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George Boole. George Boole Jnr ( / buːl /; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is ...
Niels Henrik Abel ( / ˈɑːbəl / AH-bəl, Norwegian: [ˌnɪls ˈhɛ̀nːɾɪk ˈɑ̀ːbl̩]; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. [1] His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic ...
Lists by nationality, ethnicity or religion. List of American mathematicians. List of African-American mathematicians. List of Bengali mathematicians. List of Brazilian mathematicians. List of Chinese mathematicians. List of German mathematicians. List of Greek mathematicians. Timeline of ancient Greek mathematicians.
Mathematics is the study of numbers, shapes, and patterns. The word comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthema), meaning " science, knowledge, or learning ", and is sometimes shortened to math or maths . It is the study of: Numbers: including how things can be counted. Structure: including how things are organized, but also how they can be or ...
Henry Briggs (1 February 1561 – 26 January 1630) was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honour. The specific algorithm for long division in modern use was introduced by Briggs c. 1600 AD.
Bhāskara II. Bhaskara's proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. Bhāskara (c. 1114–1185), also known as Bhāskarāchārya ("Bhāskara, the teacher"), and as Bhāskara II to avoid confusion with the 7th century mathematician Bhāskara I, was an Indian mathematician, astronomer and inventor. From verses in his main work, Siddhāṁta Śiromaṇī ...
Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo or Geronimo; French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, writer, and gambler.
