History of Mathematics (2)
Who is the author of the book “Almagest”?
Ptolemy
Who is considered as the “Prince of Mathematics”?
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Who is the author of the books “Liber Abaci” and “Flos”?
Fibonacci
He is known as the “Maker of Mathematicians” who inscribed the motto “Let no one ignorant of mathematics (geometry) enter here.” in his school.
Plato
He is the author of the book “The Elements”
Euclid
He is known as “The Greatest Might Have Been”
Blaise Pascal
Who is the “Father of Accounting”?
Luca Pacioli
He is known as “Frail Child of a Noble Family”, who was honored by having the rectangular coordinate system. The “Rule of Signs” is also his significant contribution
Rene Decartes
Who is the author of the book “Ars Magna”?
Girolamo Cardano
He is the first one to use the term “pole” in geometry?
Sevois
He coined the term “Logic of Chance”?
John Venn
He invented at the age of 19 the “Analytical Engine”, a machine that can tabulate the values of any function and print the results?
Charles Babbage
Who is known as the “First True Mathematician”?
Thales
Known as the “Father of Modern Analysis”
Karl Weirstrass
Who invented the now called “Projective or Modern Geometry”, a non-Greek way of doing geometry
Girard Desarques
He is remembered for his prime number sieve
Eratosthenes
He is famous for predicting the day of his own death
Abraham De Moivre
He is known for inventing common logarithm and the terms mantissa and characteristic
Henry Briggs
He is known for inventing natural logarithm.
John Napier
She is considered to be the first female mathematician
Hypatia
How many books does The Elements contained
13
Who created the vertical notation for determinants
Leopold Knonecker
Who is considered as the inventor of set theory?
Georg Cantor
Regarded as the “Revolutionary Mathematician” of her times.
Sophie Germain
He created the equal sign
Robert Recorde
He is the author of the book where the word “Algebra” originated. He is also considered as the Father of Algebra.
Al Khwarizmi
Known as the Father of Algebra of the 16th Century. He introduced the first systematic algebraic notation and demonstrated the value of symbols introducing letters to represent unknown.
Francois Viete
Who is regarded as the “Copernicus of Geometry” and author of “On the Principles of Geometry” and “Imaginary Geometry”?
Nikolai Lobachevsky
He is the author of the book “Summa de Arithmetica” and the one who created the “+” and “-” signs.
Luca Pacioli
He is the author of the book “Sphaerica”.
Menelaus of Alexandria
The Elements is often mistakenly thought of as restricted to geometry. The book also contains
number theory
Who is reputed to have discovered the curves that were later known as ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.
Menaechmus
Who is the author of the treatise on Conics?
Appolonius
He is the proponent of the “Materialistic Atomic Doctrine”
Democritu
The discovery of the Quadrature of Lunes is attributed to
Hippocrate
The construction of solids and theory of proportional is being ascribed to
Pythagoras
What is the motto of the Pythagoreans?
All is numbers
Who is the “Father of Linear Programming”?
George Dantzig
Who published a treatise on geometry which contains the earliest use of sin, tan, and sec as abbreviations for sine, tangent, and secant, respectively?
Albert Girard
He is the proponent of the “Law of Large Numbers”.
Jacob Bernoulli
The Japanese-Chinese number system is a ________ numeral system in base 10
multiplicative grouping
The present number system is a ________ numeral system in base 10.
Positional
He worked with Johannes Kepler in studying astronomy.
Galileo Galilei
He published 3 books for quadrature of parabola; spirals; and spheres and cylinders.
Archimedes
the "Prince of Amateurs," was the last great mathematician to pursue the subject as a sideline to a nonscientific career
Fermat
“Father of History”
Herodotus
Trisectrix or Quadratix
Happias of Elis
Mathematics in the curriculum
Archytas
Paradoxes (Dichotomy, Achilles, Arrow, Stade)
Zeno
Discovered the Theory of Proportion and Develop the
Method of Exhaustion
Eudoxus
A Greek mathematician who is considered by many as the “Father of Algebra” because of his works in the syncopation of algebra
Diophantus
A Greek mathematician of ancient times who introduced trigonometry as a systematized body of knowledge
Hipparcus
Squaring of the circle
Dinostratus
Greatest Mathematician of Antiquity”
ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE
Heliocentric system
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
Principle of Least Distance
HERON OF ALEXANDRIA
Introductio Arithmetica (first book written)
NICHOMACUS OF GERASA
Mathematical Collection
PAPPUS OF ALEXANDRIA
First introduced the word “statistiks” in a preface to a statistical work
GOTTFRIED ACHENWALL
made a proposal to Blaise Pascal in the famous Problem of Points, a work which marked the beginning of the mathematics of probability
CHEVALIER DE MERE
Made an extensive study on correlation among several variables
Karl Pearson
A German mathematician who introduced the words function, coordinate, abscissa, and ordinate
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LIEBNIZ
Regarded function as any expression made up of variables and constants
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician who introduced the conventionalization of e for the base of natural logarithm
Leonhaed Euler
The word discriminant came from the Latin word “discrimen” which means “to distinguish”.
