Blaise Pascal

He has been described as the greatest "might-

have-been" in the history of mathematics.
Cladius Ptolemy

Geographer and mathematician known for his

Bonaventura Cavalieri geocentric model and known for his theorem on
the diagonals of a cyclical quadrilateral.
Mathematician who has developed the "method
of indivisibles" and published "Geometria
Indivisibilis"
Colin Maclaurin

Published his 2 volume Treatise of fluxions with 5

Brahmagupta areas: treatment of the fundamental theorem of
calculus; work on maxima and minima; attraction
Introduced the number "0" and wrote some very of ellipsoids; and the Euler-Maclaurin summation
important works in Mathematics and Astronomy.

Copernicus
Captain John Huddart
He was a Renaissance- and reformation-era
Inventor of protractor, an instrument in mathematician and astronomer who formulated a
measuring angles. model of the universe that placed the Sun rather
than the Earth at the center of the universe.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The Princeps Mathematicorum who introduced David Hilbert

the normal distribution, the congruence symbol Known for his Hilbert's problem that composes of
or modulus in number theory, a method of finding difficult math problems that cannot be solved.
the echelon of a matrix and first to devised a
formula in finding the sums of a given sequence.

De Moivre

Carl Friedrich Gauss Devised the formula for polar coordinate and
complex number.
He summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly
by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers
each pair summing to 101 at the age of 7.
Diophantus

Regarded as the Father of Algebra and wrote the

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi book Arithmetica, an essential book for algebra.
He was known for his equations that bear on his
A German mathematician, who made name.
fundamental contributions to elliptic functions,
dynamics, differential equations, and number
theory.
Erathostenes

Famous in calculating Earth's circumference

Charles Babbage through shadows and devised the Sieve of
Erathostenes, a traditional method for finding
He is known as the "Father of Computing" for his prime numbers by means of listing.
work on the Difference Engine.

Euclid
Charles Francis Richter
Famous author of the Elements which paved way
The quote "logarithmic plots are device of the in studying plane geometry.
devil" is atrributed to him who is the most famous
as the creator of the magnitude scale, which,
until the development of the moment magnitude
scale in 1979, quantified the size of earthquakes. Euclid

Father of Geometry

Christian Huygens

He studied the involute of a circle and used this Evariste Galois

knowledge to patent the first pendulum clock. A young genius who contributed to group theory,
but was killed in a duel battling for the heart of a
lover at the age of 20.
Christoff Rudolf

The first man who introduce the radical sign.

Evariste Galois
This mathematician worked on abstract algebra
and the theory of equations. He also set forth a
solution to the polynomial equation which is know
as the "Galois theory."