| Directory > Science > Math > History > People Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987)
The most prominent twentieth-century mathematician.
http://kolmogorov.com/Kolmogorov.html
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Anecdotes, Quotations, and Trivia: Physicists and Mathematicians
Illustrated collecction.
http://www.geocities.com/ilian73/scientist.html
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University of St. Andrews: Biography Index
Names are listed alphetically or by date, from 1680 BC to the present.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html
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Biographies of Women Mathematicians
On-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
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Grassmann, Hermann - 1862
Explains the published paper called Ausdehnungslehre, which translates to "Theory of
Extension". The purpose is to create a universal type of geometric calculus. This
development is used in linear and non-linear algebra, today.
http://www.maths.utas.edu.au/People/dfs/Papers/GrassmannTranslation/node3.html
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The History of Mathematics
Collection of original papers of Berkeley, Hamilton, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, and Newton. Includes
background and notes. Maintained by David R. Wilkins from Trinity College, Dublin
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/
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Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987)
Worked on trigonometric series, set theory, integration analysis, constructive logic, topology,
approximation methods, probability, statistics, random processes, information theory, dynamical
systems, algorithms, celestial mechanics, Hilbert's 13th problem, and ballistics. Also, studied
and applications of mathematics to problems of biology, geology, linguistics and the
crystallization of metals. Born and lived in Russia.
http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/KOLMOGOROV.BIOGRAPHY.html
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Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.)
(Encyclopedia.com) Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/archimedes.asp
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Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive
Includes personal biography, explanation of his theory and related links.
http://www.galois-group.net/
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Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani
Gives information on background and contributions to non-euclidean geometry, spherical
trigonometry, number theory and the field of statics. Was an important translator of Greek
materials, including Euclid's Elements, during the Middle Ages.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thabit.html
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Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor
Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/
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Oughtred, William (1574-1660)
Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html
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Fibonacci Mathematics
Life and work of Leonardo of Pisa, by Dr. Peter Reimers.
http://vp-reimers.bei.t-online.de/
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Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lambert/RouseBall/RB_Lambert.html
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Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
One of the all-time greats, Gauss began to show his mathematical brilliance at the early age of
seven. He is usually credited with the first proof of The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html
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Eratosthenes Hub
Links to information and resources for Eratosthenes.
http://www.knowdeep.org/eratosthenes
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Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859)
Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are
infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of
a function.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirichlet.html
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Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 )
Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems
giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Diophantus.html
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Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)
Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given
number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least
one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html
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Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)
Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. He is probably best known for his
important contributions to real and complex analysis.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cauchy.html
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Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846)
Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars,
investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematical
functions involved, which now bear his name.
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_bessel.html
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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity,
and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html
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Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953)
Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zermelo.html
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Schmidt, Erhard (1876-1959)
Main research was functional analysis, doctorate was obtained under Hilbert's supervision, main
interest was in integral equations and Hilbert space, best remembered for the Gram-Schmidt
orthogonalisation process.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Schmidt.html
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Pell, John (1611-1685)
Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up to 100000 in 1668.
Pell's equation is y^2 = ax^2 + 1, where a is a non-square integer.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Pell.html
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Galois, Évariste (1811-1832)
Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group
theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many
long-standing unanswered questions.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Galois.html
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Dedekind, Richard (1831-1916)
study of CONTINUITY and definition of the real numbers in terms of Dedekind "cuts", the
nature of number and mathematical induction, definition of finite and infinite sets; algebraic
number fields, concept of RINGS.
http://euler.ciens.ucv.ve/English/mathematics/dedekind.html
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Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752)
Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Cramer.html
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al-Khwarizmi - Abu Ja'far al-Khwarizmi (780-850)
Arab mathematician, lived when spread of ideas was very slow, wrote Hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala,
concepts of the Middle East. The "al-jabr" gave us the word algebra." introduced the
decimal system, rules for solving linear and quadratic equations, the word "algorithm"
comes from his name.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/people/middle_ages/al-khwarizmi.html
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d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy
by improving Newton's definition of force.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html
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Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250)
His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci
Series.
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
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Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical
terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are
capable."
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
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Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat
which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03457a.htm
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Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of
equations and solubility by radicals.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Abel.html
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Ptolemy - Ptolemy's Ptools - History of Ptolemy (c. 87-150)
Who was Ptolemy? Claudius (Ptolemaues) Ptolemy, born in Egypt in about 85 A.D., one of the most
infuential Greek astronomers, geographers and mathematicians.
http://library.advanced.org/19029/history200.html
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Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?,
Works Cited List
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2977/gauss/gauss.html
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Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
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Fourier - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Baron, mathematical physicist, French Revolution, a teacher, a secret policeman, a political
prisoner, governor of Egypt, The Analytic Theory of Heat
http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/~davidk/fourier.htm
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