Today, your task is to research one of the following Spanish or French Mathematicians and create a fact – file about their life:

Francios Arago, Juan de Herrera, Abraham bar Hiyya or Leonardo Torres y Quevedo

Can you please include date of birth/death date and place of birth. What were they famous for? What affect have their achievements had on the world? Can you also add any other interesting facts?

108 responses to “Famous Spanish and French Mathematicians”

  1. Manha S.

    I have done it on a piece of paper

  2. Zahraa Y.

    Francois Arago
    Birth:26th February 1786 in France
    Death:2th October 1853
    He was made a very important mathematician he Francois Arago was also made discoveries on the corpuscular theory of light.
    His the father was Bonaventure Arago who was the mayor of Estagel which is a small town about 18 km north west of Perpignan, and his mother was Marie Roig.

  3. Markuss B.

    François Arago:
    Birth date:February 26 1786
    Death date:October 2 1853

    François Argo was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and polotitian.
    He was famous for discovering the principle of production of magnetism by rotation of a non magnetic conductor.

  4. Maddox B.

    Abraham bar hiyya

    Birthdate:1070AD

    Birthplace:Barcelona spain

    Died:1136AD

    Fun fact:he is a mathematician and know for working with math that changed the word.and Jewish and translate words from Arabic to Latin

    WOW!

  5. Raiyan K.

    Avempace-A Spanish Arab philosopher and was a scholar. Avempace was an expert in many subjects such as; Astronomy, music, medicine and poetry.

    Born in 1085 AD
    Birthplace:Zaragoza,Spain
    Died:1138 AD

  6. Mohammed W.

    We are researching about the mathematician Avempace.
    Avempace was born on 1085AD, and died 1138AD at the age of 53 years.He was born in Zaragoza, Spain.He was well known for his natural philosophy and the making of some discoveries of medicines.He was believed to be an atheist.
    By Flourish and Mow

  7. Maddox B.

    Abraham bar hiyya

    Birthdate:1070AD

    Birthplace:Barcelona spain

    Died:1136AD

    Fun fact:he is a mathematician and know for working with math that changed the word.and Jewish and translate words from Arabic to Latin

    WOW!

    Fun fact: he is

  8. Rir K.

    Leonardo Torres y Quevedo was born on 28 December 1852 and he was an Spanish engineer
    In Madrid he introduced an electromagnetic device capable of playing a limited form of chess ♟️. He sadly passed away in the year 18 December 1936.

  9. Sameeha A.

    François Arago
    Birthdate – February 26 1786
    Birthplace – Estagel , France
    Died – October 2 1853
    Sun Sign – Pisces
    What were they famous for?
    He was famous for discovering the principle of the production of magnetism by rotation of a nonmagnetic .

  10. Ibraheem T.

    Birthday February 26 1786
    Died October 2 1853
    Birthplace: Estagel
    Sun Sign: Pisces

    He was a French physicist and was well known mathematician and the eifell tower is in the country france and Paris is in capital city of france and Francois Aragon’s name was on there and he was so well know he was even on the France coin.

  11. Maryam N.

    Juan de Herrera 😃
    He was born in 1530
    He died on the 15 th January 1597 in Spain/ Madrid he was an architect an architect designs buildings .he disighnd buildings like the cathedral of vallladolid ,
    Archive de India’s and Toledo bridge .
    😎Maryam and seher😎

  12. Zahra D.

    Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
    He was born on December 28 , 1852 and he sadly died on December 18, 1936 that is ten day before his birthday. His birth place is Besaya Valley which is in Spain 🇪🇸. Some of his achievements include Telekine , El Ajedrecista and Astra-Torres airship . He was a Spanish civil engineer , mathematician and inventor . He was the second in the world to demonstrate wireless remote control.
    Najma Zahra

  13. Sarah A.

    -François Arago-

    Dominique François Jean Arago, simply known as François Arago, was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.
    Living in Estagal, he was born on the 26th February 1786 and died on the 2 October 1853.

    His parents were François Bonaventure Arago (1754–1814) and Marie Arago (1755–1845).Arago was the eldest of four brothers. Jean (1788–1836) -who was one of his brothers- emigrated to North America and became a general in the Mexican army.He was sent to the multiple colleges of Perpignan, where he began to study mathematics.

    -Sarah- -Miski-

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