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Topics & their origins
- Our very familiar Cartesian Coordinate System was conceived by Rene Descartes while he was lying on his bed watching a fly! He is also famous for the quote 'I think, therefore I am'.
- The work of William Rowan Hamilton paved the way for the introduction of vectors.
- De Moivre's theorem appeared in a paper, written by Abraham de Moivre, in 1722. He also proved the Central Limit Theorem for Bernoulli trials in a book that was published in 1718.
- Maclaurin's series originated from Colin Maclaurin in his Treatise of Fluxions, 1742.
- Augustus De Morgan defined and introduced mathematical induction in 1838.
- The Riemann integral is the definite integral we normally see in school mathematics, and credit is due to Bernhard Riemann.
- The Poisson distribution came from the work of Simeon-Denis Poisson.
- This article gives a brief, yet interesting development of mathematics over time.
- This site describes what happened to mathematics on the calendar dates.
