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Life	Nationality	Mathematical studies / Known for	Namesake of	Answer	% Correct
c. 570 BC - c. 495 BC	Greek	Namesake theorem about right triangles, five regular solids, theory of proportions	Theorem, Tuning	Pythagoras of Samos	96%
fl. 300 BC	Greek	Father of geometry who wrote the Elements	Geometry, Algorithm	Euclid	90%
c. 1170 - c. 1240-50	Italian	Author of Liber Abaci, namesake of sequence beginning 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ...	Numbers/Sequence, Search Technique, Heap, Cubes	Fibonacci	90%
1642 - 1727	English	Principia Mathematica, calculus, power series, generalization of binomial theorem, method for approximating roots of a funciton	Method	Isaac Newton	89%
1707 - 1783	Swiss	Infinitesimal calculas, graph theory (Seven Bridges of Königsberg), topology, analytic number theory, power series	Formula, Identity, -Lagrange Equation, Product Formula, -Lotka Equation, e	Leonhard Euler	88%
1607 - 1665	French	Number theory, analyticc geometry, probability theory, adequality, method of finding the greatest and smallest ordinates of curved lines	Little Theorem, Last Theorem	Pierre de Fermat	87%
1623 - 1662	French	Namesake triangle of binomial coefficients	Triangle, Theorem, Wager	Blaise Pascal	82%
1777 - 1855	German	Proved ________'s Rule of signs, ______'s Last theorem for n=5, introduced ≡ symbol, binary and ternary quadratic forms, class number problem,	the normal distribution, Logarithms, Function	Carl Friedrich Gauss	79%
1646 - 1716	German	Differential and integral calculus, binary number system, linear equations,	Notation, Integral Rule, Product rule of differential callculus,	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	77%
c.287 BC - c. 212 BC	Greek	Approximation of pi, infinitesimals, method of exhaustion for rigorous proofs, area of a circle, surface area and volume of a sphere, area of ellipse, area of a paraboloid, area of a spiral	Principle, Infinitesimal, Spiral	Archimedes	74%
1768 - 1830	French	Namesake periodic functions and namesake transform	Series, Analysis, Transform	Joseph Fourier	74%
1826 - 1866	German	Prime-counting function (development of analytic number theory), differential geometry, work on Fourier series	Integral, Surfaces, Hypothesis, Zeta Function	Bernhard Riemann	71%
1685 - 1731	English	Namesake of infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of a function's derivatives at a single point to approximate the function	Series, Theorem	Brook Taylor	71%
1596 - 1650	French	Author of La Géométrie, father of analytical geometry	Rule of Signs, plane, folium	René Descartes	70%
1749 - 1827	French	Wrote Celestial Mechanics, developed _____ian probability, namesake of integral transform for solving differential equations, namesake of a second-order partial differential equation	Method, Equation, Transform, Differential Operator, Transform, Equation	Pierre-Simon Laplace	64%
1600s - 1700s	Swiss	Large family of mathematicians including Jacob, namesake of Numbers, Johann, who contributed to calculus, and Nicholas, who orginated the St. Petersburg paradox	Numbers, Differential Equation, Distribution	Bernoulli family	63%
1906 - 1978	Austrian	Logician	Incompleteness Theorems	Kurt Gödel	60%
1887 - 1920	Indian	Mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, continued fractions, partition formulae	Prime, Theta Function, "Lost Notebook", Landau- constant	Srinivasa Ramanujan	60%
1862 - 1943	German	Solved Gordan's Problem, worked in invariant theory, calculus of variations, commutative algebra, etc.; Developed collection of namesake problems	Basis theorem, Axioms, Problems, Program, Space, Paradox of the Grand Hotel	David Hilbert	57%
c. 1701 - 1761	English	Namesake of theorem describing the probability of an event given the probability of another event that is super important for statistics	Theorem/Rule/Law, Statistics, Probability	Thomas Bayes	56%
1698 - 1746	Scottish	Developed a special case of (above)'s namesake series centered about 0	Series	Colin Maclaurin	54%
1845 - 1918	German	Created set theory	Set	Georg Cantor	54%
1854 - 1912	French	Founder of topology and modern chaos theory, three-body problem, namesake Conjecture solved by Grigori Perelman	Conjecture, Disk Model, Inequality, Series, Metric, Group	Henri Poincaré	52%
1781 - 1840	French	Namesake of discrete probability distribution expressing the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval	Distribution, Point process, Bracket, Kernel	Siméon Poisson	50%
b. 1953	British	Specializes in number theory, known for proving the Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture, thereby proving the Last Theorem named for one of the above	-	Andrew Wiles	49%
1924 - 2010	Polish-born French & American	Fractal geometry	Set	Benoit Mandelbrot	38%
1913 - 1996	Hungarian	Developoment of Ramsey theory, proof for Bertrand's postulate, elmentary proof for the prime number theorem; Offered cash prizes for solutions to unresolved prizes.	"Number" ("collaborative distance" between himself and another person"), Space	Paul Erdős	36%
1877 - 1947	British	Collaborator of (below), worked in number theory and mathematical analysis, wrote A Mathematician's Apology, big-O notation	-Weinberg principle, -Littlewood Inequality, -Littlewood Circle Method, Theorem, Inequality	G. H. Hardy	35%
1804 - 1851	German	Elliptic functions, differential equations, determinants, number theory, namesake matrix of all first-order partial derivatives of a vector-value function	Matrix and Determinant, Symbol, Ellipsoid, Polynomials, Transform, Identity, Operator	Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi	30%
c. 10 AD - 70 AD	Greek	Iterative method for calculating square root, formula for finding area of triangle from its side lengths, shortest path algorithm	Formula	Hero of Alexandria	26%