Greatest MathematiciansIN History

By Mark Clemons

François Viète

1540-1603 Was a French nobleman He work for King Arthur IV He broke the spanish code allowing french to read it

and end the Huguenot War of Religion

He discover a formula called prosthaphaeresis He is called the Father of Modern Algebra because

of his use of decimal notation and variable letters

• He was born in fortenay poitou, which is now called vendee, France

• He died in what is now called the city of Paris, France

• He decided in 1564 to take a position in a service that is called the Antoinette d’Aubeterre.

• In this time it was a period of great political and religious unrest in France.

• His first work apeared in paris in 1571.

• Even he himself was able to present methods for solving equations of second, third, and even to the fourth degree.

Isaac (Sir) Newton

1642-1727 From England He got famous from his 3 laws of motion- inertia,

force, and reciprocal action He is also called the Father of Calculus

• He is also famous for calculus,and optics

• In 1687 he published his first book Principia Mathematics

• He was depressed because his mother kept pulling him out of school so he could become a farmer

• He lived with his grand parents at the age of 12 he was reunited with his mother

• He attend a school called Grantham, a town in Lincolnshire

• After attending the school Cambridge he was force out of the university in 1655 because of the great plague that accrued in Cambridge

• Legend has it in 1687 he experience the falling apple that help him explain gravity pull

• When the plague past Cambridge newton attend Cambridge in 1667 where he got his degree in arts

• when newton became try to show his discovers he made in optic Hooke's question his discovers and from there on out newton and Hooke would have a major impact in the world

Emmy Noether

• She was a professor at Erlangen

• She studied many different languages English, French, and German

• She went to study mathematic at the University of Erlangen during 1900 to 1902.

• She work on ideal theory producing abstract theory which help develop ring theory

• Her reputation grew as she progress threw her work

• She had her first piece of work when she arrived in Gottingen

• Her work led to formulations to Einstein work

• She helped edit the, Mathematische Annalen

• She was Jewish so her mathematic accomplishments didn’t matter because the Nazi took over in 1933

• She is also known as Amalie Noether, Emily Noether, Amelie Noether

• She was born in Germany

• She came from a very wealth family

• She had a career in teaching French and English she change her mind later and became a mathematicians

• She went had to get permistion to attend two university (Erlangen, and Gottingen) which wouldn’t let any women attend classes for credit.

• This change later in 1904

• In 1908 she attend Circolo Matematico di Palermo

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