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Hippasus of Metapontum
Pythagorean philosopher & mathematician killed for revealing secrets
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Hipparchus (Hipparchus of Nicaea)
Father of Trigonometry
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Marcus Terentius Varro (Varro Reatinus)
Ancient Roman historian best known for his Varronian chronology of the Roman Republic including his date of the foundi...
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Hypatia
Hypatia (c. 360 – 415) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician who served as head of the Platonist school in Alexandria...
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Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī (Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tūsī)
Ccreator of trigonometry as a distinct mathematical discipline
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Leonard Digges
16th century English scientist who invented a functioning telescope sometime between 1540 and 1559
According to son, Thoma...
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John Dee
Devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Also, as spy/advisor to Queen Elizabet...
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John Napier
The inventor of logarithms
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Johannes Kepler
Keplers Laws of Planetary Motion:
  1. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.
  2. A line se...
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La Géométrie (Geometry)
First work to propose the idea of uniting algebra and geometry into a single subject, thereby inventing analytic geometry, wh...
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Isaac Newton
Most famous for discovering the Law of Gravity, the Calculus, and other scientific and mathematical advances, but he spent mo...
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (von Leibnitz)
A prominent German polymath and one of the most important logicians, mathematicians and natural philosophers of the Enlighten...
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Jacob Bernoulli
17th century Swiss mathematician who solidified many concepts of modern probability theory and also discovered the mathematic...
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Leonhard Euler
Prolific Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer — one of the most eminent mathem...
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Gustav Kirchhoff (Gustav Robert Kirchhoff)
German physicist famous for several sets Kirchhoff's Laws
  • Kirchhoff's circuit laws
  • Kirchhof...
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
English author best known for Alice in Wonderland
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J. J. Thomson (Sir Joseph John)
British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to...
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Nineteenth century German physicist who proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves.
When asked about the applicatio...
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Klein bottle
A one-sided surface conceived as a 3D mobius strip. If traveled upon, the traveler may visit the inside as well as outside.
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Max Born
20th century German-Jewish physicist and mathematician instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics
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Isaac Jacob Schoenberg
Romanian-American mathematician, known for his discovery of splines
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Kurt Gödel
Gödel essentially constructed a formula that claims that it is unprovable in a given formal system. If it were provable, it ...
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Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist known for being one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, and for the creation of the ...