Friday, 26 August 2011

Great Mathematicians

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), an inventor of infinitesimal calculus


















Carl Friedrich Gauss, himself known as the "prince of mathematicians",[37] referred to mathematics as "the Queen of the Sciences".













Leonhard Euler, who created and popularized much of the mathematical notation used today


Greek mathematician Pythagoras (c.570-c.495 BC), commonly credited with discovering the Pythagorean theorem

Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens

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