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Leo the Mathematician
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Leo the Mathematician also known as Leo the Philospher ( b . Constantinople[?], ca . 790; d . Constantinople[?], after 869) mathematics, astronomy...
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Castigliano, (Carlo) Alberto
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Angelo Genocchi (1817 – 1889, mathematician), Enrico Betti (1823 – 1892, mathematician and engineer), Vincenzo Cerruti (1850 – 1909, engineer and mathematician), Francesco Crotti (1839 – 1896...
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Engel, Friedrich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...himself an important and productive mathematician he has found his place in the history...N. H. Abel the greatest Norwegian mathematician. Lie was not capable of giving to...mathematical world. It was no less a mathematician than Felix Klein who recognized that...
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Diocles
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...is known of the life of this Greek mathematician, but he must have lived after Archimedes...b.c.). Eutocius, a Byzantine mathematician of the fifth and sixth centuries...major axis. Apollonius of Perga, a mathematician who was born about 262 b.c., had...
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Dionysodorus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...described by Strabo (XII, 3,16) as a mathematician and is included among the men noteworthy...his Conics , and Philonides is the mathematician to whom Apollonius asked Eudemus to...probable (despite Schmidt) that this mathematician is the same Dionysodorus who is mentioned...
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Hilbert, David
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Lindemann, a famous but muddle-headed mathematician who the year before had had the good...years older than Hilbert and a mature mathematician at that time, was appointed professor...Hilbert ’ s instigation. The mathematician whose work most profoundly influenced...
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Hurwitz, Adolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...he came into close contact with the mathematician M. A. Stern and the physicist Wilhelm...kind man, an erudite scholar, a good mathematician, and a faithful guide. But one may...brilliant, although he was as good a mathematician as Minkowski. Or, if that was not...
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Lalouvère, Antoine De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...CArcavi, on 16 February 1659, that the mathematician had a nephew who called himself Simon...the order was at that time Guldin, a mathematician who may be considered, along with...that he had reached his goals as a mathematician. Indeed, he stated that he preferred...
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Agnesi, Maria Gaetana
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...world who can accurately be called a mathematician, was the eldest child of Pietro Agnesi...L ’ Hospital, a leading mathematician of the Newtonian era. The manuscript...Europe and brought recognition as a mathematician to Agnesi. The Islituzioni analitiche...
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Aristarchus of Samos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Aristarchus was known as “ the mathematician ” ; the epithet may merely...indeed the work of a highly competent mathematician. The Roman architect Vitruvius lists...Speculations as to why a reputable mathematician like Aristarchus should interest himself...
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