Famous Mathematicians

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  1. 3. Newton/Invented The three laws of motion
  2. 5. an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism.
  3. 9. Jacobi/ was a German mathematician, who made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
  4. 10. Abel/Norwegian mathematician, a pioneer in the development of several branches of modern mathematics.
  5. 12. de Fermat/ In fact, his most Famous work 'Fermat's Last Theorem' remained without a proof until 1993.
  6. 13. Leibniz/Probably his greatest achievement was the discovery of a new mathematical method called calculus.
  7. 14. Cauchy/ was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra exploited by earlier authors
  8. 15. Lagrange/ French mathematician and mathematical physicist who was the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century
  9. 16. Cantor/ was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.
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  1. 1. Ramanujan/ was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions
  2. 2. author of the Elements, the oldest book consisting of geometrical theorems which is considered to be a standard for logical exposition.
  3. 4. was a Indian mathematician and astronomer who wrote many important works on mathematics and astronomy.
  4. 6. he discovered ways to measure a circle and the volume of a solid.
  5. 7. Riemann/German mathematician who made lasting contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
  6. 8. Descartes/ was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.
  7. 11. Euler/He contributed to numerous areas of both pure and applied mathematics, including the calculus of variations, analysis, number theory, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, analytical mechanics, hydrodynamics, and the lunar theory