Mathematics project

Mathematicians and Math History

Mathematician Nationality Time Period Area of Study Discovery

Blaise Pascal French 1623-1662 Geometry Sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles.

Isaac Newton English 1643-1727 Calculus The average slope of curve

Gottfield Wilhelm Leibniz German 1646-1716 Logic Principle of the identity of indiscernible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss German 1777-1855 Geometry The arithmetic-geometric mean

Leonhard Euler Swiss 1707-1783 Analytic number theory Euler-Langrange equation

Florence Nightingale Italian 1820-1910 Statistics Mortality rate

Sofya KovalevskayaRussian 1850-1891 Analytic partial differential equations Cauchy-Kovalevsky theorem.

Pedro NunesPortuguese 1502-1578 Geometry. The shortest twilight duration.

Li ChunfengChinese 602-670 Least common multiple Demonstrated the LCM of the numbers 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,and 12 was 27720

Dudley Weldon Woodward American 1881-1965 Fundamental Mathematics The characterisation of the closed N-cell.