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Mathematics
Undergraduate 2
04/30/2012

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Father Martin Mersenne
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1588-1648
led meetings of famous mathmaticians and disseminated information between Fermat, Galileo, Both Pascals and descartes. occupied with perfect numbers
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Pierre De Fermat
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Amature mathmatician who wrote many of his theorems and proofs in the margin of Diophantus's work. He invented analitic and coordinate geometry as well as probability studies with Pascal.
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Denis Diderot
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Compiled the first Encyclopedia
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Jean d'Alembert
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Compiled the first encyclopedia
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Leonhard Euler
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One of the most prolific mathmaticians ever. Wrote on modern analysis and graph theory.
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Goldbach's Conjecture
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every number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
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Joseph Lagrange
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laid down the theory for analytic functions. worked in number theory.
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Sophie Germain
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A female student of Lagrange
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Carl Gauss
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The Prince of Mathmaticians. Gauss was a child progigy who impacted all branches of Mathmatics, who worked with number theory and astronomy. invented non-Euclidian geometry
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Girolama Saccheri
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Studied the results of denying the parallel postulate. Believed incorectly that he had found a contradition
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Johann Lambert
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Studied the results of denying the parallel postulate, could not find a contradiction. Proved that Pi was irrational.
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Adrien-Marie Legendre
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Competed with Gauss. Determined the length of a meter. Clarified Euclid's elements.
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John Bolyai
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Independent Inventor of Non-Euclidian Geometry.
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Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky
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Independent inventor of Non-Euclidian geometry.
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Bernhard Riemann
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Studied under Gauss, developed his own Non-Euclidian geometry
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Felix Klein
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Showed that Riemann Non-Euclidian geometry could be represented on a sphere.
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Grace Young
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Studied under Klein, was the first woman to get her PHd in Germany.
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Augustine Cauchy
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Made the concept of a calculus limit more rigerous.
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Karl Weierstrass
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concidered the father of modern analytics. Reduced Calculus to inequalities and equations.
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Sonia Kovalevsky
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A student of Weierstrass's who learned calculus from wall paper in her bedroom
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David Hilbert
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German mathmatician who wrote Grundlagen Der Geometrie. Reconstructed Euclid's axioms
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Charles Babage
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designed the two forerunners of the computer, the difference engine and the analitical engine
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Ada Lovelace
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Considered to be the inventor of Computer Programing
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William Rowan Hamilton
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expanded the idea of complex numbers as an ordered pair
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Arthur Cayley
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co-developed Matrix Algerbra
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James Sylvester
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co-developed Matrix Algerbra, lead the mathmatics department at Johns Hopkins University.
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George Boole
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co-developed symbolic logic
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Augustus DeMorgan
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co-developed symbolic Logic
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Winifred Edgerton
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First American woman to obtain a doctorate
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Elbert Cox
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First African American to obtain a doctorate
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Marjorie Brown
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First African American woman to obtain a doctorate
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Evelyn Granville
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First African American woman to obtain a doctorate.
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Charlotte Scott
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First Brittish Woman to earn a doctorate, became head of mathmatics department at Bryn Mawr.
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Thomas Fiske
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Founded the American Mathmatical Society
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Benjamin Finkel
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Founded the first math journal, the American Mathmatical Monthly.
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Georg Cantor
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Worked with Set theory, first to propose that there are sizes of "infinite"
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Bertrand Russell
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Worked with paradoxes in set theory
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Godfrey Harold Hardy
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Worked with the Riemann zeta function and gambeled with fate by declairing that he had solved the Riemann hypothesis before a trecherous atlantic crossing.
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John Littlewood
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Worked with Hardy on number theory and analysis
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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India's greatest mathmatician, worked with Littlewood and Hardy on infinite sets of Pi
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Maurice Frechet
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Conceptualized distance in abstract space, or a metric function.
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Emmy Noether
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was one of the founders of abstarct algebra, worked with rings and ideals.
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