Viktor Bunyakovsky
died 124 years ago
12th December 1889

Viktor Bunyakovsky worked on Number Theory as well as geometry, mechanics and hydrostatics. He discovered the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality 25 years before Cauchy or Schwartz.

Find out more at:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Bunyakovsky.html