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• Known for the Pythagorean theorem, Pythagoras was a famous Greek philosopher and mathematician, who lived around the year 500 BC. The theorem proposed by him was related to the three sides of right angle triangle: a² + b² = c².
• Known as the “Father of Geometry”, Euclid was a Greek mathematician who was famous for his revolutionary ideas and “Elements”, a book he wrote around the year 300 BC which proved to be very influential.
• The method to determine the volume of objects with irregular shapes was developed by Archimedes of Syracuse who lived around 250 BC.
• Known as Fibonacci, Leonardo of Pisa lived between 1170 and 1250 and was an Italian mathematician who is known for the number sequence named after him: Fibonacci numbers. In his book “Liber Abaci”he introduced the sequence to Western Europe after they had been described by Indian mathematicians. The Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ….
• Significant discoveries were made related to planetary motion and orbits by Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler in the 17th century.
• Gottfried Leibniz who lived between 1646 and 1716 was a German mathematician and is famous for developing vital calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices,
• Laws of physics were discovered by Isaac Newton who also brought together many significant concepts of minuscule calculus.
• The theories of the French philosopher Rene Descartes are the foundation of the work done by Leibniz and Newton. He not only had contributions in philosophy but also had a vital influence on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.

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