1. Mathematicians By: Megan Smallwood

2. Brahmagupta ‘Bhillamalacarya’ (589-668) He was from: Rajasthan (India)

3. Brahmagupta ‘Bhillamalacarya’

4. His best know work is Brahmasphutasiddhanta, it was written in 628 in Bhinmal. Its 25 chapters the contain mathematical results.

5. Brahmagupta ‘Bhillamalacarya’ He was a 7th Century Indian mathematician and astronomer. Brahmagupta wrote some important works on both mathematics and astronomy.

6. Brahmagupta ‘Bhillamalacarya’ Stated “When zero is added to a number or subtracted from a number, the number remains unchanged. A number multiplied by zero becomes zero.”

7. Takakazu Seki 1637-1708 He was from: Japan.

8. Takakazu Seki

9. Seki was a self-taught prodigy who developed a new notation for algebra. He also made several discover before Western mathematics.

10. Takakazu Seki He discovered the Newton-Raphson method, Newton's interpolation formula, Bernoulli numbers, discriminants, methods of calculus.

11. Takakazu Seki He calculated pi to ten decimal places using the Aitkin's method. He also worked with the magic squares.

12. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya 1850-1891 She was from Russia.

13. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

14. Sofia was self-taught She was considered the greatest female mathematician ever before Emma Noether.

15. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya Her most famous work was the Kovalevskaya top, which was called a "genuine highlight of 19th-century mathematics”.

16. Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya Sofia studied Abelian integrals and many other differential equations.