Famous Mathematicians

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1. She was in the Navy, worked on the UNIVAC computer, and invented the computer language COBOL. Kathleen Antonelli Grace Murray Hopper Nina Bari Ingrid Daubechies

2. Described as the first pure mathematician, this Greek taught us that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Porphyry Thales Pythagoras Aristotle

3. This mathematician kept the mathematical world up in arms saying he had proven the question that: x^n + y^n = z^n has no solution when n is greater than 2. It is called his last theorem. Blaise Pascal Claude DeBussey Rene Descartes Pierre De Fermat

4. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a famous British mathematician who worked mainly in the field of logic. He is much better known by his pen name that he used to write children's books, of which many included logic puzzles. Name him. Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll Alfred Lord Tennyson Robert Browning

5. This mathematician is best known for his work of combining applications of algebra to geometry. He has a plane named after him. Rene Descartes Blaise Pascal Pierre De Fermat Marinne Mersenne

6. This mathematician is known for a calculus rule named after him and for finding the limit of a rational function whose numerator and denominator tend to zero at a point. Pierre de Fermat Gottfried von Liebniz Simon Lhuiliar Guillame de L'Hopital

7. She was the first woman known to have made a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics in recorded history. Hypatia Theon Synesius Orestes

8. Probably one of the most famous mathematician/physicists of our time, this man is confined to a wheel chair because he suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He is known for the book "A Brief History of Time". Stephen Hawking William Hodge Roger Penrose Otto Hesse

9. This mathematician has a triangle named after him in which each number in the triangle is the sum of the two numbers above it. Pierre de Fermat Luca Pacioli Girolamo Cardan Blaise Pascal

10. This mathematician made one of the biggest advancements in human learning, by working with logarithms and discovering a method of mechanically multiplying, dividing, and taking square and cube roots using what he called "bones". Tycho Brahe Henry Briggs John Napier Johannes Kepler

11. This mathematician is without doubt the originator of the concepts behind the present day computer. The computation of logarithms had made him aware of the inaccuracy of human calculation around 1812. Luigi Menabrea Arthur Cayley Charles Babbage William Clifford

12. This mathematician pioneered the development of analytic geometry and the theory of probability. He is known for this formula: (cos x + i sin x)^n , which took trigonometry into analysis. Gilarmo Cardano Gottfreid von Liebniz Abraham de Moivre Sir Isaac Newton

13. He was the most prolific mathematic writer of all time. He made large bounds forward in the study of modern analytic geometry and trigonometry where he was the first to consider sin, cos etc. as functions rather than as chords as Ptolemy had done. Christian Goldbach Pierre De Fermat Leonhard Euler Alexis Clairaut

14. This mathematcian is largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature. Ptolemy Leonhard Euler Benoit Mandelbrot Rene Descartes

15. The father of geometry, he is most famous for his work "The Elements". Ptolemy Euler Euclid Pythagoras