Fermat - Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) - From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.

Gauss - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) - Gauss' Biography, Formulae, properties, Gauss' Life in Charts, Quotes, Doing a report on Gauss?, Works Cited List

Archimedes - Encyclopedia.com - Results for Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.) - Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor, His reputation in antiquity was based on several mechanical contrivances, e.g., ARCHIMEDES' SCREW; which he is alleged to have invented

Leibniz - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) - Invented the differential and integral calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton),

Ptolemy - Ptolemy's Ptools - History of Ptolemy (c. 87-150) - Who was Ptolemy? Claudius (Ptolemaues) Ptolemy, born in Egypt in about 85 A.D., one of the most infuential Greek astronomers, geographers and mathematicians.

Abel - Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829) - transformations of elliptic integrals, algebraic solution of equations, which equations were soluble by radicals, theory of elliptic functions

Pascal - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) - Time Line: 1623 June 19, born in Claremont the son of Etienne Pascal a minor noble and government official. 1626 Mother dies ..., French mathematician, thinker, and scientist, religious and philosophical writings.

Cauchy - Catholic Encyclopedia: AUGUSTIN-LOUIS CAUCHY (1789-1857) - Theory of polyhedra, symmetrical functions, proof of a theorem of Fermat which had baffled mathematicians like Gauss and Euler.

Plato (427-347 B.C.) - "... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."

Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250) - His names, Mathematical Contributions, Introducing the Decimal Number system into Europe, Fibonacci Series

d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) - helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.

Zeno - Zeno or Zenon of Elea (495?-435? B.C.) - was the first great doubter in mathematics, His paradoxes stumped mathematicians for millennia and provided enough aggravation to lead to numerous discoveries in the attempt to solve them.