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Born in Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany in 1882, Emmy Noether was a mathematician who laid the groundwork for the idea of symmetry in mathematics and physics. She studied the works of Hilbert, Klein and Minkowski and was peer with Hermann Weyl.
Noether’s theorem - in 1915, she proved a relationship between symmetries in physics [...]

“Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank.”

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1777. He made great contributions to mathematics, but was also [...]

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Trellech, Monmouthshire (Wales), England in 1872.

Kurt Godel was born in Austria-Hungary in 1906. He was a mathematician and philosopher and was the most influential logician of his time. Godel is best known for his incompleteness theorems, proved in 1931, that demonstrate inherent limitations in symbolic systems.
PRECURSOR:
Goethe
Newton
Kant
Liebnitz
CONCURRENT:
Einstein
Russell
Whitehead
Hilbert
Heisenberg
von Neumann
SUBSEQUENT:
SEE ALSO:
1931 - incompleteness theorems

Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan (Camille Jordan) was born in Lyon, France in 1838.
PREREQUISITE:
Galois
Cauchy
SUBSEQUENT:
Klein
Lie

Felix Christian Klein was born in Dusseldorf, Germany and was a mathematician. He did work on group theory and non-Euclidian geometry. He wrote a book on the icosahedron and created a 4-dimensional construct that is known as the “klein bottle”.
PRECURSOR:
Plucker
Riemann
CONCURRENT:
Kaluza
Lie
Poincare
SUBSEQUENT:
Hilbert
Einstein
SEE ALSO:
Polyhedral models of Felix Klein´s Quartic - [uni-siegen.de]
Indras Pearls - [okstate.edu]

Marius Sophus Lie was a Norwegian mathematician born in 1842.

Augustin Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician born in 1789. He also made contributions to mathematical physics and engineering.
PRECURSOR:
Fermat
Newton
CONCURRENT:
Laplace
Lagrange
Abel
Galois
SUBSEQUENT:

Evariste Galois was born in Bourge-la-Reine, France in 1811. His major contribution is known as Galois Theory, which he discovered while trying to find roots for polynomial equations. He was studying permutations of roots and realized that symmetries found in the roots can explain their solvability. This laid the foundation for what [...]