great math people?

Question

I got an assignment to name 5 important people in math and how they contributed to the field of math. Gimme some names to google please?

Answer 1

Alan Mathison Turing: began working on questions regarding computability: what is a mathematically precise definition of algorithm and what questions can and cannot be solved via algorithms?

or try this:

The Ten Greatest Mathematicians of All Time ranked in approximate order of ``greatness.'' To qualify, the mathematician's work must have breadth, depth, and historical importance.

1. Carl F. Gauss
2. Sir Isaac Newton
3. Leonhard Euler
4. Archimedes of Syracuse
5. Euclid of Alexandria
6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
7. Henri Poincaré
8. Pierre de Fermat
9. Augustin Cauchy
10. Bernhard Riemann

Answer 2

Here is a list of some of the great mathematicians who lived in the last 200 years.

Great Mathematicians:

1. Charles Babbage (Dec 26 1792 - Oct 18 1871) Born Teignmouth, England. Died London, England.

2. Augustin Louis Cauchy (Aug 21 1789 - May 23 1857) Born Paris, France. Died Sceaux, France.

3. Albert Einstein (March 14 1879 - April 18 1955) Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA.

4. Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21 1768 - May 16 1830) Born Auxerre, France. Died Paris, France.

5. Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30 1777 - Feb 23 1855) Born Brunswick, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.

6. David Hilbert (Jan 23 1862 - Feb 14 1943) Born Königsberg, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.

7. Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Dec 10 1804 - Feb 18 1851) Born Potsdam, Germany. Died Berlin, Germany.

8. Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 28 1749 - March 5 1827) Born Beaumont-en-Auge, France. Died Paris, France.

9. Andrei Andreyevich Markov (June 14 1856 - July 20 1922) Born Ryazan, Russia. Died St Petersburg, Russia.

10. Sir Isaac Newton (Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727) Born Woolsthorpe, England. Died London, England.

11. Blaise Pascal (June 19 1623 - Aug 19 1662) Born Clermont-Ferrand, France. Died Paris, France.

12. Carle David Tolm Runge (Aug 30 1856 - Jan 3 1927) Born Bremen, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.

13. George Gabriel Stokes (Aug 13 1819 - Feb 1 1903) Born Sligo, Ireland. Died Cambridge, England.

14. Alan Mathison Turing (June 23 1912 - June 7 1954) Born London, England. Died Wilmslow, England.

Answer 3

Charles Babbage (Dec 26 1792 - Oct 18 1871) Born Teignmouth, England. Died London, England.
Augustin Louis Cauchy (Aug 21 1789 - May 23 1857) Born Paris, France. Died Sceaux, France.
Albert Einstein (March 14 1879 - April 18 1955) Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA.
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21 1768 - May 16 1830) Born Auxerre, France. Died Paris, France.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30 1777 - Feb 23 1855) Born Brunswick, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.
David Hilbert (Jan 23 1862 - Feb 14 1943) Born Königsberg, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.
Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Dec 10 1804 - Feb 18 1851) Born Potsdam, Germany. Died Berlin, Germany.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 28 1749 - March 5 1827) Born Beaumont-en-Auge, France. Died Paris, France.
Andrei Andreyevich Markov (June 14 1856 - July 20 1922) Born Ryazan, Russia. Died St Petersburg, Russia.
Sir Isaac Newton (Jan 4 1643 - March 31 1727) Born Woolsthorpe, England. Died London, England.
Blaise Pascal (June 19 1623 - Aug 19 1662) Born Clermont-Ferrand, France. Died Paris, France.
Carle David Tolm Runge (Aug 30 1856 - Jan 3 1927) Born Bremen, Germany. Died Göttingen, Germany.
George Gabriel Stokes (Aug 13 1819 - Feb 1 1903) Born Sligo, Ireland. Died Cambridge, England.
Alan Mathison Turing (June 23 1912 - June 7 1954) Born London, England. Died Wilmslow, England.

I gave you more than 5.. at least you can choose. hope it helps. :)
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Answer 4

Archimedes
Augustin Cauchy
Rene Descartes
Euclid
Leonhard Euler
Carl Gauss
Gottfried Leibniz
Isaac Newton

Answer 5

Off the top of my head, with many omitted:

Pythagorus, Archimedes, Apollonius, Euler, Hypatia, Al-Kwarizmi, al-Samawal, al-Tusi, Leonardo of Pisa, Oresme, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, the Bernoulli brothers, Euler, Gauss, Laplace, Galois, Fourier, Cauchy, Lagrange, Riemann, Weierstrass, Bolzano, Heine, Kronecker, Grassman, Hilbert, Noether, Hardy, Ramanujan, Banach, von Neumann, Marshal Stone, Turing, Carleson, Wiles, Atiyah, Bott,...

(whew, I'm tired)

Answer 6

Everyone has his/her own list of favorite mathematicians of course. But the general idea is that the three greatest ever to live were Archimedes, Newton and Gauss. To these you may add any two to your liking and recommendations are plenty above. Let me just put my 2 cents in by recommending Euler for his enormous productivity despite his blindeness and Emmy Noether for being one of the two fathers (or mother in her case) of commutative algebra in an age when prejudice against woman sholars were plentiful.

Answer 7

Gauss, Einstein, Descartes (invented the grid), Euclid, Nash, Pythagoras, Newton (invented Calculus), Leibniz, Fermat

Answer 8

Euler, Newton, Green, Kepler, Kramer

Answer 9

1) Leonhard Euler
2) Pythagoras
3) Archimedes of Syracus
4) Surya Siddhanta
5) Al-Khwarizmi
6) Carl Friedrich Gauss
7) Lord Napier

If you only have 5, look at a few and figure out who you'll have fun researching the most... it can be really fun if you make it!

Answer 10

Ramanujan