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Chronological List of Names V. Katz, A History of Mathematics (3e éd.) CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF NAMES A'h-mose Hypatia Abraham ibn Ezra Scipione dei Ferro Marin Mersenne (seventeenth century BCE) (355-415) (1090-1167) (1465-1526) (1588-1648) Thales Proclus Hugh of St. Victor Albrecht Dürer Girard Desargues (624-547 BCE) (410-485) (1096-1141) (1471-1528) (1591-1661 ) Pythagoras Zhang Quijian Robert of Chester Nicolaus Copernicus Wilhelm Schickard (572-497 BCE) (Iifth century) (twelfth century) (1473-1543) (1592-1635) Hippocrates of Chios Zu Chongzhi Bhâskara Il Christoff Rudolff Albert Girard (470-410 BCE) (Iilth century) (1114-1185) (sixteenth century) (1595-1632) Zeno of Elea Aryabha!a Gerard of Cremona Michael Stifel René Descartes (Iilth century BCE) (Iilth century) (1114-1187) (1487-1567) (1596-1650) Archytas Boethius Ibn Ya~ya al-Samaw'al Johann Scheubel Bonaventura Cavalieri (Iilth century BCE) (480-524) (1125-1174) (1494-1570) (1598-1647) Democritus Zu Geng Jabir ibn Aflah Niccolà Tartaglia Pierre de Fermat (Iifth century BCE) (sixth century) (twelfth century) (1499-1557) (1601-1665) Plato Varahamihira Sharaf al-DTn al-TüsT Annibale della Nave Florimond Debeaune (429-347 BCE) (sixth century) (twellth century) . (1500-1558) (1601-1652) Theaetetus Isidore 01 Seville Leonardo of Pisa Gerolamo Cardano Gilles Persone de Roberval (417-369 BCE) (560-636) (1170-1240) (1501-1576) (1602-1675) Eudoxus Bhaskara 1 Li Ye Pedro Nunes Evangelista Torricelli (408-355 BCE) (seventh century) (1192-1279) (1502-1578) (1608-1647) Aristotle Brahmagupta Ahmad ibn Mun'im Federigo Commandino Frans van Schooten (384-322 BCE) (seventh century) (Îhirteenth century) (1509-1575) (1615-1660) Menaechmus Alcuin of York NasTr al-DTn al-TüsT Robert Recorde Henry Oldenburg (Iourth century BCE) (735-804) (1201-1274) . (1510-1558) (1615-1677) Aristaeus Muhammad al-KhwarizmT Qin Jiushao Gerard Mercator John Wallis (Iourth century BCE) (780-850) (1202-1261) (1512-1594) (1616-1703) Autolycus 'Abd al-HamTd ibn Turk Jordanus de Nemore George Joachim Rheticus Alfonso Antonio de Sarasa (Iourth century BCE) (ninth century) (thirteenth century) (1514-1574) (1618-1667) Euclid MahavTra Wilhelm of Moerbeke Lodovico Ferrari Nicolaus Mercator (Iourth century BCE) (ninth century) (1225-1286) (1522-1565) (1620-1687) Aristarchus Thâbit ibn Qurra Kamal al-DTn al-FarisT Rafael Bombelli René François de Sluse (310-230 BCE) (836-901) (thirteenth century) (1526-1572) (1622-1685) Archimedes Abü Kamil ibn Aslam Yang Hui John Dee Vincenzo Viviani (287-212 BCE) (850-930) (thirteenth century) (1527-1608) (1622-1703) Chrysippus Abü 'Abdallah ai-BattanT Zhu Shijie Jyesthadeva Jan de Witt (280-206 BCE) (855-929) (thirteenth century) (1530-1610) (1623-1672) Nicomedes Shabbetai Donnolo Ahmad ibn al-Banna François Viète Blaise Pascal (third century BCE) (913-970) (1256-1321) (1540-1603) (1623-1662) Eratosthenes Abü Sahl al-KühT Levi ben Gerson Tycho Brahe Johann Hudde (276-194 BCE) (tenth century) (1288-1344) (1546-1601) (1628-1704) Apollonius Abu l'f:iasan al-UqlTdTsT Richard of Wallingford Simon Stevin Christian Huygens (250-175 BCE) (tenth century) (1291-1336) (1548-1620) (1629-1695) Hipparchus of Bithynia Muhammad Abü al-Wata Thomas Bradwardine John Napier Isaac Barrow (190-120 BCE) (940-997) (1295-1349) (1550-1617) (1630-1677) Diocles Gerbert d'Aurillac William Heytesbury Matteo Ricci Henrick van Heuraet (second century