Mathematicians

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Mathematicians
By Megan Smallwood
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Brahmagupta Bhillamalacarya

• (589-668)
• He was from Rajasthan (India)

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Brahmagupta Bhillamalacarya
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Brahmagupta Bhillamalacarya

• His best know work is Brahmasphutasiddhanta, it
  was written in 628 in Bhinmal. Its 25 chapters
  the contain mathematical results.

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Brahmagupta Bhillamalacarya

• He was a 7th Century Indian mathematician and
  astronomer. Brahmagupta wrote some important
  works on both mathematics and astronomy.

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Brahmagupta Bhillamalacarya

• Stated When zero is added to a number or
  subtracted from a number, the number remains
  unchanged. A number multiplied by zero becomes
  zero.

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Takakazu Seki

• 1637-1708
• He was from Japan.

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Takakazu Seki
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Takakazu Seki

• Seki was a self-taught prodigy who developed a
  new notation for algebra.
• He also made several discover before Western
  mathematics.

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Takakazu Seki

• He discovered the Newton-Raphson method, Newton's
  interpolation formula, Bernoulli numbers,
  discriminants, methods of calculus.

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Takakazu Seki

• He calculated pi to ten decimal places using the
  Aitkin's method. He also worked with the magic
  squares.

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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

• 1850-1891
• She was from Russia.

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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

• Sofia was self-taught
• She was considered the greatest female
  mathematician ever before Emma Noether.

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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

• Her most famous work was the Kovalevskaya top,
  which was called a "genuine highlight of
  19th-century mathematics.

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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

• Sofia studied Abelian integrals and many other
  differential equations.