AY- 2023-2024

• INSTRUCTOR: JERWIN L. REPOLLO, MAEd-MATH

 MEDIEVAL PERIOD AND RENAISSANCE
PERIOD
MATHEMATIANS IN MEDIEVAL AGE (Middle Age)
(15 the Century)

Leonardo of Pisa

- known in Fibonacci number

-The Author of the book “Liber

Abaci” a free rendition of Greek
and Arabic Works.
 REGIOMONTANUS
- main contribution to mathematics being in
the area of trigonometry.
-He helped separate trigonometry from
astronomy, and it was largely through his
efforts that trigonometry came to be
considered an independent branch of
mathematics.
- His book “De Triangulis“, in which he
described much of the basic trigonometric
knowledge which is now taught in high school
and college, was the first great book on
trigonometry to appear in print.
 ROGER BACON
- Franciscan friar known for his
application of geometry to optics.

- Bacon was convinced that mathematics and

astronomy are not morally neutral activities,
pursued for their own sake, but have a deep
connection to the practical business of
everyday life.
CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY
- The author of the book “Almagest”.

- Achieved representation of “planetary

motion”

- He believe the earth is the center of the

universe ( Geocentric Theory).
 NICOLE ORESME
- Oresme’s main contributions to
mathematics are contained in his
Questiones super geometriam
Euclidis and his Tractatus de
configurationibus qualitatum et
motuum.
- Invented the type of coordinate
before Descartes.

- known for introducing the plus

sign (+).
 MATHEMATICS IN RENAISSANCE
Scipio Del Ferro
- Solve the one of the outstanding
ancient problem of mathematics.

- First Person known to solve Cubic

equation
 Nicollo Fontana ( Tartaglia)

- famed for his Algebraic

solution of cubic equation
which eventually published in
Cardan’s Ars Magna.
GIROLAMO CARDAN OR CARDANO

- Italian mathematician, physician, and

gambler
- A public lecturer of mathematics at the
Piatti Foundation in Milan
- Publish the Book “Ars Magna” (Method
of Solution of cubic and quartic Equation).
-Practica Arithmetica (rationalization of
denominators containing the cube.
 LODOVICO FERRARI
- Cardono secretary best known
today for solving the quartic equation.
Lodovico arrived at Cardan's house on 30
November, a fourteen year old boy ready
to take over his cousin Luke's position and
become a servant. Cardan, upon the
discovery that the lad could read and
write, exempted him from menial tasks
and appointed the youngster as his
secretary.
THOMAS HARRIOT
- An English mathematician who did
outstanding work on the solution of
equations, recognizing negative roots
and complex roots in a way that
makes his solutions look almost like a
present day solution.

- Responsible in symbol greater than

and less than
 BIRTH OF CALCULUS)
Sir Isaac Newton

- The greatest English mathematician of

his generation. He laid the foundation
for differential and integral calculus.

- His work on optics and gravitation

make him one of the greatest scientists
the world has known.
 GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNEZ
- was a German mathematician who developed
the present day notation for the differential
and integral calculus though he never thought
of the derivative as a limit.
- Father of Calculus
- introduced the words function,
coordinate, abscissa, and ordinate.

-Wrote the manuscript using ∫f(x)dx.

- Introduce the elongated S (∫) in the calculus.