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led meetings of famous mathmaticians and disseminated information between Fermat, Galileo, Both Pascals and descartes. occupied with perfect numbers |
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| Amature mathmatician who wrote many of his theorems and proofs in the margin of Diophantus's work. He invented analitic and coordinate geometry as well as probability studies with Pascal. |
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| Compiled the first Encyclopedia |
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| Compiled the first encyclopedia |
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| One of the most prolific mathmaticians ever. Wrote on modern analysis and graph theory. |
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| every number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. |
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| laid down the theory for analytic functions. worked in number theory. |
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| A female student of Lagrange |
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| The Prince of Mathmaticians. Gauss was a child progigy who impacted all branches of Mathmatics, who worked with number theory and astronomy. invented non-Euclidian geometry |
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| Studied the results of denying the parallel postulate. Believed incorectly that he had found a contradition |
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| Studied the results of denying the parallel postulate, could not find a contradiction. Proved that Pi was irrational. |
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| Competed with Gauss. Determined the length of a meter. Clarified Euclid's elements. |
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| Independent Inventor of Non-Euclidian Geometry. |
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| Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky |
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| Independent inventor of Non-Euclidian geometry. |
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| Studied under Gauss, developed his own Non-Euclidian geometry |
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| Showed that Riemann Non-Euclidian geometry could be represented on a sphere. |
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| Studied under Klein, was the first woman to get her PHd in Germany. |
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| Made the concept of a calculus limit more rigerous. |
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| concidered the father of modern analytics. Reduced Calculus to inequalities and equations. |
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| A student of Weierstrass's who learned calculus from wall paper in her bedroom |
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| German mathmatician who wrote Grundlagen Der Geometrie. Reconstructed Euclid's axioms |
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| designed the two forerunners of the computer, the difference engine and the analitical engine |
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| Considered to be the inventor of Computer Programing |
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| expanded the idea of complex numbers as an ordered pair |
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| co-developed Matrix Algerbra |
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| co-developed Matrix Algerbra, lead the mathmatics department at Johns Hopkins University. |
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| co-developed symbolic logic |
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| co-developed symbolic Logic |
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| First American woman to obtain a doctorate |
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| First African American to obtain a doctorate |
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| First African American woman to obtain a doctorate |
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| First African American woman to obtain a doctorate. |
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| First Brittish Woman to earn a doctorate, became head of mathmatics department at Bryn Mawr. |
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| Founded the American Mathmatical Society |
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| Founded the first math journal, the American Mathmatical Monthly. |
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| Worked with Set theory, first to propose that there are sizes of "infinite" |
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| Worked with paradoxes in set theory |
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| Worked with the Riemann zeta function and gambeled with fate by declairing that he had solved the Riemann hypothesis before a trecherous atlantic crossing. |
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| Worked with Hardy on number theory and analysis |
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| India's greatest mathmatician, worked with Littlewood and Hardy on infinite sets of Pi |
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| Conceptualized distance in abstract space, or a metric function. |
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| was one of the founders of abstarct algebra, worked with rings and ideals. |
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