17th Century Mathematics

• Pierre de Fermat was a 17th-century French mathematician, made fundamental contributions to the creation of infinitesimal calculus.

  
• Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry. He also discovered Cartesian plane. His famous quotes was cogito er go sum or "I think, therefore, I am".

  
• Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician and physicist who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.

  
• Isaac Newton discovered the infinitesimal calculus of mathematics.

  
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a distinguished German polymath, philosopher, metaphysicist, historian, lawyer, and political counselor. Born in the same era as Isaac Newton, he was accused of plagiarizing Newton's work during his lifetime, but researchers have recognized that he created differential and integral calculus independently of Newton since 1900.