Hall of Fame
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| Agnesi |
Agnesi is noted for her work in differential calculus. She discussed the cubic curve now known as the 'witch of Agnesi'.
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| Fibonacci |
Fibonacci played an important role in reviving ancient mathematics and made significant contributions of his own. Liber abaci introduced the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of Arabic numerals into Europe.
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| Hypatia |
Hypatia was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics.
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| Friedrich Schottky |
Most of Schottky's work concerns elliptic, abelian and theta functions. His doctoral thesis is an important contribution to conformal mappings of multiply connected plane domains.
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| Maurits Cornelius Escher |
Escher is an artist whose works have included a considerable mathematical content.
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| Ramanujan |
Ramanujan made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series.
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