MATHS ASSIGNMENT By: V.S. HARI KRISHNA, IX – “A”.
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MATHS ASSIGNMENT
By: V.S. HARI KRISHNA, IX – “A”.
Leonhard Euler
Mathematician
Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.
Born: April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland
Died: September 18, 1783, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Education: University of Basel (1720–1723)
Andrew WilesMathematician
Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is most notable for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
Born: April 11, 1953 (age 61), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Parents: Maurice F. Wiles
Awards: Fermat Prize, MacArthur Fellowship
Education: Clare College, Cambridge (1980)
Leonardo Bonacci
Leonardo Bonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1250) —known as Fibonacci and also Leonardo of Pisa, Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Pisano Bigollo,
Leonardo Fibonacci—was an Italian mathematician, considered by some "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages."
Thales
Born c. 624 BC
Died c. 546 BC
Era Pre-Socratic philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Ionian/Milesian school,Naturalism
Main interests Ethics, Metaphysics,Mathematics, Astronomy
Notable ideas Water is the arche, Thales' theorem, intercept theorem
Pierre de FermatPierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.
Born: August 17, 1601, Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
Died: January 12, 1665, Castres, France
Education: University of Orléans (1623–1626)
Parents: Dominique Fermat, Françoise Cazeneuve Fermat
René Descartes
Philosopher
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic.
Born: March 31, 1596, Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France
Died: February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden
Education: University of Poitiers (1616), Prytanée National Militaire
Children: Francine Descartes
Parents: Joachim Descartes, Jeanne Brochard
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematician
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics.
Born: April 30, 1777, Braunschweig, Germany
Died: February 23, 1855, Göttingen, Germany
Awards: Copley Medal
Education: University of Helmstedt, University of Göttingen,Braunschweig University of Technology
Plato
Philosopher
Plato was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece, and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy.
Born: Classical Athens
Died: Classical Athens
Full name: Plato
Parents: Perictione, Ariston of Athens
Hero of Alexandria
Mathematician
Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.
Born: 10 AD
Died: 70 AD
Books: The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria
Pā iniṇ
Born 4th century BCGandhara
Notable work(s) Ashtadhyayi (lit. "Eight Chapters"), the earliest known treatise ondescriptive linguistics, that defines Classical Sanskrit
Region Indian philosophy
Main interests Sanskrit grammar
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