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1700 BCE
Ahmes
Ahmes is the scribe who wrote the Rhind Papyrus, the Rhind Papyrus contains 84 mathematical problems. Ahmes was the first mathematician to use fractions. The papyrus that Ahmes wrote on is ancient today and very hard to read, despite this it is still available to look at since it is preserved at the British Museum. unfortunatly there arent much information about Ahmes and his life, this is because it wasn't as common for people to write about their personal life in form of diarys. -
Giovanni Ceva
Giovanni Ceva was a Italian mathematician who was mainly known for proving Ceva's theorem. He studied at the university of Pisa, where he later became a professor. The famous theorem that Ceva published was on synthetic geometry, it states that given any triangle, the parts A, B and C to the opposite side of the triangle are concurrent precisely when the product of the ratios of the pairs of parts formed on each side of the triangle is equal to 1. Ceva passed away June 15th 1734 ( age 86). -
Grigory Isaakovitj Barenblatt
Grigory Isaakovitj Berenblatt was a Russian mathematician who for the most part studied the mathematics behind mechanics, as well as fluid mechanics. Grigory Barenblatt graduated from the Moscow State University in 1950 and later became a emeritus professor at the department of mathematics of the University of California. hes areas of research were fracture mechanics, the theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deform able solids and turbulence. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was a British mathematician. Lovelaces father left the family a month after Ada were born, this left the mother bitter resulting in her fixation on eradicating Adas inherited "madness". this was one of the reasons that Lovelace studied mathematics from such a young age. Lovelace was asked to translate Menabrea's text into English, she also added a large sheet music. Adas notes on Babbages analytical machine where reprinted and are today considered an early model for a computer. -
Ludvig Sylow
Ludvig Sylow was a Norwegian mathematician who proved the results in group theory, that includes Sylow's theorems. Sylow was appointed honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen and. The Sylow theorems consists out of 3 different sentences, the first sentence provides a sufficient condition for a finite group to have a subgroup of order P^m where P is a prime number. Peter Ludvig Meidell Sylow passed on september 7, 1918. -
Sofja kovalevskaja
Sofja Kovalevskaja was a Russian mathematician, she moved to Stockholm, Sweden where she was appointed professor, the first female professor in Europe. at the time in Russia it was forbidden for women to attend public lectures, therefor she studied in Berlin with Karl Weierstrass who had agreed to teach her privately. Kovalevskaja was in 1888 proposed for election to the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, this was opposed by many members simply because she was a woman. -
Richard Bellman
Richard Ernest Bellman was an American mathematician. he was on the whole known for the invention of dynamic programming. Dynamic programming is a technique for solving an optimization problem by breaking it down to simpler sub problems. This is easiest described as "recursion plus tabulation". Richard Bellman has also named the Bellman-Ford algorithm, it is used for finding the shortest path in a weighted graph. -
Nicolas Bourbaki
Nicolas Bourbaki was a french group of mathematicians who were fed up with the textbook for their calculus class. They decided to write a better one. They named it "Elements de mathematique". They decided to publish the book and all their subsequent work under a collective pseudonym, Nicolas Bourbaki. This treatise created a consistent logical framework unifying every branch of mathematics. -
Vladimir Arnold
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold was a French-Russian mathematician who was very productive on the field of mechanics. His earliest achievement was the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory of dynamics. Since then he has been awarded multiple times, for example The Lenin prize, Lobatjevsky prize, wolf prize in mathematics along with other awards. -
Alan Baker
Alan Baker was a British mathematician, he was known for his work in number theory and transcendent numbers. Baker started of as a student at University College London and was later awarded the fields medal. he specialized in logarithmic forms, Diophantine geometry, Diophantine equations and transcendent numbers.