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1.	Check out Jacob Bernoulli, one of the foremost exponents of statistical probability. And other interesting things! Click here to read about Jacob Bernoulli
2.	Nathaniel Bowditch, who, finding the existing de facto reference for maritime navigation to be inaccurate, wrote his own, which would later be adopted as the new standard. Click here to read about Nathaniel Bowditch
3.	A woman who pursued studies in mathematics, even though it was almost unheard of to do so, Sophie Germain is best remembered for her work in connection with Fermat's "Last Theorem". Her work went unnoticed for a long time, but remains one of the most significant results related to the theorem before its final proof in 1995. Click here to read about Sophie Germain
4.	This man was a respected Physicist and Mathematician, who had an elderly professor deliver his first paper since he was just a boy. Kelvin reached fame through his work on gases and temperature, and leaves his own scale behind. Click here to read about William Kelvin
5.	Modern interest in genetics can be traced all the way back to an Austrian Monk. Gregor Mendel is that monk. He trained as a teacher of Mathematics, and carried out research into garden peas, noting that different types of peas had their own characteristics, and that these characteristics had an order of dominance that allowed the predicition of the outcome of combination. His later ordainment into a monastery limited the time he had to complete his research, but later discoveries were found to have been pre-empted once Mendel's 'lost' notes were recovered. Click here to read about Gregor Mendel
6.	Italian economist and sociologist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), known for his theory on mass and elite interaction as well as for his application of mathematics to economic analysis. Click here to read about Vilfredo Pareto
7.	Mentioned in the class movie Good Will Hunting, a formidable maths professor with a hard name to type, Srinivasa Ramanujan. Click here to read about Srinivasa Ramanujan