Great Mathematicians: Laguna State Polytechnic University

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Great Mathematicians
Leonhard Euler (April 15, 1706 –September 18, 1783)

•A Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and
engineer who made important and influential discoveries in many branches of
mathematics, such as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory, while also making
pioneering contributions to several branches such as topology and analytic
number theory.
•He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and

notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion of a
mathematical function. •Known for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics,
optics, astronomy and music theory.
Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10 AD- c. 70 AD)

• Also known at "Heron of Alexandria. He was a mathematician and engineer
who was active in his native city of Alexandria, Roman Egypt. Considered the
greatest experimenter of antiquity • Published a well-recognized description of a
steam-powered device called an "aeolipile" ( Hero of Engine)
• Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel which is the earliest
instance of wind harnessing on land. He described a method for iteratively
computing the square root of a number and he is associated with Hero's formula
for finding the area of a triangle from its side lengths.
Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777- February 23, 1855)

• A German Mathematician who noted his contribution to physics particularly the
study of electromagnetism. He attempted to make a solution of the classical
problem of constructing a regular heptagon with ruler and compass.
• He successfully proved his method of construction figures with 17, 257 and
65,537 sides. He also proved that the construction l, with compass and ruler l, of a
regular polygon with an odd number of sides was possible only when the number
of sides was a prime number of the series 3,5,17,257,65,537 or was a multiple of
two or more of these numbers.
Mathematics in the Modern World

John Napier (1550-April 4, 1617)
• He is best known as the discoverer of logarithms. He also invented the so-called
"Napier's bones" and made common the use of the decimal point in arithmetic
• Scottish mathematician and theological writer who originated the concept of
logarithms as a mathematical device to aid in calculations. Napier was the first, if not
the first to use the decimal point in expressing decimal fractions in a systematic way
and according to the modern system of decimal notation.
Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601- January 12, 1665)

• Father of Modern Theory. He is the ounder of the “Modern Theory of Numbers”
• Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th
century, Rene Descartes • Discovered the “Fundamental Principle of Analytic
Geometry”. His methods for finding tangents to curves and their maximum and
minimum points led him to be regarded as the inventor of the “Differential Calculus”.
Through his correspondence with Blaise Pascal he was a co-founder of the “Theory of
Probability”
Augustin-Louis Cauchy, (August 21, 1789- May 23, 1857)

• French mathematician who pioneered in analysis and the theory of substitution
groups (groups whose elements are ordered sequences of a set of things).
• He was one of the greatest of modern mathematicians. The first phase of modern
rigour in mathematics originated in his lectures and researches in analysis during the
1820s. He clarified the principles of calculus and put them on a satisfactory basis by
developing them with the aid of limits and continuity, concepts now considered vital to
analysis. To the same period belongs his development of the theory of functions of a
complex variable (a variable involving a multiple of the square root of minus one),
today indispensable in applied mathematics from physics to aeronautics.
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, Baron Fourier (March 21, 1768- May 16, 1830)

• Published his work in 1822 under the title The Analytic Theory of Heat
. • Best known for his study of heat conduction in 1822 under the title, "The Analytic
Theory of Heat", and for using series of trigonometric functions, now called Fourier
series, to solve difficult mathematical problems. The first person to work on
‘greenhouse effect’. Fourier left an unfinished work on determinate equations which
was edited by Claude-Louis Navier and published in 1831. This work contains much
original matter—in particular, there is a demonstration of Fourier's theorem on the
position of the roots of an algebraic equation.

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Laguna State Polytechnic University

Leonhard Euler (April 15, 1706 –September 18, 1783)

•He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and

Hero of Alexandria ( c. 10 AD- c. 70 AD)

Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777- February 23, 1855)

Mathematics in the Modern World

Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601- January 12, 1665)

Augustin-Louis Cauchy, (August 21, 1789- May 23, 1857)

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, Baron Fourier (March 21, 1768- May 16, 1830)

Mathematics in the Modern World

Mathematics in the Modern World

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