Surf these sites: Cantor - Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (1845-1918) -- put forth the modern theory on infinite sets that revolutionized almost every mathematics field. his new ideas created many dissenters and made him most assailed Cramer - Gabriel Cramer (1704-1752) -- Best known for his work on determinants, made contributions to the study of algebraic curves. Dedekind, Richard (1831-1916) -- study of CONTINUITY and definition of the real numbers in terms of Dedekind "cuts", the nature of number and mathematical induction, definition of finite and infinite sets; algebraic number fields, concept of RINGS. Galois, Évariste (1811-1832) -- Galois theory, a branch of mathematics dealing with the general solution of equations, group theory, method of determining when a general equation could be solved by radicals, solved many long-standing unanswered questions. Pell, John (1611-1685) -- worked on algebra and number theory, gave a table of factors of all integers up to 100000 in 1668. Pell''s equation is y^2 = ax^2 + 1, where a is a non-square integer. Schmidt, Erhard (1876-1959) -- Main research was functional analysis, doctorate was obtained under Hilbert''s supervision, main interest was in integral equations and Hilbert space, best remembered for the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process. Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953) -- Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory al-Khwarizmi - Abu Ja''far al-Khwarizmi (780-850) -- Arab mathematician, lived when spread of ideas was very slow, wrote Hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala, concepts of the Middle East. The "al-jabr" gave us the word algebra." introduced the decimal system, rules for solving linear and quadratic equations, the word "algorithm" comes from his name.
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