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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brook Taylor | 18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731 | [html] [pdf] |
| Leonhard Euler | 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783 | [html] [pdf] |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace | 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827 | [html] |
| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830 | [html] [pdf] |
| Johann Gauss | 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855 | [html] [pdf] |
| Siméon Denis Poisson | 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840 | [html] |
| David Hilbert | 23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943 | [html] |
| Jacques Salomon Hadamard | 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963 | [html] |
| Issai Schur | 10 January 1875 – 10 January 1941 | [html] [pdf] |
| Richard Courant | 8 January 1888 – 27 January 1972 | [html] |
| Kurt Otto Friedrichs | 28 September 1901 – 31 December 1982 | [html] |
| Hans Lewy | 20 October 1904 – 23 August 1988 | [html] |
| John von Neumann | 28 December 1903 – 8 February 1957 | [html] [pdf] |