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Some of our Famous Mathematicians
Some of our Famous Mathematicians
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famous mathematicians and their discoveries
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Albert Einstein - I won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 and...
I fled Nazi Germany before coming to the US.
I am the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
I taught at Princeton.
I worked on the atomic bomb, while being a pacifist.
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I contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, and statistics.
Gauss
Galois
Archimedes
Descartes
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I am Rene Descartes - what am I famous for?
Invented rule of signs for polynomial equations.
Father of Western Philosophy - I think, therefore I am!
Father of Analytical Geometry
I developed a system to locate any point in a 2D /3D system.
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Who am I? Famous for laws of gravity and one of two inventors of calculus
Euclid
Euler
Newton
Pascal
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I am famous for working with a curve , and went on to be the first female math professor.
Agnesi
Germaine
Lovelace
Kovaleskay
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I lived in Schenectady, and was a famous GE electrical engineer. Who am I?
Steinmetz
Lagrange
Newton
Descartes
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I am Grace Brewster Murray Hopper.
I invented the first compiler for a computers.
I developed the idea of trigonometry.
I was a rear admiral in the United States Navy.
I helped put a man on the moon in 1969.
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Who am I? I am famous for breaking the Enigma Code
Euclid
Pascal
Pythagoras
Turing
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I contributed to the space program with my calculations. Who am I?
Agnesi
Lovelace
Johnson
Germaine
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Who am I? I am famous for modern mathematical notation and terminology
Turing
Newton
Pythagoras
Euler
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Who am I? I am famous for my theorem about right angled triangles.
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Socrates
Euclid
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I am one of the creators of the calculus of variations - and worked with Taylor series.
Lagrange
Galois
Descartes
Cavalieri
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I developed two major branches of abstract algebra, and died in a duel at age 20.
Lagrange
Gauss
Einstein
Galois
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I am Leonardo "Fibonacci" Pisano. What am I famous for?
I went by the name Bigollo, which means "good for nothing."
I solved trigonometric equations, using new methods.
I developed the idea of the derivative in calculus.
I'm the "greatest European mathematician of the middle ages"
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I am Muhammad ibn Musa
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Khwarizmi.
I was a Persian mathematician, and...
I developed the coordinate system used to locate any point.
I worked with right triangles.
I won the Nobel Prize for astronomy in 790AD.
I introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to Western math.
