Taught at the Library of Alexandria then attacked by religious zealots and violently killed
Who is Hypatia ?
100
Developed solutions for cubic equations only to have the technique 'stolen' from his student.
Who is Tartaglia ?
100
His contributions range from founding the study of graph theory with the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem to proving many number theory conjectures by Fermat.
Who is Euler ?
100
An Indian who was self taught, conjectured or proved over 3000 theorems, including properties of highly composite numbers, the partition function and its asymptotics, and mock theta functions.
Who is Ramanujan ?
200
Founded a school in which initiates were sworn to secrecy also has a theorem named after him.
Who is Pythagoras?
200
Son of a trader who traveling with his father reading Arabic math books. Discovered a very interesting sequence.
Who is Fibonacci ?
200
The student that 'stole' the technique to solve cubic equations from his mentor.
Who is Cardano ?
200
In a 1900 speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians, this mathematician set out a list of 23 unsolved problems in mathematics which formed a central focus for much of 20th-century mathematics.
Who is David Hilbert ?
200
The father of Modern Analysis.
Who is Weierstrass?
300
Measure the circumference of the earth using shadows
Who is Eratosthenes ?
300
Wrote Brahma-sphuta-siddhanta : the first books to provide concrete ideas on positive numbers, negative numbers, and zero.
Who is Brahmagupta?
300
Arguably one of the most important mathematicians of the 17th century, developed calculus and much of the calculus notation still in use today
Who is Leibniz ?
300
Prove the fundamental theorem of algebra in his doctoral dissertation.
Who is Gauss ?
300
Both Galois and Abel sent manuscripts to the Ecole Poly technique Academy in Paris, only to have this mathematician 'mislay' them, thus they were never looked at.
Who is Cauchy?
400
Wrote the Almagest: astronomical treatise whose trigonometric tables would be used by astronomers for the next thousand years
Who is Ptolemy ?
400
Wrote textbooks which helped preserve Greek mathematics.
Who is Boethius?
400
His proof was too large to fit in the margin
Who is Fermat?
400
A French revolutionist, he proved that there is no general algebraic method for solving polynomial equations of degree greater than four before dying at age 20 from wounds suffered in a duel.
Who is Galois ?
400
With the aim of reformulating mathematics on an extremely abstract and formal but self-contained basis, this mathematician wrote a series of books beginning in 1935. These books had a dramatic effect on Math Education.
Also, he doesn't exists.
Who is Nicolas Bourbaki?
500
Wrote Arithmetica, a collection of 150 algebraic problems dealing with exact solutions to determinate and indeterminate equations.
Who is Diophantus .
500
The world algebra comes from the title of his book - Al-Kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī hīsāb al-ğabr wa’l-muqābala - which gives explanation for the algebraic solution of quadratic equations with positive roots.
What is al-Khwārizmī ?
500
Introduced the infinite series representations of functions.
Who is Brook Taylor?
500
First complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals, which lead to Legendre saying
"What a head the young Norwegian has!"
Who is Abel?
500
Said
"Let no one read me who is not a mathematician.”