Greatest Mathematicians
IN History
By Mark Clemons
François Viète
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1540-1603
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Was a French nobleman
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He work for King Arthur IV
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He broke the spanish code allowing french to read it
and end the Huguenot War of Religion
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He discover a formula called prosthaphaeresis
He is called the Father of Modern Algebra because
of his use of decimal notation and variable letters
• He was born in fortenay poitou, which is now
called vendee, France
• He died in what is now called the city of
Paris, France
• He decided in 1564 to take a position in a
service that is called the Antoinette
d’Aubeterre.
• In this time it was a period of great political
and religious unrest in France.
• His first work apeared in paris in
1571.
• Even he himself was able to present
methods for solving equations of
second, third, and even to the fourth
degree.
Isaac (Sir) Newton
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1642-1727
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From England
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He got famous from his 3 laws of motion- inertia,
force, and reciprocal action
He is also called the Father of Calculus
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He is also famous for calculus,and optics
• In 1687 he published his first book Principia
Mathematics
• He was depressed because his mother kept pulling
him out of school so he could become a farmer
• He lived with his grand parents at the age of
12 he was reunited with his mother
• He attend a school called Grantham, a town
in Lincolnshire
• After attending the school Cambridge he was
force out of the university in 1655 because of
the great plague that accrued in Cambridge
• Legend has it in 1687 he experience the falling
apple that help him explain gravity pull
• When the plague past Cambridge newton
attend Cambridge in 1667 where he got his
degree in arts
• when newton became try to show his discovers
he made in optic Hooke's question his discovers
and from there on out newton and Hooke would
have a major impact in the world
Emmy Noether
• She was a professor at Erlangen
• She studied many different languages English,
French, and German
• She went to study mathematic at the University of
Erlangen during 1900 to 1902.
• She work on ideal theory producing abstract
theory which help develop ring theory
• Her reputation grew as she progress threw her
work
• She had her first piece of work when she
arrived in Gottingen
• Her work led to formulations to Einstein work
• She helped edit the, Mathematische Annalen
• She was Jewish so her mathematic
accomplishments didn’t matter because the
Nazi took over in 1933
• She is also known as Amalie Noether, Emily
Noether, Amelie Noether
• She was born in Germany
• She came from a very wealth family
• She had a career in teaching French and
English she change her mind later and
became a mathematicians
• She went had to get permistion to attend
two university (Erlangen, and Gottingen)
which wouldn’t let any women attend
classes for credit.
• This change later in 1904
• In 1908 she attend Circolo Matematico di
Palermo
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