4 lives in this collection worked in arithmetic, from 200 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: algebra, number theory. All fields
Alexandrian author of the Arithmetica, whose rational solutions of indeterminate equations founded algebraic notation and Diophantine analysis.
arithmetic, algebra, number theory
Baghdad scholar whose book on al-jabr founded algebra as the systematic solution of equations, whose arithmetic carried Indian decimal numerals and his name (algorithm) to Europe, and who compiled the Zij al-Sindhind and a coordinate geography of the world.
algebra, arithmetic, astronomy
Pisan merchant mathematician whose Liber abaci taught Europe the Hindu-Arabic numerals and Arabic algebra, and whose Book of Squares is the outstanding medieval European work of number theory.
arithmetic, algebra, number theory
Flemish engineer who popularized decimal fractions and founded modern statics and hydrostatics.
arithmetic, algebra, statics