History Of Math

Front 1

Pascal

Back 1

1. Joy

2. Died from stomach tumor

3. Pascal's Triangle

Front 2

Bayes

Back 2

1. Ashley

2. Buried in Bunhill Fields Cemetery with his family

3. Conditional probability (stat)

Front 3

Jacob Bernoulli

Back 3

1. Erika

2. Tutored Johann in math

3. Bernoulli distribution (stat)

Front 4

Johann Bernoulli

Back 4

1. Erika

2.Tutored Euler

3. L'hospitals

Front 5

Daniel Bernoulli

Back 5

1. Erika

2. Math professor at St. Petersburg

3. Bernoulli's Principle (how to measure blood pressure)

Front 6

Gauss

Back 6

1. Laura/Megan

2. Died at age of 77

3. Created 17-gon

Front 7

Lobachevsky

Back 7

1. Laura/Megan

2. Head librarian & head of observatory

3. Definition of parallelism

Front 8

Klein

Back 8

1. Laura/Megan

2. Born in Prussia

3. Defined the principle group

Front 9

Grassmann

Back 9

1. Laura/Megan

2. Born in Prussia

3. Vector spaces

Front 10

Fermat

Back 10

1. Luke R.

2. Degree in civil law

3. Fermat's Numbers & Little Theorem & Last Theorem

Front 11

Euler

Back 11

1. Melani/Andrea

2. Married Katharina Gsell

3. Completely lost eye sight

4. Euler's Number "e"

5. Totient Function

Front 12

Cantor

Back 12

1. Luke H.

2. Was depressed during life

3. Levels of infinity

Front 13

Cauchy

Back 13

1. Cameron

2. Still lived at home at 28

3. Cauchy Criterion

Front 14

Mayan

Back 14

1. Chelsea

2. Calendars

3. Base 20 system

Front 15

Chinese

Back 15

1. Ben

2. Applications of the Pythagorean Theorem

3. Polynomials up to the 10th degree

Front 16

Indian

Back 16

1. Emily

2. Table of sines

3. Equation for area of a quadrilateral

Front 17

Islamic

Back 17

1. Vicky

2. House of Wisdom (research facility)

3. Used decimals