MAT - Mathematicians
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Napier | Scottland logarithms primitive calculator |
| Isaac Newton | England Gravity Integral and differential calculus |
| Blaise Pascal | France calculating machine barometer Pascal's triangle |
| Archimedes | Greece pi the lever, the screw areas of planes/solid figures |
| Charles Babbage | England difference engine analytical engine early calculator/computer |
| Pythagoras | Greece irrational numbers prime/composite numbers |
| Bertrand Russel | England formal logic |
| Leonhard Euler | Switzerland differential calculus algebraic notation |
| Pierre de Fermat | France number theory probability theory |
| Hipparchus | Rhodes trigonometry mapping |
| Gottfried Liebnez | Germany calculus symbolic logic |
| Auguste Ferninand Mobius | Switzerland topology Mobius Strip |
| Diophantus | Greece algebra |
| Euclid | Greece Euclidean geometry |
| Rene Descartes | France analytic geometry x and y axes |
| Augusta Ada King Lovelace | England analytical engine |
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