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**David Smith** sculpted with geometric solids. His works are remarkable because they are constructed with counterbalanced stainless steel shapes. **Louise Nevelson** is noted for her constructions of boxes and forms, her work is highly geometric.**Vasili Kandinsky** is a Russian postimpressionist painter. He was one of the first abstract painters. Kandinsky used color and shape as symbols, just a mathematicians use operation signs and numerals for systems of numbers. **Le Corbusier**, an architect, used his concept of modular human beings to design buildings based on anatomical geometric proportions. **Da Vinci** filled notebooks with sketches showing precise detail and designs for inventions, such as the helicopter, that were inconceivable for the fifteenth century. **John Augustus Roebling** was a pioneer in the design of suspension bridges. He designed the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. **Dr. Robert Goddard’s** pioneering work with rockets is directly responsible for the NASA space program. **Galileo’s** invention of the astronomical telescope provided proof of Copernicus’ theory that the earth revolves about the sun.**John Wheeler**, an astrophysicist, studies black holes. **Marie Curie** identified radium and derived many of the properties of radioactivity from this effort.**Euclid** wrote **//The Elements//**, one of the oldest existing mathematical works. **Archimedes** is most famous for the principle that bears his name. The principle states that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up be a force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid in a direction through the body’s own center of gravity. **Nicolo Tartaglia** was the first to apply mathematics to the solution of artillery problems, and describe the path of a projectile as curved rather than rectilinear. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Rene Descartes**, founder of analytical geometry, devised the Cartesian coordinates and other important algebraic concepts. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Karl Friedrich Gauss** developed the modern theory of numbers, including quadratic forms. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Sir Isaac Newton** is the founder of differential and integral calculus. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Sonia Terk-Delaunnay** used the disk as a recurring form in her art work. The disk represents modernism. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Francois Viete** introduced the practice of representing unknown quantities with vowels and known quantities with consonants. He was an outstanding algebraist who made clear the distinction between algebra and arithmetic. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Pythagoras** was a Greek mathematician and founded a school that studied mathematics, philosophy and natural sciences. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">**Leonard Euler** is associated with every branch of mathematics. In 1736, he resolved the Konigsberg bridge problem.
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">Sylvia Earle **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;"> invented “JIM”, a deep sea diving suit. The design of such a sophisticated piece of apparatus required advanced knowledge of engineering.