math history Flashcards
(120 cards)
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Arithmetica Integra
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Stifle
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Sketch of the half of an arch of a sine curve
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Roberval
3
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Squaring the circle
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Dinostratus
4
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Materialistic Atomic Doctrine
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Democritus
5
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Pedagogical Mathematics
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Ramus
6
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Theorie de Analytique
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Fourier
7
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Discovered the equation of a normal curve, predicted his death day
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Abraham de Moivre
8
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Pendulum Clock
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Christian Huygen
9
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Theory o Proportion, Method of Exhaustion
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Eudoxos
10
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Pioneer if social mathematics
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Cordocet
11
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Theory of Probability
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Laplace
12
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Potential Theory
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Poisson
13
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Calculated elaborate tables of the six trigonometric functions
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Rheticus
14
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“Sphaerica”
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Menalaus of Alexandria
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Introduced trigonometry as systemized body of knowledge
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Hipparcus
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Made an extensive study on correlation among several variables
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Karl Pearson
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Lambert’s quadrangle
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Alhazen
18
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automorphic functions and differential equations
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Henri Paricare
19
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Treatise on De Revolutionibus Orbium Coalestium
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Copernicus
20
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One of the founders of non-education geometry
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Janos Bolyai
21
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Derivative, calculus of variations
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Lagrange
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proved that there was no algebraic formula for the solution of a general polynomial equation of fifth degree
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Niels Henrik Abel
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Produced arithmometer
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Thomas of Colmar
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Four color conjecture
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Francis Guthrie
25
Known as Misguided Circle-Squarer
Nicholas of Cusa
26
Infestesimal of Higher Order
Galileo Galilei
27
Quadrature of Lunes
Hippocrates
28
Theory of Algebraic Functions
Richard Dedeleind and Heinrich Weber
29
expansion of the power series for sines and cosines
Madhava
30
Inventor of portable chain 66ft long consisting of 100 links
Edmund Gunter
31
Heliocentric System, sizes and distance of the moon
Aristarchus of Samos
32
Founder of Modern Theory of numbers
Pierre de Fermat
33
method of indivisible
Bonaventura Cavalierie
34
"Almagest", 360 degree circle
Ptolemy
35
invented multiplication sign
William Oughtred
36
Function Theory
Reimann
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Infestimal Method, Dutch Archimedes
Stevin
39
Mathematics in the Curriculum
Archytas
40
Author of Canon Mathematics
Francois Viete
41
Made a proposal to Blaise Pascal in the famous Problem of Points
Chevalier De Mere
42
"Tent Maker"
Omar Khayyam
43
Limits
Jean le Rond D'alembert
44
numerals, symbol of zero
Aryabhata
45
invented inequality sign
Thomas Harriot
46
Father of Algebra in 16th century
Francois Viete
47
First to introduced the word "Statistics"
Gottfried Achenwall
48
Invented an adding machine to assist his father in tax and commercial computations
Blaise Pascal
49
Inventor of Decimal Fractions
Al-Kashi
50
Father of Differential Geometry
Gaspard Monge
51
Founder of Functions of Complex Variable
Cauchy
52
Father of Algebra. "The Arithmetica"
Diophantus
53
Law of Large Numbers
Jacob/Jacques Bernoulli
54
Rectangular/Cartesian coordinate system
Rene Descartes
55
Developed Boethian Theory of double or triple
Thomas Bradwardine
56
Sieve of Prime Numbers
Erasthothenes
57
Importance of imaginary numbers
Rafael Bombelli
58
Projective Geometry
Girard Desargues
59
Italian mathematician, physician, and gambler. Author of "Ars Magna"
Girolamo Cardano
60
show π is transcendental
F. Lindemann
61
Father of History
Herodotus
62
Archimedes of his Age
Johann/Jean Bernoulli
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Trisectrix or Quadratrix
Hippias of Elis
64
Hydrodynamics
Daniel Bernoulli
65
Established printing press
Johann Muller
66
first to demonstrate statistical techniques derived in one are of research can also be applied in other area
Adolph Quetelet
67
Simpe Lie groups
Ellie Cartan and Wilhelm Killing
68
Retained imaginary roots of the equation
Albert Girard
69
Introduced the word function, ordinate, coordinate, and abscissa—Newton's rival in inventing calculus.
Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz
70
Credited with first proof of Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
Karl Friedrich Gauss
71
Father of Accounting
Luca Pacioli
72
(0+0=0)
Brahmagupta
73
Coined the term logarithm, natural logarithm
John Napier
74
show π is irrational
Johann Heinrich Lambert
75
"Introductio Arithmetica"
Nichomacus of Gerasa
76
Paradoxes (dichotomy, Achilles, arrow, stade)
Zeno
77
Theory of perspective
Wermer
78
Suggested that irrational proportion is possible, proved that harmonic series is divergent
Nicole Oresme
79
Doctrine of Chances
Abraham de Moivre
80
credited common logarithm, suggested term mantissa and characteristics
Henry Briggs
81
Author of the book where Algebra originated
Al-Khwarizmi
82
Theory of Equations, Group Theory, Ring Theory
Evariste Galois
83
The Greatest Might Have Been
Blaise Pascal
84
Father of Modern Philosophy, Inventor of Analytic Geometry
Rene Descartes
85
Author of Liber Abaci and Flos
Fibonacci
86
Wrote Art of Calculation, Harmony of Numbers, War of the Lords
Levi Ben Gerson
87
Gregory Quadrature
James Gregory
88
Algebra of Logic
George Boole
89
Discovered the curves :ellipse, hyperbola, parabola
Menaechmus
90
Explain the significance of zero, negative, and fractional exponents. First to present infinity ∞ symbol.
John Wallis
91
Invariant theory, zahlbericht
David Hilbert
92
Published the earliest map
Peter Apian
93
Published treatise with sin, tan, sec for sine
Albert Girard
94
First associated the concept of correspondence in the definition of function. discriminant.
Lejeune Dirichlet
95
Fleids Medals
John Charles Fields
96
Greatest Mathematician of Antiquity
Archimedes of Syracuse
97
founder of Modern Pure Geometry
Lazare Camot
98
Inventor of Barometer
Torticelli
99
difference and analytical engine
Charles Babbage
100
Rejected zero as root of an equation, invented exponential notation of great significance
Nicholas Chuquett
101
Founder of Medieval School of Mechanics
Jordanus Nemorarius
102
Linear Associative Algebras
Benjamin Pierce
103
First True Mathematician, Father of Greek Mathematics
Thales
104
The Conics
Appollonius of Perge
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Continue the proof of parallel postulate
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi
106
Mathematical Collection, Sagacity of Bees, Treasury of Analysis
Pappus of Alexandria
107
Law of Gravitational
Isaac Newton
108
Mathematical Analysis of Logic, Laws of Thought
George Boole
109
"Metrica and Geometrica", Principle of Least Distance
Heron of Alexandria
110
Parallel Postulate
Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Regarded function as any expression made up of variables and constants.
Johann Bernoulli
112
Gunter Chain, scale and slide rules
Edmund Gunter
113
invented equal sign
Robert Recorde
114
Principle of foreshortening
Alberti
115
Introduced conventionalism of e as base of natural logarithm
Leonhard Euler
116
Magic Squares
Yang Hui
117
Cartography
Mercator
118
Principle of Continuity
Johannes Kepler
119
Universal Genius
Wilhelm Gottfried Liebniz
120
Zero
Quin Jiushao
