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May 24, 1520
Scipione dal Ferro
Scipione dal Ferro develops a method for solving depressed cubic equations (cubic equations without an x2 term), but does not publish. -
Nov 3, 1550
Jyeshtadeva
Jyeshtadeva, a Kerala school mathematician, writes the “Yuktibhasa”, the world's first calculus text, which gives detailed derivations of many calculus theorems and formulae. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler discovers two of the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton invents an algorithm for the computation of functional roots. -
Edmund Halley
Edmund Halley prepares the first mortality tables statistically relating death rate to age. -
John Machin
John Machin develops a quickly converging inverse-tangent series for pie and computes pie to 100 decimal places. -
Abraham de Moivre
Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution in probability -
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler introduces the integrating factor technique for solving first-order ordinary differential equations. -
Christian Goldbach
Christian Goldbach conjectures that every even number greater than two can be expressed as the sum of two primes. -
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Joseph Louis Lagrange discovers the divergence theorem. -
Caspar Wessel
Caspar Wessel associates vectors with complex numbers and studies complex number operations in geometrical terms -
Georg Frobenius
Georg Frobenius presents his method for finding series solutions to linear differential equations with regular singular points. -
Josip Plemelj
Josip Plemelj solves the Riemann problem about the existence of a differential equation with a given monodromic group. -
Kurt Godel
Kurt Gödel proves his incompleteness theorem which shows that every axiomatic system for mathematics is either incomplete or inconsistent, -
Nicholas Metropolis
Nicholas Metropolis introduces the idea of thermodynamic simulated annealing algorithms -
Robert Langlands
Robert Langlands formulates the influential Langlands program of conjectures relating number theory and representation theory. -
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings proves the Mordell conjecture and thereby shows that there are only finitely many whole number solutions for each exponent of Fermat's Last Theorem. -
Neeraj Kayal
Neeraj Kayal of Ipresents an unconditional deterministic polynomial time algorithm to determine whether a given number is prime.