University of St Andrews - Scotland's first university, founded 1413

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Desargues - Girard Desargues (1591-1661)
Founder of projective geometry, his work centred on the theory of conic sections and perspective.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Desargues.html
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Monge, Gaspard - Conte de Péluse (1746-1818)
The father of differential geometry, he devised a system called Geometrie descriptive, now known as orthographic projection, the graphical method used in modern mechanical drawing.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Monge.html
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Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Biography from an online History of Mathematics, with quotes.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Coxeter.html
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Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"... the reality which scientific thought is seeking must be expressible in mathematical terms, mathematics being the most precise and definite kind of thinking of which we are capable."
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
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d'Alembert - Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783)
Helped to resolve the controversy in mathematical physics over the conservation of kinetic energy by improving Newton's definition of force.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html
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Zermelo - Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (1871-1953)
Zermelo in 1908 was the first to attempt an axiomatisation of set theory
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Zermelo.html
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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-1782)
Most important work considered the basic properties of fluid flow, pressure, density and velocity, and gave their fundamental relationship now known as Bernoulli's principle.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Bernoulli_Daniel.html
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Chebyshev - Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894)
Work on prime numbers included the determination of the number of primes not exceeding a given number, wrote an important book on the theory of congruences, proved that there was always at least one prime between n and 2n for n > 3.
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chebyshev.html
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Dirichlet - Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805-1859)
Proved that in any arithmetic progression with first term coprime to the difference there are infinitely many primes, units in algebraic number theory, ideals, proposed the modern definition of a function.
http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Dirichlet.html
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Oughtred, William (1574-1660)
Best known for the invention of an early form of the slide rule.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Oughtred.html
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