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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...
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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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66Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus, a man of Greek ancestry, is one of the first individuals that we know of who contributed towards the evolution of and discoveries in mathematics. What we know of the subject before Thales is largely anonymous. Thales was born in...
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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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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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67Claudius Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy’s dates are given tentatively as 85 to 165 AD, but we do not know exactly when he was born or died. We do know that he made astronomical observations at Alexandria between 127 and 151 AD,...
0 comments72Girolamo Cardano
Bastard, heretic, gambler, occultist, astrologer, alchemist, father of a murderer, plagiarist, committer of suicide, great mathematician and inventor, Cardano was a man of genius. Girolamo Cardano was born in Pavia, Italy in 1501, the illegitimate...
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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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...
0 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...
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