When you hear the word mathematician, your mind probably jumps to the usual suspects. People like Isaac Newton, Archimedes, and Pythagoras were great mathematicians and did great things for the art in their own respects, but they were not the only people to expand the medium. Many mathematicians helped to give us an idea of the world we live in, and to say one was better than the other is nonsense. While all mathematicians have contributed to the art, one of the greatest contributors came from Switzerland.
Leonhard Euler was born in 1707 in Basel, Switzerland to his mother Marguerite Brucker, the daughter of a pastor, and his father Paul Euler, who was a pastor of the Reformed Church and a good friend of Johann Bernoulli. Bernoulli, at the time, was considered one of the finest mathematicians in the whole continent of Europe, and being the good friend he was of the Eulers, he helped Leonhard with math on the weekends. After just a few lessons, Bernoulli saw Euler’s potential and told his father. Paul had planned for Leonhard to become a pastor just like him, but when he saw that his son had excellent potential in the mathematics field, he complied to give up his plan for his son.
Leonhard looked to the University of Basel to further his curiosity and motivation to learn, but was turned down from the school. He also tried to attain a physicist job at another place, but was turned down from that as well. After this, Euler moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to take up the physiology division left empty due to the death of Johann’s son Nicholas. The school was aptly named St. Petersburg Academy, and it was where Euler learned a lot about humans. He chose to study the human voice, some aspects of music, light and vision.
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...the math world. Notations (using letters for constants and variables, replacing pi with the symbol π, and the idea of f(x)) were a great invention and they are present in almost every aspect of algebra and geometry, and he also helped to set the groundwork for many branches off the math tree, such as topology, graph theory, infitesimal calculus, and quadratic reciprocity, along with many others. He expanded the concepts of math, created new routes for the medium to go down, and introduced many theorems and ideas to mathematics. Overall, Leonhard Euler was one of the most influential and successful mathematicians that the world had ever seen. His prolific advancements in both math and science have changed the world drastically and have helped to expand upon our current knowledge, so in other words, it’s because of his learnings and works that we can learn even more.
...acknowledged as the greatest women mathematician of the 1900’s, even though she had to go through many obstacles and chauvinism. She was the first women to be accepted into a major college. She proved many of the stereotypes that women were considered to be erroneous, which in the long run also made her a famous person. She was the one who discovered the associative law, commutative law, and the distributive law. These are the Laws that make the basics for Algebra, Geometry, and Basic math. All together she has unquestionably earned the title as the most famous woman mathematician of the 1900’s.
Euler was one of the mathematical giants of the 18th Century. Leonard Euler (1707-1783) was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was a Lutheran minister and wanted him to follow his path. Euler’s interest was different however, he was a natural mathematician. Johann Bernoulli helped Euler pursue his path by convincing his father of his mathematical abilities. Bernoulli became Euler’s teacher at the St. Petersburg Academy of Science. Euler’s personal life was more on the tragic side. He married and had 13 children, but only 5 survived their infancy. It is said that Euler made some of his greatest discoveries while holding his baby
...nd a functional equeation for the zeta function. The main pupose of the equation was to give estimates for the number prime less than a given number. Many of his gathered results were later proven by Hadamard and Vallee Poussin. Riemann’s work affects our world today because he gave the foundation to geometry and when other mathmaticians tried to prove his theory they accidentally made other profound and significant contributions to math. Bernhard Riemann’s most influential assistors were his professors among them Gauss, Weber, Listing and Dirichlet. Perhaps of the four Gauss and Dirichlet had the most influence upon him, Gauss guided him as a mentor and Dirichlet’s work gave him the principle that his work was based on. Immortal are those who are forever remembered throughout history Bernhard Riemann past away in July 20, 1866 at the age of thirty-nine.
Joseph Eichler, born in 1900, was a post-war American real estate architect who developed residential housing of Mid-20th century modern style tract housing throughout the state of California. To this day, Eichler is known for creating these custom modernist houses and influencing other developers. His work is seen throughout many homes, along with, larger corporate buildings, across the state. Most of his own work was built in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the metropolitan area of Los Angeles.
