list of famous mathematician and their contributions?

Answer 1

Ahmes was the Egyptian scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus - one of the oldest known mathematical documents. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ahmes.html

Thales was the first known Greek philosopher, scientist and mathematician. He is credited with five theorems of elementary geometry. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thales.html

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem now known as Pythagoras's theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he may have been the first to prove it. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

Euclid was a Greek mathematician best known for his treatise on geometry: The Elements . This influenced the development of Western mathematics for more than 2000 years. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Euclid_definitions.html

Heron or Hero of Alexandria was an important geometer and worker in mechanics who invented many machines ncluding a steam turbine. His best known mathematical work is the formula for the area of a triangle in terms of the lengths of its sides. A is the area of a triangle with sides a, b and c and s = (a + b + c)/2 then A^2 = s (s - a)(s - b)(s - c). http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Heron.html

Menelaus was one of the later Greek geometers who applied spherical geometry to astronomy. He is best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Menelaus.html

François Viète was a French amateur mathematician and astronomer who introduced the first systematic algebraic notation in his book In artem analyticam isagoge . He was also involved in deciphering codes. he calculated π to 10 places using a polygon of 6 216= 393216 sides. He also represented π as an infinite product which, as far as is known, is the earliest infinite representation of π. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Viete.html

Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician and astronomer who postulated that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits. He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion. He also did important work in optics and geometry. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html

René Descartes was a French philosopher whose work, La géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry from which we now have Cartesian geometry. His work had a great influence on both mathematicians and philosophers. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Descartes.html

Leonhard 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. Firstly his work in number theory seems to have been stimulated by Goldbach but probably originally came from the interest that the Bernoullis had in that topic. Goldbach asked Euler, in 1729, if he knew of Fermat's conjecture that the numbers 2^n + 1 were always prime if n is a power of 2. Euler verified this for n = 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 and, by 1732 at the latest, showed that the next case 2^(32) + 1 = 4294967297 is divisible by 641 and so is not prime. Euler also studied other unproved results of Fermat and in so doing introduced the Euler phi function (n), the number of integers k with 1 k n and k coprime to n. He proved another of Fermat's assertions, namely that if a and b are coprime then a^2 + b^2 has no divisor of the form 4n - 1, in 1749. Other work done by Euler on infinite series included the introduction of his famous Euler's constant , in 1735, which he showed to be the limit of
1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/n - log(e) n http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Euler.html

Lagrange excelled in all fields of analysis and number theory and analytical and celestial mechanics. He also worked on number theory proving in 1770 that every positive integer is the sum of four squares. In 1771 he proved Wilson's theorem (first stated without proof by Waring) that n is prime if and only if (n -1)! + 1 is divisible by n. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lagrange.html

Giovanni Ceva was an Italian mathematician who rediscovered Menelaus's theorem and proved his own well-known theorem.

Cauchy pioneered the study of analysis, both real and complex, and the theory of permutation groups. He also researched in convergence and divergence of infinite series, differential equations, determinants, probability and mathematical physics.

Answer 2

List Of Famous Mathematicians

Answer 3

Famous Mathematicians And Their Contributions

Answer 4

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is generally accounted to be the greatest mathematician of all, ahead of Leonhard Euler. He was the last person to have a grasp of the whole of mathematics - after him, it became too diverse. His notebooks show that he discovered far far more than he published, because he set himself such a high standard.

In the last decade or two, Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) has become much more highly regarded than previously, with the discovery both of unpublished material and of extra depth to his already-known work.

Answer 5

Euler's identity e^iz = cos z + isin z is to be noted as well as the prime related product of the Riemann Zeta function(which has led to many regularisations)
And aren't we forgetting Dirichlet, Abel, Newton, Hilbert, Fermat, Laplace, de Moivre, GH Hardy, Hadamard, Lambert, Cauchy, Liouville, Weierstrass, et al?

Riemann is my favorite mathematician, he was influential in the 19th century eversince he was promoted to ordinary professor at Gottingen. He made great contributions to analysis, number theory and geometry. His generalisation of geometry was a fundamental tool used by Einstein in General Relativity.

For the rest you should try the Mathematics Geneology Project, Mathworld and Wikipedia.

Answer 6

Add to the above list:

John Napier--Scottish inventor of logarithms
Martin Gardner--American prolific author of books and magazines (Scientific American) about mathematic game theoty and logic.
John Venn--British logician invented Venn diagrams for picturing logical relationships.
Roger Penrose--British mathematician best know for his work in nonperiodic tesselations(tiles)
M.C. Escher --Dutch mathematician who specialized in the art form of abstract tesselations and figures morphing in 3-D.
Charles L. Dogdson--Better known by his nom de plume of Lewis Carrol, the mathematician and logician who wrote the very illogical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

Answer 7

Srinivasa Ramanujan and Arybhatta, Bhaskar Acharya, Pythagoras, Leonardo Fibbonacci