Artwork of mathematicians in history. A cartoon depicting famous historical mathematicians being paraded by satan (right) as his army. The mathematicians from left to right are Euclid of Alexandria (325-265 BC),Apollonius of Perga (262-190 BC),Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC),Ptolemy (90-168 AD),Franciscus Vieta (1540-1603),John Napier (1550-1617),Isaac Newton (1643-1727),John Wallis (1616-1703),Rene Descartes (1596-1650),Leibnitz (1646-1716),Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748) and Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705). Mathematicians were once considered heretics by the Catholic church. Cartoon sketched by Augustus de Morgan in the 19th century |