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Syracuse, Sicily
Archimedes was mathematician, engineer, and inventor. He found areas and volumes, bounded pi, studied levers and buoyancy, and used exhaustion arguments that anticipated calculus.
Documented historical recordTarentum in southern Italy
Archytas was mathematician, statesman, and engineer. He worked on number theory, musical ratios, mechanics, and a geometric solution to doubling the cube.
Documented historical recordSamos and Alexandria
Aristarchus of Samos was Greek astronomer and mathematician. He used geometry to estimate relative sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon and proposed a Sun-centered arrangement.
Documented historical recordIndia
Aryabhata was mathematician and astronomer. He wrote compact rules for arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, astronomical calculation, and an approximation to pi.
Documented historical recordEngland
Charles Babbage was mathematician, inventor, and reformer. He designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine to automate numerical tables and general calculation.
Documented historical recordPoland
Stefan Banach was mathematician. He helped found functional analysis and studied complete normed vector spaces now called Banach spaces.
Documented historical recordEngland
Isaac Barrow was mathematician and teacher. He clarified the inverse relationship between tangent problems and area problems.
Documented historical recordUnited States
Jean Bartik was mathematician and computer programmer. She programmed ENIAC and later worked on converting stored-program computer designs into working systems.
Documented historical recordAncient India
Baudhayana was Vedic ritual geometer. The Baudhayana Sulba Sutra gives construction rules for ritual altars and states a relation equivalent to the Pythagorean theorem.
Historical record with limited biographyEngland
Thomas Bayes was minister and mathematician. A posthumous essay associated with him developed a rule for updating probabilities in light of evidence.
Documented historical recordSamarkand in Central Asia
Ulugh Beg was astronomer, mathematician, and ruler. He founded a major observatory and sponsored a star catalogue built from precise observations.
Documented historical recordUnited States
Richard Bellman was mathematician and applied scientist. He created dynamic programming for multistage optimization and decision problems.
Documented historical recordSwitzerland
Jacob Bernoulli was mathematician. He developed probability, series, differential equations, and the law of large numbers.
Documented historical recordSwitzerland
Johann Bernoulli was mathematician and teacher. He advanced calculus, differential equations, and optimization problems while training a generation of mathematicians.
Documented historical recordSinai and the ancient Near East
A biblical master craftsman whose design and construction work shows how measurement, proportion, geometry, and planning serve skilled trades.
Direct text with mathematical inferenceUnited States
Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid was mathematician and probabilist. He advanced probabilistic analysis, random operators, and mathematical biology.
Documented historical recordIndia
Bhaskara II was mathematician and astronomer. His works Lilavati and Bijaganita developed arithmetic, algebra, indeterminate equations, geometry, and astronomical computation.
Documented historical recordUnited States
David Blackwell was mathematician and statistician. He contributed to game theory, probability, dynamic programming, and Bayesian statistics.
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