1. Archimedes- famous Greek physicist and
mathematician who devised the use of method of exhaustion. He is the first to
attempt in finding the value of pi and known to his books about spheres. In
physics, he was known for his Archimedes' screw and Archimedes' principle.
2. Pythagoras- known for his theorem that in a right
triangle, the length of the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of its
squares of its legs (Pythagorean theorem) and he is one who introduced the
numerology, a type of horoscope according to numbers.
3. Apollonius of Perga- he is famous on his studies on
conic sections.
4. Thales of Miletus- Greek philosopher who proved
that the triangle inscribed in a semicircle is a right triangle.
5. Eratosthenes- famous in calculating Earth's
circumference through shadows and devised the Sieve of Eratosthenes, a
traditional method for finding prime numbers by means of listing.
6. Diophantus- regarded as the Father of Algebra and
wrote the book Arithmetica, an essential book for algebra. He was known for his
equations that bear on his name.
7. Babylonians- first to introduced the first numeral
system existed throughout
the history.
8. Hipparchus- known as one who devised the
trigonometric tables using the chords of the circle.
9. Cladius Ptolemy- geographer and mathematician known
for his geocentric model and known for his theorem on the diagonals of a
cyclical quadrilateral.
10. Euclid- famous author of The Elements which paved
way in studying plane geometry.
11. Nicole Oresme- he is known in introducing the plus
sign (+).
12. Rene Descartes- French philosopher and
mathematician known in introducing the coordinate system which became the basis
of analytic geometry. Known also for his modern symbols in radical with
vinculum (a bar found at the top) and theories about polynomial function.
13. Christoff Rudolf- the first to introduce the
radical sign.
14. Leonardo Fibonacci- known to his sequence 1,1,
2,3,5..... which is known as Fibonacci sequence.
15. Al-Khwarizmi- an Arab mathematician who
contributes greatly in Algebra especially law of exponents.
16. John Wallis- known for his definite integrals
involving trigonometric derivatives.
17. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai- they are the
founders of hyperbolic geometry, a type of non-Euclidean geometry.
18. Benoit Mandelbrot- known for his introduction of
fractals, a geometric figure that exhibits self similarity.
19. Pappus- known for his theorem on solid of
revolutions.
20. Neils Henrik Abel- known for his Abellian group
that is use in number theory.
21. Gabriel Cramer- devised the method of solving
linear equations through determinants.
22. Johannes Kepler- a physicist and mathematician and
student of Tycho Brahe who devised the three planetary laws and concluded that
the orbit of the planets are elliptical.
23. Isaac Newton- one of the founders of calculus who
devised the method of fluxions and fluents.
24. Guillaume de L'Hospital- known for his special
rule for limits that states that
the limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches to the certain
value is equal to the quotient of the value substituted on the partial
derivative of f(x) and g(x) provided that f (x)/g(x) is indeterminate.
25. David Hilbert- known for his Hilbert's problem
that composes of difficult math problems that cannot be solve.
27. Blaise Pascal- inventor of Pascalline and
introduced a special triangle for finding the coefficients of a binomial
expansion.
28. Gino Fano- known for his introduction of Fano
plane, a projective plane having 7 points and 7 lines.
29. Georg Cantor- he introduced the set theory and
some symbols for set theory.
30. Guissepi Peano- one who introduced the symbols for
union, intersection, universal and subset.
31. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz- one of the founders
of calculus with Isaac Newton who introduce the Leibniz rule and modern symbol
for integration, the elongated S.
33. Leonhard Euler- blind mathematician known for his
Euler's number (e) and modern symbols for differentiation. He also attempted to
find the value of pi and devised the formula for the Platonic solids.
34. Georg Friedrich Riemann- known for his
introduction of elliptical geometry.
35. Albert Einstein- famous German-American physicist
who was known for his E=mc^2.
36. Carl Friedrich Gauss- the Princeps Mathematicorum
who introduced the normal distribution, the congruence symbol or modulus in
number theory, a method of finding the echelon of a matrix and first to devised
a formula in finding the sums of a given sequence.
37. William Rowan Hamilton- known for his discovery
and introduction of quaternions, a type of normed division algebra that
involves distinct imaginary parts.