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- 3. Descartes is credited for the well-known quadratic formula used in today's society, adapted from this mathematician in 1637
- 7. an Iranian mathematician, this woman was celebrated for her work in geometry, becoming the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics
- 10. the theorem named after this man presents the following equation "a^2 + b^2 = c^2"
- 11. recognized as the world's first computer programmer, she was the first to discover that computers had more potential ability than just configuring calculations
- 12. working on the Manhattan Project and studying quantum theory, this child prodigy was a Hungarian-American computer scientist and polymath among other titles
- 13. known for contributing his intellect to fluid mechanics, this mathematician significantly benefited the pioneering efforts for probability and statistics
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- 1. regarded as the first woman mathematician with a well-recorded history, she taught astronomy and philosophy in Alexandria circa 415AD
- 2. known as the "father of geometry," this man is mostly known for the Elements treatise which cemented the building blocks for geometry which dominated in the filed till the 19th century
- 4. from the Republic of Pisa, this mathematician created a universal code that converts digits into "binary code words"
- 5. this world-renowned physicist proved that energy and mass are equal with the equation "E=mc^2"
- 6. although "m" was first used to describe slope by Matthew O'Brien, this Irish man is coined for the creation of "y = mx + b" in 1848
- 8. the "father of algebra" was this 9th century Muslim mathematician, astronomer, and author of "Kitab al-Jabr"
- 9. abstract algebra can thank this woman born in 1882 for her contributions to fundamental mathematical physics