Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846)
Catalogued stars, predicted a planet beyond Uranus as well as the existence of dark stars, investigated Johann Kepler's problem of heliocentricity, and systematized the mathematica…
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
On-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857)
(Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
Fibonacci Mathematics by Dr. Peter Reimers
Describes the rabbit problem and the Fibonacci sequence and some generalized rules.
Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive
Includes personal biography, explanation of his theory and related links.
Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?, Works Cited List
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987)
Worked on trigonometric series, set theory, integration analysis, constructive logic, topology, approximation methods, probability, statistics, random processes, information theory…
Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh.
The History of Mathematics
Collection of original papers of Berkeley, Hamilton, Riemann, Boole, Cantor, and Newton. Includes background and notes. Maintained by David R. Wilkins from Trinity College, Dublin
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