3 Mathematicans

By: Tanner Hensley

Aryabhatta

Born 476-550 in India He advanced in arithmetic, algebra, and

trigonometry using the decimal system He is sometimes called “Father of Algebra” His most famous accomplishment in

mathematics was the Aryabhatta Algorithm which means solving for diophantine equations

Aryabhatta

He studied at the University of Nalanda One major work was Aryabhatiya The book dealt with many topics like

astronomy, spherical triogonometry, arithmetic, algebra and plane trigonometry

It was translated in latin in the 13th century

Aryabhatta

He made several important discoveries in astronomy: for example his estimate of the earths circumference was more accurate than any achieved in ancient Greece

He worked out the value of pi Worked out the area of a triangle He calculates the volume of a sphere

Aryabhatta

Jules Henri Poincare

His favorite sayings was “ Science is built up with facts, as a house is

with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”

“ Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.”

Jules Henri Poincare

He was a french mathematician, theoretical physcicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science

He was also described as a ploymath During his childhood he was seriously ill for a

time with diphtheria

Jules Henri Poincare

Born in France 1854-1912 Poincare found the theory of algebraic

topology He is sometimes called the father of topology He discovered automorphic functions and

essentially found the theory of periodic orbits

Jules Henri

He also was deeply interested in philosophy of science

He argued for conventionalism and against both formalism and logicism

Preliminary version of the special theory of relativity and stated that the velocity of light is a limit velocity and that mass depends on speed

Jules Henri Poincare

Nina Karlovna Bari

Nina parents were Olga Eduardovna Seligson and Karl Adolfovich

Nina was educated at a private school LOV yazemska's High School for girls in Moscow

She showed great potential in mathematics Nina graduated in 1921 from Moscow state

university

Nina

She became the first woman to graduate from Moscow State University

Her goal was to become a university teacher She won won one of the small number

scholarships

Nina

She studied and worked for six months at the Sorbonne and the collage De France in paris

Year later she visited Lvov, Poland She participated in Third-All Union Congress She also gave lectures at the moscow

Polytechine Institution

Nina

She was killed by a train in the moscow metro.

Nina was considered to be the principal leader of Mathematics

She helped many students to improve there Ph.D and improve theses

Nina

Resources

Aryabhatta- wikipedia.org Jules Henri Poincare- wikipedia. Org and

www-history.mcs.st.andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/poincare.html

Nina Bari- wikipedia.org and Agnes Scott College website