- Al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad Bin Musa (770-840) (3)
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- Archimedes (287-212 BCE) (5)
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- Cantor, Georg (1845-1918) (2)
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- Coxeter, Donald
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- Descartes, Ren? (1596-1650)@
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- Diaconis, Persi (1945- ) (4)
Find sites dedicated to Perci Diaconis, the former magician who is known for uncovering the bias in coin flipping. Includes articles, interviews, and curriculum information for courses taught by the Mary V. Sunseri professor of statistics and mathematics.
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- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (1902-1984)@
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- Dirichlet, Peter Gustav Lejeune (1805-1859) (1)
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- Eratosthenes of Cyrene (2)
Discover the high skies with Eratosthenes, the ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who devised a system of latitude and longitude. Sites feature life overview, significant contributions, original experiment, as well as projects based on the theories postulated by the first astronomer to have calculated the circumference of the Earth.
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- Erd?s, Paul (1)
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- Euclid (c. 325-c. 265 BCE) (3)
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- Euler, Leonhard (1707-1783) (2)
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- Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665)
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- Fibonacci, Leonardo (1170-1250)@
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- Fields, John Charles (1863-1932)@
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- G?del, Kurt (1906-1978) (9)
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- Hardy, G.H. (1877-1947) (3)
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- Hariot, Thomas (1560-1621)@
Learn about Thomas Hariot, the Enflish astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer to whom the theory of refraction is attributed. Sites provide biogrpahy, works, reports, and Hariot's drawings of his telescopic observations of the moon made in 1609 and 1610.
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- Hypatia of Alexandria (4)
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- Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps
Features mathematical events and concepts as well.
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- Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)@
Learn about Johannes Kepler, the 16th century German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer best known for his laws of planetary motion which laid the foundation of Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Sites feature biography, scientific achievements, animated explanation of his laws, and the famous Kepler's Conjecture.
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- Khayyam, Omar (1048-1122) (8)
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- Lovelace, Ada (1815-1852)@
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- Napier, John (1550-1617) (3)
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- Nash, John Forbes, Jr. (1928- ) (8)
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- Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) (11)
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- Noether, Emmy (1882-1935) (2)
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- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) (7)
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- Ptolemy, Claudius (c 87-150)@
Find out about Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who wrote several scientific treatises including Almagest - the astronomical treatise, Geography, and Tetrabiblos ? the astrology treatise. Sites feature biography, historical background, and explanation and significance of his work.
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- Pythagoras (4)
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- Ramanujan, Srinivasa Aiyangar (1887-1920) (3)
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- Shannon, Claude (1916-2001) (5)
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- Turing, Alan (1912-1954) (8)
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- Venn, John (1834-1923) (2)
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- von Neumann, John (1903-1957)@
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