Mathematicians and their Contributions:

1. Archimedes- famous Greek physicist and mathematician who devised the use of
method of exhaustion. He is the first to attempt in finding the value of pi and known
to his books about spheres. In physics, he was known for his Archimedes' screw and
Archimedes' principle.

2. Pythagoras- known for his theorem that in a right triangle, the length of the square
of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of its squares of its legs (Pythagorean theorem)
and he is one who introduced the numerology, a type of horoscope according to
numbers.

3. Apollonius of Perga- he is famous on his studies on conic sections.

4. Thales of Miletus- Greek philosopher who proved that the triangle inscribed in a
semicircle is a right triangle.

5. Eratosthenes- famous in calculating Earth's circumference through shadows and

6. Diophantus- regarded as the Father of Algebra and wrote the book Arithmetica, an
essential book for algebra. He was known for his equations that bear on his name.

7. Babylonians- first to introduced the first numeral system existed throughout the
history.

8. Hipparchus- known as one who devised the trigonometric tables using the chords
of the circle.

9. Cladius Ptolemy- geographer and mathematician known for his geocentric model
and known for his theorem on the diagonals of a cyclical quadrilateral.
10. Euclid- famous author of The Elements which paved way in studying plane
geometry.
11. Nicole Oresme- he is known in introducing the plus sign (+).

12. Rene Descartes- French philosopher and mathematician known in introducing the
coordinate system which became the basis of analytic geometry. Known also for his
modern symbols in radical with vinculum (a bar found at the top) and theories about
polynomial function.
13. Christoff Rudolf- the first to introduce the radical sign.

14. Leonardo Fibonacci- known to his sequence 1,1, 2,3,5..... which is known as
Fibonacci sequence.
15. Al-Khwarizmi- an Arab mathematician who contributes greatly in Algebra
especially law of exponents.

16. John Wallis- known for his definite integrals involving trigonometric derivatives.

17. Nikolai Lobachevsky and Janos Bolyai- they are the founders of hyperbolic
geometry, a type of non-Euclidean geometry.

18. Benoit Mandelbrot- known for his introduction of fractals, a geometric figure
that exhibits self similarity.

19. Pappus- known for his theorem on solid of revolutions.

20. Neils Henrik Abel- known for his Abellian group that is use in number theory.

21. Gabriel Cramer- devised the method of solving linear equations through
determinants.

22. Johannes Kepler- a physicist and mathematician and student of Tycho Brahe
who devised the three planetary laws and concluded that the orbit of the planets are
elliptical.
23. Isaac Newton- one of the founders of calculus who devised the method of
fluxions and fluents.

24. Guillaume de L'Hospital- known for his special rule for limits that states that the
limit of f(x)/g(x) as x approaches to the certain value is equal to the quotient of the
value substituted on the partial derivative of f(x) and g(x) provided that f(x)/g(x) is
indeterminate.

25. David Hilbert- known for his Hilbert's problem that composes of difficult math
problems that cannot be solve.

27. Blaise Pascal- inventor of Pascalline and introduced a special triangle for finding
the coefficients of a binomial expansion.

28. Gino Fano- known for his introduction of Fano plane, a projective plane having 7
points and 7 lines.

29. Georg Cantor- he introduced the set theory and some symbols for set theory.

30. Guissepi Peano- one who introduced the symbols for union, intersection,
universal and subset.

31. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz- one of the founders of calculus with Isaac
Newton who introduce the Leibniz rule and modern symbol for integration, the
elongated S.

33. Leonhard Euler- blind mathematician known for his Euler's number (e) and
modern symbols for differentiation. He also attempted to find the value of pi and
devised the formula for the Platonic solids.

34. Georg Friedrich Riemann- known for his introduction of elliptical geometry.

35. Albert Einstein- famous German-American physicist who was known for his
E=mc^2.
36. Carl Friedrich Gauss- the Princeps Mathematicorum who introduced the normal
distribution, the congruence symbol or modulus in number theory, a method of
finding the echelon of a matrix and first to devised a formula in finding the sums of a
given sequence.

37. William Rowan Hamilton- known for his discovery and introduction of
quaternions, a type of normed division algebra that involves distinct imaginary parts
and known as space complex numbers.

38. Arabs- one who contribute mostly in the field of Mathematics during Medieval
Ages and one who spread the modern numeral system.

39. John Napier- famous for his introduction of logarithms.

40. Henry Briggs- known for his Brigssian logarithm, a type of logarithm having a
base of 10.

41. William Oughtred- inventor of slide rule and introduce the multiplication
symbol.

42. Aristotle- the Father of Logic.

43. Capt. John Huddart- inventor of protractor, an instrument in measuring angles.

44. Lorentz- introduced the Lorentz factor and Lorentz butterfly which serves as one
of the models of chaos theory.

45. Albert De Moivre- devised the formula for polar coordinates and complex
numbers.

6. Pierre de Fermat- known for his theorem that x^n+y^n=z^n has no positive
solutions if n is greater or equal to 3.
47. Marin Mersenne- known for his formula for finding prime which is 2^n-1 where
n is a prime number.
48. Jacob Bernoulli- the mathematician and also physicist who introduced the e
symbol.

49. Robert Recorde- introduce the equal sign.

50. August Cauchy- famous for his studies in number theory and also compositional
algebra who was famous in octonions, a type of normed division algebra that contain
an e variable.

51. Menelaus of Alexandria - the Greek mathematician who introduced the spherical
trigonometry.

52. Maria Gaetana Agnesi- first woman professor in Math who was known to
her polar curve: the Witch of Agnesi.

53. Gottfried Achenwall - regarded as Father of Statistics.

54. Karl Pearson - regarded as Father of Mathematical Statistics

55. Pierre Wantzel - proved the doubling the cube which is one of the classical
mathematical problem.

56. Bhaskara II - known to his division rule of fractions and the algebra rule 1/0=
indeterminate.
57. Sun Tzu - known for his introduction of Chinese remainder theorem.

58. Nicolas Chuquet- first to introduce the superscript as exponent of a number.

59. Bonaventura Cavalieri - devised the method of infinitesimals.

60. Girard Desargues - founder of projective geometry.