3 famous mathematici

an'sBy: Caitlin Warfield

Aryabhatta

Aryabhatta

• He was born 476CE at Patliputra in Magdha he died in the 550CE.

• His region was Indian

• He was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His works include the Aryabhatta (499, when he was 23 years old.

Aryabhatta’s Survival

• His name is Arya which is a south Indian name.

• He wrote one of his popular “Aryabhatta-Sigghanta but Aryabhatiya was more popular than the former. This was the only work he did for his survival.

• The surviving text is Aryabhata's masterpiece the Aryabhatiya which is a small astronomical treatise written in 118 verses giving a summary of Hindu mathematics up to that time. Its mathematical section contains 33 verses giving 66 mathematical rules without proof. The Aryabhatiya contains an introduction of 10 verses, followed by a section on mathematics with, as we just mentioned, 33 verses, then a section of 25 verses on the reckoning of time and planetary models, with the final section of 50 verses being on the sphere and eclipses.

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Maria Gaetana Agnesil

• Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan on May 16, 1718, to a wealthy and literate family.

• Her father wanted to elevate his family into the Milanese nobility. In order to achieve his goal, he had married in 1717 Anna Fortunata Brivio. Her mother's death provided her the excuse to retire from public life. She took over management of the household.

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Her Instituzioni Analitiche

• he most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana, a work of great merit, which was published at Milan in 1748 and "was regarded as the best introduction extant to the works of Euler.” The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantites and the second of the analysis of infinitesimas.

• A French translation of the second volume by P.T.d’Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (1730–1814), was published in Paris in (1775) and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson (1680–1760), the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, "inspected" by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

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Her later life

• In 1750, on the illness of her father, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna. She was the first woman to be appointed professor at a university. After the death of her father in 1752 she carried out a long-cherished purpose by giving herself to the study of theology, and especially of the Fathers and devoted herself to the poor, homeless, and sick. After holding for some years the office of director of the Hospice Trivulzio for Blue Nuns at Milan, she herself joined the sisterhood, and in this austere order ended her days, though the terms of her death are unknown.

Carl Ludwig Siegel

• (December 31, 1896 – April 4, 1981) was a German mathematician specialising in number theory and celestial mechanics. He is known for, amongst other things, his contributions to the Thue-Siegel Roth theorem in Diophantine approximation and the Siegel massformula for quadratic forms. He was one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th century

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Carl’s life

• Siegel was born in Berlin, where he enrolled at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1915 as a student in mathematics, astronomy, and physics. Amongst his teachers were Max Planck and Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, whose influence made the young Siegel abandon astronomy and turn towards number theory instead.

His life is continued

• Sigel was an antimilitarist, and in 1917, during world war 1 he was committed to a psychiatric institute as a conscientious objector.

• According to his words, he withstood the experience the experience only because of his support from Edmund Landau, whose father had a clinic in the neighborhood. After the end of world war 1, he enrolled at the Georg-August University of Gottingen, studying under Edmund Landau, who was his doctoral thesis supervisor (Ph.D. in 1920)

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