I am interested in all kinds of knowledge in the math field.This week, I did some research on the history of mathematics. I found out that there was a funny fact that in the ancient era, there was almost no the title of "mathematicians", more of the researchers were only called scientists or engineers. Famous scientists known all over the world like Albert Einstein,Isaac Newton,Niels Bohr and many others can be searched by "Famous Mathematics" nowadays. Although they invented or discovered a lot of things, they still have contribution to the math field.
As I mentioned before, my adviser who is also my math teacher Thompson's favorite mathematician is Leonhard Euler. He was not only a mathematician but also a physicist,astronomer, logician and engineer. To my adviser, he is a mathematician but maybe in others' eyes, he can be someone else. The math history has many categories: prehistoric mathematics, Egypt mathematics, Chinese mathematics，Greek mathematics, Indian mathematics, Islamic mathematics, Medieval European mathematics and so on. That is a big work to learn all of the history. I have read few of them but I think I will know the history better when I attend more math classes.
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