Directory of Historical Resources

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This category is for early mathematicians that have contributed to the development of the field.

Subcategories

• Euclid
• Thales

Resources in This Category

• Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-190 B.C.)

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Apollonius.html
  known as 'The Great Geometer', great influence on the development of mathematics, famous book Conics introduced terms such as parabola, ellipse and hyperbola.

• Desargues - Girard Desargues (1591-1661)

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Desargues.html
  Founder of projective geometry, his work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.

• Heron of Alexandria (ca. 75 AD)

  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Heron.html
  Greek mathematician who was mainly interested in practical studies in mechanics and engineering, best known for Heron's Formula

• Klein, Felix (1849-1925)

  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/KleinFelix.html
  Plücker's assistant at Bonn who studied Analytic Geometry, describing geometry as the study of properties of figures which remain invariant under a Group of Transformations. He systemized Non-Euclidean Geometry.

• Monge, Gaspard - Conte de Péluse (1746-1818)

  http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Monge.html
  The father of differential geometry, he devised a system called Geometrie descriptive, now known as orthographic projection, the graphical method used in modern mechanical drawing.

• Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard (1826-1866)

  http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Riemann.html
  Theory of functions, non-Euclidian geometry, relativity theory, Famous for the Riemann hypothesis about the behavior of zeros of the Riemann zeta function, which he showed determines the distribution of prime numbers.

• Steiner, Jakob (1796-1863)

  http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Steiner.html
  Was one of the greatest contributors to projective geometry.

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