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http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html
» University of St. Andrews: Biography Index Open in a new browser windowEditor's Pick
   Names are listed alphabetically or by date, from 1680 BC to the present.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/BiogIndex.html


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http://www.robertnowlan.com/
» A Chonicle of Mathematical People Open in a new browser window
   Robert A. Nowlan provides short biographical sketches of mathematicians from many diverse fields.
   http://www.robertnowlan.com/
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Abel.html
» Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) Open in a new browser window
   Norwegian mathematician. Worked on elliptic functions and integrals, algebraic solution of equations and solubility by radicals.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Abel.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thabit.html
» Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani Open in a new browser window
   Gives information on background and contributions to non-euclidean geometry, spherical trigonometry, number theory and the field of statics. Was an important translator of Greek materials, including Euclid's Elements, during the Middle Ages.
   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thabit.html
http://kolmogorov.com/Kolmogorov.html
» Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987) Open in a new browser window
   The most prominent twentieth-century mathematician.
   http://kolmogorov.com/Kolmogorov.html
http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
» Archimedes Open in a new browser window
   Provides a biography and cultural background, as well as details about his discoveries. Page includes photos and a timeline.
   http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
» Archimedes Palimpsest Open in a new browser window
   Provides information on a project at the Walters Art Museum to study and conserve the ancient texts in this 13th century book.
   http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html
» Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782) Open in a new browser window
   Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_bessel.html
» Bessel - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) Open in a new browser window
   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 mathematical functions involved, which now bear his name.
   http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_bessel.html
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
» Biographies of Women Mathematicians Open in a new browser window
   On-going project by students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, in Atlanta, Georgia.
   http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03457a.htm
» Cauchy - Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) Open in a new browser window
   (Catholic Encyclopedia) Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.
   http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03457a.htm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cauchy.html
» Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857) Open in a new browser window
   Cauchy contributed to almost every branch of mathematics. He is probably best known for his important contributions to real and complex analysis.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cauchy.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html
» Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894) Open in a new browser window
   Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cramer.html
» Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752) Open in a new browser window
   Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cramer.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Diophantus.html
» Diophantus of Alexandria (c. 200-284 ) Open in a new browser window
   Best known for his Arithmetica, a work on the theory of numbers, a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Diophantus.html
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirichlet.html
» Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859) Open in a new browser window
   Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a function.
   http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirichlet.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eratosthenes.html
» Eratosthenes of Cyrene Open in a new browser window
   Biography of the mathematician, geographer and astronomer born 276 BC in Cyrene, North Africa. From The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eratosthenes.html
http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html
» Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276-194 BC) Open in a new browser window
   Discusses this early Grecian's discoveries in finding a good approximation of the circumference of the earth, the tilt angle of our planet and a tool for finding prime numbers. Page includes biographical information.
   http://www.eranet.gr/eratosthenes/html/eoc.html
http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html
» Eratosthenes: The Measurement of the Earth's Circumference Open in a new browser window
   Gives information about the techniques and computations used by this ancient mathematician to find the circumference of the earth. Includes sample sketch and reconstructed map of the world.
   http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
» Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) Open in a new browser window
   From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
» Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) Open in a new browser window
   His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series.
   http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html
http://www.fibonacci-mathematics.de/
» Fibonacci Mathematics by Dr. Peter Reimers Open in a new browser window
   Describes the rabbit problem and the Fibonacci sequence and some generalized rules.
   http://www.fibonacci-mathematics.de/
http://www.galois-group.net/
» Galois - The Evariste Galois Archive Open in a new browser window
   Includes personal biography, explanation of his theory and related links.
   http://www.galois-group.net/
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html
» Galois, Evariste Open in a new browser window
   Biography in the St Andres archive.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html
» Galois, Évariste (1811-1832) Open in a new browser window
   Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many long-standing unanswered questions.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galois.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html
» Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855) Open in a new browser window
   One of the all-time greats, Gauss began to show his mathematical brilliance at the early age of seven. He is usually credited with the first proof of The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Gauss.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grassmann.html
» Hermann Gunter Grassmann Open in a new browser window
   Provides biographical details of this German mathematician who lived from 1809 to 1877, the inventor of what is now called exterior algebra.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grassmann.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html
» History of Mathematics Open in a new browser window
   Online texts of historic mathematical people, including Hamilton, Riemann, Newton, Boole, and Cantor. Also, has biographical backgrounds for key figures during the 17th and 18th centuries.
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/HistMath.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Gauss.html
» Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Open in a new browser window
   Article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson giving biographical details of the great mathematician, with a number of photographs.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Gauss.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dedekind.html
» Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind Open in a new browser window
   Provides biographical details of this German mathematician who lived from 1831 to 1916.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dedekind.html
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/KOLMOGOROV.BIOGRAPHY.html
» Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolaevich (1903-1987) Open in a new browser window
   Worked on trigonometric series, set theory, integration analysis, constructive logic, topology, approximation methods, probability, statistics, random processes, information theory, dynamical systems, algorithms, celestial mechanics, Hilbert's 13th proble
   http://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/KOLMOGOROV.BIOGRAPHY.html
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lambert/RouseBall/RB_Lambert.html
» Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777) Open in a new browser window
   In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lambert/RouseBall/RB_Lambert.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html
» Oughtred, William (1574-1660) Open in a new browser window
   Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/
» Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880) Open in a new browser window
   Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh.
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pell.html
» Pell, John (1611-1685) Open in a new browser window
   Worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up to 100000 in 1668. Pell's equation is y^2 = ax^2 + 1, where a is a non-square integer.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pell.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
» Plato (427-347 B.C.) Open in a new browser window
   "... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schmidt.html
» Schmidt, Erhard (1876-1959) Open in a new browser window
   Main research was functional analysis, doctorate was obtained under Hilbert's supervision, main interest was in integral equations and Hilbert space, best remembered for the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schmidt.html
http://www.sheynin.de/
» Sheynin, Oscar Open in a new browser window
   Freelance researcher specializes in the history of probability, statistics and error theory. Page includes list of publications and outside reviews.
   http://www.sheynin.de/
http://www.gauss.info
» Shortest path to Gauss Open in a new browser window
   This site is the quickest access to information about C.F.Gauss, although reduced to a single page.
   http://www.gauss.info
http://www.fermentmagazine.org/home5.html
» The Grothendieck Biography Project Open in a new browser window
   Links relating to Alexandre Groethendieck.
   http://www.fermentmagazine.org/home5.html
http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/
» The Grothendieck Circle Open in a new browser window
   Aims to make publicly available materials written by and about Alexandre Grothendieck. Made contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis. Page includes list of mathematical,biographical publications and some portrait ph
   http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~leila/grothendieckcircle/
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/
» The History of Mathematics Open in a new browser window
   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
   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/
http://www.archive.org/details/worksofarchimede029517mbp
» The Works of Archimedes Open in a new browser window
   Provides the full text of this book translated by T. L. Heath.
   http://www.archive.org/details/worksofarchimede029517mbp
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zermelo.html
» Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953) Open in a new browser window
   Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zermelo.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html
» d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) Open in a new browser window
   Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html

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