11) Abel, Niels Henrik. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Abel, Niels Henrik, (nels hen´rik a´bl) (KEY) , 1802-29, Norwegian mathematician. While a student at the Univ. of Christiania (Oslo) he did fundamental work on the...
12) Fermat, Pierre de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Fermat, Pierre de, (pyer d ferma´) (KEY) , 1601-65, French mathematician. A magistrate whose avocation was mathematics, Fermat is known as a founder of modern number...
13) Euler, Leonhard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Euler, Leonhard, (la´onhart oi´lr) (KEY) , 1707-83, Swiss mathematician. Born and educated at Basel, where he knew the Bernoullis, he went to St. Petersburg (1727)...
14) Omar Khayyam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Omar Khayyam, (o´mar kiam´) (KEY) , fl. 11th cent., Persian poet and mathematician, b. Nishapur. He was called Khayyam [tentmaker] probably because of his father's...
15) Nash, John Forbes, Jr. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Nash, John Forbes, Jr., 1928-, American mathematician, b. Bluefield, W.Va., grad. Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon Univ., B.A. and M.A. 1948),...
16) Bradwardine, Thomas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bradwardine, Thomas, (brad´wrden) (KEY) , c.1295-1349, English mathematician, natural philosopher, and theologian. He was chaplain to Edward III (c.1338) and later...
17) Birkhoff, George David. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Birkhoff, George David, 1884-1944, American mathematician, b. Overisel, Mich.; father of Garrett Birkhoff. The son of a physician, he was educated at Harvard (B.A.,...
18) Boolean algebra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...sets (groups of objects or concepts). The notational system was developed by the English mathematician George Boole c.1850 to permit an algebraic manipulation of...
19) Gauss, Carl Friedrich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Friedrich, (karl fre´drikh gous) (KEY) , born Johann Friederich Carl Gauss, 1777-1855, German mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Gauss was educated at the...
20) 44601. Plato. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:44601 QUOTATION:I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. ATTRIBUTION:Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. The Republic,...
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