Mathematics is a Great Subject because of it the development of the world arrived as it is today. The Great Mathematicians contributed the greatest wealth for the society and we all are benefiting the luxirous life today. It is the time to remember them right now. Here I have given some of the Great Mathematicians who contributed Mathematics treasures for us with their creativity by their thesis, research and written plenty of great books. This list is not end only beginning.
1. EUCLID: (About 365 BC):
A famous Greek Mathematician first developed geometry in an order. It is called Euclidean Geometry. He wrote a famous book “The Element” which consists of 13 parts.
2. PLATO: (429-348 BC):
A Greek mathematician who lived in Athens. He explained the relation between mathematics and Philosophy.
3. PYTHAGORAS: (580-500 BC):
A Greek mathematician. He explained the relation between the sides of a right angled triangle. According to PYTHAGORAS THEOREM “The Square on the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to sum of the squares on the other two sides”. He developed the mathematical ideas in a logical way.
4. THALES: (640-546 BC):
A Greek mathematician. He was the first man who initiated and formulated the theoretical study of geometry to make astronomy a more exact science.
5. DIOPHANTUS (3rd Century A.D):
A Greek mathematician is known as the Father of Algebra. He was the first to use symbols to represents an algebraic problem.
6. FRANCOIS VIETE (1540-1603):
A French mathematician He found modern Algebra. He used the Vowels a,e,i,o,u and the consonants b,c,d,f,g to represent unknown numbers.
7. JOHN NAPIER (1550-1617):
A Scottish mathematician. He invented logarithms.
8. RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650):
A French mathematician. He showed that with a pair of intersecting straight lines, an algebraic equation can be represented as a geometrical shape. In his honor, this system of intersecting straight lines is called the system of “Cartesian Co-Ordinates”, with the vertical line known as the Y-axis, the horizontal line known as the X-axis. He is the founder of Analytical Geometry. Descartes linked Algebra with Geometry. This link which we call Analytical Geometry today totally changed the face of Mathematics.
9. PIERRE DE FERMAT (1601-1665):
A French mathematician. He is considered along with Pascal as the founder of probability theory. As the co-inventor of Analytical Geometry he is considered along with Descartes, as one of the first modern Mathematicians. He introduced a theorem in elementary number theory.
10. BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662):
A French mathematician. He and Fermat founded probability theory. He invented and constructed first calculating machine which is used in gear wheel. His discoverer that the sum of interior angles of a triangle is always 180degree. Pascal’s triangle is famous for Binomial Coefficients.
11. LEIBNITZ (1646-1716):
A German mathematician. He formulated the basic ideas of Differential calculus He introduced the Binary system in 1679. He found the value of “pie”.
12. CHRISTIAN GOLDBACH (1690-1764):
He was from Russia. He conjectured (Unproved) that “every even number (except 2) is equal to the sum of two Prime numbers.”
13. HISEOG KAGRABGE (1736-1813):
A French mathematician. He contributed especially to the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics and astronomy. He introduced a method to solve the equations called Lagrange’s multipliers.
14. CARL FEDRIC GAUSS (1777-1855):
A German mathematician. He introduced the converse theorem of fundamental theorem of Algebra. Usually considered along with Archimedes and Newton to be one of the three greatest mathematicians of all times. He is known as Prince of Mathematicians and according to him Mathematics is considered to be the Queen of all sciences.
15. NIELS HENRIK ABEL (1802-1829):
He is a Norwegian mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to the theories of infinite series, transcendental functions, groups and elliptic functions. In his honor, the group which satisfies the commutative law is called Abelian group.
16. GEORGE BOOLEE (1815-1864):
A British mathematician. He worked as a high teacher. He worked in algebra, calculus of variations and probability theory. He introduced Boolean algebra of elementary logical properties of statements.
17. LOBACHEVSKI (1793-1856):
A Russian mathematician. He published first system on non Euclidean Geometry. He invented a theorem on “twin prime numbers”.
18. GEORGE CANTOR (1845-1918):
A German mathematician. He was the first to develop the “Set Theory” and stress its importance in Mathematics.
19. KEPLER JOHANN (1571-1630):
German mathematician and Astronomer. His laws, known as “Kepler’s laws of planetary motion” were determined empirically, based on over twenty years of ingenious and laborious calculations. He explained the conditions in the construction of telescope and the uses of lenses etc.,
20. ERATOSTHENES (276-194B.C):
He was a Greek astronomer, Geographer and mathematician. 2000 years ago he found a method of measure the perimeter of the earth. He found a method called “Sieve of Eratosthenes” to find prime numbers.
21. LEONHARD EULER (1707-1783):
He was Swiss mathematician. To find prime numbers he found a formula “if n <>
22. JOHN VENN (1D834-1923):
He was an English mathematician. He first used simple closed figures to represent Sets. These figures were also used by Leonhard Euler. So these closed figures are called Venn Euler diagrams, simply Venn diagrams.
23. ARTHUR CAYLAY (1821-1895):
He was an English mathematician. He introduced Matrices, Conations (non associative, non commutative).
24. J.J.SYLVESTER (1814-1897):
He was an English mathematician. He gave the name matrix to a rectangular arrangement of numbers (in rows and columns).
