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...
Menaechmus

Menaechmus

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Menaechmus was a Greek mathematician and geometer born in Alopeconnesus (within modern-day Turkey), who was known for his friendship with the...
James Gregory

James Gregory

male, deceased (1675)
James Gregory (November 1638 - October 1675), was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was born at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, and died at...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...
Dicaearchus

Dicaearchus

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Dicaearchus (also Dicearchos, Dicearchus or Dikæarchus, Greek Δικαιαρχος; ca. 350 BC – ca. 285 BC) was a Greek philosopher, cartographer,...

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...

Grégoire de Saint-Vincent

male, deceased (1667)
Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, a Jesuit, was a mathematician who independently discovered the Mercator series, the expansion of log(1 + "x") in a...
John Landen

John Landen

male, deceased (1790)
John Landen (23 January 1719 - 15 January 1790) was an English mathematician, He was born at Peakirk near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, and...
William Brouncker 2nd Viscount Brouncker

William Brouncker 2nd Viscount Brouncker

male, deceased (1684)
William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS (1620 – 5 April 1684) was an English mathematician. Brouncker obtained a PhD at the University of Ox...