History of Maths

[gardenbirds]

Socrates: 450 - 399 BC
Plato: ~ 424 - 348
Aristotle: 384 - 322 BC

Evariste Galois: 1812 - 1832
Pierre de Fermat: 1601 - 1665
Rene Descartes: 1596 - 1660
Gottfried Leibniz: 1646 - 1716
Euler: 1707 - 1777
Apollonius - C3/2nd BC
Al Khwarizmi: C9th
Omar Khayyam: 1050 - 1123

Okay, so I should be able to learn all these by tomorrow, but these?

The Pythagoreans

Comments

[gardenbirds]

I didn't really know he was a poet as well as a Mathematician either! I'd really like to read Al Rubayat (sp).

Most of his maths-stuff was in Algebra, and he was pretty damn good at it. The idea of European culture has so much to owe to muslim scholars in the 9-12 centuries it's not even funny.

[gardenbirds]

9th-12th AD