LEJEUNE DIRICHLET
First to explain the significance of zero, negative, and fractional exponents
John Wallis
Showed that π is irrational
JOHANN HEINRICH LAMBERT
Showed that π is transcendental
F. LINDEMANN
A Belgian Mathematician, first to demonstrate that statistical techniques derived in in one area of research can also be applied in other area
ADOLPH QUETELET
Author of the books Liber Abaci and Flos
FIBONACCI/ LEONARDO OF PISA/LEONARDO PISANO BIGOLLO
Founder of medieval school of mechanics
JORDANUS NEMORARIUS
( ALGORISMUS)
Tractarus de Proportionibus
THOMAS BRADWARDINE
Invented the inequality signs “<” and “>”
THOMAS HARRIOT
Invented the multiplication sign “x”
WILLIAM OUGHTRED
Algebra of Logic
GEORGE BOOLE
Proportion Theory generalization
NICOLE ORESME
Wrote Art of Calculation
Wrote Harmony of Numbers
Wrote War of the Lords
LEVI BEN GERSON
Theory of Perspective
WERMER
Principles of foreshortening and then describes a method he invented for representing in a vertical “picture plane” a set of squares in a horizontal ground plane
ALBERTI
Known as the “Misguided Circle-Squarer”
NICHOLAS OF CUSA
Proposed using a single letter for the unknown and for repeating the letter for higher powers of the unknown
STIFLE
“Irreducible case”
RAFAEL BOMBELLI
Calculated elaborate tables of the six trigonometric functions
RHETICUS
Published perhaps the earliest map of the world
PETER APIAN
Cartography
MERCATOR
Pedagogical mathematics
RAMUS
Computing device and the precursor of the logarithmic slide rule.
EDMUND GUNTER
Produced his so-called “arithmometer”, a stepped-drum, movable-carriage machine
THOMAS OF COLMAR
Linear Associative Algebras
BENJAMIN PIERCE
Theory of Algebraic Functions
RICHARD DEDELEIND ANG HENRICH WEBER
Function theory
RIEMANN
Automorphic functions and differential equations
HENRI PARICARE
Invariant theory, Analysis
DAVID HILBERT
Fields Medals (International Medal for Mathematics)
JOHN CHARLES FIELDS
Four-color conjecture
FRANCIS GUTHRIE
Simple Lie Groups (Finite Simple Groups)
ELLIE CARTAN & WILHELM KILLING
Indeterminate Equations
BRAHMAGUPTA
Expansion of the power series for sines and cosines
Mhadava
Lambert’s quadrangle
Alhazen
Continue the proof of parallel postulate
NASIR AL-DIN AL-TUSI
Inventor of decimal fractions
Al-Kashi
Saw the inverse character of quadrature and tangent problems
TORTICELLI
Infinitesimal Methods
Stevin
Principle of Continuity
Johannes Kepler
Method of Indivisibles
BONAVENTURA CAVALIERIE
Sketch of the half of an arch of a sine curve
Roberval
Pendulum clock
Christian Huygen
Extended quadratures of parabola and hyperbola
JAMES GREGORY
hour glass
Daniel Bernoulli
Attempted to prove Euclid’s parallel postulate and realized that it was possible to have a consistent system of geometry
JANOS BOLYAI
Father of Differential Geometry”
Founder of Modern Synthetic Geometry
GASPARD MONGE
Theory of Equations
Group Theory
Ring Theory
EVARISTE GALOIS
Jalali Calendar
“tent maker”
OMAR KHAYYAM
Founder of Functions of Complex Variable
CAUCHY
Pioneer of social mathematics
Cordocet
Derivative (Theory of Functions)
Langrage
True metaphysics will be found in the idea of limits
JEAN LE ROND D’ALEMBERT
The competent were not noble, and the noble were not competent”
LAZARE CAMOT
Theory of Probability
La Place
Potential Theory
POISSON