FAMOUS MATHEMATICIANS

Throughout history, there are many mathematicians that came up with many useful techniques of solving mathematics. Here are some mathematicians that you may or may not have heard of.

1. Johannes Kepler

A German mathematician that has published the first description of the hexagonal symmetry of a snowflake in a pamplet called Strena Seu de Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift of Hexagonal Snow). He is also a famous astrologer and astronomer that is best known for his laws of planetary motion.



2. Alan Turing














A British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. He is famous for developing the method to solve the Enigma which is a form of secret messaging in the form of a code.



3. Aryabhata

















One of the first Mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian Astronomy. He was determined to find out the approximate value of pi ().And so he wrote: "Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a 
diameter of 20,000 can be approached." 




4. Ada Lovelace

She is one of the few English, female mathematicians known to this day. She is famously known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. She wrote the first algorithm to be used on a machine. Therefore, she is also known as the first computer programmer in all of history.



5. Ptolemy


















He is a Greco-Egyptian mathematician, astrologer, astronomer, geographer and poet. He wrote an influential work called Harmonics on music theory and the mathematics of music. He wrote about how musical notes could be translated into mathematical equations and vice versa. 




6. Thales

Thales of Milates was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher as well as a mathematician. He was the one that came up with the Thales' Theorem. This theorem is currently learnt by the Form 3 students in Malaysia and is known to them as one of the laws of circles which is the law: The angle at a semicircle is always 90 degrees. 

7. Blaise Pascal

He was a French Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and philospher that was regarded as a child prodigy. He came up with what is now known as the Pascal's Triangle where two of the numbers above add up to the number at the bottom.

Pascal's Triangle

8. Euclid of Alexandria












He was a Greek mathematician that is also referred to as the Father of Geometry. He wrote the book Elements and it served as a mathematics textbook(especially geometry) in the 19th and early 20th century.


9. Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and astronomer. He is generally considered the greatest of antiquity of all time. He invented a method for determining the volume of an irregular shape known as the Archimedes' Principle. He also invented the Archimedes' Screw that was used to irrigate the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

10. Leonhard Euler

A pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries is the fields of infinitesimal calculus, graph theory and also introduced most of the mathematical terminology and notation. Euler is also considered one of the greatest mathematicians that have ever lived.


11. Fibonacci

Fibonacci was an Italian mathematician. He popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe through Liber Abaci(Book of Calculation). He came up with the Fibonacci sequence where the two numbers add up to the number in front i.e. 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21-34-55...(and so on)