes Biography and Timeline of Rene Descartes Descartes and His Accomplishments Christian Andreas Doppler Biography of Christian Doppler Examining Doppler's Effect Agnes Meyer Driscoll Biography of Agnes Meyer Driscoll Driscoll's Work as a Navy Crytanalyst Albert Einstein Biography of Albert Einstein A Look at the Theory of Relativity Eukleides Biography of Euclid of Alexandria A Look at Euclid's Elements Leonhard Euler Biography of Leonhard Euler Euler's Mathematical Contributions Pierre de Fermat Biograph and Sample Graphs Fermat and Number Theory Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier Biography of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier A Look at Fourier and the Theory of Heat Johann Karl Fredrich Gauss Biography of Johann Carl Fredrich Gauss The Gauss Sum Kurt Godel Biography of Kurt Godel Godel's Incompleteness Theorem James Gregory Biography of James Gregory Gregory and the Pappus-Guldin Theorem A Look at Gregory's Life and Contributions David Hilbert Biography of David Hilbert A Look at Hilbert's Twenty-Three Problems in Mathematics Christian Huygens Biography of Christian Huygens Huygens Horologium Oscillatorium Joseph Louis Lagrange Biography of Joseph Louis Lagrange A Look at Lagrange's Four-Square Theorem Adrian Marie Legendre Biography of Adrien-Marie Legendre Legendre Polynomials Colin Maclaurin Biography of Colin Maclaurin The Euler-Maclaurin Formula Sir Isaac Newton Biography of Sir Isaac Newton A Look at Newton's Laws of Motion Blaise Pascal Biography of Blaise Pascal Inventions of Blaise Pascal Simeon Poisson Biography of Simeon Poisson Explanation of Poisson Distribution Pythagoras of Samos Biography of Pythagoras Pythagoras and His Contributions Bernhard Riemann Biography of Bernhard Riemann A Look at Riemann's Hypothesis