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Book SynopsisPythagoras of Samos - Sect Leader and Philosopher.- Archimedes of Syracuse - Mathematician, Physicist and Engineer.- Diophantus of Alexandria – Virtuoso Beginnings of Algebra and Number Theory.- Muhammed al-Khwarizmi - Father of Algebra.- Thabit ibn Qurra – Brilliant Translator and Creative Mathematician.- Ali al-Hasan Ibn al-Haitham - Father of Optics.- Abu Arrayhan al-Biruni - Universal Scholar from Afghanistan.- Omar Khayyam - Mathematician, Philosopher, and Poet.- Jamshid al-Kashi - The Last Significant Mathematician of the Islamic Middle Ages.- Niccolò Tartaglia and Girolamo Cardano - Who Deserves the Credit?- John Napier - Master of Calculation.- René Descartes - Founder of Analytic Geometry.- Pierre de Fermat - Misjudged Mathematical Genius from the Provinces.- Blaise Pascal - Profound Theologian and Mathematician.- Abraham de Moivre - A Brilliant Frenchman in English Exile.- Leonhard Euler - "our master par excellence".- Joseph-Louis Lagrange - Versatile Mathematician and Physicist.- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier - from the French Revolution to the Revolution in the Theory of Heat.- William Rowan Hamilton - an Unhappy Genius from Ireland.- Georg Cantor - Explorer of the Infinite- Giuseppe Peano – Versatile Mathematician and Logician.
