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  1. 4. NAPIER He is a Scottish Mathematician. He was responsible for manufacturing logarithms. It was also he who applied the everyday use of the decimal point in mathematics and arithmetic.
  2. 5. BERNOULLI He is a Swiss Mathematician. “Hydrodynamica” was a book that touched on mathematical principles applied in other sciences.
  3. 8. He is a German Mathematician who introduced "motion" to geometry, rotating curves to produce solids.
  4. 10. DESCARTES He is a French Mathematician. The “Cartesian coordinate system” in mathematics is named after him.
  5. 11. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS He is a German Mathematician who is known as the “Prince Of Mathematics”.
  6. 12. KHAYYAM He is a Persian Mathematician who worked on the “theory of proportions”. He wrote one of the most important books in mathematics, “Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra” from which most algebraic principles have been drawn from.
  7. 13. WILHELM LEIBNIZ He is a German Matematician. He also proposed the mathematical principle known as the “Transcendental Law of Homogeneity”.
  8. 14. PASCAL He is a French Mathematician. He is recognized for two mathematical areas of study, projective geometry and probability theory. He describes in his paper, “Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle”, an easy way to understand table of “binomial coefficients” known as “Pascal’s Triangle”.
  9. 16. LOVELACE She is an English Mathematician. She produced a mathematical algorithm that would be later used in computers.
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  1. 1. HILBERT He is a German Mathematician. His examination of calculus led him to the invention of “Hilbert space”, considered one of the key concepts of functional analysis and modern mathematical physics.
  2. 2. He is a Greco-Roman Mathematician. He is the author of the books “Almagest” and “ The Mathematical Compilation”.
  3. 3. He is an Indian Mathematician. He introduced Zero to the mathematics which stood for nothing.
  4. 4. CLERK MAXWELL He Belonged to Scotland who published a remarkable paper on the construction of novel ovals, at the age of 14.
  5. 6. JOSEPH CARTAN He is a French Mathematician who worked in the theory of Lie groups and Lie
  6. 7. CANTOR He is a German Mathematician who is the Inventor of set theory.
  7. 9. He is a Greek Mathematician who is considered as the “first true mathematician
  8. 15. PACIOLI He is an Italian Mathematician who is known as the “Father Of Accounting”.