BCE) (945-1003) (fourteenth century) (1552-1610) (1634-1660) Vitruvius Abü 'Ali ibn al-Haytham Nicole Oresme Jobst Bürgi James Gregory (Iirst century BCE) (965-1039) (1320-1382) (1552-1632) (1638-1675) Abü Nasr Mansür Maestro Dardi of Pisa Thomas Harriot Isaac Newton Heron (tenth century) . (fourteenth century) (1560-1621) (1642-1727) (Iirst century) Muhammad al-BTrünT Madhava Thomas Finck Seki Takakazu Nicomachus (973-1055) (1340-1425) (1561-1656) (1642-1708) (Iirst century) Muhammad ibn Mu'adh al- Antonio de' Mazzinghi Bartholomew Pitiscus Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Marinus 01 Tyre JayyanT (1353-1383) (1561-1613) (1646-1716) (Iirst century) (989-1080) Filippo Brunelleschi Edward Wright Jakob Bernoulli Menelaus Abü Bakr al-KarajT (1377-1446) (1561-1615) (1654-1705) (second century) (eleventh centu~) Leon Battista Alberti Henry Briggs Edmond Halley Claudius Ptolemy Ibn al-Baghdadi (1404-1472) (1561-1631) (1656-1741) (100-178) (eleventh century) Ghiyath al-Dn al-KashT Xu Guangqi Guillaume François l'Hospital Diophantus Jia Xian (Iilteenth century) (1562-1633) (1661-1704) (third century) (eleventh century) Piero della Francesca Galileo Galilei Johann Bernoulli Liu Hui 'Umar al-KhayyamT (1420-1492) (1564-1642) (1667-1748) (third century) (1048-1131) Nicolas Chuquet Johannes Kepler Girolamo Saccheri Zhao Shuang Adelard of Bath (1430-1487) (1571-1630) (1667-1733) (third century) (1075-1164) Johannes Müller William Oughtred Abraham De Moivre Sun Zi John of Seville (Regiomontanus) (1573-1660) (1667-1754) (third century) (twellth century) (1436-1476) Johann Faulhaber Humphry Ditton Pappus Abraham bar f:iiyya Luca Pacioli (1580-1635) (1675-1715) (Iourth century) (twelfth century) (1445-1517) Gregory of St. Vincent Charles Hayes Theon of Alexandria Plato of Tivoli Kerala Gargya Nllaka(l!ha (1584-1667) (1678-1760) (Iourth century) (twelfth century) (1445-1545) (Al! dates are CE unless marked atherwise; mast dates befare the seventeenth century are approximate.) Jacob Hermann Jean-Victor Poncelet Francis Galton Frank N. Cole Richard Brauer (1678-1733) (1788-1867) (1822-1911) (1861-1927) (1901-1977) Roger Cotes Augustin-Louis Cauchy Leopold Kronecker Kurt Hensel Abraham Wald (1682-1716) (1789-1857) (1823-1891 ) (1861-1941) (1902-1950) Brook Taylor George Peacock Enrico Betti David Hilbert John von Neumann (1685-1731) (1791-1858) (1823-1892) (1862-1943) (1903-1957) George Berkeley Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky Ferdinand Gotthold Eisenstein Eliakim H. Moore B. L. van der Waerden (1685-1753) (1792-1856) (1823-1852) (1862-1932) (1903-1996) Nicolaus Bernoulli Charles Babbage Henry J. S. Smith George A. Miller Heinrich Heesch (1687-1759) (1792-1871) (1826-1883) (1863-1951) (1906-1995) Colin Maclaurin Michel Chasles Georg Bernhard Riemann William Young Kurt Gëdel (1698-1746) (1793-1880) (1826-1866) (1863-1942) (1906-1978) Daniel Bernoulli George Green Richard Dedekind Felix Hausdorff Max Zorn (1700-1782) (1793-1841) (1831-1916) (1868-1942) (1906-1993) Isaac Greenwood Franz Taurinus James Clerk Maxwell Grace Chisholm Young Claude Chevalley (1702-1745) (1794-1874) (1831-1879) (1868-1944) (1909-1984) Thomas Bayes Gabriel Lamé Peter Guthrie Tait Elie Cartan Saunders MacLane (1702-1761 ) (1795-1870) (1831-1901) (1869-1951 ) (1909-2005) Gabriel Cramer Adolphe Quetelet Ludvig Sylow George Udny Yule Garrett Birkhoff (1704-1752) (1796-1874) (1832-1918) (1871-1951) (1911-1996) Leonhard Euler Christian von Staudt Charles Dodgson