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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