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Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological. A separate index is provided which lists these people in alphabetical order.
Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).
The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological. A separate index is provided which lists these people in alphabetical order.
- René Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598 - 1647)
- Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665)
- John Wallis (1616 - 1703)
- William, Viscount Brouncker (1620 - 1684)
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Christian Huygens (1629 - 1695)
- Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677)
- James Gregory (1638 - 1675)
- Some Contemporaries of Descartes, Fermat, Pascal and Huygens:
