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The document provides biographical information on six famous mathematicians: Leonhard Euler, Isaac Newton, David Hilbert, René Descartes, and Pythagoras. It describes their dates of birth and death, key contributions and discoveries in mathematics and related fields, and establishes them as important figures in history that advanced mathematics and scientific understanding.

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Great Mathematician 2

The document provides biographical information on six famous mathematicians: Leonhard Euler, Isaac Newton, David Hilbert, René Descartes, and Pythagoras. It describes their dates of birth and death, key contributions and discoveries in mathematics and related fields, and establishes them as important figures in history that advanced mathematics and scientific understanding.

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Great Mathematician:

Leonhard Euler

 Leonhard Euler, (born April 15, 1707, Basel, Switzerland-died September 18, 1783, St.
Petersburg, Russia),
 He not only made decisive and formative contributions to the subjects
of geometry, calculus, mechanics, and number theory but also developed methods for
solving problems in observational astronomy and demonstrated useful applications of
mathematics in technology and public affairs.
 Euler invented the calculus of variations including its most well-known result, the Euler–
Lagrange equation. Euler also pioneered the use of analytic methods to solve number
theory problems. In doing so, he united two disparate branches of mathematics and
introduced a new field of study, analytic number theory.

Isaac Newton

 Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time)
on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643)
 Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20March 1726/27) was a
English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who
was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific
Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
 Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the
dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of
relativity. Newton used his mathematical.
David Hilbert

 David Hilbert, (born January 23, 1862, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad,


Russia] —died February 14, 1943, Göttingen, Germany),
 German mathematician who reduced geometry to a series of axioms and contributed
substantially to the establishment of the formalistic foundations of mathematics.
 Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas,
including invariant theory, the calculus of variations, commutative algebra, algebraic
number theory, the foundations of geometry, spectral theory of operators and its
application to integral equations, mathematical physics, and the foundations of
mathematics (particularly proof theory).

René Descartes

 René Descartes, (born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died February 11,
1650, Stockholm, Sweden).
 Mathematics was central to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously
separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of
his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, later
becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age. Although he served a Protestant
state and was later counted as a Deist by critics, Descartes was Roman Catholic.
 He is credited as the father of analytic geometry—used in the discovery of infinitesimal
calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific
Revolution.
Pythagoras
 Pythagoras of Samos was born circa 569 BC in Samos, Ionia and died circa 475 BC.
 Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher, mystic, and mathematician. He was a
founder of a secret society dedicated to learning and spiritual purification, though he is
best known today as the man who developed the Pythagorean Theorem.
 Pythagorean Theorem, which is a mathematical formula for finding the length of the
hypotenuse of a right triangle. It states that the sum of the squares of the two non-
hypotenuse sides of the triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. In addition to
this ubiquitous theorem, Pythagoras made many other contributions to the intellectual
landscape of the ancient world.

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