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Biographies of Mathematicians

Many mathematicians have had an incredible impact in the development of mathematics. Sometimes it is difficult for students to see that mathematicians have developed the theory over the years; some think that mathematics just always "has been". These biographies will help them to shed some light on where math was and how it got to be where it is today.

Archimedes

Jakob Bernoulli

Johann Bernoulli

Augustin Louis Cauchy

René Descartes

Albert Einstein

Leonard Euler

Pierre de Fermat

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Carl Frederich Gauss

Sophie Germain

Hypatia

Godfrey Harold Hardy

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Joseph Louis Lagrange

John Napier

Sir Isaac Newton

Blaise Pascal

Pythagoras

Emile Picard

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Last updated April 20, 2000 by Annamae Lang and Nancy Yan