Historical And Foundational Mathematicians

was a Chinese mathematician, meteorologist, inventor, politician, and writer of the Southern Song dynasty

fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.

Imre Lakatos credits von Seidel with discovering, in 1847, the crucial analytic concept of uniform convergence

now also as a mathematician

was a British mathematician

was a Swiss mathematician

was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters

was an English mathematician

was a French mathematician whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra

was an Italian mathematician

was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra

was an English mathematician and barrister

was an English Christian theologian and mathematician

was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer

was a French mathematician

was a French mathematician born at Roberval near Beauvais, France

was a Scottish mathematician

was a Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker

was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman

was an English mathematician notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms

was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family

was a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula

was a Prussian mathematician connected with some important research mainly in number theory

was a Venetian mathematician and jurist from Venice

was an Italian Jesuit priest, scholastic philosopher, and mathematician

was an Italian mathematician widely known for proving Ceva's theorem in elementary geometry

was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes

was a German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher

was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer

was a French mathematician

was a Marquess, physicist, mathematician and antiquarian

was a French jurist and mathematician, and an early follower of René Descartes

noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics

was a German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer

was an English clergyman and mathematician

was an English mathematician and intellectual

He was a Theatine priest, mathematician, and writer

was a French Oratorian priest and mathematician

was an English mathematician and political agent abroad

was a French mathematician born in Paris

was a mathematician, burgomaster (mayor) of Amsterdam between 1672

was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator

was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist

best known today among mathematicians for Mersenne prime numbers

was a French mathematician and engineer

was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate

was an Italian humanist and mathematician

the first mathematician to study the properties of the helix

Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer of the 16th century

was a German-Dutch mathematician from Hildesheim known for the Ludolphine number

was an English mathematician, astronomer, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist

was a Portuguese mathematician, cosmographer, and professor

was an Italian mathematician from Venice

was a German mathematician, specifically, a calculator

A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium

was an Italian mathematician

was a German mathematician and medic

was a Dutch linguist and mathematician

was an Italian mathematician best known for his Dialogo intorno alla Meccanica

was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and poet

was a Chinese scholar, mathematician and music theorist

was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer

was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who coined the word trigonometry

was an Italian mathematician

was an Italian mathematician

was a mathematician, samurai, and Kofu feudal officer of the early Edo period of Japan

was a French mathematician

was an Italian mathematician and scientist

was a French mathematician

was a Scottish mathematician, natural philosopher, and cryptographer

was a French mathematician

was a 17th-century mathematician

was an English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician

He is best known for developing a quickly converging series for pi in 1706 and using it to compute pi to 100 decimal places

was a French mathematician and physicist

was a blind English scientist and mathematician

was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow

was an Italian mathematician and clergyman from Bologna

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics

he so distinguished himself in mathematics

was a Swiss mathematician

was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics

was an Anglo-Irish peer and mathematician

was an English mathematician

was a Genevan mathematician, natural philosopher, astronomer, inventor, and religious campaigner

was a French mathematician

was an Italian mathematician and a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

was an English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps

was a Japanese mathematician and cartographer

was a Walloon mathematician and clergyman

was a French Jesuit priest and mathematician

was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician, naturalist and aeronautics pioneer

was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuate

was an English academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician

was a Swiss mathematician who is credited with the first use of the division sign

was a German mathematician from Hersfeld, Hesse

Golius taught mathematics to the French philosopher René Descartes

an early biographer of Copernicus

He also resolved Zeno's paradox by showing that the time intervals involved formed a geometric progression and thus had a finite sum.

she is known and celebrated as a mathematician and philosopher

was a French Protestant inventor, mathematician, and philosopher

Jyesthadeva was a mathematician from South India who wrote an important work on mathematics and astronomy

mathematician of the French Renaissance

Carnot was also an eminent mathematician

was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics

was a pioneering British scientist, Newtonian mathematician, and military engineer

He was well-versed in astronomy, mathematics, and hydrography

he was an established mathematics teacher and published his first book, Moores Arithmetick

was an Italian mathematician

was a French mathematician, musician, and chemist

was a French mathematician and historian

was an Italian mathematician and scientist from Naples

was a Swiss mathematician and physicist

was a French mathematician, commonly presented as the inventor of descriptive geometry

was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre, Burgundy

was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics

was a Russian mathematician and geometer

was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher

was a Milanese mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian

was a French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist

was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician

a compendium of elementary mathematics written in French and Latin

He is noted as one of the founders of the integral

Sharp calculated pi to 72 decimal places using an arctan sequence