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Menaechmus (ca. 380 – ca. 320 BCE)

  • Born in Greece.
  • He dicovered conic sections.
  • He wrote about the foundations and mechanics of geometry.
Nicholas Mercator (ca. 1619 – 1687)

  • Born in Denmark.
  • he explained applications of logarithms to trigonometry.
  • He made the distinction between rational and irrational numbers.





Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754)

  • Born in France.
  • He formulated game theory, reconstituted probability theory, and set business of life insurance on a firm statistical basis.
Gaspard Monge (1746-1818)

  • Born in France.
  • He was the founder of descriptive geometry.
  • He applied analysis to infinitesimal geometry.
  • He introduced lines of curvature and the congruence of straight lines.
  • He established the distinction between ruled surfaces and developable surfaces.




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