Acronyms' Punny Relatives! Organized Nearness! Your Memory Secure/Smiles!
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| 80% | ABU'L-WAFA | Appeared in Buzjan, Used Large Wall as Apparatus For Astronomy. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ADELARD | Al'Khwarizmi's Derivations Entered Latin, Also Royal Drilled. |
Angela Brett (Adelard of Bath was a mathematician who, among other things, translated work of Euclid and Al'Khwarizmi and taught King Henry II.) |
| 100% | AHMED IBN YUSUF | Arab-Hatched Mathematician, Expanded & Discussed Important Book. Nodoubt, Yusuf's Usual Studies Used Fractions. |
Angela Brett (Ahmed ibn Yusuf wrote on ratio and proportion, and expanded on/discussed book 5 of Euclid's 'Elements') |
| 83% | AHMES | Apparently Handwrote Mathematics as Egyptian Scribe |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | AL'BATTANI | Albategnius' Liber Bore Astronomical Tables, Trigonometric Advances & Newer Information. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | ALBERT EINSTEIN | A Less-Bearded Enigmatic Researcher Tells Everyone In Natural Science That Everything's Interrelated Naturally |
Sean Lamb |
| 88% | ALBERTUS MAGNUS | A Lithe Brain Endeavoured to Record Topics Universal... Sainthood Made Albert Guru of Natural - Unbelieving? - Scientists. |
Angela Brett Religion:Saints |
| 86% | ALCUIN | Aurum-Lettered Codices & Uninteresting Instructions on Numbers. |
Angela Brett (Alcuin was responsible for the Carolington codices, a series of illuminated masterpieces written largely in gold, and also wrote some not-so-exciting maths & astronomy textbooks) |
| 100% | AL'HAITAM | Analysed Lenses, Had An Important Theory About Mirrors. |
Angela Brett |
| 80% | AL'HAITAM (2) | Alhazen Lacked Huygens' Accuracy In Trinomial Answer (to) Mirror-problem. |
Angela Brett (Al'Haitam was also known as Alhazen, and is best known for 'Alhazen's problem,' which Huygens found a better solution to.) |
| 100% | AL'HASIB | Abu Largely Helped Along Solving Irrational Bewilderment. |
Angela Brett |
| 83% | ANAXAGORAS | Argued 'Nous' Arranged Xcision of Aether (from) Ground & Oxygen. Recognised Atheistic Sun. |
Angela Brett. (Anaxagoras was imprisoned for suggesting that the sun was not a god and that the moon reflected the sun's light) |
| 89% | ANTIPHON | Anti-democratic Notions Treasonous... Involvement Preceded Hanging On Noose! |
Angela Brett |
| 85% | ARISTARCHUS | Astronomer Received Instruction of Strato, Tested Accepted Rules by Considering Heliocentric Universe, Scientifically. |
Angela Brett |
| 90% | ARYABHATA | Amazing Rhyming Yarns About Broad-ranging Hindu Algebra, Then Astronomy. |
Angela Brett. (Aryabhata wrote his incredible maths & astronomy books in verse, believe it or not!) |
| 89% | AVICENNA | A Vizier Interested in Cures, Equations & Nature - Notably Astronomy. |
Angela Brett |
| 86% | BESSEL | Bloody Expansions of Series Solutions... Extremely Laborious! |
Angela Brett, who has just learnt about Bessel functions which take way too much writing to figure out. |
| 89% | BESSEL AND NEPTUNE | Bessel's Equations Struggled to Show Existence, Leverrier & Adams' Numbercrunching Deduced New Edge-lying Planet's Tenor. Undisputed, Now - Elementary! |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy |
| 89% | BHASKARA | Biddurian Heaps Ahead of Some Kingdoms - Attained Reals, Almost. |
Angela Brett (Bhaskara understood zero and negative numbers long before Europeans.) |
| 92% | BRAHMAGUPTA | Brilliant Reasoning in Astronomy, Helped Mathematics And Geometry. Understood Progressions, Triangles & Areas. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CAUCHY | Complex Analysis Understood Completely... Huge Yield! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | CH'IN CHIU SHAO | Composed Haiku, Investigated Numbers & Congruences. His Interesting Understandings Stieltjes Has Afterwards Observed. |
Angela Brett and Dustan Dowsing |
| 92% | CONON OF SAMOS | Conic Observations Noted, Offered Numerical Orations to Friend & Senior, Archimedes. Mathematically-Oriented Stargazer. |
Angela Brett |
| 83% | DEMOCRITUS | Deterministic Explanation of Motion... Omniscient Creator Refuted, Instead, The Universe is Stochastic. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | DIOPHANTUS | Decided Influence On Precise, Handwritten Algebraic Notation. Thought Unpositives Superfluous. |
Angela Brett |
| 80% | EINSTEIN | Every Intellect Needs Some Training to Examine Imperfections of Newton |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | EUCLID | 'E's Unclear... Can Lines Intersect Dually? |
Angela Brett, because Euclid's first postulate saying that a straight line can be drawn from any point to any point does not explicitly say that the line is unique. |
| 100% | EUTOCIUS | Essentially Updated The Others' Calculations - Inscribed Unoriginal Summaries. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | FERMAT | Famous Equation Really Made Andrew Think! |
Angela Brett (Andrew Wiles eventually proved Fermat's Last Theorem centuries after Fermat's death.) |
| 100% | GAUSS | Got Answers Using Simultaneous Solutions |
