FAMOUS MATHEMATICIANS

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MATHEMATICS
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Introduction to mathematics

• Definition of mathematics
• List of famous mathematicians

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DEFINITION OF MATHEMATICS
Aristotle defined mathematics as
The science
of quantity. In Aristotle's classification of the
sciences, discrete quantities were studied by
arithmetic, continuous quantities by
geometry. Auguste Comte's definition tried to
explain the role of mathematics in coordinating
phenomena in all other fields
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List of Famous mathematicians
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Adrien-Marie
Bernhard Riemann

Alexander Grothendie
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Alfred North Whitehe
Blaise Pascal
Anders Celsius
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Andre Marie Ampere
Carl F. Gauss
Andre Weil
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Archimedes
Carl Gustav Jacob
Arthur Cayley Aryabhatta
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Augustin-Louis Cauch
Christian Doppler
Avicenna
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Carl Ludwig Siegel
Charles Babbage
Charles Hermite
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Daniel Bernoulli
David Hilbert
Edward Arthur Milne
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Edwin Powell Hubble
Emmy Noether
Euclid
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Evariste Galois
Felix Christian Klei
G.H. Hardy
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Galileo Galilei
Georg Cantor
George Ohm
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George Boole
Gottfried W. Leibniz
Henri Poincare
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Hermann Klaus Hugo
Hermann Minkowski
Jacob Bernoulli
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James Maxwell
Jean Le Rond d Alemb
Johann Heinrich Lamb
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Johannes Kepler
John Napier
John von Neumann
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Jonas Kubilius
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Louis Lagrange
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Karl Weierstrass
Kurt Gödel
Leonhard Euler
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Lord Kelvin
Marquis de Condorcet
Muhammad ibu Mus
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Nasir al-Din-al-Tusi
Nicolaus Copernicus
Niels Henrik Abel
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Peter Gustev Lejeune
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Pythagoras
Rene Descartes
Richard Dedekind
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Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Sir William Rowan
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Tom Lehrer
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