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Japan
Seki Takakazu was mathematician of the wasan tradition. He developed determinant-like methods, polynomial equations, elimination, and numerical approximation independently of European work.
Documented historical recordItaly
Niccolò Tartaglia was mathematician and engineering writer. He found a method for certain cubic equations and wrote on arithmetic, ballistics, and practical measurement.
Documented historical recordAustria, Britain, and the United States
Olga Taussky-Todd was mathematician. She made major contributions to matrix theory, algebraic number theory, and stability questions.
Documented historical recordEngland
Brook Taylor was mathematician. He developed the series expansion now called the Taylor series and wrote on perspective and vibrating strings.
Documented historical recordIonia in the eastern Mediterranean
Thales of Miletus was philosopher and early Greek geometer. Later traditions credit him with bringing deductive reasoning into geometry and applying similar triangles to measurement.
Historical record with limited biographyAthens
Theaetetus was Greek mathematician. He developed a classification of irrational magnitudes and contributed to the theory of regular solids.
Documented historical recordCyrene and Athens
Theodorus of Cyrene was Greek mathematician and teacher. He is remembered for demonstrations concerning irrational square roots.
Historical record with limited biographyFrance
René Thom was mathematician and philosopher of science. He developed cobordism theory and helped establish singularity and catastrophe theory.
Documented historical recordItaly
Evangelista Torricelli was mathematician and physicist. He worked on geometry, motion, fluids, and the barometer, using indivisibles to analyze areas and volumes.
Documented historical recordUnited States
John Tukey was statistician and data analyst. He shaped exploratory data analysis, spectral methods, fast Fourier computation, and statistical terminology.
Documented historical recordBritain
Alan Turing was mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst. He formalized computation with the Turing machine and played a central role in wartime cryptanalysis.
Documented historical recordIndia
Varahamihira was astronomer, mathematician, and compiler. His astronomical works synthesized several traditions and used trigonometric and calendrical calculations.
Documented historical recordUnited States
Dorothy Vaughan was mathematician and computer-programming supervisor. She led the West Area Computing unit at NACA and later learned and taught FORTRAN for electronic computation.
Documented historical recordItaly
Leonardo da Vinci was artist, engineer, and investigator. His notebooks use measurement, proportion, perspective, geometry, and mechanical diagrams to study forms and machines.
Documented historical recordFrance
François Viète was lawyer, cryptanalyst, and algebraist. He introduced systematic letter notation for known and unknown quantities and advanced symbolic algebra.
Documented historical recordEngland
John Wallis was mathematician and cryptanalyst. He advanced algebra, analytic methods, infinite products, and notation including the infinity symbol.
Documented historical recordGermany
Karl Weierstrass was mathematician and teacher. He strengthened the foundations of analysis with precise definitions of limits, continuity, and convergence.
Documented historical recordFrance and the United States
André Weil was mathematician. He advanced number theory and algebraic geometry and helped found the Bourbaki group.
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