Archaic Arts
The mathematician whose paradoxes had a profound influence on the development of mathematics, especially European mathematics.
Who is Zeno?
The mathematician who wrote a book that has influenced Western mathematics for over 2000 years and is still in use today.
Who is Euclid?
This mathematician/philosopher established the longest surviving university of all time in his hometown.
Who is Plato?
The mathematician who produced a very early table of chords of trigonometric nature and calculated the year within 6.5 minutes
Who was Hipparchus?
This mathematician is known as the Father of Algebra
Who is Diophantes
The mathematician who was brutally killed-- allegedly because religious sects thought this mathematician’s teachings went against their beliefs.
Who is Hypathia?
The mathematician whose inventions were primarily responsible for helping his city hold off a large army of Romans.
Who is Archimedes?
The mathematician who was responsible for moving Europe away from Roman numerals to a place valued number system
Who is Fibonacci?
The mathematician who wrote a book that summarized all the math of the Hindus at the time of his life.
Who is Aryabhata?
A very influential mathematician who first used zero and after whose name the word Algorithm has derived.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
This person is known to be a famous poet as well as a famous mathematician.
Who is al-Khayyami?
The mathematician who made a surprising early accurate measurement of the circumference of the earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
The mathematician who famously wrote a commentary on the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art.
Who was Liu Hui?
The Mathematician who structured his book on trigonometry and astronomy like Euclid’s Elements.
Who is Regiomantus?
A mathematician who stuttered his whole life because of an injury he received from a saber when he was a child.
Who is Tartaglia?
A mathematician who was imprisoned because among “suspected novelties” including believing the earth was round.
Who is Roger Bacon?
The mathematician who was known as the Great Geometer and invented Conics
Who is Appolonius of Perga?
The mathematician who invented a steam turbine way before it’s time and is famous for developing area formulas.
Who was Heron?
This famous astronomer/mathematician created the first rules for doing arithmetic with negative numbers.
Who was Brahmagupta?
A mathematician who published the first general solutions to the cubic and irked his rival who had shared part of the secret.
Who is Cardano?
The mathematician who was known for his work on Amicable and Perfect numbers and his development of the concept known today as ratios.
Who is Thabit ibn Qurra?
The mathematician who invented coordinate geometry hundreds of years before Descartes got credit for doing it.
Who is Nicole Oresme?
The mathematician who famously wrote a book showing how to do calculations using fingers only.
Who is Al-Buzjani (Wafa)?
This mathematician represented the peak of mathematical knowledge of his time. He extended his predecessor's work on irrational and negative solutions.
Who is Bhaskara II?
The mathematician who knew of Pascal’s triangle connection to binomial expansion centuries before Pascal
Who was Jia Xian?