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11. Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)

Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html - 30-05-2002 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1763]

12. Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752)

Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves.
http://history.math.csusb.edu/Mathematicians/Cramer.html - 30-11-2002 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [469]

13. Fibonacci - Who was Fibonacci? - Leonardo of Pisa (1175?-1250)

His names, mathematical contributions, Introducing the decimal number system into Europe, Fibonacci Seri
http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibBio.html - 03-01-2001 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [436]

14. Lambert - Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)

In a memoir in 1768 on transcendental magnitudes he proved that pi is incommensurable.
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Lambert/RouseBall/RB_Lambert.html - 17-08-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [215]

15. Oughtred, William (1574-1660)

Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html - 14-12-2000 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1007]

16. Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)

Life and work of 19th century mathematician and philosopher of mathematics; by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Alison Walsh.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-benjamin/ - 06-04-2001 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1713]

17. Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953)

Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zermelo.html - 01-12-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [678]

18. Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987)

The most prominent twentieth-century mathematician.
http://kolmogorov.com/Kolmogorov.html - 02-01-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [2241]

19. Anecdotes, Quotations, and Trivia: Physicists and Mathematicians

Illustrated collecction.
http://www.geocities.com/ilian73/scientist.html - 07-01-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [2429]

20. Archimedes (c. 287 B.C.-212 B.C.)

(Encyclopedia.com) Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a/archimedes.asp - 16-07-2001 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1090]

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