Ernst Zermelo Leonid V. Kantorovich (1707-1783) (1798-1867) (1832-1898) (1871-1953) (1912-1986) Thomas Simpson Mikhail Ostrogradsky Eugenio Beltrami Ernst Steinitz Alan Turing (1710-1761) (1801-1861) (1835-1900) (1871-1928) (1912-1954) Roger Boscovich Julius Plücker Emile Mathieu Emile Borel Samuel Eilenberg (1711-1787) (1801-1868) (1835-1890) (1871-1956) (1913-1998) Alexis-Claude Clairaut Janos Bolyai Camille Jordan Bertrand Russell George Dantzig (1713-1765) (1802-1860) (1838-1922) (1872-1970) (1914-2005) John Winthrop Niels Henrik Abel Hermann Hankel Leonard Eugene Dickson Claude Shannon (1714-1779) (1802-1829) (1839-1873) (1874-1954) (1916-2001) Jean Le Rond d'Alembert William Rowan Hamilton Josiah Willard Gibbs Henri Lebesgue David Blackwell (1717-1783) (1805-1865) (1839-1903) (1875-1941) (b.1919) Maria Gaetana Agnesi Peter Lejeune-Dirichlet Heinrich Weber William Gosset Daniel Gorenstein (1718-1799) (1805-1859) (1842-1913) (1876-1937) (1923-1992) Tobias Mayer Augustus De Morgan Georg Cantor Maurice Fréchet Jean-Pierre Serre (1723-1762) (1806-1871) (1845-1918) (1878-1973) (b.1926) Johann Lambert Hermann Grassmann William Clifford Emmy Noether Yutaka. Taniyama (1729-1777) (1809-1877) (1845-1879) (1882-1935) (1927-1958) Benjamin Banneker Joseph Liouville Francis Edgeworth Joseph H. M. Wedderburn Goro Shimura (1731-1806) (1809-1882) (1845-1926) (1882-1948) (b.1928) David Rittenhouse Benjamin Peirce Gottlob Frege George David Birkhoff Wolfgang Haken (1732-1796) (1809-1880) (1848-1925) (1884-1944) (b.1928) Joseph Louis Lagrange Ernst Kummer Georg Frobenius Hermann Weyl Walter Feit (1736-1813) (1810-1893) (1849-1917) (1885-1955) (1930-2004 ) José Anastacia da Cunha Evariste Galois Alfred Kempe Walther Mayer Stephen Smale (1744-1787) (1811-1832) (1849-1922) (1887-1948) (b.1930) Caspar Wessel James Joseph Sylvester Felix Klein James Alexander John Thompson (1745-1818) (1814-1897) (1849-1925) (1888-1971) (b.1932) Gaspard Monge Pierre Wantzel Oliver Heaviside Louis Mordell Kenneth Appel (1746-1818) (1814-1848) (1850-1925) (1888-1972) (b.1932) Pierre-Simon de Laplace George Boole Sofia Kovalevskaya Ronald Fisher Paul Cohen (1749-1827) (1815-1864) (1850-1891 ) (1890-1962) (1934-2007) Adrien-Marie Legendre Karl Weierstrass Ferdinand Lindemann Abraham Fraenkel Robert Langlands (1752-1833) (1815-1897) (1852-1939) (1891-1965) (b.1936) William Playfair Ada Byron King Henri Poincaré Leopold Vietoris Richard Hamilton (1759-1823) (1815-1852) (1854-1912) (1891-2002) (b.1943) Paolo Ruffini George Stokes Walther von Dyck Stefan Banach Gerhard Frey (1765-1822) (1819-1903) (1856-1934) (1892-1945) (b.1944) Silvestre-François Lacroix Florence Nightingale Karl Pearson Jerzy Neyman William Thurston (1765-1843) (1820-1910) (1857-1936) (1894-1981 ) (b.1946) Joseph Fourier Arthur Cayley Giuseppe Peano Heinz Hopf Kenneth Ribet (1768-1830) (1821-1895) (1858-1932) (1894-1971) (b.1947) Robert Adrain Eduard Heine Edouard Goursat Egon Pearson Michael Freedman (1775-1843) (1821-1881) (1858-1936) (1895-1980) (b.1951) Sophie Germain Hermann von Helmholtz Otto Hëlder Carl Siegel Andrew Wiles (1776-1831) (1821-1894) (1859-1937) (1896-1981) (b.1953) Carl Friedrich Gauss Pafnuty Chebyshev Vito Volterra Pavel Sergeiivich Aleksandrov Richard Taylor (1777-1855) (1821-1894) (1860-1940) (1896-1982) (b.1962) Bernard Bolzano Charles Hermite Percy Heawood Alfred Tarski Grigory Perelman (1781-1848) (1822-1901) (1861-1955) (1901-1983) (b.1966).
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