Famous Mathematicians

Was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He is best known for proving Pythagoras’ Theorem, but made many other mathematical and scientific discoveries.

• Euclid

• Jhon Venn

• Pythagoras

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

Who is the founder is Venn diagram?

• John Venn

• Euclid

• Aryabhata

• Hypatia

Was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the number sequence named after him: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …

• François Viète

• Leonhard Euler

• Leonardo Pisano, Fibonacci

• Johann Lambert

Was arguably the greatest mathematician in history. According to legend, he corrected a mistake in his father‘s accounting at the age of 3, and found a way to quickly add up all integers from 1 to 100 at the age of 8.

• François Viète

• Diophantus

• Fibonacci

  
  

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

was a French mathematician and philosopher, and one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution. He is credited with the first use of superscripts for powers or exponents, and the cartesian coordinate system is named after him.

• Augustin-Louis Cauchy

• René Descartes

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Euclid is called, The Father of Geometry.

He wrote a book, The Elements, which was the most comprehensive book on Geometry for about 2000 years.

2000 years is the same as 2 millennia.

True or False?

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Development of infinitesimal calculus (differentiation and integration), laid ground work for almost all of classical mechanics, generalized binomial theorem, infinite power series

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Plato

• Ada Lovelace