please help me in finding info on mathematicians .....
about their
-life history
-achievements
-effect on today's life
please help me in this project work as soon as possible .thanks
2006-12-26 18:32:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
@Nightrider. 0 wasn't created by Ramanujan. You might be thinking of Brahmagupta and or Bashkara, the famous indian mathematicians, but they didn't create 0 either. Ramanujan's mentor, Hardy, would have been pretty lost without 0.
I would recommend you go to a library and try to find the book Zero by Charles Siefe. The collection of essays entitled "From Five Fingers To Infinity" and a book on Math history. Shouldn't be tooooooo difficult to find.
As mentioned above, famous mathematicians are Gauss, Newton, Liebniz, Euler, Euclid, Archimedes, Cantor, Tarski and Goedel. Others of note are Cardano (shot himself in the head cuz he got some math wrong), Galois (French, died in a duel over a woman at the age of 21), Cauchy, Lagrange, Hardy, VanNeumann or Zermelo. All interesting guys. You can find all these dudes by doing a yahoo search or looking on wikipedia. Those should point you to other sources. If you want to talk specifics email me. I love math history.
2006-12-26 19:18:47 · answer #1 · answered by anecdoteman1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know some names you can go to either,
www.mathworld.wolfam.com
OR
www.en.wikipedia.org
and do a search. Alternatively you can visit these sites and browse their categories for mathematicians.
My all time favorite mathematicians are,
Bernhard Riemann
Leonard Euler
Carl Gauss
Augustus Cauchy
Dirichlet
etc.
Hope this helps!
2006-12-26 19:17:07 · answer #2 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's a list of some of the best-known mathematicians to get you started.
Archimedes, Newton, Euler, Gauss, Riemann.
2006-12-26 18:39:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
the best thing you can do is watch the film beautiful minds starring Russel crow, it tells a story of a mathematician
2006-12-30 16:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by getmeout2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pythagoras - Classical Greece - Right angled triangles
Napier - Scotland - 17th Century - Logarithms.
Newton - England - 17th Century - Calculus (also Laws of Dynamics/Gravity).
2006-12-30 08:45:20 · answer #5 · answered by lenpol7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very early in history?
Ramanujan - an Indian who died at an early age was considered a math genius. His life history in Google.
Zero - Ramanujan came up with this concept. India gave the world this concept. Also, in Google.
Archimedes - a great mathematician. He came up with Archimedes principle while taking bath. Very interesting reading. He was wondering why or how much water is displaced when a large object is immersed in water.
a^2+b^2 =C^2 where the hypotenuse is root 2 of the sides. Great discovery.
Go to Wikipedia and encylopedia britannica for expanded versions. I can't possibly write them all here. Limited space.
Good luck.
2006-12-26 18:48:09 · answer #6 · answered by Nightrider 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
happy new year
Khayam , Alkharazmi , Abureihanbiruni were famuse Iranian mathematicians . You may read about them on Vikipedia . Alkharazmi was funder of algebra .
be luky on your study
2006-12-26 19:19:15 · answer #7 · answered by inverno 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the search-plug in
'history of mathematicians'
-this will give you all the
material that you need for
your research
i hope that this helps
2006-12-26 20:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biographies of famous mathhematicians
Click on the URL below for additional information concerning famous mathematicians
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
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2006-12-26 23:15:55 · answer #9 · answered by SAMUEL D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mathematicians in general??
Or known mathematicians in history?
We mathematicians aren't that different. We aren't some alien being! or endangered specie!
2006-12-26 18:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by SOL SIREN 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