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The Bible is full of builders, planners, merchants, administrators and craftspeople.

Noah worked from dimensions. Joseph planned grain storage across fourteen years. Bezalel and Oholiab built from detailed patterns. These pages explain the math their work required without inventing titles or discoveries the text never gives them.

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1815-1864

George Boole

England and Ireland

George Boole was mathematician and logician. He expressed logical reasoning through algebraic operations now called Boolean algebra.

Algebra · StatisticsProgrammers & Data Analysts
Documented historical record
1901-1987

R. C. Bose

India and the United States

R. C. Bose was mathematician and statistician. He advanced design of experiments, finite geometry, coding theory, and combinatorics.

Algebra · GeometryProgrammers & Data Analysts
Documented historical record
1894-1974

Satyendra Nath Bose

India

Satyendra Nath Bose was mathematical physicist. His counting method for light quanta led to Bose-Einstein statistics.

Arithmetic · StatisticsScientists & Astronomers
Documented historical record
c. 1290-1349

Thomas Bradwardine

England

Thomas Bradwardine was mathematician, theologian, and scholar of motion. He proposed a mathematical rule connecting force, resistance, and speed.

Algebra · CalculusEngineers & Architects
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598-c. 668Featured

Brahmagupta

India

Brahmagupta was mathematician and astronomer. He gave systematic rules for arithmetic with zero and negative numbers and worked on quadratic equations and cyclic quadrilaterals.

Arithmetic · AlgebraScientists & Astronomers
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1561-1630

Henry Briggs

England

Henry Briggs was mathematician and astronomer. He developed and published extensive base-10 logarithm tables after discussing logarithms with Napier.

Arithmetic · AlgebraNavigators & Pilots
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1914-1979

Marjorie Lee Browne

United States

Marjorie Lee Browne was mathematician and educator. She was among the first African American women to earn a doctorate in mathematics and strengthened mathematics programs and teacher training.

Algebra · GeometryProgrammers & Data Analysts
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