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6000 BCE
One of the oldest mathematicians
Thales is one of the the oldest known mathematician and is credited with early developments in geometry, including work on similar and right triangles
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A challenge is presented
David Hilbert poses 23 problems at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris as a challenge for the 20th century. The problems include the continuum hypothesis, the well ordering of the real numbers, Goldbach's conjecture, the transcendence of powers of algebraic numbers, the Riemann hypothesis, the extension of "Dirichlet's principle" and many more.
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It's morphin time
Hendrick Lorentz introduces the "Lorentz transformations" which are a set of equations in relativity physics that relate the space and time coordinates of two systems moving at a constant velocity relative to each other. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/28/ -
True but never proven
Kurt Gödel was an austrian mathematician who came up with the Incompleteness theorems which means that there can be solutions to mathematical problems which are true but which can never be proved. Think of problems like 2/3 it is possible to get a solution but it can't be proven. https://www.storyofmathematics.com/mathematicians.html -
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a famous mathematician who in 1918 was elected to the Royal Society of London. He showed the number of ways that a positive integer can be expressed as the sum of positive integers; e.g., 4 can be expressed as 4, 3 + 1, 2 + 2, 2 + 1 + 1, and 1 + 1 + 1 + 1. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Srinivasa-Ramanujan -
Math is connected
Andre Weil a European refugee who is known as one of the biggest contributors to modern mathematics. His theorems allowed us to make connections between algebra, topology, number theory and geometry. [https://www.mymathdone.com/articles/the-most-significant-math-scientists-of-the-20th-century/(https://www.timetoast.com) -
Alexander Grothendieck
Alexander Grothendieck is a matahiatican who is famous for using abstract thinking to create concepts that can be applied to multiple fields of mathematics such as number theory, functional analysis and topology. He received a field metal in 1966 due to his work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/alexander-grothendieck-mathematical-genius-who-went-into-self-exile-dies-at-86/2014/11/15/1e65f69a-6cf2-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html -
Horton who
John Horton Conway made many contributions to the game theory, number theory, group theory and geometry and created concepts like the grand antiprism, surreal numbers and mathematical games. https://www.mymathdone.com/articles/the-most-significant-math-scientists-of-the-20th-century/ -
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman was a famous mathematician of the 1980s responsible for his efforts to extend the geometric classification of two-dimensional manifolds to three dimensions. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigori-Perelman -
Terence Tao
Terence Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians of the modern word. He proved that the set of prime numbers contains infinitely many progressions of all finite lengths https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Terence-Tao-Mozart-of-Math-7252#:~:text=Tao%20and%20Green%20proved%20that,the%20numbers%20containing%2016%20digits.