Scientists whose most historically significant work is in mathematics: the study of number, structure, space and change, including algebra, analysis, geometry, number theory and probability. Includes mathematician-physicists and mathematician-astronomers whose own most significant legacy is a mathematical result rather than its physical or astronomical application.
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Around 300 BC, Euclid organized mathematical knowledge by way of postulates and first principles, which evolved into the axiomatic method that is used in mathematics today.
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