Famous+Mathematicians

====**ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE**====


 * Archimedes** was the greatest mathematician of his age, as well as being a physicist, an engineer, an inventor and an astronomer. His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz. He was also a thoroughly practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.

**FELIX HAUSDORFF**
Hausdorff** worked in topology creating a theory of topological and metric spaces. He also worked in set theory and introduced the concept of a partially ordered set.
 * [[image:http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Thumbnails/Hausdorff.jpg height="109" align="right" caption="Felix Hausdorff" link="http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Hausdorff.html"]]

**FIBONACCI**

 * Fibonacci or Leonardo of Pisa** was born in Pisa Italy in about 1170. Some people say he was the best mathematician in the middle ages. He is famous for the Fibonacci sequence, Fibonacci family and the Fibonacci prime.The Fibonacci sequence is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.... and you keep on adding the two last numbers to make the new one.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Fibonacci2.jpg/225px-Fibonacci2.jpg width="92" height="111" align="right" caption="Leonardo of Pisa, "Fibonacci""]]