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Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752) (Popularity:  )
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Cramer.html
Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
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Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) (Popularity: )
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series.
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Napier - John Napier (1550-1617) (Popularity: )
http://www.scotlandsource.com/about/napier.htm
Philosopher and mathematician, inventor of logarithms, inventor of the decimal point.
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Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) (Popularity: )
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Abel.html
Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by radicals.
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Napier - John Napier (1550-1617) (Popularity: )
http://www.johnnapier.com/
Features the life and times of the Scottish mathematician. Includes his publication on logarithms and an explanation of his multiplication tool using rods.
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Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) (Popularity: )
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
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Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) (Popularity: )
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html
Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was ...
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Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) (Popularity: )
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03457a.htm
(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html
Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
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Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani (Popularity: )
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thabit.html
Gives information on background and contributions to non-euclidean geometry, spherical trigonometry, number theory and the field of statics. Was an important translator of Greek materials, including Euclid's Elements, during the ...
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Plato (427-347 B.C.) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
"... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
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d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html
Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) (Popularity: )
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Euler.html
Biography and Works of the Basel born mathematician, from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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Galois, Évariste (1811-1832) (Popularity: )
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Galois.html
Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many long-standing ...
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Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) (Popularity: )
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_bessel.html
Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical functions involved, which now bear ...
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Oughtred, William (1574-1660) (Popularity: )
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html
Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
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Pell, John (1611-1685) (Popularity: )
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Pell.html
Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up to 100000 in 1668. Pell's equation is y^2 = ax^2 + 1, where a is ...
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The Euler Society (Popularity: )
http://www.eulersociety.org/
To encourage scholarly research into the life, work, and influence of Euler, to explore his legacy, and to promote English translation of his writings, approaching his tercentenary in 2007.
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Popularity: )
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
On-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Euler Archive (Popularity: )
http://www.eulerarchive.org/
An online resource for Leonhard Euler's original works and modern Euler scholarship: to help make available in English some of the works of the great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
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