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Famous Mathematicians

Name

DOB

Discovery

Archimedes 

287 - 212 B.C.E.

  • Eureka!  (Bathtub Volume)
  • Lever:  Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.

Babbage

Born 1791

Father of Modern computer

Calculator

Speedometer

Bayes

1701-1761

Bayes Theorem

Bernoulli, Jaques

1654-1705

Probability

Law of Large Numbers

Boole, George

1815 – 1864

Boolean logic (and, or, Xor, etc)

Descartes, René

1596 - 1650

Cartesian plane (XY)

“I think therefore I am”

“Not enough to live, but to express yourself”

Euler, Leonard

1707 –1783

NOTATION!!

  • Function notation   f(x)
  • Euler’s number (e)
  •  for summation
  • i for imaginary
  • Usage of
  • Seven Bridges of Königsberg

Fermat, Pierre de 

1601- 1665

Sum of geometric sequences

Fibonacci

Fibonacci sequence

Galton, Sir Francis

1822-1911

Correlation coefficient (r)

Regression to the mean (short/tall sons/fathers)

Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich

1777-1855

  • Added 1 to 100 as a child
  • Parallel postulate
  • Non-Euclidean geometries
  • Gaussian distribution curve  (Normal Distribution)

LaGrange

Differential Equations

Satellite math

LaPlace

Regression analysis

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

1646 - 1716

Calculus

Markov

Markov Chain (with Monte Carlo method) 

Randomness

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

820

Algebra

Newton

Calculus

Principia Mathematica

Binomial Expansion

Pascal, Blaise

1623 – 1662

Probability

Pascal’s triangle

Father of digital calculator (modern odometer)

Pascal’s Wager.  (Might as well believe in God)

Pythagoras

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