Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

male, deceased (1630)
Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 - November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century...
Apollonius Of Perga

Apollonius Of Perga

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Apollonius of Perga [Pergaeus was a Greek geometer and astronomer, of the Alexandrian school, noted for his writings on conic sections. His...

Perseus

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Perseus (c. 150 BC) was an ancient Greek geometer, who invented the concept of spiric sections, in analogy to the conic sections studied by...
Mahavira

Mahavira

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Mahavira was a 9th century Indian mathematician from Gulbarga who asserted that the square root of a negative number did not exist. He gave the sum...

James Ivory

male, deceased (1842)
Sir James Ivory (February 17, 1765-September 21 1842) was a Scottish mathematician. Ivory was born in Dundee. In 1779 he entered the university of...
Adrien Auzout

Adrien Auzout

male, deceased (1691)
Adrien Auzout was a French astronomer. He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is...
D. G. Jones

D. G. Jones

male, 80 years old
Douglas Gordon Jones is a Canadian poet, translator and educator. Born in Bancroft, Ontario, Jones was educated at a private school in Quebec's...

Joseph Adhemar

male, deceased (1862)
Joseph Alphonse Adhemar (1797 - 1862) was a French mathematician. He was the first to suggest that ice ages were controlled by astronomical forces...

Nicolas Auguste Tissot

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Nicolas Auguste Tissot was a 19th century French cartographer, who in 1859 and 1881 published an analysis of the distortion that occurs on map...

Al-Hasan Ibn Mūsā Ibn Shākir

male, deceased (873)
Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir was a 9th century Persian mathematician and astronomer who lived in Baghdad.