1. Mathematicians By: Byshop Morris

2. Pythagoras of Samos Greek Mathematician Pythagoras is considered by some to be one of the first great mathematicians. Living around 570 to 495 BC, in modern day Greece, he is known to have founded the Pythagorean cult who were noted by Aristotle to be one of the first groups to study and advance mathematics. He is also commonly credited with the Pythagorean Theorem.

3. Pythagoras of Samos However, some doubt that it was Pythagoras who invented it. Nonetheless, the effect of such, as with big portions of fundamental mathematics, is commonly felt today, with the theorem playing a big part in todays modern measurements and technological equipment, as well as being the base of a big portion of other areas and theorems in mathematics.

4. Pythagoras of Samos Unlike many ancient theories, it played a big role on the development of geometry, as well as opening the door to the study of mathematics. He could be called the founding father of the modern day mathematics.

5. Picture of Pythagoras

6. Rene Descartes A French Philosopher, Physicist and Mathematician Rene is best known for his 'Cogito Ergo Sum' philosophy. Despite this, the Frenchman, who lived 1596 to 1650, made ground breaking contributions to mathematics. Alongside Newton and Leibniz, Rene helped provide the foundations of modern day calculus, which in itself had great bearing on the modern day field.

7. Rene Descartes Alongside this, perhaps maybe more know by people, is his development of Cartesian Geometry, known to most as the standard graph and its use of algebra to describe the various locations. Before this many geometers used plain paper to preform their art. Previously, such distances had to be measured, or scaled.

8. Rene Descartes With the introduction of Cartesian Geometry this changed dramatically, points could be expressed as points on a graph, and graphs could be drawn on to any scale, these points did not necessarily have to be numbers. The final contribution to the field was his intro of superscripts within algebra to express powers. Rene Descartes, contributed to the development of the modern day mathematical notation.

9. Picture of Rene Descartes

10. Sophie Germain Sophie was born in France, in the era of revolution. In the year of her birth, the American Revolution began. Thirteen years later the French Revolution began in her own country. April 1, 1776 is the date she was born, her family was quite wealthy. Sophie's interest in mathematics began during the French Revolution when she was 13, and confined to her home due to the danger caused by revolts in Paris.

11. Sophie Germain She spent a great deal of time in her fathers library, one day she found a book called The Legend of Archimedes. This book sparked Sophie's interest, so she began to study mathematics. Sophie began teaching herself mathematics using the books in her fathers library. Her parents felt that her interest was inappropriate for a female and did all they could to discourage her.

12. Sophie Germain She began studying at night to escape them, but they went to such extreme measures to take away her clothes once she was in bed and depriving her of heat and light to make her stay in her bed at night instead of studying. But that didn't stop Sophie. She began to study calculus without aid or tutor. Sophie went to prove that if x, y, and z are integers and if x^5 + y^5= z^5 then either x, y, and z must be divisible by 5.

13. Picture of Sophie Germain

14. All three famous mathematicians

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