FATHER OF MATHEMATICS

            FATHER OF MATHEMATICS

1.Set Theory             Georg Cantor

                           Full Name:- Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor

                              Born:-March 3, 1845, St. Petersburg, Russia                        

                            Died:- January 6, 1918, Halle, Germany

               German mathematician who founded set theory and introduced the mathematically meaningful concept of transfinite numbers, indefinitely large but distinct from one another.

2.Trigonometry           Hipparchus

                           Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer who lived between 190-120 B.C. 

           He is considered the father of trigonometry, a branch of mathematics which studies the angles of sides of triangles.

3.Algebra           Md. ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

                  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was a 9th-century Muslim mathematician and astronomer. 

         He is known as the "father of algebra", a word derived from the title of his book, Kitab al-Jabr.

4.Co-ordinate Geometry   Rene Descartes

               René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally regarded as the father of Analytical Geometry . 

              His name in Latin is Renatius Cartesius — so we can see that “Cartesian plane” and “Cartesian coordinate system” are derived from his name.

5.Calculus                  Gottfried Leibniz

 Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz independently invented calculus in the mid-17th century.

        History of calculus or infinitesimal calculus, is a history of a mathematical discipline focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. 

6. 3-D Geometry       Euclid of Alexandria

           Euclid of Alexandria, who is said to be a student at the Academy by Plato was the one who wrote a treatise in 13 books (chapters).

        He named it 'The Elements of Geometry', in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form that we now know as Euclidean geometry.

7.Mathematical Reasoning    George Boole

                          George Boole ( 2 Nov.1815 – 8 Dec.1864) 

            He was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician.He was the most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen`s College,Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of Differential Equations and Algebraic Logic, and is best known as the author of The Law of Thought  (1854) which contains Boolean Algebra.

8.Statistics               Sir Ronald Fisher

           

                                               Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962)

           Touted as the greatest scientist of his time.He was a British statistician and biologist who was known for his contributions to experimental design and population genetics. He is known as the father of modern statistics and experimental design.

9.Probability           Blaise Pascal

            While contemplating a gambling problem posed by Chevalier de Mere in 1654, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat laid the fundamental groundwork of probability theory and are thereby accredited the fathers of probability.

10.Linear Programming  George Bernard Dantzig

                                  George Bernard Dantzig (8 Nov.1914 – 13 May 2005) 

       He was an American mathematician, who introduced the simplex algorithm and is considered the "father of linear programming".

11.Vector Calculus      J. Willard Gibbs

         Vector calculus was developed from quaternion analysis by J. Willard     Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside near the end of the 19th century. 

       He was the most of the notation and terminology was established by Gibbs and Edwin Bidwell Wilson in their 1901 book, Vector Analysis.

11.Matrices                  Arthur Cayley

                                        Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)

      English mathematician and lawyer, who first published an abstract definition of a matrix in his Memoir on the Theory of Matrices in 1858, thus establishing it as a branch of mathematics. So this man was the father of matrix.

12.Modern Algebra     Francois Viete
       
       The man known as "the father of modern algebraic notation" was French mathematician Francois Viete, according to the math department at Rutgers University. His substitution of letters to mark unspecified or unknown number quantities is recognized as the beginning step in the creation of the algebraic system.

13.Complex Analysis   Gerolamo Cardano

         The 16th-century Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano is credited with introducing complex numbers in his attempts to find solutions to cubic equations.

14.Topology           Johann Benedict

         The term topology was introduced by Johann Benedict Listing in the 19th century, although it was not until the first decades of the 20th century that the idea of a topological space was developed.
15.Functional Analysis   Stefan Banach 
                 
                            Stefan Banach ( 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) 

          He was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the world's most important and influential 20th-century mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics.