Mathematicians

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Mathematicians

• By Byshop Morris

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Pythagoras of Samos

• Greek Mathematician Pythagoras is considered by
  some to be one of the first great mathematicians.
  Living around 570 to 495 BC, in modern day
  Greece, he is known to have founded the
  Pythagorean cult who were noted by Aristotle to
  be one of the first groups to study and advance
  mathematics. He is also commonly credited with
  the Pythagorean Theorem.

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Pythagoras of Samos

• However, some doubt that it was Pythagoras who
  invented it. Nonetheless, the effect of such, as
  with big portions of fundamental mathematics, is
  commonly felt today, with the theorem playing a
  big part in todays modern measurements and
  technological equipment, as well as being the
  base of a big portion of other areas and theorems
  in mathematics.

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Pythagoras of Samos

• Unlike many ancient theories, it played a big
  role on the development of geometry, as well as
  opening the door to the study of mathematics.
• He could be called the founding father of the
  modern day mathematics.

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Picture of Pythagoras
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Rene Descartes

• A French Philosopher, Physicist and Mathematician
  Rene is best known for his 'Cogito Ergo Sum'
  philosophy. Despite this, the Frenchman, who
  lived 1596 to 1650, made ground breaking
  contributions to mathematics. Alongside Newton
  and Leibniz, Rene helped provide the foundations
  of modern day calculus, which in itself had great
  bearing on the modern day field.

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Rene Descartes

• Alongside this, perhaps maybe more know by
  people, is his development of Cartesian Geometry,
  known to most as the standard graph and its use
  of algebra to describe the various locations.
  Before this many geometers used plain paper to
  preform their art. Previously, such distances had
  to be measured, or scaled.

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Rene Descartes

• With the introduction of Cartesian Geometry this
  changed dramatically, points could be expressed
  as points on a graph, and graphs could be drawn
  on to any scale, these points did not necessarily
  have to be numbers. The final contribution to the
  field was his intro of superscripts within
  algebra to express powers. Rene Descartes,
  contributed to the development of the modern day
  mathematical notation.

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Picture of Rene Descartes
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Sophie Germain

• Sophie was born in France, in the era of
  revolution. In the year of her birth, the
  American Revolution began. Thirteen years later
  the French Revolution began in her own country.
  April 1, 1776 is the date she was born, her
  family was quite wealthy. Sophie's interest in
  mathematics began during the French Revolution
  when she was 13, and confined to her home due to
  the danger caused by revolts in Paris.

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Sophie Germain

• She spent a great deal of time in her fathers
  library, one day she found a book called The
  Legend of Archimedes. This book sparked Sophie's
  interest, so she began to study mathematics.
  Sophie began teaching herself mathematics using
  the books in her fathers library. Her parents
  felt that her interest was inappropriate for a
  female and did all they could to discourage her.

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Sophie Germain

• She began studying at night to escape them, but
  they went to such extreme measures to take away
  her clothes once she was in bed and depriving her
  of heat and light to make her stay in her bed at
  night instead of studying. But that didn't stop
  Sophie. She began to study calculus without aid
  or tutor. Sophie went to prove that if x, y, and
  z are integers and if x5 y5 z5 then either
  x, y, and z must be divisible by 5.

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Picture of Sophie Germain
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All three famous mathematicians
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Sources

• http//listverse.com/2010/12/07/top-10-greatest-ma
  thematicians/
• http//www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/germain.ht
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