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Archimedes Greece pi, the lever, the screw, formulas for the areas of various plane and solid figures Babbage, Charles England difference engine, analytical engine (early calculator/computer) Descartes, René France analytic geometry, x and y axes Diophantus, Greece algebra Euclid, Greece euclidean geometry Euler, Leonhard Switzerland differential calculus, algebraic notation Fermat, Pierre de France number theory, probability theory Fibonacci Italy Fibonacci’s sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 … (each number is the sum of the two previous numbers) Hipparchus Rhodes trigonometry, mapping Leibniz, Gottfried Germany calculus, symbolic logic Lovelace Augusta Ada King, England analytical engine Möbius, Auguste Switzerland topology, Möbius strip Ferdinand Napier, John Scotland logarithms, calculating machine Newton, Isaac England gravitation, integral and differential calculus Pascal, Blaise France calculating machine, barometer, Pascal’s triangle Pythagoras Greece irrational numbers, Pythagorean theorem, prime and composite numbers Russell, Bertrand England formal logic
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