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Mathematicians and Biographies of Mathematicians

Mathematicians and Biographies of Mathematicians

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Maria Agnesi -- Italian Algebraist, Geometer and Logician

Peter Barlow -- English Mathematician

Charles Babbage -- Father of Mechanical Calculation

De Moivre -- de Moivre's Theorem

Euclid of Alexandria -- Known for 'The Elements'

Pierre de Fermat -- French Number Theorist

Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci -- Italian Number Theorist

Joseph Fourier -- French mathematician and physicist

Karl Gauss -- Child Mathematical Genius

Hippasus of Metapontum -- Pythagoreans

John Napier -- Logarithms

Shri Dattathreya Ramachandra Kaprekar -- Kaprekar's Constant

Joseph Louis Lagrange -- Italian born French mathematician

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