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82Archimedes
Archimedes has been immortalised by the story that he discovered the Principle of Buoyancy (often called Archimedes’ Principle) while taking a bath, and ran naked from the bath shouting the words...
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77Euclid
Little is known about the life of Euclid. Although he is often referred to as 'Euclid of Alexandria', this city was not the one of his birth. We don’t know exactly when he was born either, though it is known that he was in Alexandria during the...
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77Eudoxus
Eudoxus was born in Cnidus (or Knidos), an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, now part of Turkey in around 410 BC. Eudoxus spent some time at Tarentum (Taranto) in southern Italy where he studied mathematics...
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75Brahmagupta
The era of Greek mathematics had extended over roughly 900 years. These so called ‘Greek’ mathematicians did not all live in Greece and were not all Greek. Many of them lived in Alexandria in northern Egypt. But they were all influenced by Greek...
3 comments75Nicolas Chuquet
If Regiomontanus was the most influential mathematician of the fifteenth century, then Nicolas Chuquet must be considered as the greatest mathematician of that century. Chuquet’s brilliance was not recognised during his lifetime, and his greatest...
0 comments73Fibonacci
Fibonacci was the most influential mathematician of the Middle Ages, and the first mathematician of any note in Europe since the onset of the Dark Ages. We do not know the exact dates for Leonardo of Pisa (also called Fibonacci), but we...
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72Diophantus
Diophantus was another mathematician who lived at Alexandria and about whose life very little is known. We are not even sure of his nationality (though he was probably not a Greek) or his dates, though it is...
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72Apollonius
Apollonius was born in Perga in southern Asia Minor in about 262 BC. He spent most of his life in Alexandria where he studied under the successors of Euclid; though he did spend a few years in Pergamum in...
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70Pythagoras
This article might be more accurately titled ‘Pythagoras and The Pythagoreans’ since some of the mathematical discoveries accredited to Pythagoras may well have been made by one of the other members of the brotherhood he founded. ...
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70Tartaglia
Tartaglia was one of the most colourful characters in the History of Mathematics. Born Niccolò Fontana in the northern Italian town of Brescia in around 1499, he was given the name Tartaglia (which means ‘stammerer’ in Italian) following...
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