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72Girolamo 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...
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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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62Regiomontanus
The most influential mathematician of the fifteenth century was Johann Müller. Müller was born in 1436 in the German village of Unfinden, which is now part of Königsberg, Bavaria, and he is generally known...
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71Nicole Oresme
Nicole Oresme, who was born in Normandy, France in about 1323, was the foremost mathematician of the fourteenth century. In a century that saw one third of the population of Europe die from the plague known as the Black Death, and the century that...
2 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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67Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi
Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi, usually referred to simply as Al-Khowarizmi, was born in the town of Kheva in the region of Khwarezm, formerly part of Persia and now part of Uzbekistan, in approximately 770 AD. He was also an astronomer and...
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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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65Pappus
Pappus was a geometer in the tradition of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius, and lived at the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth century AD. If for no other reason, Pappus would be notable as the last of the great...
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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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