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Name the Mathematician
Type the name of the mathematician who corresponds to each clue relating to their life and work.
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Over 100 topics in mathematics are named after this German mathematician within number theory, geometry, analysis, algebra and statistics
Carl Gauss
The transcendental number 2.71828... is named after this mathematician
Leonhard Euler
His hypothesis is considered one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and implies results about the distribution of prime numbers
Bernhard Riemann
Her first theorem concerns the derivation of conserved quantities from symmetries of a system
Emmy Noether
a² = b² + c²
Pythagoras
The 'father of geometry ' and author of 'Elements'
Euclid
The proof of his last theorem did not fit in the margin
Pierre de Fermat
Discovered a pattern of tiles which could cover an infinite plane without ever repeating, and now bears his name
Roger Penrose
Irish mathematician who reformulated Newtonian mechanics and invented quaternions
William Rowan Hamilton
A founder of calculus of variations, also reformulated Newtonian mechanics
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Protagonist of 2015 film 'The Man who Knew Infinity' who made major contributions to mathematics despite limited formal training
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Prime numbers p such that 2p+1 is also prime are named after this mathematician
Sophie Germain
Discovered logarithms
John Napier
The triangle bearing his name facilitates the determination of binomial coefficients
Blaise Pascal
Inventor of calculus
Isaac Newton / Gottfried Leibniz
2006 Fields Medal winner for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory
Terence Tao
The 'father of information theory'
Claude Shannon
Groups with a commutative operation are named after this mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel
A discrete probability distribution with its mean equal to its standard deviation bears his name
Denis Poisson
As a result of his theory, it was found that a general formula for the solution of quintic equations cannot be found
Évariste Galois
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