1933-2011
Annie Easley
United States
Annie Easley was mathematician, programmer, and computer scientist. She began as a human computer and wrote software for energy-conversion and launch-vehicle research.
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c. 276-c. 194 BCEFeatured
Eratosthenes
Cyrene and Alexandria
Eratosthenes was mathematician, geographer, and librarian. He estimated Earth’s circumference from shadow angles and created a sieve for identifying prime numbers.
Documented historical record1913-1996
Paul Erdős
Hungary and the world
Paul Erdős was mathematician and collaborator. He made wide-ranging contributions to number theory, combinatorics, graph theory, and probability.
Documented historical record1930-2010
Jaime Escalante
Bolivia and the United States
Jaime Escalante was mathematics teacher. He built an advanced calculus program for students who had often been underestimated.
Documented historical recordActive around 300 BCEFeatured
Euclid
Alexandria, Egypt
The author traditionally associated with the Elements, a systematic presentation of definitions, postulates, proofs, geometry, and number theory.
Historical record with limited biographyc. 408-c. 355 BCE
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Cnidus and Athens
Eudoxus of Cnidus was Greek mathematician and astronomer. His theory of proportion handled incommensurable magnitudes, and his method of exhaustion anticipated integral reasoning.
Documented historical record1707-1783Featured
Leonhard Euler
Switzerland, Russia, and Prussia
Leonhard Euler was mathematician and physicist. He transformed analysis, number theory, graph theory, mechanics, notation, and mathematical physics.
Documented historical recordBiblical era; date uncertainFeatured
Ezekiel
Babylon and the ancient Near East
Ezekiel recorded an extended vision filled with measured gates, walls, rooms, courtyards, boundaries, and land portions. The text is one of the Bible’s densest collections of dimensions.
Direct biblical text with mathematical inferencec. 1089-c. 1167
Abraham ibn Ezra
Iberia and Europe
Abraham ibn Ezra was Jewish scholar, astronomer, and mathematical writer. He wrote Hebrew works explaining number systems, arithmetic, calendars, and astronomical ideas.
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