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1. Archimedes- famous Greek physicist and mathematician who devised the use of method of
exhaustion. He is the first to attempt in finding the value of pi and known to his books about spheres. In
physics, he was known for his Archimedes' screw and Archimedes' principle.
2. Pythagoras- known for his theorem that in a right triangle, the length of the square of the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum of its squares of its legs (Pythagorean theorem) and he is one who introduced the
numerology, a type of horoscope according to numbers.
4. Thales of Miletus- Greek philosopher who proved that the triangle inscribed in a semicircle is a right
triangle.
5. Eratosthenes- famous in calculating Earth's circumference through shadows and devised the Sieve of
Eratosthenes, a traditional method for finding prime numbers by means of listing.
6. Diophantus- regarded as the Father of Algebra and wrote the book Arithmetica, an essential book for
algebra. He was known for his equations that bear on his name.
the history.
8. Hipparchus- known as one who devised the trigonometric tables using the chords of the circle.
9. Cladius Ptolemy- geographer and mathematician known for his geocentric model and known for his
theorem on the diagonals of a cyclical quadrilateral.
10. Euclid- famous author of The Elements which paved way in studying plane geometry.
14. Leonardo Fibonacci- known to his sequence 1,1, 2,3,5..... which is known as Fibonacci sequence.
15. Al-Khwarizmi- an Arab mathematician who contributes greatly in Algebra especially law of
exponents.
16. John Wallis- known for his definite integrals involving trigonometric derivatives.
17. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai- they are the founders of hyperbolic geometry, a type of non-
Euclidean geometry.
18. Benoit Mandelbrot- known for his introduction of fractals, a geometric figure that exhibits self
similarity.
20. Neils Henrik Abel- known for his Abellian group that is use in number theory.
21. Gabriel Cramer- devised the method of solving linear equations through determinants.
22. Johannes Kepler- a physicist and mathematician and student of Tycho Brahe who devised the three
planetary laws and concluded that the orbit of the planets are elliptical.
23. Isaac Newton- one of the founders of calculus who devised the method of fluxions and fluents.
24. Guillaume de L'Hospital- known for his special rule for limits that states that
the limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches to the certain value is equal to the quotient of the value substituted
on the partial derivative of f(x) and g(x) provided that f (x)/g(x) is indeterminate.
25. David Hilbert- known for his Hilbert's problem that composes of difficult math problems that cannot
be solve.
27. Blaise Pascal- inventor of Pascalline and introduced a special triangle for finding the coefficients of a
binomial expansion.
28. Gino Fano- known for his introduction of Fano plane, a projective plane having 7 points and 7 lines.
29. Georg Cantor- he introduced the set theory and some symbols for set theory.
30. Guissepi Peano- one who introduced the symbols for union, intersection, universal and subset.
31. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz- one of the founders of calculus with Isaac Newton who introduce the
Leibniz rule and modern symbol for integration, the elongated S.
33. Leonhard Euler- blind mathematician known for his Euler's number (e) and modern symbols for
differentiation. He also attempted to find the value of pi and devised the formula for the Platonic solids.
34. Georg Friedrich Riemann- known for his introduction of elliptical geometry.
35. Albert Einstein- famous German-American physicist who was known for his E=mc^2.
36. Carl Friedrich Gauss- the Princeps Mathematicorum who introduced the normal distribution, the
congruence symbol or modulus in number theory, a method of finding the echelon of a matrix and first
to devised a formula in finding the sums of a given sequence.
37. William Rowan Hamilton- known for his discovery and introduction of quaternions, a type of normed
division algebra that involves distinct imaginary parts.