Claim to Fame: The polyglot and mathematical genius William James Sidis astounded the world by being admitted to Harvard at age 11....
Category : Mathematicians
Mary Somerville
Fairfax Popular Science and Mathematics Author Born in Jedburgh, Scotland, in 1780, Mary Fairfax seemed an unlikely candidate for...
Bertrand Russell
Originator of Logicism Russell was born in Trelleck, England, on May 18, 1872. His mother died when he was two and his father when he was...
Pythagoras
Early Pioneer in Mathematics Pythagoras was born around 580 B.C.E. on the Greek island of Samos. (There are no reliable contemporary...
Henri Poincaré
Influential Modern Mathematician Poincaré was born on April 29, 1854, in Nancy, France. He was physically awkward with poor eyesight and...
Emmy Noether
Pioneer in Modern Algebra Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany, into a family of tradesmen on March 23, 1882. Crippled by polio, her...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Inventor of Differential and Integral Calculus Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany, on July 1, 1646. Six years later his wealthy father,...
Sonya Kovalevsky
Developer of Partial Differential Equations Krukovsky was born in Moscow on January 15, 1850. When she was a young child, the family...
Mohammed ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi
Developer of Arabic Numerals; Pioneer in Algebra Not much is known about alKhwarizmi’s life. He was born around 780 in Khwarizm,...