List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
2 天之前 · The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Leonhard Euler - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · Leonhard Euler (/ ˈ ɔɪ l ər / OY-lər; [b] German: [ˈleːɔnhaʁt ˈʔɔʏlɐ] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German: [ˈleɔnhard ˈɔʏlər]; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician, and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in many other branches of ...
Henri Poincaré - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · Early in the 20th century he formulated the Poincaré conjecture, which became, over time, one of the famous unsolved problems in mathematics. It was eventually solved in 2002–2003 by Grigori Perelman. Poincaré popularized the use of non-Euclidean geometry in mathematics as well. [8]
Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · Blaise Pascal [a] (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Leibnitz [a] (1 July 1646 [O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the discovery of calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.
Omar Khayyam - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · Ghiyasoldin Abolfath Omar ebn Ebrahim Khayyam Neyshaburi [1] [3] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), [a] was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
List of New York University faculty - Wikipedia
2 天之前 · David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic; Leslie Greengard, mathematician, physician and computer scientist. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method in 1987.
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