Angela Brett, thinking of Gaussian elimination, a way of solving simultaneous equations. I didn't feel like acronymising the whole thing! |
| 100% | GAUSS (2) | Great Arithmetic Used Solving Systems |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | GAUSS (3) | Geometry's An Unexpectedly Strange Subject. |
Angela Brett |
| 88% | GEMINUS | Gone! (his) Educational Mathematical Inscription. Noticed ÔUncoplanar' Stars. |
Angela Brett |
| 78% | GERMAIN | Gauss Expected Robust Male... Actually Ingenious Nom-de-plume. |
Angela Brett. (Sophie Germain wrote to Gauss with her mathematical ideas under a male name, because in her time it was expected that... (see GERMAIN (2)) |
| 88% | GERMAIN (2) | Girls, Especially, Rarely Maintain Avid Interest in Numbers. |
Angela Brett (see GERMAIN) |
| 78% | GHERARD | Got Help (with) Enunciation to Read 'Almagest' - Romanisation Deficient. |
Angela Brett. (Gherard had to learn Arabic since there was no Latin translation of Ptolemy's 'Almagest.') |
| 92% | GROSSETESTE | Geometry & Research in Optics & Star Systems. Even The Extremely Small Things Envisionable. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HENG | His Earthquake-Noticer's Great! |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HERON | He Estimated Roots Of Numbers. |
Angela Brett |
| 77% | HIPPARCHUS | Higher Intelligence (than) Ptolemy? Precession Angle Reckoning Closer to Hypothesis of Undisputed Scientists. |
Angela Brett. (Hipparchus's value for the precession of the equinoxes was much more accurate than the value which Ptolemy obtained 300 years later.) |
| 100% | HIPPASUS | He Incensed Pythagoreans, Perhaps After Showing Unholy Sizes |
Angela Brett (Hippasus was expelled from the Pythagoreans, possibly because of disclosing the existence of incommensurable magnitudes) |
| 88% | HIPPIAS | Hatched In Peloponnese, Practised Instruction in All States. |
Angela Brett |
| 88% | HIPPIAS (2) | He Instructed Poorly... Payment Isn't Acquired in Sparta. |
Angela Brett (Hippias was not paid for his lectures in Sparta because Spartans weren't very interested in mathematics.) |
| 95% | HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS | His Inter-Personal Proficiency's Often Considered Rusty... Although The Exceptional Squaring Of Fragments (of) Circles Held Importance, Observed Scholars. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | HIPPOLYTA | Highly Independent Person, Play's Outcome Leaves You Totally Amorous |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 90% | HYPSICLES | Had Your Polyhedra Spherically Inscribed... Contributed Lots to Euclid's Studies. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | IBRAHIM | Iraqi-Born Reasoner Analysed Hyperbolae, Integration & Motion. |
Angela Brett |
| 70% | LEIBNIZ | Loved Equations - Invented Brilliant Notation for Increments of Zero-ish. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | MENAECHMUS | Mathematician Entered Near Alopeconnesus - Explained Cones Had Many Useful Sections. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | NEWTON (2) | Nice Equations - Worked Them Out Nimbly. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PLATO | Perhaps Letters Are Totally Opinion |
Angela Brett, since the letters from which most of our knowledge of Plato come might not actually have been written by Plato, as is claimed. |
| 0% | PROCLUS | Parallel Rays' Omnipresent Closeness Levels Uncertainty [Sic]. |
Timothy Chambers (Proclus erroneously proved the parallel postulate by assuming that parallel lines are equidistant.) |
| 100% | PTOLEMY | Postulated That Otherworlds Looped Earth & Moon Yearly. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PYTHAGORAS | Predict Your Triangle's Hypotenuse... Assuming Geometrically Orthogonal - Right-Angled - Sides. |
Angela Brett |
| 91% | PYTHAGORAS (2) | Prove Your Theorem - Hypotenuses Arranged & Geometry Obviates Relative Areas of Squares. |
Angela Brett |
| 100% | PYTHAGORAS (3) | Perhaps You Think He Achieved Greatness Of Reputation Alone... Sorry! |
Angela Brett, because much of the mathematics attributed to Pythagoras was actually by other members of the Pythagorean sect. |
| 90% | RAMANUJAN | Read Advanced Mathematics And Nimbly Understood - Juvenescent Aptitude Non-surpassed. |
Angela Brett |
| 91% | THEAETETUS | The Hallowed Euclid Acknowledged (his) Educated Thesis, Examining Two Unusual Shapes. |
Angela Brett (Theaetetus - try saying that six times fast - was the first to study octahedrons and icosahedrons.) |
| 100% | WOLFRAM | Went Overboard Looking For Random Automata? Maybe. |
Angela Brett, referring to Stephen Wolfram and his huge tome 'A New Kind of Science' on cellular automata and similar constructs. I don't think there's really such a thing as going overboard investigating something in science... even if the hypothesis turns out to be completely wrong, somebody has to thoroughly investigate it so that we know it's wrong, and more than likely they'll discover something that is useful in the process. At the very least, absurdly wrong ideas make good material for http://OldScientist.com (if only anyone had time to write for it.) |