By Ashley Langham‍ Niels Henrik Abel is a Norwegian mathematician that had a very short and tragic life. He only lived twenty seven years and most of his mathematical influence was recognized only after his death. In fact, for most of his life he struggled with poverty, securing a permanent…

By Ashley Langham ‍ Without Charles Babbage we wouldn’t be in the digital era, as we are today. Charles Babbage was the inventor of the original mechanical computer, called the Difference Engine, which has led subsequent inventors to create more complex electronic designs. In 1823, he even went on to…

By Ashley Langham ‍ Carl Friedrich Gauss had the rare ability to do mental calculations in his head, far beyond that of an average person. From the age of three, his gifts became evident to his family, as he was able to fix a mistake in his father’s household calculations.‍ …

By Ashley Langham‍ Joseph-Louis Lagrange was once considered “the greatest mathematician in Europe” by Frederick II, King of Prussia. Throughout his mathematical career, he was courted to take a number of prestigious positions in his hometown of Turin, Italy; in Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France. He was a self-taught mathematician…

By Ashley Langham Johannes Kepler had many talents in mathematics, science, philosophy, and theology. He had a difficult start to life; he grew up when his family was in financial decline and suffered many physical ailments, due to him being born prematurely. …

By Ashley Langham Giovanni Ceva was a mathematician that specialized in geometry. He was also a physicist, hydraulics engineer, politician, professor, and tax collector. He is most known for the geometrical theorem named after him that concerned straight lines intersecting at a common point emerging from the triangle’s vertices, or…

By Ashley Langham Blaise Pascal was born with a gifted mind especially in the subjects of mathematics, science and theology. Since he was young, he liked to study math and was very good at the application of it. He would become one of the most influential mathematicians in French history…

By Ashley Langham‍ Pierre de Fermat, or Pierre Fermat, as he referred to himself, was a lawyer and a counselor in the Parliament de Toulouse for most of his life. (Through his role as a member of Parliament, he was entitled to the “de” in his name but never claimed…

By Ashley Langham ‍ René Descartes was best known for creating a mathematical foundation for philosophy. He thought that philosophy could essentially be “mathematicized” because math was created out of certainty and absoluteness. …