Mathematics#
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c240-0190 BCEApollonius of Perga Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖοςrecognized as the individual who developed the conics
his 8-volume series on the subject described the “double-cone cutting” approach
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c315-0240 BCEAratus of Soli ἄρατος ὁ σολεύς[ w ]
c287-0212 BCEArchimedes of Syracuse ἀρχιμήδης[ w ]
c310-0230 BCEAristarchus of Samos Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος[ w ] Heliocentrism
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c370-0300 BCECallipus κάλλιππος[ w ] Chrysippus of Soli
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c276-0194 BCEEratosthenes of Cyrene Ἐρατοσθένης[ w ]
c300-0200 BCEEuclid of Alexandria Εὐκλείδης ὁ ἀλεξανδρεύς[ w ] Elements στοιχεῖα
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c390-0340 BCEEudoxus of Cnidus Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος[ w ]
c190-0120 BCEHipparchus Ἵππαρχος[ w ]
c470-0421 BCEHippocrates of Chios Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Χῖος[ w ]
c490-0570 _CEJohn Philoponus ἰωάννης ὁ φιλόπονος[ w ]
c380-0320 BCEMenaechmus Μέναιχμοςa contemporary of Plato, who produced the first publications describing the concept of the conics
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c500-0400 BCEMeton of Athens μέτων ὁ ἀθηναῖος[ w ]
0490-0450 BCEOenopides of Chios Οἰνοπίδης ὁ Χῖος[ w ]
c290-0350 _CEPappus of Alexandria Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς[ w ]
c100-0170 _CEPtolemy, Claudius Πτολεμαῖος[ w ]
0626-0545 BCEThales of Miletus Θαλῆς[ w ]
c417-0369 BCETheaetetus of Athens Θεαίτητος[ w ]
c169-0100 BCETheodosius of Bithynia θεοδόσιος[ w ] Sphaerics σφαιρικά
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1888-1977 (88)Bernays, Paul[ w ]
1700-1782 (82)Bernoulli, Daniel[ w ]
1655-1705 (50)Bernoulli, Jacob[ w ]
1667-1748 (80)Bernoulli, Johann[ w ]
1687-1759 (72)Bernoulli, Nicolaus I[ w ]
1781-1848 (67)Bolzano, Bernard[ w ]
1881-1966 (85)Brouwer, L. E. J.[ w ]
1301-1362 (61)Buridan, Jean/John (Johannes Buridanus) [ SEP ][ w ] Buridan’s Ass
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1845-1918 (72)Cantor, Georg[ w ] Cantor’s First Set Theory Article
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1501-1576 (74)Cardano, Gerolamo[ w ]
1789-1857 (67)Cauchy, Augustin-Louis[ w ]
1713-1765 (52)Clairaut, Alexis[ w ]
1868-1914 (46)Couturat, Louis[ w ]
1900-1982 (81)Curry, Haskell Brooks[ w ]
1452-1519 (67)Da Vinci, Leonardo[ w ]
1914-2005 (90)Dantzig, Goerge[ w ]
1884-1956 (72)Dantzig, Tobias[ w ]
1806-1871 (64)De Morgan, Augustus[ w ]
1831-1916 (84)Dedekind, Richard[ SEP ] Dedekind’s Contributions to the Foundations of Mathematics
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1906-1992 (86)Dieudonné, Jean[ w ]
1805-1859 (54)Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune[ w ]
1707-1783 (76)Euler, Leonhard[ w ]
1768-1830 (62)Fourier, Joseph[ w ]
1891-1965 (74)Fraenkel, Abraham[ w ]
1849-1917 (67)Frobenius, Ferdinand Georg[ w ]
1879-1943 (64)Fubini, Guido[ w ]
1811-1832 (20)Galois, Évariste[ w ]
1777-1855 (77)Gauss, Carl Friedrich[ w ] Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (number theory)
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1909-1945 (35)Gentzen, Gerhard[ w ]
1811-1874 (63)Hesse, Ludwig[ w ]
1862-1943 (81)Hilbert, David[ w ]
1947----- (78)Huet, Gérard[ w ]
1823-1891 (68)Kronecker, Leopold[ w ]
1661-1704 (42)L’Hôpital, Guillaume de[ w ]
1736-1813 (77)Lagrange, Joseph-Louis[ w ]
1749-1827 (77)Laplace, Pierre-Simon[ w ] Traité de mécanique céleste
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1875-1941 (66)Lebesgue, Henri[ w ]
1698-1746 (48)Maclaurin, Colin[ w ]
1790-1868 (77)Möbius, August Ferdinand[ w ]
1930-1971 (40)Montague, Richard[ w ]
1785-1836 (51)Navier, Claude-Louis[ w ]
1863-1953 (89)Padé, Henri[ w ]
1858-1932 (73)Peano, Giuseppe[ w ] (1889). Arithmetices principia, nova methodo exposita.
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1854-1912 (58)Poincaré, Henri[ w ]
1781-1840 (58)Poisson, Siméon Denis[ w ]
1897-1954 (57)Post, Emil[ w ]
1826-1866 (39)Riemann, Bernhard[ w ]
1652-1719 (67)Rolle, Michel[ w ]
1872-1970 (97)Russell, Bertrand[ w ] (1905). “On Denoting”.
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1888-1942 (53)Schonfinkel, Moses[ w ]
1819-1903 (83)Stokes, George[ w ]
1901-1983 (82)Tarski, Alfred [ SEP ][ SEP ] Tarski’s Truth Definitions
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1685-1731 (46)Taylor, Brook[ w ]
1912-1954 (41)Turing, Alan[ w ]
1834-1923 (88)Venn, John[ w ]
1903-1957 (53)Von Neumann, John[ w ]
1815-1897 (81)Weierstrass, Karl[ w ]
1885-1955 (70)Weyl, Hermann[ w ]
1871-1953 (81)Zermelo, Ernst[ SEP ] Zermelo’s Axiomatization of Set Theory
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+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------> Daniel B
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Jacob B
---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Johann B
-------+---------+---------+--------> Caliraut
---+---------+---------+---------+--------> Euler
------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Galilei
---------+---------+---------+---------+---- L'Hôpital
----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Leibniz
--+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Maclaurin
--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Newton
--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------- Rolle
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Taylor
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+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Daniel B
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Bolzano
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Boole
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Cauchy
-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Clairaut
---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Euler
---------+---------+-- Galois
---+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Gauss
----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Lagrange
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Laplace
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Navier
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Poisson
----+---------+---------+---------+------ Riemann
1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Boole
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Brouwer
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Cantor
--+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Couturat
------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------> G Dantzig
------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ T Dantzig
----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- De Morgan
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------ Dedekind
----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Dieudonné
--+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+----- Frege
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Frobenius
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Fubini
---------+---------+-- Galois
---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Hesse
--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Hilbert
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+- Lebesgue
-------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Padé
--+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Peano
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---- Peirce
------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-- Poincaré
----+---------+---------+---------+------ Riemann
--------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ Russell
-+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--- Stokes
--------+---------+---------+---------+---- Turing
-----+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+------- Weierstrass
Texts#
2011 Boyer, Carl B. A History of Mathematics. 3e. Wiley.
2008 Gowers, Timothy; June Barrow-Green; & Imre Leader (eds.). The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Princeton University Press.
2015 Higham, Nicholas J. (ed.). The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics. Princeton University Press.
2014 Mazur, Joseph. Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation. Princeton University Press.