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Also Known As Seki Kōwa
Born c.1640 • Japan
Died October 24, 1708 • Tokyo • Japan
Subjects Of Study calculus • determinant
Takebe Katahiro
Japanese mathematician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
John Wallis, oil painting after a portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Wallis
English mathematician
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Liu Hui
Chinese mathematician
Li Ye
Chinese mathematician
Minggantu
Chinese astronomer and mathematician
Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Brook Taylor
British mathematician
Mei Wending
Chinese writer
Zhu Shijie
Chinese mathematician
Vito Volterra
Italian mathematician
Li Shanlan
Chinese mathematician
Qin Jiushao
Chinese mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Zhao Youqin
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and Daoist
Li Rui
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
Koch snowflakeSwedish mathematician Niels von Koch published the fractal that bears his name in 1906. It begins with an equilateral triangle; three new equilateral triangles are constructed on each of its sides using the middle thirds as the bases, which are then removed to form a six-pointed star. This is continued in an infinite iterative process, so that the resulting curve has infinite length. The Koch snowflake is noteworthy in that it is continuous but nowhere differentiable; that is, at no point on the curve does there exist a tangent line.
Niels Fabian Helge von Koch
Swedish mathematician

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