According to Merriam-Webster a Mathematician is a individual who is highly skilled and very knowable in the field of math. Mathematicians analyze data, study patterns and develop mathematical models, and are utilized for solving problems in many other fields. The researchers work through problems with the exclusive motive of furthering human knowledge and contributing to theory formation. Emmy Norther was born in in Bavaria, Germany on March 23,1882. Her real name was Amalie but everyone called her Emmy. She was the oldest of four children and two of the four that survived. Her Father and brother were both mathematicians. (Taylor) Emmy contributions to math were to the field of Physics and algebra. The tree most intriguing things on Emmy is the barriers she had to go though being a woman and her contributions to physics and algebra.
It is interesting that despite the fame he achieved because of his mechanical inventions, he believed that pure mathematics was the more worthwhile pursuit. Plutarch describes his attitude:
Nicolas Copernicus died never knowing what a revolution he made in the scientific world. Mathematicians and scientist like Ptolemy, Newton, and Brahe supported his heliocentric theory. He was born in Poland on February 19th, 1473 the baby of four children. His father was Nicholas Copernicus Sr. died in 1483 when Copernicus was at the young age of ten. He and his sibling went to live with his Uncle Lucas Waltzenrode the bishop of Warmia in Germany. His family’s exceptional wealth allowed him to attend some of the finest schools in Europe. After attending Cracow for mathematics he went to Italy to study canon law. Under the influence of his uncle he become a canon, which is just below a bishop. In Italy he made his first astronomical observation one night with a friend who was a professor of astronomy. Copernicus explored many occupations: a canon, mathematician, and the one he is most known for astronomer.
...st important scientists in history. It is said that they both shaped the sciences and mathematics that we use and study today. Euclid’s postulates and Archimedes’ calculus are both important fundamentals and tools in mathematics, while discoveries, such Archimedes’ method of using water to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object, helped shaped all of today’s physics and scientific principles. It is for these reasons that they are remembered for their contributions to the world of mathematics and sciences today, and will continue to be remembered for years to come.
No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
However, his greatest contribution to mathematics is considered to be logic, for without logic there would be no reasoning and therefore no true valid rules to the science of mathematics.
There have been many great mathematicians in the world, though many are not well known. People have been studying math for ages, the oldest mathematical object dated all the way back to around 35,000 BC. There are still mathematicians today, studying math and figuring out ways to improve the mathematical world. Some of the most well-known mathematicians include Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Aristotle. These mathematicians (and many more) have influenced the mathematical world and mathematics would not be where it is today without them. There were many great individuals who contributed greatly in mathematics but there was one family with eight great mathematicians who were very influential in mathematics. This was the Bernoulli family. The Bernoulli family contributed a lot to mathematics, medicine, physics, and other areas. Even though they were great mathematicians, there was also hatred and jealousy between many of them. These men did not want their brothers or sons outdoing them in mathematics. Most Bernoulli fathers told their sons not to study mathematics even if they wanted. They were told to study medicine, business, or law, instead, though most of them found a way to study mathematics. The mathematicians in this family include Jacob, Johann, Daniel, Nicolaus I, Nicolaus II, Johann II, Johann III, and Jacob II Bernoulli.
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest mathematicians to ever live, which is displayed in all of his inventions. His main pursuit through mathematics was to better the understanding and exploration of the world. He preferred drawing geographical shapes to calculate equations and create his inventions, which enlisted his very profound artistic ability to articulate his blueprints. Leonardo Da Vinci believed that math is used to produce an outcome and thus Da Vinci thought that through his drawings he could execute his studies of proportional and spatial awareness demonstrated in his engineering designs and inventions.
Carl Friedrich Gauss is revered as a very important man in the world of mathematicians. The discoveries he completed while he was alive contributed to many areas of mathematics like geometry, statistics, number theory, statistics, and more. Gauss was an extremely brilliant mathematician and that is precisely why he is remembered all through today. Although Gauss left many contributions in each of the aforementioned fields, two of his discoveries in the fields of mathematics and astronomy seem to have had the most tremendous effect on modern day mathematics.
Burton, D. (2011). The History of Mathematics: An Introduction. (Seventh Ed.) New York, NY. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The 17th Century saw Napier, Briggs and others greatly extend the power of mathematics as a calculator science with his discovery of logarithms. Cavalieri made progress towards the calculus with his infinitesimal methods and Descartes added the power of algebraic methods to geometry. Euclid, who lived around 300 BC in Alexandria, first stated his five postulates in his book The Elements that forms the base for all of his later Abu Abd-Allah ibn Musa al’Khwarizmi, was born abo...