Mathematician:Aristotle

Mathematician
Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) was a Greek philosopher, a student of and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Frequently cited as having been the inventor of the field of study known as (classical) logic.

Phenomenally influential philosopher whose works (for better or for worse) shaped the entirety of the intellectual development of the Western world for over a millennium.

Most important from the point of view of mathematics for formulating the Principle of Non-Contradiction and the Law of the Excluded Middle. Introduced the concept of a variable.

Nationality
Greek

History

 * Born: 384 BCE, Stagirus, Macedonia, Greece
 * Died: 322 BCE, Chalcis, Euboea, Greece

Theorems and Definitions

 * Aristotelian Logic:
 * Principle of Non-Contradiction
 * Law of the Excluded Middle