Mathematicians

Know about Great Mathematicians

 

Pythagoras (570 – 495 BC)

Pythagoras was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and Mathematician. And he is the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. The Great Mathematicians was born in 560 B.C. in Samos, Greece. And he Died between 500 BC and 475 BC in Metapontum, Lucania, Italy.  He works in Number theory. That led to the basis of the Pythagorean beliefs. And it included three basic principles. They are  (1) Harmony (2) Ratios within right triangles (3) Numbers are the essence of all things.

Euclid (325 – 265 BC)

Euclid was a Greek Mathematician. He was born in the Mid-4th century BC and died in the mid-3rd century BC.  And he was often referred to as the “founder of geometry” or the “father of geometry”. He was also known for Euclidean geometry, Euclid’s Elements, and the Euclidean algorithm. This influenced the development of western mathematics for more than 2000 years. He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I.

Archimedes (288 – 212 BC)

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. He was born in the city of Syracuse. On the island of Sicily in 288 BC. And died in 212 BC, in Syracuse,  Italy. He is especially important for his discoveries of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere, and its circumscribing cylinder. Infuriated mathematicians tried to replicate his discoveries over 18 centuries. But later they could not understand how Archimedes had achieved his results. So he Was the first person to apply lessons from physics. Such as the law of the lever, to solve problems in pure mathematics.

Aryabhata (476–550 AD)

Aryabhata I was the first of the major Mathematician-astronomers. From the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. He was born in 476 AD- in Assaka- Morocco. And died in 550 AD- in India. At first, he gave the world the digit “0” (zero), for which he became immortal. Also In Ganita Aryabhata. He names the first 10 decimal places. And gives algorithms for obtaining square and cubic roots. By using the decimal number system.

 

Bhaskaracharya (1114 – 1185 AD)

Bhaskaracharya was an Indian Mathematician and astronomer in the 12th century. He was born in 1114, in Vijayapura in Karnataka. He continued the mathematical tradition of Varahamihira and Brahmaguptha. His main works were the Leelavathi (Dealing with arithmetic), Bijaganita (Algebra), and Siddhanta Shiromani. Which consists of two parts Goladhyaya (Sphere) and Grahaganita (Mathematics of the planets). Therefore he has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India.

Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)

Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. And he also knew Renatus Cartesius. He was born on 31 March 1596, in Descartes, France. And died on 11 February 1650, in Stockholm, Sweden. He was arguably the first major philosopher in the modern era. To make a serious effort to defeat Skepticism. He has been dubbed the “Father of Modern Philosophy”. His views about knowledge and certainty. As well as his views, About the relationship between mind and body has been very influential over the last three centuries.

Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Catholic theologian. He was born at Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623. At the young age of 39, He died of a stomach tumor on 19 August 1662. Pascal wrote an important short work on projective geometry. It is known as “Essay on Conics” aged just 16. Pascal’s Theorem is also known as the Mystic Hexagram. It states that opposite sides of a hexagon inscribed in a conic intersect in three collinear points. Also, he invented the first digital calculator. To help this father with his work collecting taxes.

Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727)

Isaac Newton was an English Physicist Mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. Newton was born on 4 January 1643, in Woolsthorpe Manor House, United Kingdom. He died on 31 March 1727, in Kensington, London, United Kingdom. He demonstrated the generalized binomial theorem. And also he Developed the so-called “Newton’s method”. It is for approximating the Zeros of a function. And Contributed to the study of power series and invented Calculus. So he was widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time. Therefore he is a key figure in the scientific revolution.

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 – 1855)

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and physicist. He was born on April 30, 1777, in Brunswick, Germany. And died on February 23, 1855, in Gottingen, Hanover. He is sometimes referred to as, As the “Prince of Mathematicians” and the “greatest mathematician since antiquity”. So he had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science. Therefore he is ranked as one of history’s most influential mathematicians.

Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887 – 1920)

Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian Mathematician, who lived in India. He was born on December 22, 1887, in Erode, India. And died on April 26, 1920, in Kumbakonam. His chief contribution to mathematics lies mainly in analysis, game theory, and infinite series.  He made in-depth analyses to solve various mathematical problems. By bringing to light new and novel ideas that gave impetus to the progress of game theory. Therefore his mathematical genius discovered his theorems. It was because of his keen insight and natural intelligence. So he came up with infinite series for π