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England and the United States
Charlotte Scott was mathematician and educator. She worked in algebraic geometry and helped establish advanced mathematics education for women in the United States.
Documented historical recordUnited States
Abdulalim Shabazz was mathematician and mathematics educator. He worked in analysis and devoted much of his career to expanding advanced mathematics opportunity at historically Black institutions.
Documented historical recordUnited States
Claude Shannon was mathematician and electrical engineer. He founded information theory and showed how Boolean algebra could describe switching circuits.
Documented historical recordPersia
Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi was mathematician and astronomer. He analyzed cubic equations and studied conditions under which they have positive roots.
Documented historical recordChina
Zhu Shijie was mathematician and teacher. He developed multivariable polynomial methods and presented a sophisticated coefficient triangle.
Documented historical recordEngland
John Snow was physician and epidemiological investigator. He mapped cholera deaths and compared water sources to identify a contaminated pump during the 1854 outbreak.
Documented historical recordAncient Israel
King Solomon was king and administrator in the biblical account. Temple construction and royal administration required measurement, inventories, labor organization, and long-range planning.
Direct text with mathematical inferenceKerala, India
Nilakantha Somayaji was mathematician and astronomer. He extended Kerala-school trigonometry and proposed a refined planetary model in the Tantrasangraha.
Documented historical recordIndia
Sridhara was mathematician and author. He wrote practical arithmetic manuals and is associated with an early form of the quadratic formula.
Documented historical recordLow Countries
Simon Stevin was engineer, mathematician, and military adviser. He promoted decimal fractions and wrote on statics, hydrostatics, bookkeeping, and navigation.
Documented historical recordIreland and England
Alicia Boole Stott was geometer. She visualized four-dimensional regular polytopes through three-dimensional sections and coined the word polytope.
Documented historical recordChina
Sun Tzu the Mathematician was author of a Chinese mathematical manual. The Sunzi Suanjing includes arithmetic algorithms, measurement problems, and the remainder problem later called the Chinese remaind...
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