MATHS ASSIGNMENT

By: V.S. HARI KRISHNA, IX – “A”.

Leonhard Euler

Mathematician

Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.

Born: April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland

Died: September 18, 1783, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Education: University of Basel (1720–1723)

Andrew WilesMathematician

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is most notable for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

Born: April 11, 1953 (age 61), Cambridge, United Kingdom

Parents: Maurice F. Wiles

Awards: Fermat Prize, MacArthur Fellowship

Education: Clare College, Cambridge (1980)

Leonardo Bonacci

Leonardo Bonacci (c. 1170 – c. 1250) —known as Fibonacci and also Leonardo of Pisa, Leonardo Pisano, Leonardo Pisano Bigollo,

Leonardo Fibonacci—was an Italian mathematician, considered by some "the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages."

Thales

Born c. 624 BC

Died c. 546 BC

Era Pre-Socratic philosophy

Region Western Philosophy

School Ionian/Milesian school,Naturalism

Main interests Ethics, Metaphysics,Mathematics, Astronomy

Notable ideas Water is the arche, Thales' theorem, intercept theorem

Pierre de FermatPierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.

Born: August 17, 1601, Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France

Died: January 12, 1665, Castres, France

Education: University of Orléans (1623–1626)

Parents: Dominique Fermat, Françoise Cazeneuve Fermat

René Descartes

Philosopher

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic.

Born: March 31, 1596, Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France

Died: February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden

Education: University of Poitiers (1616), Prytanée National Militaire

Children: Francine Descartes

Parents: Joachim Descartes, Jeanne Brochard

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematician

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics.

Born: April 30, 1777, Braunschweig, Germany

Died: February 23, 1855, Göttingen, Germany

Awards: Copley Medal

Education: University of Helmstedt, University of Göttingen,Braunschweig University of Technology

Plato

Philosopher

Plato was a philosopher, as well as mathematician, in Classical Greece, and an influential figure in philosophy, central in Western philosophy.

Born: Classical Athens

Died: Classical Athens

Full name: Plato

Parents: Perictione, Ariston of Athens

Hero of Alexandria

Mathematician

Hero of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition.

Born: 10 AD

Died: 70 AD

Books: The pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria

Pā iniṇ

Born 4th century BCGandhara

Notable work(s) Ashtadhyayi (lit. "Eight Chapters"), the earliest known treatise ondescriptive linguistics, that defines Classical Sanskrit

Region Indian philosophy

Main interests Sanskrit grammar