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Featured Site University of St. Andrews: Biography Index Open in a new browser windowLink Details
- 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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The Grothendieck Circle Open in a new windowLink Details
- Aims to make publicly available materials written by and about Alexandre Grothendieck. Made contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis. Page includes list of mathematical,biographical publications and some portrait
- http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/index.php

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History of Mathematics Open in a new windowLink Details
- Online texts of historic mathematical people, including Hamilton, Riemann, Newton, Boole, and Cantor. Also, has biographical backgrounds for key figures during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html

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Fibonacci Mathematics by Dr. Peter Reimers Open in a new windowLink Details
- Describes the rabbit problem and the Fibonacci sequence and some generalized rules.
- http://www.fibonacci-mathematics.de/

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Sheynin, Oscar Open in a new windowLink Details
- Freelance researcher specializes in the history of probability, statistics and error theory. Page includes list of publications and outside reviews.
- http://www.sheynin.de/

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Shortest path to Gauss Open in a new windowLink Details
- This site is the quickest access to information about C.F.Gauss, although reduced to a single page.
- http://www.gauss.info

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Archimedes Open in a new windowLink Details
- Provides a biography and cultural background, as well as details about his discoveries. Page includes photos and a timeline.
- http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

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The Eratosthenes Project Open in a new windowLink Details
- Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and reconstructed map of the world.
- http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/eratosthenes/

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Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC) Open in a new windowLink Details
- Discusses this early Grecian's discoveries in finding a good approximation of the circumference of the earth, the tilt angle of our planet and a tool for finding prime numbers. Page includes biographical information.
- http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html

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The Grothendieck Biography Project Open in a new windowLink Details
- Links relating to Alexandre Groethendieck.
- http://www.fermentmagazine.org/home5.html

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Galois, Evariste Open in a new windowLink Details
- Biography in the St Andres archive.
- http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html

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Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) Open in a new windowLink Details
- The most prominent twentieth-century mathematician.
- http://kolmogorov.com/Kolmogorov.html

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Biographies of Women Mathematicians Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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The History of Mathematics Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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 probl
- http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/KOLMOGOROV.BIOGRAPHY.html

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Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.) Open in a new windowLink Details
- (Encyclopedia.com) Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor.
- http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/archimedes.asp

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Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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 Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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 ) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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.) Open in a new windowLink Details
- "... 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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- (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) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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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