Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752) (Popularity: )

Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.

Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) (Popularity: )

His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series.

Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) (Popularity: )

Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?, Works ...

Napier - John Napier (1550-1617) (Popularity: )

Features the life and times of the Scottish mathematician. Includes his publication on logarithms and ...

Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) (Popularity: )

Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by ...

Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) (Popularity: )

(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had ...

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (Popularity: )

Biography and pictures of the most important mathematician of the Middle Ages.

Plato (427-347 B.C.) (Popularity: )

"... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics ...

Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) (Popularity: )

From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. ...

Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) (Popularity: )

Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a ...

Dedekind, Richard (1831-1916) (Popularity: )

study of CONTINUITY and definition of the real numbers in terms of Dedekind "cuts", the ...

d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) (Popularity: )

Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by ...

Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) (Popularity: )

Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and ...

Galois, Évariste (1811-1832) (Popularity: )

Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, ...

Napier - John Napier (1550-1617) (Popularity: )

Philosopher and mathematician, inventor of logarithms, inventor of the decimal point.

Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani (Popularity: )

Gives information on background and contributions to non-euclidean geometry, spherical trigonometry, number theory and the ...

Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) (Popularity: )

Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, ...

The Euler Society (Popularity: )

To encourage scholarly research into the life, work, and influence of Euler, to explore his ...

Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Popularity: )

On-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pell, John (1611-1685) (Popularity: )

Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up ...