Nouns by Tag math
Thales of Miletus ( Θαλῆς)
Best known as the "Father of Western Philosophy", he actually became famous for predicting a solar eclipse.His motto, "Kn...
Pythagoras (Pythagoras of Samos)
Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and putative founder of the Pythagoreanism movement. He i...
Platonic Academy (Plato's Academy, Ἀκαδημία)
School founded by Plato which persisted as as a skeptical school, until it was destroyed by the Roman dictator Sulla in 86 BC...
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon (Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων [ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης])
In On the Sizes and Distances Aristarchus makes certain hypotheses based on common observations of the heavens and comes to t...
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemy, Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος)
The preeminent astronomer of the 2nd century. He was a Roman citizen who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
Omar Khayyam (عمر خیّام)
a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.[3][4][5][6] He was born in Neyshabur, in northeastern P...
Robert of Chester (Robert Retinensis, Robertus Ketenensis, de Ketene)
Translator of Isamic texts: Made 1st Latin translation of KoranAKA , Ostiensis, Astensis, Cataneus, and Robert Cestrensis
Nicolaus Copernicus
Best known for his heliocentric model of the solar system, Copernicus was a polymath active as a physician, diplomat, economi...
Thomas Digges
Sixteenth century English mathematician and astronomer — first English proponent of Copernicus
Thomas Harriot (Harriott, Hariot or Heriot)
English mathematician and scientist Thomas Harriot was the first person to draw the surface of the Moon as seen through a te...
Pantometria (A geometrical practical treatize named pantometria)
Title page:diuided into three bookes, longimetra, planimetra, and stereometria : containing rules manifolde for mensura...
Pierre Gassendi (Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi)
French philosopher, priest, astronomer, and mathematician who attempted to reconcile Epicurean atomism with Christianity....
René Descartes
French-born philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who spent a large portion of his working life in the Dutch Republic and...
Pieter van Musschenbroek
Dutch scientist credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.He performed pioneering work...
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made many scientific advances
Olinde Rodrigues (Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues)
French banker, mathematician, and social reformer, remembered for- Rodrigues' rotation formula for vectors,
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA)
Every polynomial equation of degree n with complex coefficients has n roots in the complex numbers.
Nikola Tesla
Best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system"...
Robert Fano (Roberto Mario Fano)
20th century Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
In this paper, Turing reformulated Kurt Gödel's 1931 results on the limits of proof and computation, replacing Gödel's univ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist whose work concerns p...
Satoshi Nakamoto
Presumed pseudonymous person or persons who ivented, developed, and deployed bitcoin.Satoshi is a billi...
