1) PLAYFAIR
William Playfair, a Scottish engineer, was the founder of graphical statistics.
He was the inventor of the line graph, bar chart, and the pie chart.
He also pioneered the use of timelines.
2) MAXWELL
James Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician who formed the classical electromagnetic theory.
He was the first to develop a color photograph.
3) TURING
Alan Turing is a British mathematician who is hailed as the father of computer science.
His work laid the groundwork for the PC.
He help break the German Enigma Cipher during World War II.
4) LAPLACE
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a leader in Statistical Theory.
He also was one of the first people to propose the existence of black holes.
5) BABBAGE
Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor, is considered the
"father of the computer" for his proposal of the invention of the first
mechanical computing device.
6) HUBERTUS
The patron saint of Mathematicians
7) EUCLID
Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician alive during the reign of Ptolemy I in 323-283 BC.
He was the author of Elements, which served as the primary textbook for mathematics
until the dawn of the 19th century.
8) NEWTON
Issac Newton was the inventor of Calculus
9) PASCAL
Blaise Pascal was a French Mathematician in the 17th century.
He invented the first calculator.
10) EULER
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician who first introduced the
concept of a function.
11) ARCHIMEDES
Archimedes, a Greek mathematician, is credited with the first theoretical
calculation of Pi, which he estimated was between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7 — or 223/71.
12) AGNESI
The Italian mathematician Maria Agnesi published
the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
13) MERRILL
Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics,
which she earned from Columbia University.
14) CARTWRIGHT
Mary Cartwright, a British mathematician, was a leader in Chaos Theory.
15) GERMAIN
Sophie Germain discovered a set of primes associated with her name.
"A prime number p is a SOPHIE GERMAIN PRIME" if 2p+1 is also a prime.
A few Sophie Germain primes are:
2, 3, 5, 11, 23, 29, 41, 53, 83, 89, 113, 131, 173, 179,
191, 233, 239, 251, 281, 293, 359, 419, 431, 443, 491, 509,
593, 641, 653, 659, 683, 719, 743, 761, 809, 911, 953, ...
16) HOPPER
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist that
invented the first computer compiler.
17) YOUNG
Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician noted for her
work on Calculus in the early 1900's.
18) KING
Augusta Ada Byron King was the daughter of poet Lord Byron.
She is known for being the first female computer programmer.
19) CURIE
Marie Curie was a Polish scientist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
20) MAYER
Maria Goeppert Mayer received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963
21) DEVI
SHAKUNTALA DEVI was born in 1939.
In 1980, she gave the product of two, thirteen digit numbers within 28 seconds.
She once competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of
188138517 faster, she won. At university of USA she was asked to give
the 23rd root of
9167486769200391580986609275853801624831066801443086224071265164279346570408670965932792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035965775473400756818688305620821016129132845564895780158806771.
She answered in 50 seconds. The answer is 546372891.
It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right.
