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Mathematics Personae

For entertainment value you can find some background on the mathematicians who developed some of the ideas we are exploring in this class:

Mathematician	Dates	Resource
Sir Isaac Newton	4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727	[html]
Roger Cotes	10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716	[html]
Brook Taylor	18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731	[html] [pdf]
Daniel Bernoulli	8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782	[html]
Leonhard Euler	15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783	[html] [pdf]
Thomas Simpson	20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761	[html]
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert	17 November 1717 – 29 October 1783	[html]
Joseph-Louis Lagrange	25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813	[html] [pdf]
Adrien-Marie Legendre	18 September 1752 – 10 January 1833	[html]
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier	21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830	[html] [pdf]
Johann Gauss	30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855	[html] [pdf]
William George Horner	1786 – 22 September 1837	[html]
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass	31 October 1815 – 19 February 1897	[html]
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev	16 May 1821 – 8 December 1894	[html]
Edmond Nicolas Laguerre	9 April 1834 – 14 August 1886	[html]
Henri Eugène Padé	17 December 1863 – 9 July 1953	[html]
Lewis Fry Richardson	11 October 1881 – 30 September 1953	[html]
Alexander Craig Aitken	1 April 1895 – 3 November 1967	[html]
John Wilder Tukey	16 June 1915 – 26 July 2000	[html]
James Hardy Wilkinson	27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986	[html]