Liu Hui

Liu Hui

male
mathematician, Haidao suanjing, Jiuzhang Suanshu, Gaussian elimination, The Sea Island Mathematical Manual, TheNineChaptersontheMathematicalArt…Nine Chapters
Liu Hui 劉徽 was a Chinese mathematician who lived in the 200s AD in the Wei Kingdom. In 263 he edited and published a book with solutions to math...
Bonaventura Cavalieri

Bonaventura Cavalieri

male, deceased (1647)
TheNineChaptersontheMathematicalArt, volume, Italian, mathematics, mathematician, Astronomer…craters of the Moon named after them
Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (in Latin, Cavalerius) (1598 - November 30, 1647) was an Italian mathematician known for "Cavalieri's principle",...