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Gottfiend Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
He was responsible for the discovery of differential and integral calculus, dynamics, binary language. Many of his ideas and contributions had great development in the 20th century, as they became known. -
Caspar Wessel (1745 - 1818)
Wessel was the first to identify a complex number with a point in the plane, so that the real part and the imaginary part of the complex number, respectively, are identified with the Cartesian coordinates of the point. Wessel is also considered the first to add two vectors. -
Jean Robet Argand (1768 - 1822)
He was a Swiss accountant and mathematician who described the geometric representation of complex numbers in 1806, creating what is known as the Argand plane. -
William Rowan Hamilton (1805 - 1855)
was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, who made important contributions to the development of optics, dynamics, and algebra, and adds the vector product born with the discovery of quaternions. -
William Thomson (1824 - 1907)
The famous Stokes's theorem, which we have all come across in vector calculus, was stated by Thomson in a letter to his friend Stokes, who later extracted it to formulate one of the problems in the examination of the 1854 edition. of the Smith Prize at Cambridge. -
Peter Guthier Tait (1831 - 1901)
Tait's importance for the history of vector analysis can be seen in four ways. He was the leader in the knowledge of the quaternion system. He developed quaternion analysis as a tool for research in the physical sciences, and created many new theorems in quaternion analysis that could be translated into modern vector analysis. -
James Clark Maxwell (1831 - 1879)
He introduced the concept of the electromagnetic wave and formulated the famous equations that bear his name. Maxwell's four equations show the interaction between electricity and magnetism: they describe and quantify the force fields. -
Charles Sander Peirce (1839 - 1914)
I axiomatize the propositional calculus that distinguishes implication from deducibility and relates them by means of a deduction theorem; anticipation implicative calculations
weak and trivalent logics; He proposed a homogeneous notation for all classical binary connectives and studied the connectives between them.
complete; developed the calculus of predicates, the theory of quantifiers and normal forms. -
Josiah Willard Gibss (1839 - 1903)
He applied his vector methods to determine the orbits of the planets and comets . He introduced the notion of "triad", the dual magnitude of vectors, a notion of great importance for crystallography. -
Gauss Jordan (1842 - 1899)
He is remembered among mathematicians for his Gauss-Jordan elimination algorithm which he applied to solve the least squares problem. This algebraic technique appeared in his Handbuch der Vermessungskunde.