10 mathematicians

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The French philosopher and scholar, Rene Descartes, was

well-known for his method of expressing geometric

shapes in the form of algebraic equation. It was because

of Rene Descartes that we got introduced to the beautiful

branch of co-ordinate geometr. The !artesian

coordinates, in fact, refer to his name. "esides this, Renehas contributed significantl in the field of optics and

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%ir Isaac &ewton was one of the greatestcontributors in the field of maths and phsics.

'is works are spread in almost e#er field. 'e

de#eloped !alculus, both differential and

integral, that are still the most important aspects

of higher mathematics. (sing !alculus, he made

it easier to find the area bounded b closed

cur#es. In phsics, his most world-changing

work was the disco#er of existence of

gra#itational force in our surrounding.


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)uler, a %wiss phsicist and an expert in maths,is widel acclaimed for his works in the field of

function notation. 'is mathematical genius has

been pro#ed in the fields of infinitesimal

calculus and graph theor. 'is mathematical

works and research in optics, mechanics, and

fluid dnamics ha#e been hailed to be #er

influential.


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The scientific world was amused b the)instein*s theor of relati#it. +lthough +lbert

)instein was phsicist, his applied mathematical

theorems to reach to apt conclusions. nown as

father of hsics, he can be best described as

a mathematical phsicist. 'e also won the

and the disco#er of law of photoelectric effect.


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The greatest scholar of the ancient era,

+rchimedes made phenomenal contribution in

the field of mathematics. 'is works include

finding #arious computation techniques to

determine #olume and area of se#eral shapes,

including the conic section


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/reek 0athematician thagoras is considered b some

to be one of the first great mathematicians. 1i#ing around

234 to 562 "!, in modern da /reece, he is known to

ha#e founded the thagorean cult, who were noted b

+ristotle to be one of the first groups to acti#el stud and

ad#ance mathematics. 'e is also commonl credited with

the thagorean Theorem within trigonometr. 'owe#er,some sources doubt that is was him who constructed the

proof 7%ome attribute it to his students, or "audhaana,

who li#ed some 844 ears earlier in India9.


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Andrew Wiles

The only currently living mathematician onthis list, Andrew Wiles is most well known for

his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem: That no

positive integers, a, b and c can satisfy the

euation a!n"b!n#c!n For n greater then $%

&'f n#$ it is the (ythagoras Formula)% Although

the contributions to math are not, perhaps, asgrand as other on this list, he did *invent’

large portions of new mathematics for his

proof of the theorem%


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Isaac &ewton and :ilhelm 1eibni$

' have placed these two together as

they are both often given the honor of

being the *inventor’ of modern

in+nitesimal calculus, and as such

have both made monolithic

contributions to the +eld% To start,

Leibni is often given the credit for

introducing modern standard notation,

notably the integral sign%


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1eonardo isano "lgollo

-lgollo, also known as Leonardo

Fibonacci, is perhaps one of themiddle ages greatest mathematicians%

Living from ../0 to .$10, he is best

known for introducing the infamous

Fibonacci 2eries to the western world%

Although known to 'ndianmathematicians since appro3imately

$00 -4, it was, nonetheless, a truly


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Alan Turing

4omputer 2cientist and 4ryptanalyst Alan

Turing is regarded my many, if not most,

to be one of the greatest minds of the

$0th 4entury% 5aving worked in the

6overnment 4ode and 4ypher 2chool in

-ritain during the second world war, he

made signi+cant discoveries and createdground breaking methods of code

breaking that would eventually aid in

cracking the 6erman 7nigma 7ncryptions%

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