MGF 1106 Mathematics Project

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MGF 1106Mathematics Project

• Mathematicians and Math History
• Josh Hancock

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Mathematicians A B

• Ismael Boullaiu
• French
• 1605-1694
• Astronomy
• Published Astronomia Philolacia

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi
• Italian
• 1718-1799
• Calculus
• Discovery was the Witch of Agnesi

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Mathematicians C D

• Christopher Clavius
• Portuguese
• 1538-1612
• Set-Theory
• Discovered the Julian Leap Year

• Ingrid Daubechies
• Belgium
• 1954-
• Thesis
• Representation of quantum mechanical operators

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Mathematicians E F

• Rabbi Ben Ezra
• Spanish
• 1092-1167
• Permutations
• The Book of the number, which describes decimals
  and their place values.

• Francis FitzGerald
• Irish
• 1851-1901
• Theories
• The electromagnetic theory of the reflection and
  refraction of light

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Mathematicians G H

• Shoujing Guo
• Chinese
• 1851-1316
• Logic
• Guos Calendar

• Alexandria of Heron
• Egyptian
• 10-75
• Physics
• The equilateral Triangle and the regular hexagon

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Mathematicians I J

• Kiyosi Ito
• Japanese
• 1915-
• Probability Theory
• Stochastic Analysis

• Vaughan Jones
• New Zealand
• 1952-
• Algebra/Geometry
• Discovered the relationship between algebras and
  geometric topology

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Mathematicians K L

• Felix Klein
• Hungarian
• 1849-1925
• Geometric Theory
• Connections between geometry and group theory

• Roger C. Lyndon
• American
• 1917-1988
• Chomology
• Combination Group Theory

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Mathematicians M N

• George Mathews
• English
• 1861-1922
• Functions/Applications
• Came up with Projective Geometry

• Sir Isaac Newton
• English
• 1643-1727
• Laws
• The Principia

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Mathematicians O P

• De Juan Ortega
• Spanish (Hispanic)
• 1480-1568
• Geometry
• Square root method

• Blaise Pascal
• French
• 1643-1662
• Geometry
• Sum of the angles of a triangle are two right
  angles

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Mathematicians Q R

• Daniel Grey Quillen
• American
• 1940-
• Physics
• Partial differential equations

• Julia Bowman Robinson
• 1919-1985
• Probability
• Proved that there is not a general method for
  solving probability

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Mathematician S T

• Manuel Sadosky
• Argentinean
• 1914-2005
• Calculus
• Father of computer science in Argentina

• Peter Guthrie Tait
• Scottish
• 1831-1901
• Physics
• Thermodynamics

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Mathematicians U V

• Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn
• Russian
• 1898-1924
• Theory
• Contributions to the theory of dimension

• Jurij Vega
• Slovenia
• 1754-1802
• Physics
• Books of Logarithm Tables

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Mathematicians W X

• Dudley W. Woodard
• African American
• 1881-1965
• Theory
• Two dimensional analysis situs with special
  reference to the Jordan Curve theorem

• Yi Xing
• Chinese
• 683-727
• Astronomer
• He calculated the possible positions on a go
  board without a sign for zero.

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Mathematicians Y Z

• Udny Yule
• Scottish
• 1871-1951
• Statistics
• Wrote three influential papers on time-series
  analysis.

• Chongzhi Zu
• Chinese
• 429-500
• Mathematician/Astronomer
• Invented the Daming Calendar and two
  approximations of pi.