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History of Mathematics

The document provides an overview of important mathematicians organized by time period, including their major contributions. It covers mathematicians from Greek mathematics to the 20th century. The document includes sections on Greek, Hellenistic, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Medieval European, 16th century, 17th century, 19th century, and 20th century mathematics. Each section lists mathematicians from that era and their achievements.

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History of Mathematics

The document provides an overview of important mathematicians organized by time period, including their major contributions. It covers mathematicians from Greek mathematics to the 20th century. The document includes sections on Greek, Hellenistic, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Medieval European, 16th century, 17th century, 19th century, and 20th century mathematics. Each section lists mathematicians from that era and their achievements.

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HISTORY OF

MATHEMATICS
List of Important
Mathematicians
Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Table of Contents
Greek Mathematics………………………………………………………………………..08
Thales
Pythagoras
Zeno of Elea
Hippocrates of Chios
Democritus
Plato
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Aristotle

Hellenistic Mathematics………………………………………………………..10
Euclid of Alexandria
Archimedes
Erastosthenes
Apollonius of Perga
Hipparchus
Hero of Alexandria
Diophantus of Alexandria
Claudius Ptolemy
Menelaus of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria

Chinese Mathematics………………………………………………………………...12
Liu Hui
Yu Xi
Sun Tzu
Xiahou Yang
Zhang Qiujian
Zu Chongzhi
Wang Xiaotong
Liu Zhuo
Li Chunfeng
Yi Xing
Jia Xian

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Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Shen Kua
Li Zhi
Qin Jiushao
Yang Hui
Indian Mathematics……………………………………………………………………..15
Aryabhata
Brahmagupta
Bhaskara I
Bhaskara II
Madhava
Islamic Mathematics…………………………………………………………………..16
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurrah al-Harrani
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Uqlidisi
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn al Hasan al-Karaji
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham
Omar Khayyam
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi
Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi
Kamal al-Din H asan ibn al-Farisi
Medieval European Mathematics………………………………………..18
Robert of Chester
Leonardo Fibonacci
Nicole Oresme
Nicholas of Cusa
Regiomontanus
16th Century Mathematics………………………………………………………..19
Luca Pacioli
Leonardo da Vinci
Scipione Del Ferro
Albrecht Durer

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Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia
Gerolamo Cardano
Rafael Bombelli
Lodovico de Ferrari
Simon Stevin
Robert Simson
17th Century Mathematics………………………………………………………..21
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Rene Descartes
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Pierre de Fermat
Blaise Pascal
Isaac Newton
Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz
Guillaume de L`Hospital
Daniel Bernoulli
19th Century Mathematics………………………………………………………..23
Dane Caspar Wessel
Jean-Robert Argand
Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Niccolo Paganini
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
August Ferdinand Mobius
George Peacock
Charles Babbage
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Niels Henrik Abel
Janos Bolyai
Carl Jacobi
Johann Peter Gustav Lejuene Dirichlet
William Hamilton
Herman Grassmann

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History of Mathematics
Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Evariste Galois
George Boole
Karl Weierstrass
Arthur Cayley
Bernhard Riemann
Richard Dedekind
John Venn
Marius Sophus Lie
Georg Cantor
Gottlob Frege
Felix Klein
Henri Poincare
Hermann Minskowski
20th Century Mathematics………………………………………………………..30
Francis Guthrie
Johann Gustav Hermes
Giuseppe Peano
Alfred North Whitehead
David Hilbert
Ernst Zermelo
Bertrand Russel
G.H. Hardy
Pierre Fatou
Margherita Piazzolla Beloch
Emmy Noether
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Abraham Fraenkel
Gaston Julia
Andrey Kolmogorov
John von Neumann
Kurt Godel
Andre Weil
Alan Turing
Paul Erdos

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Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Edward Lorenz
Julia Robinson
Benoit Mandelbrot
John Nash
Kazuo Haga
Paul Cohen
John Horton Conway
Stephen Cook
Yuri Matiyasevich
Andrew Wiles
Yitang Zhang
Grigori Perelman

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Greek Hellenistic Chinese Indian Islamic
Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics
Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 19th Century 20th Century
European Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics Mathematics

Introduction

his eBook is an instructional material that


combines all mathematicians that you`ll need to
know in studying History of Mathematics. This is a
list of some of the most important mathematicians
by period of activity, their major contributions
and/or achievements.

You’ll also notice there are tabs along the top of the
page. You can use these tabs to move between the book’s main
sections. For example, if you need to brush up on Greek
Mathematics, just click the Greek Mathematics tab at the top of
the page and—voilà—you are in the Greek Mathematics section!
Done with Greek Mathematics, and want to try on Hellenistic
Mathematics? Just click the Hellenistic Mathematics tab and
you’re there!

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Greek Mathematics

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Greek Mathematics

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Hellenistic Mathematics

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Hellenistic Mathematics

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Chinese Mathematics

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Chinese Mathematics

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Chinese Mathematics

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Indian Mathematics

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Islamic Mathematics

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Islamic Mathematics

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Medieval European Mathematics

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16th Century Mathematics

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Or you can download the pdf here

Greek Mathematics:
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Hellenistic Mathematics:
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Chinese Mathematics:
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Indian Mathematics:
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Islamic Mathematics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R2zvwRKM5V30HCr0stsUmB0eTxxGJsYX/view?usp=d
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Medieval European Mathematics:
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16th Century Mathematics:
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17th Century Mathematics:
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rivesdk
19th Century Mathematics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RP6tkxzzsSE4edh9_InkgroCQSLIoRXt/view?usp=d
rivesdk
20th Century Mathematics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RaqDJbQRPSX-E5bQHYLg-
bTTWTEp3Fo8/view?usp=drivesdk

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