Top 5 Mathematicians & their inventions
Unknown Facts
1.
ARYABHATA
Aryabhata was the first person to say that the Earth is spherical and it revolves around the sun & stated the correct number of days in a year that is 365. He also gave the formula (a + b)^ 2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2ab. Further, he worked on the place value system using letters to signify numbers and stating qualities.
2.
BRAHMAGUPTA
Introduction
of zero (0) to mathematics, which stood for “nothing”, was the biggest
contribution of Brahmagupta. He also explained how to find the cube and
cube-root of an integer and gave rules facilitating the computation of
squares and square roots.
3.
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN
Srinivasa
Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made
substantial contributions to Hardy-Ramanujan Littlewood circle method in
number theory and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions,
partial sums, products of hypergeometric series and infinite series.
4.
P.C. MAHALANOBIS
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis’s most significant contribution in the field of statistics was the Mahalanobis Distance. Besides these, he had also made pioneering studies in the field of anthropometry and had founded the Indian Statistical Institute. He also contributed to the design of large scale sample surveys in India.
5.
Euclid, an ancient Greek mathematician alive during the reign of Ptolemy I in 323-283 BC, was the author of Elements, which served as the primary textbook for mathematics until the dawn of the 19th century. He originated Euclidean Geometry, and while perhaps not demonstrably responsible for the modern era, Euclid was certainly responsible for most of the elementary mathematics that led to it.
Euclid was among the first to formalize mathematical proofs, the primary method of exposition for the discipline.