Thales, an ancient Greek geometer, is the oldest mathematician in history.
Thales was born in Miletus, a prosperous port city in Greece. It is said that he went to Egypt to study with local priests. He used the solar shadow to measure the height of the pyramid and accurately predicted the solar eclipse. Thales theorem in mathematics is named after him.
3. leonhard euler (also translated as Euler,1April 70715-1September 783 18) is a Swiss mathematician and physicist. He is called one of the two greatest mathematicians in history (the other is C.F.Gauss). Euler was the first person to use this function. For example: y = F(x) (the definition of function is given by Leibniz in 1694). He was one of the pioneers who applied calculus to physics. Euler is the mathematician with the second largest number of published papers in history, with a total of 75 volumes. His record was not broken by Paul Edith until the twentieth century. He has published 856 papers (the other is 856) and 32 books (the other is 3 1). The output is unparalleled. Euler actually ruled1mathematics from the 8th century to the present. For the newly invented calculus at that time, he deduced many results. From 1735 to 177 1, Euler's eyes were blind (it is said that
Gauss (1April 30th, 777-1February 23rd, 855) was born in Brunswick and died in G? ttingen. He is a famous mathematician, physicist, astronomer and geodesist in Germany. Gauss is regarded as the most important mathematician and has the reputation of prince of mathematics. 55438+0792. Gauss began to study advanced mathematics, and independently discovered the general form of binomial theorem, "quadratic reciprocity law" in number theory, prime number theorem and arithmetic geometric average.
1796, 17-year-old gauss got a very important achievement in the history of mathematics, that is, the theory and method of drawing a regular heptagon ruler. On the morning of February 23rd, 20855, Gauss died in his sleep.
5. Euclid (about 330 BC-275 BC) was a famous mathematician in ancient Greece. Almost during the whole period of Ptolemy I Soter's rule, he taught in Alexandria and died there. He is honored as "the father of geometry". His most famous book, The Elements of Geometry, is the foundation of European mathematics. It puts forward five postulates and develops Euclidean geometry. It is widely regarded as the most successful textbook in history.
Zu Chongzhi (429-500), a native of Wen Yuan, was a famous mathematician and astronomer in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
In mathematics, Zu Chongzhi studied Nine Chapters Arithmetic and Liu Hui's Annotation, and made comments on Nine Chapters Arithmetic and Liu Hui's Heavy Difference. He also wrote a book, Composition, which collected the mathematical research results of Zu Chongzhi and his son. This book is so profound that "scholars can't study it deeply, so they ignore it". Composition was unique in the Tang Dynasty. It can be seen that the seal script is difficult. Seal script was once spread to Korea, but it was lost in the Northern Song Dynasty. People can only understand some of Zu Chongzhi's work through other documents: there is a brief record of Zu Chongzhi's work in Pi in the Sui Calligraphy Calendar; In the Tang Dynasty, Li recorded the method of Zu Chongzhi's father and son to find the volume of a sphere in his Notes on Nine Chapters of Arithmetic. Zu Chongzhi also studied the problems of "open difference power" and "open difference station", which involved the problem of finding the roots of quadratic equation and cubic equation. Zu Chongzhi's mathematical contributions mainly include the calculation results of pi and the volume formula of the ball.